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 June 12, 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 Mr. Jasper Rickels is very low. - W. H. Fish was in Stanford and Lancaster Sunday. - Prof. W. R. Dickerson was here for a few hours Monday. - Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Brown are visiting relatives here. - Miss Rose McFerron is visiting her sister, Mrs. E. B. Cox. - Atty. C. C. Williams was in Lebanon Junction yesterday. - Miss Fanny Sparks is visiting relatives and friends in Louisville. - J. J. Ping spent last week with relatives and friends near Level Green. - Miss Mattie Butner was visiting relatives and friends in Wildie first of the week. - Mr. and Mrs. Frank Myers, of Williamsburg, are visiting relatives here this week. - Mrs. Mollie Golden, of Chaffe, Mo., is visiting her father, Mr. J. C. P. Myers. - Mrs. H. D. McGee was the guest of her sister, Mrs. R. A. Sparks first of the week. - Dr. Percy Benton was here Monday to attend the meeting of the Chapter. - Maurice Brown, agent at East Bernstadt, is taking a few days vacation and is with relatives here. - Miss Mary Jones, of Wildie, and friend, Miss Murphy, of Louisville were in shopping Monday. - Mr. McWhorter, of Bradsville, spent a portion of the week with his sister, Mrs. R. K. Powell. - Mr. and Mrs. I. Snodgrass are in from Colorado for a few weeks visiting his mother and other relatives. - Mrs. Mary Taylor has returned from a visit to her son, W. T. Taylor, at Quail, who accompanied him home Sunday. - Mr. J. W. Baker, the Livingston merchant, spent Monday and Tuesday here looking after business matters. - J. W. Moore, of the Hiatt section, was called to Nebraska two weeks ago to pay the last sad rights of a son to a mother. - Conductor, C. B. Henderson writes for us to send the Signal to Miami, Fl., hereafter. He has a position in the Q. & C. yards at that point. - Attys. C. C. Williams and J. W. Brown, F. L. Thompson, J. M. Craig and W. H. Owens were in Lexington yesterday attending the convention. - Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Mullins and daughter, Miss Bessie, were called to Corbin Monday on account of the death of the four-year- old son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Mullins. - G. T. Johnson and family have taken rooms at the old brick for a short time until he can make arrangements for a home. Mr. Beaty will move into the property vacated by Mr. Johnson this week. - Dr. E. J. Brown is back from Chicago, where he spent a month or more attending lectures. He was present at the meeting of the National Medical Association and took part in the deliberations of that great body. Interior Journal -- Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Branaman and children, of Wildie, were here Saturday and Sunday to visit her brother, Geo. C. Moore. Mrs. Branaman and Children are now visiting in Jackson County. London Sentinel - Mrs. Elizabeth Sowder, of Brodhead, mother of W. H. Sowder, came to Mt Vernon Sunday for a weeks visit to relatives and friends. This is her first trip to Mt Vernon in more than thirty-seven years. For many years she was confined to her bed all the time, but for the last few years has been able to take a few steps about the room each day. - W. T. Sharp from Langford Station was a pleasant caller at this office yesterday. - Reports from London indicate that Elza Langford, who was shot six weeks ago Saturday, is doing no good. - Mrs. Nannie Albright and mother, Mrs. Matilda Houk, are spending the week with relatives at Brodhead. - John Harmon, aged about twelve years, came into the circus yesterday and while in town was a pleasant caller at this office. His father, Bob Harmon, and J. J. Stokes, the Skeggs Creek merchant accompanied him. LOCAL NEWS Let us have streetlights. - Mr. S. F. Bowman and Miss Maggie Hansel will teach the public school at this place this year. - The Brown Memorial school closed last Thursday night with a splendid musical program. - "The Merry Widow" play will be given at Brodhead next Wednesday evening. - Mr. H. H. Beaty has bought the residence of G. T. Johnson on main Street, known as the M. C. Williams residence. Price