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 December 11, 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.) PERSONAL NEWS The little girl of Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor has the Chicken Pox. - D. C. Ponder was in Tuesday and announced that he is a candidate for Jailer. - Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Collier came up Friday night to attend the "Old Maids Conference". - A. W. Stewart was over from Madison County Wednesday looking after some business matters. - Mrs. Elmer Houk, of Maretburg, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Martin, last week. - Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Branaman were over from Wildie Monday having some dental work done. - Mr. S. H. Martin has his new cottage on West Main completed and ready for occupancy. - Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Gentry are spending a few days with relatives here and at Level Green. - Mrs. Elizabeth Walden visited the families of her brothers, Dr. S. C. and W. A. B. Davis. - Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Edmonds are visting Mrs. Edmonds parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Welch. - Drs. Southard and Lovell have been kept busy for the past day or two vaccinating, the young and old. - Mrs. Catron, of Lincoln County, returned to her home Tuesday, after a pleasant visit to her sister, Mrs. H. H. Beaty. - Atty. Dan Chenault and J. J. Wood of Conway, spent most of the week here looking after some legal matters. - Mr. W. J. Sparks and daughters, Miss Francis and Bess, went to Louisville Wednesday, for a day or two shopping. - Everett Mullins, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Mullins has been very sick several days with something like chicken pox. - Misses Lou Coffey and Maud Reynolds of Wildie spent Saturday and Sunday with Miss Maggie Hansel on Richmond Street. - Our good friend. Mr. George Taylor of near Buckeye remains about the same. We hope to see Mr. Taylor a well man soon. - John Hysinger and Wade Livesay will engage in the restaurant business as soon as J. T. Adams gets his new building completed. - C. R. Baugh and Atty. Dave Hammock, of London, were passengers on Wednesday's train enroute to New Mexico to look out locations. Mr. Baugh is going on account of his wife's health. - Mrs. C. C. Williams entertained yesterday afternoon from 3 to 5 o'clock in honor of Mrs. S. L. Whithead, of Norton, Va. Delightful refreshments were served. - Hon. Fontaine Fox Bobbit will speak in the courthouse at this place promptly at 1 o'clock Monday on the subject of stock raising. The farmers should try to hear him. - C. B. McKensie, one of Mt Vernon's young businessmen left Tuesday night of Oliver Springs, Tenn., to accept a position as bookkeeper for a large coal company. - Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Kinley, of Nelson, were called here this week on account of the serious illness of Mrs. Kinley's mother, Mrs. James McPherson, who is better at this time. - Mr. and Mrs. Holmes returned from their honeymoon trip and came on to Mt Vernon Wednesday to spend a few days with Mrs. Holmes grandmother, Mrs. W. M. Poynter. - WE regret to lose from our county that splendid good citizen, Mr. J. W. Lee, who has located his family to Blanch, Bell County, where he has a good position with the Big Hill Coal Company. We certainly wish him well. - Misses Thorton and Keys, of Cincinnati and Lee, of Danville, of the Brown Memorial faculty have returned to their homes for vacation. LOCAL NEWS Several schools in the county close today. Among these is the Buckeye school taught by Miss Eva Fish. - Wm. Bullock, the clever Hansford merchant, had a good horse badly injured by a fall on the frozen ground Wednesday. - The "Old Maids Conference" which was given at the courthouse last Friday evening was simply great. It was good from first to last and if there was a single person out of the large audience, who did not feel that he had got his money's worth we have yet to find. The ladies, about fifteen, have worked faithfully for the past three weeks to make the play a success and well may feel that their efforts have not been in vain. Quite a number have asked that it be repeated during the holidays and should it be decided to do so we are sure that a larger crowd would witness the "Old Maids" in their endeavors to get a man. We understand that it will likely be given at Livingston sometime in the near future. QUAIL NEWS Wm. A. Owens who has had a serious attack of pneumonia is some better. - Earnie Herrin is doing some plastering in Mt Vernon. - Levi Ponder and family have returned from Indiana. - Cleo Wheeldon and wife spent Monday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wheeldon, of the Buckcreek section. - We made a mistake in last weeks issue about the Xmas tree being Xmas day. The Xmas tree will be on Xmas eve. - A protracted meeting has been going on at Poplar Grove, conducted by Elders Cummins and Wilson. - Well boys, Xmas will soon be here and the old year going out and the new year coming in, and let us resolve that we may be worth more to ourselves and to all. - McCraig and McBrown have been buying up turkeys in this section at 8 1/2 cents. - The little infant son of Edward Taylor died Saturday evening and was buried in the Provident burying