Subject: KFY: Mt Vernon Signal Newspapers, 1906 - Rockcastle Co FROM LONG AGO Submitted By: Ray E_v_a_n_s ray.evans@worldnet.att.net Mount Vernon Signal October 5, 1906 (Note: This information has been re-typed from the microfilm. The re-typed material has been subjected to a computerized spelling check. However, an effort has been made to preserve the English usage and spelling of that period.) PERSONAL NEWS R. B. Mullins is in Knoxville this week. -- Miss Fannie Colver is here from Louisville this week. -- Robert Cox expects to move into his new home next week. -- E. Mullins, the Withers Merchant, was here Monday. -- Grover Johnson, of near Orlando, is very sick with typhoid fever. -- Mr. And Mrs. Graham will move to a cottage on Newcomb avenue. -- Burdett McKinsie has gone to Yamacraw, Ky. To accept a position. -- Miss Rose McFeron, of Pine Hill is very sick with typhoid fever. -- Little Miss Ethel Baker, of London, spent the week with relatives here. -- Rev. J. C. Carmical continues very sick and there is but little hope of his recovery. -- Miss Rohada White, of Stanford, is visiting the family of her uncle Jonas McKensie. -- Mrs. J. W. Brown, Miss Reca Baker and Annie Thompson were in Louisville Monday and Tuesday. -- S. N. Davis has abandoned his idea of going west until Spring and will finish out the school started by Thomas Brown. -- C. D. Sutton spent most of the week in Louisville buying goods for the store which he is soon to open in Level Green. -- Mrs. Robert Taylor who it was thought several days ago could not live is rapidly recovering and will soon be up again. -- The baby of Mr. And Mrs. J. F. Griffin has been very sick with an enlargement of the throat, which it became necessary to lance. The child is better now. -- Judge L. W. Bethurum and G. T. Johnson went to Lawrenceburg Wednesday to attend the Republican Convention to nominate a candidate for Congress. -- Judge R. G. Williams lost his race for State Senate in the Kenton district by twenty votes. His opponent was one of the most prominent members of the Covington bar. -- DR. A. G. Lovell is the only delegate in the Fifth meeting of the State Development Convention which meets at Winchester next week, who has as yet signified his intentions of going. WE trust every delegate will arrange to go. LOCAL NEWS Notice: Anyone holding claims of any kind against the estate of William Leece, deceased, will please present same to me at once properly proven. Ganville Leece, Adm. Strayed: A male Poland China hog, weight about 150 pounds, crop off the right ear and a slit in the same ear. Liberal reward for return. J. J. McCall, Maretburg, Ky. -- Atty. J. J. Williams, of the local bar has formed a partnership with W. E. Evans of London and in the future will practice regularly in the courts at that place. -- Dead: Mr. G. M. Johnson, aged 73, died Sunday at his home near Orlando. He had been an invalid for more than fifteen years, suffering from epilepsy and heart trouble.. Exactly one year to a day from the time of his death he fell and broke his leg and had never been out of bed since. He was the father of our local townsman G. T. Johnson. The burial took place Monday at the Alva Maret burying ground. -- Mr. G. W. Payne, who had reached more than three score years and ten, a survivor of the Civil war died Friday after an illness of several weeks. He was buried Saturday at the Skeggs Creek church. -- Will Thompson, a son of W. M. Thompson, of this county, employed by the Big Hill Coal Co., at Straight Creek in Bell county, fell from the top of the tipple house a few days since and was killed instantly. -- Registration in the two Mt Vernon precincts fell short about one-third; there was also a slight fall off in Brodhead and Livingston. Those who have failed to register should look after this matter at once. -- Don't fail to read the letter of Senator George T. Farris, which appears in this issue, and especially do we want those temperance people, who have been talking Beckham because of his supposed action in the anti-whiskey fight. -- A contract will be let by the Board of Trustees, on tomorrow night, for the building of a turnpike to the top of town hill, which will be the new right of way altogether, leaving the old road just above the school house and circling around the hill, giving a fairly good grade. The work cannot begin too soon, for lo, these many years that old hill has been an eyesore to the town. -- An exchange tells of three of the stingiest men on record. The first will not drink water unless it comes from a neighbors well; the second forbids his family from writing a large hand as it wastes ink to make large letters and the third stops the clock at night to save the wear and tear on the machinery. All of them refuse to take a newspaper on the ground that it is a strain on their spectacles.. -- (A PIECE OF HISTORY) Mr. James Love, of Liberty, Mo., was here this week searching for the grave of Mrs. Emma Love, his step-mother who was buried in the Mt Vernon cemetery many years ago, but the tombstones if there were ever any to the grave, having been torn down and misplaced; it was a serious doubt in his mind whether the grove located is the right one or not. Mr. Love was on his return home from Manchester, Clay county, where he had been to celebrate, on Sept. 30th , the 86 anniversary of his birth, although he does not look to be more than 60. Mr. Love visited the family of Dr. Joplin here about 70 years ago, and just after the close of the war passed through here and spent a night with Mr. J. L. Joplin, who was then running a hotel, where now stands the Joplin brick, the