paid $1250. - The L & N will sell tickets to Louisville June 13 to 17, limited to June 26th at $4.12 round trip account of the International Sunday School Convention. - In our next issue will appear the program of children's day to be held at Maretburg June 21. It is a splendid program. We can assure all who attend a pleasant and enjoyable day. - Among those receiving honors in proficiency, deportment, etc, of the Versailes public school, there appears in the Eighth grade the name of Miss Hamie Estes, who is well known to most of Mt Vernon people. - Jack Adams has started a feed and livery stable in the J. T. Adams barn. He will also handle ice having received a carload Tuesday, which he will deliver every morning to any home in the corporate limits of the town. Jack is certainly a hustler and it is worth much to the town to have such progressive young men as he, in it. - We want to suggest that our town board of trustees follow the example of our neighboring town, Brodhead, and put in some streetlights, which can be done, at a nominal cost. The lights referred to, are made by the Incandescent Light & Stove Company of Cincinnati. Each light is 1500 candlepower and the cost of installing is about $50 for each light. We certainly need them, and we hope that our board of trustees, who have thus far proven themselves equal to every emergency will take the matter up at once and if consistent take favorable action. - The hop at the Miller Hotel last Friday night was largely attended and thoroughly enjoyed by those present. - Marriage license was issued this week to Mr. William Hilton and Miss Rethia Hilton, both of the Copper Creek section. - The four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Mullins died at their home in Corbin Monday after an illness of two weeks of brain fever and spinal meningitis. The remains were laid to rest in the Corbin cemetery. - A rather small crowd was in town yesterday to witness the performance of the M. L. Clark shows. Time is worth too much to the farmers to lose a moment that is not necessary. The exhibition was a very considerable one and those who attended felt that they got value received. LIVINGSTON NEWS Mrs. R. J. Collier spent last week at the Eight Gables. - T. J. Pennington has purchased the Eight Gables Restaurant of his brother, S. E. Pennington, and will remove his family from Mt Vernon where he has been in the restaurant business for some time. - Mrs. H. D. Magee and little Florelle Wright are spending a few days in Mt Vernon with Mrs. R. A. Sparks and children. - H. R. Wade, dispatcher, is in Cincinnati this week. - Miss Cora Wright is visiting Miss Willie Benton at Brodhead this week. - Messrs J. E. Woodall, J. W. Baker and C. J. Quiggins were in Mt Vernon Monday. - Mr. W. H. Anderson, Supt. of the Kentucky Division of the L & N was here Tuesday and Wednesday. - Mr. Hugh Jesse and family will move to Farriston shortly where Mr. Jesse will work as operator. - We learn that J. P. E. Drummonds and wife will go to housekeeping in the Ward property as soon as Mr. Jesse vacates it. - We are glad to inform the many anxious friends of Dad Pope that he is much improved at this writing and we hope to be able to say in our next letter that he is out among us as of old. - Engineer C. M. Bowling has returned from ten days vacation. G. D. Cook had the misfortune of losing a fine cow Sunday morning. - Mrs. W. M. Preston's mother and sister, who have been visiting here for two weeks, returned to Boston, Ky. Tuesday. - We are informed that Dr. W. J. Childress who has been in Chicago, for some 4 or 5 weeks attending medical lectures, will return home Friday night. A few days after the doctor departed upon this trip his oldest child, Verna Brown Childress fell from a swing breaking one of his arms. We did not make any mention of the accident in our letter knowing as we did the wide circulation of the Mt Vernon Signal, we knew the doctor would learn of the accident and it would greatly mar the pleasure of his trip, consequently we left it out. - W. H. Sparks and son, Fred, formerly of this place, but now of Louisville, spent Thursday shaking hands with their many friends here. - Train