ground. - Eugene Todd enjoyed the smiles of his best girl Monday night. - On Wednesday Dec. 9 th at 4:15 A.M. the death angle visited the home of H. P. Davis and claimed as its victim his daughter, Addie, who has been very low with that dread disease, consumption. Indeed she was a noble girl. She was twenty years of age and was a faithful member of the Church of Christ. She leaves a father, one sister, and two brothers to mourn the loss of a devoted daughter and sister. The burial took place Thursday afternoon in the Providence burying ground. LEVEL GREEN NEWS Mrs. Katie Catron, who has been critically ill for several days with pneumonia, is improving. - The series of meetings being conducted at Poplar Grove by Rev. James Cummins and an associate minister are proving to be a great benefit to the community. - Mrs. Roy Johnson gave a flinch party Saturday evening for the pleasure of the young folks which was a grand success. Mrs. Johnson certainly knows how to amuse the young at a social and is usually the liveliest of them all. - John Hurst, of this place, has no "Western fever" and will remain in Kentucky. - D. R. Gentry, the present teacher of the school at this place, intends to teach a two or three months term this winter beginning immediately after the expiration of the fall term. - The children of Level Green have been suffering recently from a severe attack of whooping cough. - Mrs. Lizzie Brown, wife of operator V. H. Brown, now at Danville in the service of the Q. & C. is visiting relatives at this place. - Bluegrass bird hunters have recently infecting our part in their eager search for game. From a large part of those from the Bluegrass in this section to hunt, the game is usually as safe at the muzzle of the gun as it is at the breech. - The people of this community have been slaughtering their hogs, and despite the election of a Republican president, we can have good times for a while, and in view of the fact that Christmas will soon be here. COVE NEWS Mrs. Vina Cook has returned to her home at Jelico. - Miss Cora Griffin will close her school on the 18 th. - Sam Bryant is at Shepherdsville doing bridgework. - Mr. J. W. Lee has moved his family to Blanch. - Rev. Logan Owens preached here last Sunday. - Rev. Jones will begin a protracted meeting at Maple Grove next Sunday. - J. M. McNew was attending court at Mt Vernon Monday. - Dr. Lee Chestnut has returned to Louisville to enter medical school. - Lester Clifford and family have moved to Redfork, Oklahoma to make their future home. - Mr. Marshall Smith, of Mt Vernon, was visiting his sister, Mrs. Mary Smith last week. - J. C. Coffey's land brought fourth plentiful this year; consequently he has pulled down his old barn and is building a new one. BRODHEAD NEWS Miss Eliza Pike is attending the protracted meeting at Mt Vernon at the Baptist church. - O. A. Frith was in the Bee Lick country last Sunday. - Walter Miller was up from Lebanon Junction last Monday night. - D. B. Rambo was in Maywood and Stanford first part of last week. - Miss Cora Sigmon entertained very royally Tuesday night in honor of her guests, Misses Smith and Wilder of Corbin. - A free entertainment will be given by the Christian Sunday School on Christmas Eve night at the Christian Church. - Rev. A. J. Pike is assisting in the protracted revival at the Baptist church in Mt Vernon. - Dave Hurt attended the funeral of his brother, John Hurt at Lancaster last week. - J. Thos. Cherry was in Louisville last Monday purchasing windows for the Christian Church. - The members of the Christian Church will give a box and measuring social at the opera house on Saturday night Dec. 26 at 7 p.m. Be sure and come and help a good cause. - A. M. Hiatt was in Louisville last Saturday. - Rev. and Mrs. C. C. Wilson have returned from a ten day's stay in the Level Green neighborhood. - Mrs. L. B. Hilton, of Stanford, was up to see her mother, Mrs. J. R. Cass who is laid up with rheumatism. - Dr. O. O. Stone is visiting relatives and friends this week at Cumberland Gap and Tazwell, Tenn. - Mrs. M. E. Wilmott and grandson, Dave Miller spent last week on Copper Creek with Mrs. Wilmott's brother, Mr. Granville Leece. - M. C. Albright went to Louisville Tuesday on business. - Mrs. W. T. Evans and daughter, Miss Verla, have returned from a weeks visit at Mitchelsburg. - Edd Owens is in Louisville this week. - The Young Men's Club met last Saturday night and elected the following officers: C. H. Frith, Pres. J. Mont Roberts, Vice Pres. F. L. Durham, Secy. A. M. Hiatt, Treas. Henry Brooks, U. B. Cass, J. J. Albright, Guy Roberts, and R. E. Abright Committee on Entertainment. - W. J. Owens returned last Saturday from a ten days stay in Louisville and Lebanon Junction. - Dr. Percy Benton and son John were down from Mt Vernon Wednesday and spent the day in our town. - The Hamiltonian Society of the Christian Church have decided that Brodhead will be well supplied with plays, entertainments, box socials, etc. So they have decided to withdraw in favor of these and will put forth the strongest effort to give one of the best home talent shows ever produced in this city about Feb. 14, 1909. ******************************************************************************* 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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