Subject: KFY: Mt Vernon Signal Newspapers, 1908 - Rockcastle Co FROM LONG AGO Submitted By: Ray E_v_a_n_s ray.evans@worldnet.att.net Mount Vernon Signal August 7, 1908 (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.) BRODHEAD NEWS Miss Mattie Ping who has been visiting her cousin Mrs. J. W. Tate for the past few days has returned to her home in Richmond. - Most of our sick are reported much better at this writing. - Miss Ada Wesley has returned to her home at Liberty, Ky., after spending six weeks with her grandmother, Mrs. M. S. Durham. - The Lyceum Comedy Co. will present a great play on every night of next week in their large tent on Main Street. They carry their own electric light plant and strengthened in many ways from what they were last year. They have a worldwide reputation as being the best opera troupe playing under canvas. Don't miss a night if you do, you will regret it. - Mr. and Mrs. Taylor of Cincinnati are visiting Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Painter. - Rev. A. J. Pike and sons, John and Chas. attended the Aliceton Camp meeting last week. - Miss Edwards of Oklahoma and Miss Rainey of Mt Sterling, Ky. are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Tate. - Don't fail to attend the Brodhead Fair Wednesday, Thursday and Friday August 12, 13 and 14 and while there be sure to see the balloon ascension and two slide for life attractions each day. Also take in the merry-go-round and the Electric Theatre. One of the best bands in the country will furnish the music. Plenty of shade and ice water. Come all three days. - John Flynn can boast of having one of the best pigs grown in this county, it is only 3 months old and weighs 180 Lbs. QUAIL NEWS Services were held at Providence Sunday at 2 o'clock conducted by Rev. D. R. Gentry. - There is much sickness in this immediate vicinity. - Aunt Eliza Herrin is sick at this writing and is not expected to live but a short while. - Earnie Herrin is doing some carpenter work for R. B. Mullins at Mt Vernon. - Quail boys will soon organize a baseball team. - H. G. Sutton has sold his stock of merchandise to J. W. Proctor. Mr. Proctor will also take charge of the Quail post office. - A protracted meeting is going on at Poplar Grove conducted by Revs. James Cummins and John Abbott. - The protracted meeting at Providence will begin August 10th. conducted by Rev. R. A. John of Indiana. -- John Proctor will move to Stanford soon. - J. F. Watson, of Brodhead was in this part Sunday visiting. - Cleo Wheldon continues about the same. - Mrs. Cleo Wheldon has symptoms of typhoid fever. - S. C. Herrin, of Wilborn, Ky., was called to the bedside of his mother Mrs. Eliza Herrin who is not expected to live but a short while. - G. B. Sutton will move to his blue grass farm soon. - Alie Proctor is on the sick list. GAULEY NEWS We are having some very dry weather just now. - Quite a crowd attended church at Red Hill Sunday. - Albert Centers fell into Rockcastle River July 28th and drowned. His remains were laid to rest in the cemetery at Livingston. - George Murphy, of London, visited J. C. Bullock Saturday and Sunday. - Schools are progressing very nicely on this vicinity. - Grady Mullins, of Withers got his house burned last Saturday. - Crops are looking fairly well in this part. - Theo Parker fell Friday and broke his left arm. - James Bond, of Laurel County, is moving near here. - Wm. Moberly is building a new house. SPIRO NEWS Next Saturday and Sunday is our regular meeting day at Freedom let everybody come especially on Saturday. - Messrs. Granville Owens and W. H. Graves, of Brodhead, and Dr. Walker Owens of Pongo were visitors at this place Sunday. - Mr. Albert Hahn has gone to Fort Wayne, Ind., for a three weeks stay with his sister Mrs. Minnie Cook. - Miss Martha McKinney visited friends at Hansford last Saturday and Sunday. - Mr. Charlie Hahn and family of Crab Orchard visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hahn Sunday. - Mr. W. H. Owens is visiting friends at Pongo this week. - Mr. Marcum Vanhook spent Saturday night with Albert Owens near Maretburg. - Mr. Henry Goffe and wife of Woodstock spent Monday with his sister, Mrs. Sophia Owens. - Mr. Jim McKinney went to Crab Orchard yesterday on business. - Mr. Marshall Owens is spending a few weeks with his sister Mrs. Anna Hendrickson at Pineville. -- Mrs. Janie McKinney and daughter, Miss Ethel Capps were visiting Miss Helen Sayers Tuesday. - Rumor says we are to have a wedding in this part pretty soon. LIVINGSTON NEWS Albert Centers age about 28 years who lived about 3 miles east of this place fell into the river while fishing Monday and drowned. He was buried Tuesday evening. There were some twenty members of the Junior Order from this place attended the funeral. He had been in poor health for a number of years. - Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Wright and daughters, Misses Cora and Florelle are spending ten days with relatives in Parksville and Danville. - L. M. Westerfield who has been away for two weeks has returned to his post of duty in the Dispatchers office. - Bro. Oble and family have gone house-keeping in the cottage owned by Mrs. L. Rice on High Street. - J. H. Browning will move to his new home which he has purchased of Bart Sams, on Gauley Branch one day this week. - We are reliably informed that there will be some train crews put on out