building occupied at that time having burned and the brick having been erected by Mr. Joplin. Mr. Love remembers as vividly as if it were yesterday, on the night of his last visit the pounding on the old jail in an effort to take from it a Negro, but being unsuccessful, the Negro was later tried, convicted and hung. Mr. Love has traveled extensively and is a very entertaining conversationalist. He had with him a collection of souvenirs fro Jerusalem, Palestine, and other foreign countries where he visited twenty years ago; one is a bouquet from the garden of Gethsemane, a small vial of water from the river Jordan, at the point where Jesus was baptized, a bible bound in the Jerusalem olive wood. In the collection was a bouquet taken from the tomb of Washington at old Mt Vernon, just after the Civil war. Mr. Love is a cousin of Mr. J. L. Joplin, of Harrodsburg, whose mother was Miss Mary Love, before her marriage to Dr. Joplin and a sister of Mr. Love's father. Mr. Love says he and his wife expect to make a visit to Rockcastle and other Kentucky points next year. BRODHEAD NEWS Ex-Senator Geo. T. Farris, of Lancaster, was here Monday and Tuesday talking in the interest of Hon. J. B. McCreary. -- Miss Eliza Pike lefty today for an extended visit to Gravel Switch and Lebanon Junction. -- Rals Wilmont has returned to Lebanon Junction after spending a week with homefolks. -- W. H. Anderson, one of the L & N's cleverest operators, spent a few days here this week with his parents. -- C. H. Frith, one of our most enterprising merchants was in Louisville Tuesday and Wednesday buying goods.. -- The protracted meeting at the M. E. Church closed last Saturday with several additions.-- J. D. Pike, of Lebanon Junction, spent Monday and Tuesday at home. -- The circus has come and gone and that is all we can say for it. -- Manly C. Albright spent Sunday in Mt Vernon the guest of F. L. Thompson. -- Mrs. Mattie Durham is another added to our sick list for this week. -- Ed Owens, Charles Lawrence, Walter Robbins, Robert Hicks and Pink Yaden were at home Sunday from Louisville. -- Jack Leece, John Houk, and Clarence Shaffer are in Pensacola, Florida, having gone there to help erect trestles which were washed out in the recent Gulf storm. -- Train dispatcher, Nabors was down from Livingston Tuesday to hear the address of Ex- Senator C. C. Sutton. -- V. S. Martin and W. J. Owens were in Stanford Monday on business. -- W. H. Benton was down from Livingston Tuesday to register. -- C. W. Smith, of Kirksville, is here assisting in the bank in the absence of assistant cashier, A. C. McClary who is in Richmond. -- Rev. A. J. Pike is holding a protracted meeting at Hawesville, Ky. -- Miss Bessie Keisling of Knoxville is visiting her sister Miss Nola at Mrs. Clark's. -- Dr. A. D. Wilhoite, our dentist continues very low with typhoid fever. -- F. L. Thompson, Jr. of Mt Vernon, was down Wednesday attending the big show. -- Jas. White, of Stanford attended the circus here Wednesday. -- Ora Lawrence, K.B. Brakeman, of Lebanon Junction was here Wednesday to see the McDonald show. WILDIE NEWS T. A., Stewart went to Berea Tuesday on business. -- James Morris was down from Berea first of the week. -- Mrs. A. T. Fish has gone to Berea to under treatment of a physician. -- Miss Nannie Bower, our charming school teacher, spent Saturday and Sunday in Falmounth. -- There were a good many cattle taken to Richmond Monday from this county. -- L. T. Stewart sold Pur Rigsby a fine saddle horse for $150. -- Mose McNew sold Frank Adams a combined mare this week at a fancy price. -- J. J. Wood, of Conway was in our little village Tuesday. -- Rev. Combs commenced a two weeks meeting here Sunday. -- H. H. Wood went to Louisville Tuesday to buy fall and winter goods. THE WHITLEY HOME The grand old place known at the home of William Whitley, the pioneer Indian fighter, two and a half miles from Crab Orchard, Ky., is to be sold on October 15, 1906. This is the first brick house built in Kentucky, about 1837, and is full of interest. Its walls four feet thick have resisted the storms for wear and are still in splendid condition to last many more The interior is paneled and handsomely carved, being all done by hand., long before the scroll saws and present day machinery were dreamed of. The cupboard, in which Col. Whitley kept his noted rifle with which he claimed to have killed Tecumseh, is as well preserved to day as when he left it. Thirteen steps, representing the thirteen states which at that time comprised the United States leads to the second story and above each step is a dove bearing an olive branch in its mouth, while over the mantel are thirteen eagles all carved in the wood and above these is massive portrait is also carved upon the wall. Here within these walls the noted Indiana braves met in treaty with Col. Whitley and in the ballroom on the third story many dances were held with Indians as spectators. The famous old spring still gushes as merrily as ever, never failing in the severest drouths. Hundreds of visitors from all points in the state visit this romantic old place, which should belong to Kentucky. It contains about 265 acres of as fine land as can be found anywhere and will make someone a most desirable home. Convenient to churches and a fine graded school. For any information regarding this old house the present owner, Mrs. Sallie Pennington, will be glad to communicate with anyone wishing to know its history. Bettie A. Buchanan; Stanford, Ky. ******************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. 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