Master W. O. Chambers, of Paris, and W. O. Dilly, of Lebanon Junction, were in town first of the week. - Mrs. Sue Mullins has added considerable improvements to her hotel and surroundings. She has just completed re-plastering her hotel and has given all the fences and out buildings a fresh coat of whitewash which makes the entire surroundings look cheerful and inviting. Mrs. George Howell has taken charge of the hotel again. Mrs. Mullins left for Louisville Wednesday where she will purchase some new furniture for the hotel. - Miss Bettie Pennington has returned home after a very pleasant visit to relatives and friends at Berea. - Hope Parks and W. B. Wright were in town Wednesday. - There will be two circuses in our little town. one Friday the 12 and one Monday the 15. There will also be a ball game to be pulled off between Mt Vernon and Livingston on Monday. Our boys beat them on their own (Mt Vernon's) grounds Saturday week, and of course we expect to do the same thing here Monday. - Mrs. Bowers, of Parksville, who has been visiting the family of her son, Howard Bowers returned to her home Thursday. BRODHEAD NEWS G. L. Waterbury has returned from a ten days prospecting tour through Virginia. - Those attending the Berea commencement from here were M. B. Bowling, Conn and Thom Evans, Urban Cass, Buck Hughes, M. C. and B. E. Albright and Ed Cox. - Homer Wallin is in town for a few days. - A. V. Smith was in Lancaster on business last Monday. - Mr. and Mrs. H. B. McClary, of Dunmor, are here visiting Mr. McClary's relatives and friends. He is a former resident of this place but holds the cashiership of the Farmers Bank at Dunmor. - John Robins, J. Thos. Cherry, M. B. Bowling, A. E. Hourigan, Dr. O. O. Stone and Fred Durham attended the funeral of F. J. Gezel at Crab Orchard last Sunday. - Your scribe had the honor as well as the pleasure of spending a day in the country with Mr. and Mrs. Bogue Smith. Bogue has got a model country home, and the way his wife can cook good things and his daughter, Miss Lillie to entertain, and Bogue to furnish the grub. Under these circumstances if you don't have a good time you are sick and bad sick too. - Rals Wilmott, of Lebanon Junction, was at home for a few days this week. - Last Wednesday was Uncle John Sigmon's birthday, he being 64. Several of the young folks were invited and a regular feast was spread at the dinner hour. All report a very enjoyable time. - If you don't believe Ed Smith is a carpenter just take a look at the new building he has just erected for Dr. W. E. Gravely on Main Street. - Dr. W. F. Carter is spending a week with homefolks at Gratz, in Owen County. - C. H. Frith is in Louisville on business this week. - M. L. Sullivan, of Williamsburg, was in town Tuesday. - Only a very small crowd attended the circus Wednesday. It was a good show and well worth patronizing. - A. M. Hiatt is in Dunmor this week playing cashier of Farmers Bank at that place. - A. C. McClary, cashier of Bank of Troy at Troy, Ky. , spent a portion of this week here visiting his many relatives and friends. - Mrs. C. M. Durham and children of Campbellsville, Ky., have returned home after spending several days here as the guests of Mrs. Mollie Durham. - Mrs. M. E. Wilmott and grandson W. K. Miller have returned from a weeks stay at Williamsburg as the guest of Mrs. Wilmott's daughter, Mrs. G. W. Brooks. - E. R. Gentry is spending a few days in Winchester, Paris and Lexington. - J. W. Hutcheson is in Owenton this week with Mrs. Hutcheson and son, James Edward. - Last Sunday was C. H. Friths birthday and several of his most intimate friends were invited in to help partake of a feast and it was a feast so they say. - Three livery barns in Brodhead now and then can't get a good rig. A. V. Smith and W. A. Tyree have each just opened up one. - Urban Cass was in Stanford and Hustonville last Tuesday. - Miss Belle Sigmon, of Corbin, is spending several days here as the guest of her grandfather, Uncle John Sigmon. - W. H. Anderson, of Livingston, is at home for a few days. ******************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. 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