of Livingston Monday next. This will certainly be pleasing to the citizens and if it is only two or three crews it will help and I suggest that our citizens open their eyes and make it a point to assist in every way possible to advance the companies interest at this place for by so doing you are advancing your own interest. - J. W. Baker, one of our most enterprising merchants has started the ball rolling in the way of improvements in sidewalks. He has let the contracts for concrete sidewalks in front of his store and dwelling. - The Christian Church officers have also let the contract for steps in front of the church. We are informed that there are a great many others who will follow, among whom are J. R. Carter, J. A. Oliver, Dr. Childress, Jacob Sambrooks, Bowman & Cockrel, Mrs. Sue Mullins and J. H. Dickerson. If this is true, I am satisfied it will not be long until our little town will be booming. PERSONAL NEWS Mr. W. T. Taylor was up Monday to see his mother. - Mrs. Marshal Smith has been sick for several days. - Mrs. Anna E. Miller is visiting her sister in Pittsburgh, Pa. - Miss Anna May Miller has returned from a visit to Somerset. - Mrs. Dial, of Oxford, Oh., is the guest of Mrs. Johns at the Langdon home. - Jim Taylor, the Orlando mail carrier, is very sick and is in critical condition. - Miss Kittie Smith has been sick for the past week and it is feared she has typhoid. - L. S. Doan, a former Rockcastle boy, is running on the Louisville Street Railway lines. - Miss Mary Blackledge, of Kokomo, Ind., is the charming visitor of Miss Frances Sparks. - Mr. W. J. McLemore, the Richmond street merchant, spent several days in Laurel County this week. - Miss Keith Sperry, after a pleasant visit of one month to Miss Frances Sparks. has returned to her home in Louisville. - J. J. Ping expects to leave in about two weeks for Liberal, Mo., to make ready for the opening of his school in September. - J. E. Woodall, the poplar Livingston grocery drummer, has been confined to his room for the past two weeks with malaria. - Geo. French, a Rockcastle boy who has made good in the railroad business, came over from Etawah, Tenn., to spend Sunday with old friends. - Mrs. Margaret Griffin, of near Wildie, is visiting her son and daughter, Mr. J. F. Griffin and Mrs. S. C. Franklin and other relatives of this place. - Dr. J. F. Baugh left Sunday for Campbellsville. he will return to Mt Vernon about the 16th and will leave again about the 20th for Guthrie, Oklahoma to locate. - Misses Etta Hutcheson and Mollie Perry of Owenton, will arrive on the night train to be the guests of Mrs. S. B. Salin, Mr. F. D. Hutcheson, a brother of Mrs. Salin is also expected. LOCAL NEWS Mr. James Brown, aged about 50 years, died at his home near Wildie of stomach trouble. He had been sick for several months. - Secretary John Robins authorizes us to say that the report being circulated that there will not be a merry-go-round is a mistake. The merry-go-round will be right there going early and late. - W. B. Dillingham was in from Maretburg yesterday and told us he was ready to put his Canning Factory into operation. He received a carload of cans this week. Mr. Dillingham believes there is a bright future for such an enterprise in this county. - J. W. Rider has just completed a large contract of concrete work for G. G. Baker, in front of Mr. Baker's residence on Queen St., and is now laying a concrete walk in front of the post office. He has several other large contracts. Mr. Rider has a full set of concrete moulds and is prepared to do all kinds of concrete work. LEVEL GREEN NEWS The peach season is on and everyone who is fortunate to have them are busily engaged in drying, canning and preserving peaches. - Henry Jones, the famous "twirler" for the Level Green baseball boys, has just returned from Richmond where he had taken a number of fat cattle. - The crops in this vicinity are looking fine regardless the chronic kickers and grumblers who whittle on goods box and pick flaws in the weather. - A series of meetings began Wednesday which will continue two weeks. They are being conducted by Rev. Conway from Somerset. - "Red" Mullins is still on the matrimonial list despite the fact that this is leap year. - Misses Maggie Hamlin and Lucy Daily, of Mt Vernon, spent Sunday with Level Green friends, enjoying themselves by attending church and feasting on concord grapes and Elberta peaches. Come again girls and stay longer next time. - Mrs. H. C. Broughton, of Somerset , is visiting old friends and kinfolk at this place this week. - Mrs. Bennet Sutton and family of Wabd, spent Sunday last with Mrs. Ellen Brown at this place. - Miss Maude Forbes, daughter of W. H. Forbes, of Plato, is at home after being in Canada for some months. - There is little trading going on around Level Green as they have about cleaned up all the loose cattle,hogs and sheep. - The farmers in this vicinity contemplate sowing a larger acreage of wheat this year than ever before. - Mrs. J. J. Brown, of this place, who has been confined to her room for some time with a severe attack of rheumatism, remains about the same. - Miss Tilda Waddell, formerly of this place, but now of Kansas City, Kan., is visiting relatives and friends here. - O. J. Mullins recently purchased from J. M. Craig, of Quail, a combined saddle and harness horse. 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