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 September 07, 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 Judge Alcorn is here this week. -- Mrs. T. Fish continues very sick. -- Charley Sympson was with homefolks Sunday. -- Atty. John W. Brown was in Louisville Tuesday. -- Jim and Frank Thompson were here last week buying mules. -- Dr. And Mrs. John M. Williams visited relatives here this week. -- George and Russel Proctor attended the association at Mt. Pleasant. -- J. J. Ping has accepted a three year principlaship of a grade school in Missouri. -- Miss Beulah Smith left Wednesday for Williamsburg where she will attend school. -- Miss Edna Hayes, of near Wildie is visiting friends and relatives in London and Corbin. -- Mrs. Cleo Brown is in the city this week buying her line of fall millenary. -- Miss Risse Williams will leave in about 10 days for Cincinnati to enter the conservatory. -- Mr. And Mrs. J. S. Cox have returned from a weeks visit to friends and relatives in London. -- G. M. Ballard and sister, Miss Linda, have been visiting their mother near Cooksburg. -- Miss Sallie Rickels is at home after an extended visit to her sisters in Cincinnati and Hamilton. -- R. A. Welsh has been very sick since Sunday but we are glad to say is on the road to recovery now. -- S. N. Davis is disposing of his possessions as rapidly as possible, making preparations to go to the West. -- Mr. And Mrs. L. L. Christerson of Cincinnati , are visiting Mrs. Christersons's parents, Mr. And Mrs. Jasper Rickels. -- Charle Henderson, extra conductor, running between Corbin and Knoxville, is with relatives here for a few days. -- Miss Helen Thurman has been chosen as teacher of the 5th grade in the Somerset High School -- SOMERSET MOUNTAINEER. -- Misses Sisson and Adams, teachers in the Brown Memorial School arrived Wednesday. The other members of the faculty will arrive today. -- Midshipman Caswell Saufley of Annapolis, a son of Judge Saufley of Stanford , was here Sunday to see one of our most beautiful and popular young ladies. -- Medames Lou Purcell and Florence Sage were guests of friends and relatives. Mrs. Sage, who used to be Florence Griffin, lives in St. Louis and is here on a visit to her parents, Mr. And Mrs. Nelson Griffin, of Maretburg. -- Judge W. L. Brown was here from London Monday looking after some legal matters. Judge and Mrs. Brown just returned from a visit to the west and are very extravagant in their praise of Colorado and its metropolis. -- R. L. Collier was here Monday and told us that during the month of August he loaded twenty-six cars of poles and would have loaded seven more had he been able to get the cars. That's an average of more than one per day. Bob is certainly a hustler and we are glad to see him doing so well. -- T. A. Stewart has been here for several days making abstracts of the various tracts of land owned by his father, which was recently sold to some West Virginia capitalists. Mr. Stewart to give possession of the property March 1, 1907 at which time he will more than likely go to Madison county to locate. -- Mrs. Margaret Grimes is visiting in Lexington. -- Mrs. Bettie Hoard, of Springfield, is the guest of Mrs. C. C. Williams. -- The three children of Capt. M. F. Smith returned Friday from a several weeks visit in the South. -- Mrs. J. R. Donelson, of Glencoe, was the guest of the family of her brother, Cashier W.. L. Richards. -- Miss Ida May Adams has resigned her position at Shellman, Ga., to accept a similar one at Live Oak, Fla. -- Miss Gladden Ewers, daughter of Prof. and Mrs. A. E. Ewers, was here this week, the guest of Mrs. Willis Adams. Prof. Ewers is now located in Kirlin, Ind. -- Mrs. Lou Boulware has purchased the residence of Jonas McKensie, now occupied by Mr. Graham. Mrs. Boulware expects to move inside the next month. -- W. O. Jones writes from New York that his term of enlistment in the navy has expired and that he will engage in some other vocation, probably on the police force of New York City. -- LOCAL NEWS The six year old son of Joseph Coffey of Wildie, fell into a tub of boiling water a few days ago and at the last report was in a very serious condition. -- The Mt Vernon Lime Company will soon complete their new kiln and put in a gasoline engine for hoisting the stone to top of kiln instead of horse and cart heretofore. -- PAROLED Henry Hellard who was sent to the pen about two years ago for killing of Abe Drew was paroled Tuesday and reached here Wednesday. He is looking none the worse because of his confinement. -- The