Subject: KFY: Mt Vernon Signal Newspapers, 1907 - Rockcastle Co FROM LONG AGO Submitted By: Ray E_v_a_n_s ray.evans@worldnet.att.net Mount Vernon Signal January 10, 1908 The following first appeared in the Mount Vernon Signal on January 10, 1908. It was recently transcribed from microfilm of that issue of the Signal. With these submittals, I am sharing these gleanings with the Signal's present readers. PERSONAL NEWS Victor C. Tate is very sick with grip. - Miss Mayme Jones is visiting in Barbourville. - I. A. Bowman was very sick a few days this week. - Sherley Tate is out again after several days illness. - Mrs. Margaret Grimes has been very sick for several days. - Miss Ida Mae Adams has been very sick for the past week. - Mrs. C. C. Williams and daughter, Miss Risse, are in Boston. - Miss Fannie Thompson, of Preachersville, is the guest of relatives here. - Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hutcheson are guests of Cashier and Mrs. M. B. Salin. - Miss Malie Starks, of Gethsemane is guest of her sister, Mrs. Emmet Hansel. - Atty. J. W. Brown left Tuesday for Oklahoma to look after some business matters. - The Misses Fish, of Wildie, were guests of relatives and friends here Monday. - Misses Lettie Lusk and Nannie McNeil, of Pittsburg are the guest of the family of J. A. Landrum. - Robert, Harry and Floyd Miller and Little Christine Davis spent several days in Louisville. - Miss Mattie Joplin has returned to Lexington to school after two weeks vacation with homefolks. - Miss Ida M. Taylor was in Cincinnati from Thursday until Saturday looking after some important business matters. - Misses Maud Watson and Eliza Pike are guests of Miss Miranda McKensie at the home of her uncle, Mr. Jonas McKensie. - Dr. W. J. Edmiston, A. B. Bastin and J. A. Napper came over from Crab Orchard Tuesday afternoon to be with the I.O.O.F's here Tuesday night. - We overlooked the item last week of the unfortunate accident which happened to Master Earnest Smith on Christmas day, while in a play with Rob McKensie, fell and broke both bones of his left leg just above the ankle. - R. S. Cress, after a three weeks visit to relatives in Virginia and in this county leaves today for his home in Kansas. It has been twelve years since he left Rockcastle. Rev. F. L. Warren and wife will accompany him and make their home there. LIVINGSTON NEWS Mrs. W. M. Preston has been spending a few weeks in Louisville visiting. - Willie McGuire has quit braking and is now at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. McGuire. - Mrs. Howard Bowers and sister, Miss Margaret Overstreet spent a few days with relatives at London. -- Mrs. W. M. Wright and daughter, Miss Florella are visiting friends in Louisville. - Miss Cora Wright is spending the week with Miss Anna Fishback. - Misses Lillie Carter and Nettie Rice are spending a few days with the Misses Fields at Stanford. - The new "Rink" will be open next week. - Mrs. Mahala Carson has been quite sick but is some better at this writing. - Mrs. Susie Hicks is better today. - Miss Ethel Hayes has returned from a pleasant visit with relatives and friends at Jellico, Tenn. - Mrs. Will Sams is spending the week with her parents Mr. and Mrs. George Pittman at Pittsburg. - John Walton is having one of his cottages on Main Street recovered. - Mr. and Mrs. John Pope are rejoicing over a new baby girl born on the 7th. - Miss Montie Martin was the charming guest of Miss Dora Dickerson Monday and Tuesday. - Mr. and Mrs. Clyde H. White have returned from Tucson, Arizona they will probably make Livingston for the future their home. - Mrs. J. B. Hayes was called to Paris Sunday to see her daughter, Mrs. Ed Quinn who was sick. - Mr. George Griffin was at Maretburg last week on business. - Charles Rice, Jr. is here again attending the post office. - D. C. and D. M. Chenault are opening a new coal mine near town and are expecting to handle quite a bit of coal in the near future. - Egbert Salyers of Corbin was here a few days this week with friends he left for Louisville Wednesday. - Miss Lida Cook was in London the first of the week with relatives and friends. - Mrs. Nan McCarthy of Altamont is here visiting relatives. - Emmet Quinn's little child has measles. - Mrs. H. W. Rice has purchased the property on High Street belonging to J. H. Browning. - Mr. J. P. Lechleiter of Mt Vernon has purchased two houses on High Street and is now making quite a lot of improvements on them. - A Mr. McEwing of Cincinnati came here Saturday. He was intoxicated when he arrived here and has not been heard of since. His hat and a piece of tobacco was found on the creek bank just opposite the coal bins. It is thought that in some way he may have accidentally fell into the creek. Efforts are now being made to recover his body from the waters of Roundstone. - Mr. John Griffin of Jellico and Miss Linnie Carson also of Jellico were quietly married at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Geo W. Griffin on the evening of the 26th. Mr. Griffin is an honorable man of sterling qualities and faultless character. He is the son of Mrs. W. D. Griffin formerly of this place but now of Jellico. The sweet bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Carson formerly of this place but now residing in Jellico. She has an exceedingly loving and loveable disposition and is well deserving of the love and respect of this excellent young man. The best wishes of all their friends go with them to their new home, and may their pathway be strewn with roses minus the thorns