Subject: KFY: Mt Vernon Signal Newspapers, 1900 - Rockcastle Co ------------------------------------------ Date: July 23, 1999 From: DBXP64A@prodigy.com (C.L. C_R_A_W_F_O_R_D) ------------------------------------------ ROCKCASTLE COUNTY, KENTUCKY NOV 9, 1900 LIVINGSTON Mrs Clancy is runnthe Walton house to perfection W.M. Fields is at his home in Lincoln county to exercise his rights for good government Hugh Hagan went to Brodhead Sat to rally with the democrats Walter Saunders of Stanford was up to hear the speaking Saturday night and to help us to rally for alw and order BIRTH: Born to the wife of J.A. Olvier a fine Goebelite DEATH: Wm Goebel Cummins infant sone of Wm Cummins of Maretburg and nephew of Mrs Sue Mullins of this place died Saturday Nov 3 Rev Smith preached at the Presbyterian church Sunday night John Farmer has completed his store house and moved in and is hustling away Bowman & Cockrell have their corn mill in running order and grind corn regularly A.J. Fish, Judge R. G. Williams, Letcher owsley, J. Mort Rothwell, Dick Pike, Geo Hasty, Harve Dunn of Brodhead, W.C. Mullins, Chairman of the County Democratic Campaign, F.L. Thompson, Charlie Henderson and Jack Ping were all guests at Mullins Hotel Saturday night Miss Kittie Poynter a pretty Mt Vernon Miss is the guest of Misses Anna and Nora Hayes of this place L.A. Pettus went home to vote against pardons for Taylor Powers Howard & Co Frank Jones, Sam Mason and A.W. Soward are some of our law and order ment who went home to Madison to vote P.R. Stucky has moved into his property on High street and his family is a welcome addition to the north end Josiah Cummins who is in the volunteer army ain Manila sent his mother some leaves from the trees at Manila ORLANDO Henry Johnson of Climax is here for a few days Dr W.J. Childress has moved to Livingston we are sorry to loose the Dr he has many friends in this setion and will be badly missed W.M. EcNew is non the sick List Henry Bales has a very sick baby at this writing Tom Ball who has been in North Carolina for several months come home to vote Mrs Geo Evans continues quite sick PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE W.T. Short is in London today R.L. Smith was here Wednesday AJ Fish was in Richmond Sunday Lawyer C.C. Williams is in Cincinnati J.W. Moore is visiting relatives in Ohio Miss Ida May Adams went to Grays yesterday Hon Samuel Ward of Livingston was here Wednesday U.S. Marshall W.T Short was in Breathitt county Monday Elisha Bullock Jr is at Berea this week delivering fruit trees Miss Alma Newland came yesterday to visit friends and relatives The Wilson case will be argued today before the court of appeals at Frankfort DEATH: Uncle John Sayers age 80 died at his home near Brodhead Monday Mr and Mrs J.J. Lawrence returned from Guthrie Ky yesterday MC Miller Jr the popular telegraph operator was at home to cast his vote Sam Reynolds was fined $2.00 Wed in county court for being drunk Dr E J Brown passed through on Monday train en route to Stanford Tom Hayes was here from Wildie Wed. He brought over the ballot box Miss Dove B Letcher spent Sat and Sun with relatives in Richmond Mrs Mar Conn who has been quite sick we are glad to say is some better Miss Rhoda White left Wed for a three weeks visit to relatives in Lancaster Hon W.R. Ramsey of London was on Wednesdays train en route to Louisville Mrs E.B Miller returned Saturday from an extended visit ot relatives in Indiana Gus Staverson will grind corn every Saturday at his stand on the old Willis Adams farm From: Kentucky Genealogy & History Discussions [KYROOTS@LSV.UKY.EDU] on behalf of C L CRAWFORD [DBXP64A@PRODIGY.COM] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 10:09 PM To: KYROOTS@LSV.UKY.EDU Subject: MT VERNON SIGNAL NEWSPAPERS ROCKCASTLE COUNTY, KENTUCKY NOV 9, 1900 (CONT) PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE (CONT) David Butner of Wildie has gone to Illinois to live. he takes the best wishes of the Signal DEATH: Nathaniel Brown aged 66 dropped of heart trouble at his home Tuesday. He had just returned from the election eaten at hearty meal and was preparing to go to the corn field to gather corn when the collapse cames. The burial took place Tuesday The Assessors Tommy French and T.G. Reynolds are rapidly taking the list list of taxable property in the county Mrs Mary Goodin of Pine Hill was taken back to Joseph Price Infirmary last Wednesday That most excellent lady Mrs J. Thomas Cherry of Brodhead is visiting her friend Mrs J.W. Brown went to the Jospeh Price Infirmary Wednesday Miss Sallie Newland or Brodhead spent a few days with her cousins little mary and Allie Lee Houk W.H. Pettus who has been holding down the office at depot for the last two weeks returned to his old post at Brodhead Wednesday O.A. Gentry was in town yesterday and reported his brother Dave Gentry's baby quite sick. He also says that Dr Proctor is building himself a nice residence J. Morris Brown who has been in Colorado for the past year has returend to Kentucky. In all probablitity he will not go back to the west The son of Mr and Mrs John Magee of Livingston who has been under the treatment of the physicians at Stanford for the past week, died Tuesday The county Judge gave Billy Moss Chasteen 20 days on the rock pile for shooting on the public high way in front of Cris Woods home some time ago John Merricks a youth of 16 years is charged with stealing Charlie Summers mare Sunday night. He was caught Monday by jaior Griffin and his trial is set for today Wm Linville and Harry Blazer were here Wednesday from Scaffold Cane and say that they could raise several hundered dollars easily to help build a pike to the Madison county line The County road Commissioners composed of R.P. Norton, G.C. Fish, Harry Blazer, J.W. Moore, W.H. Carmical, T.C. Johnson, Charlie Mullins and Elisah Bullock Jr., will meet next Monday and allow road claims Neal parrot and T.J. Pennington have just completed a nice tow story residence for henry Catron at Level Green BIRTH: Born to the wife of W.H. Sowder at Brodhead a bouncing boy. His first squall was for Bryan. W.H. was so happy that he shouted his shoe strings loose and suspended all that being rally day William Gant got too much booze while attending the Republican rally Saturday and fired his pistol at random about the depot as the local freight came into the station. He was immediately put in jail where he remained till Sunday and on Monday was fined $1.00 for being drunk and $5.00 for shooting in town Those two sterling Democratic speakers Samuel Brown and T.T. Simmons spoke on White Oak branch last night a week ago. They heard threats before going but go they did. While Mr Simmons was up speaking a heavy shower of rocks came against the house and in a few moments some one shot through the window at him the ball passing very close to his right shoulder and penetrating the wall near by. The speaker turned and bored into the wall and extracted the bullet and holding it up said..."That the Republicans would have to send something worse than bullets to stop him," then spoke on. The officers of the law are now investigating the case and we confidently expect to see the guilty parties punished STATE J.W. Lurdon exjudge of Breathitt county is dead The Kentucky Synod of the Southern Presbyterian church met at Campbellsville last week Tom Baker the great Kentucky feudist was shot and illed by Geo Connlton near Antigo Wis. James D. Noe age 21 and Richard Wall age 19 were drowned in the Ohio river while duck hunting Randolph Jett the young man whose skul was fractured with a brick in the hands of Claude Parrish at Frankfort died as the result of the blow Frank Jones of Lexington who recently married Miss Lillie Johnosn in Jessamine county wwas arrested and the charge was bigamy ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. 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