following announcement was received here this week: Mrs. D. H. Painter request the pleasure of your presence at the marriage of her daughter Claud Adelle, to Dr. Lytle Schooler Adkins on Tuesday morning September 18, 1906 at 10 o'clock at the residence in Council Grove, Kan. -- A large number of circular letters have been sent out to the members of the Burial Association and the list will be completed this week. Read the circular carefully and there will be no reason for anyone to fail to understand the plan suggested for reorganization. Some few have signed the blank attachment and returned it accepting the plan suggested, but failed to remit the 25 cents. No application will be recorded, which is not accompanied by the amount of the assessment, for such will only cause double work. Those who favor the plan, which has been offered will please respond at once, as it is necessary that the promoters know what the members expect to do. -- Born to the wife of Walter Southard a fine girl. -- Many telephone users in seeking a number ask useless questions. For instance, how much easier would it be for everybody if when the subscriber got "central" he merely called for the number instead of putting his request into a long time- taking question? Then when he connected with his party, he should first announce his own name, and if there in doubt in his mind, courteously ask the party at the other end of the wire this is so and so. Instead many subscribers hurl an impolite query at the person called to the telephone with "WHO IS THAT? Nine out of ten persons resent this impolite discourtesy, and the conversation begins under unfavorable conditions. The value of good manners at the receiver cannot be overestimated, and the saving of time is no more important often than the saving of temper to all concerned. BRODHEAD NEWS Miss Lem Fhay Jones has returned from a few weeks visit to friends and relatives in London and Pittsburg, and is now the charming visitor of Miss Sallie Evans. -- John E. Evans, traveling salesman for the Belknap Hardware Manufacturing Co., with headquarters in Athens. Ga., is here with his parents, Mr. And Mrs. W. T. Evans. -- School began last Monday and is progressing nicely with about 200 in attendance. -- Chas. Hurt, Chas. and Rev. A. J. Pike, and A. E. Albright attended the Association at Level Green Tuesday and Wednesday. -- Miss Clyde V. Wilmont has returned from a weeks duration visit in London and Livingston. -- Mr. And Mrs. Joe Dickerson of Livingston are with Prof. And Mrs. Dickerson. -- Dr. A. D. Wilhoite was in Livingston on professional business Tuesday and Wednesday. -- W. C. Albright was in Mt Vernon Tuesday. -- Oscar Spoonamore made a flying trip to Parksville first of the week. -- Ed Rogers is in Crab Orchard the guest of Miss Maggie Pleasant. -- R. L. Collier, of Crab Orchard was here Tuesday looking after pole interests. -- Our barber, W. C. Swinford, makes weekly trips to Livingston, going on train No. 23 on Wednesday and returning on train No. 24 Thursday night. -- Misses John Eva and Ruby Nelle Hilton have returned from a two week visit to Lancaster. -- Mrs. Ed Smith continues very low with hearth trouble. -- John Robins is attending court in Mt Vernon this week. -- Emery Albright left last week to enter school in Williamsburg. -- Rev. W. H. Durham will begin a series of meetings at the three different churches and will continue for about two weeks. TEACHER ASSOCIATION PROGRAM The following is a program of the teacher's association which will meet at the Baptist church near Climax, in district No. 3. On Saturday September 8, 1906. Devotional exercises by: Sherman Chasteen Welcome address by: J. L. Jones Response by: Felix Bowman Song by the association, "My country tis of thee" Essay by: Thessa Johnson Physiology: by: J. Pennington Arithmetic by: J. O. Scroggins Selected reading by: Ella Lake Intermission and song by Association Nature Study by: Hattie Poynter and R. E. Bell Geography by: tutor Dizney of Berea College How to secure the co-operation by Sherman Chasteen What should be the aim of moral instruction by: J. O. Scroggin Is the teacher's salary commensurate with his services by: Supt. Ballard Spelling by: J. Pennington Language by: Ella Lake and Hattie Poynter How to secure attention by: R. E. Bell and J. O. Scroggin What are the teacher's reward by: J. L. Jones What is a teacher by: Felix Bowman Song: " When the Roll is Called up Yonder" Adjournment. Supt. G. Ballard; President J. L. 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