of adversity is the wish of the writer. - Mrs. George Cook was visiting her father Judge Lear near Mt Vernon a few days last week. BRODHEAD NEWS Miss Cora Jacobs has returned to her home at Liberty after spending a few weeks here as the guest of her grandmother, Mrs. Mollie Durham. - Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Hilton have returned to their home in Stanford after spending a few days with their parents here. - Mrs. J. W. Hutcheson and son, James Edward, are spending a few days in Mercer County this week. - J. W. Hutcheson was over at Frankfort at the convening of the legislature. - Announcements have been received of the wedding of H. B. McClary formerly of this place and Miss Depoyster of Dunmor, Ky., on January 19. Brent was raised in this county and was Assistant Cashier of the bank here. He resigned to accept the Cashiership of the Farmers Bank at Dunmor, Ky. Here's hoping every good thing for them. - Miss Elizabeth Cable is the charming visitor of Miss Cora Wesley at Liberty, Ky. - Claude Owens is slowly improving we are glad to say. - Mr. and Mrs. Amos Smith have returned home from a weeks stay in the country. - Albert Hiatt of Hiatt, Ky., has been employed in The Citizens Bank as bookkeeper. Judging from appearance he will make a good one. (Mr. Hiatt must have done a good job. He was the President of The Citizens Bank at Brodhead for many years.) Capt. W. I. Dooty of Corbin attended the funeral of Mrs. John Sigmon Tuesday. - Owen Cass is visiting his sister Mrs. L. B. Hilton at Stanford. - John D. Pike of Lebanon Junction is at home for a few days. - Urban Cass has returned from a three days visit to Stanford and Rowland. - Wednesday was Railroad official day here. Supt. Snyder, Road Master, Burns, Master of Trains, Dilley, Supt. Teather, Chief Disp. Lemons and Civil Engineer, Watts all spent Wednesday night in our city. - The supper given by the new officers just elected by the Masons at this place was a success in every respect about 25 masons and their wives, sisters and sweethearts enjoyed the supper fine. - Mrs. Amanda, beloved wife of John Sigmon parted this life Monday Morning at 11 A. M. to make her future home in heaven. She had been an invalid for many years and about two weeks ago she was stricken with pneumonia and died at 11 A. M. Monday. She was a devoted Christian having confessed her sins many years ago. She was a member of the Baptist church and many years ago had requested Rev. A. J. Pike to preach her funeral, which he did in a very impressive way. Mrs. Sigmon was a certainly a good woman and will be missed very much by everybody that knew her. Following the funeral she was peacefully laid to rest in the Baptist cemetery. She was 57 years of age. CONWAY NEWS Our little village is as dry as a chip in the liquor line since New Year set in and we hope it will remain so for one year. - John Wood, Lee Berry and Gertrude Pullins entered Berea College first of the year with the winter term. - Born on January 1st to Mrs. Ida Wood an 8 pound girl baby. J. J. is the proudest man on this side of the county. - Mr. Henry Wood our railroad agent will go to Hyattsville Garrard County to take charge of the railroad business at that place in the course of ten days. We do not know at this writing who will take his place here. -- M. L. Kelton has been appointed School trustee to fill the unexpired time of D. C. Pullins who resigned. - Mrs. M. L. Kelton has returned from Junction City where she visited her son, Will during the holidays. - The Roundstone Land Company have shut their mill down and will not saw anymore until spring on account of bad roads and mud. People cannot get timber in to keep them sawing. - From the number of students passed here going to Berea College since the first of the year Rockcastle County will be pretty well represented there this term. - Mr. Chambers Oldham made a business trip to Mt Vernon this week. - Mr. W. S. Beldon will go to work in the Freight Dept for the L & N at Cincinnati this week. Uncle Scott will make them a good man. - Miss Nettie Oldham of Boone visited her brothers here last week. - B. B. Belton, the hustling trapper here, says he would catch plenty of varmints if they would go in the traps he has set out. QUAIL NEWS Rev. R. E. Todd filled his regular appointment at Bethel Sunday. - Mr. B. A. Herrin remains very low at this issue. - Eld. Martin Owens is very low and is not expected to live but a short while. - Mrs. Jacob Elder of Brodhead is spending a few days with relatives in this community. - Uncle Stephen Elder has been very bad off with pneumonia. - Arthur Scott is numbered among the sick. - On Monday January 6th at 8 A. M., the death angel visited the home of Rev. Martin Owens and claimed as its victim his aged companion. For some time she had been very low with a complication of diseases. All that medical aid and physicians could do was of no avail. She was a member of the Christian Church. She was 81 years of age. She leaves a feeble husband and two sons, Wm. Watson of Nina in Garrard County and Dr. J. F. Watson of Brodhead to mourn the loss of a devoted wife and mother, besides a host of friends and relatives. The remains were laid away Tuesday in the Lawrence cemetery to await the summons of the last great day. ******************************************************************************* 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. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *******************************************************************************