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 October 12, 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.) The following first appeared in the Mount Vernon Signal on October 12, 1906. 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. (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.) BRODHEAD NEWS Misses Lizzia Tharp and Katie Cass visited Mrs. L. B. Hilton last week at Pine Hill. -- Dr. Percy Benton and wife have returned from a weeks visit to Mt Sterling and Lexington. -- Emmett Smith and J. W. Hutcheson were in Whitesburg on business. -- Douglas, the small son of Mr. And Mrs. Orus Bowers, still continues very ;low with dyptheria. -- Mrs. L. B. Cable and daughter misses Lizzie, Ethel and Susie are visiting relatives in the country. -- Jno. E. Evans was at home first of the week. -- Mrs. J. W. Tate and daughter, Miss Miranda, visited in Mt Vernon first of the week. -- W. C. Sparks and D. J. Willoitt are here attending to the bedside of Dr. A. D. Willoitt -- Roy Robins visited his father, J. L. Robins at this place Monday and Tuesday. -- W. C. was in Louisville Monday on business. -- M. C. Albright contemplates going on the road pretty soon for Stratton & Terstage, wholesale dealers in Stoves and Tinware of Louisville. -- Horance Benton of Livingston, spent Sunday with his parents here. -- J, C. Evans and W. J. Owens attended church at Maretburg Sunday night. -- Virgil Martin bought a four year horse from Wm. Hayes of Crab Orchard for $100. -- Bowers Bros. will soon have the five room cottage for John Robins on Upper Main St. completed -- C. H. Frith has added a full line of dry goods to his already up-to-date store. -- Jno. Houk, A. J. Leece and Clarence Shaffer have returned from Pensacola, Fla. -- J. W. Tate is running the Cranor Smith Lumber Co. Spoke mill now. -- Wm. Francisco was in Stanford Saturday on business. -- A. C. McClary is in Nicholasville this week. -- J. W. Hutcherson is attending the Banker's convention at Louisville this week. -- Last Saturday night between the hours of &:30 and 11:00 p.m. Mr. And Mrs. A. N. Smith entertained the younger set in honor of Miss Mattie Wilmont. Games and fortune telling were indulged in and very highly enjoyed by all present. They all left saying that they had the time of their life. Those registering were Misses Vern Jaret, Roberta Frith, Mattie Wilmont, Mattie Owens, Cory Sigman, Clyde Watson, Gertrude Martin, Rosa Pike, Etta Frith and also miss Lillie Smith of Hiatt Messrs. Brack Durham, Governor Frith, J. B. McCreay Pike, Owen Cass, Oscar Gravely ,Richard Martin, Jr., Claude Owens, Clarence Robert of Gum Sulphur, and Frank McClary, of Hiatt, Otis Frith and Willard Hilton. They asked me to thank Mr. And Mrs. Smith for their hospitality and to say through your columns that they will return again some day to see and receive more of it. -- Clarence Miller entertained several of his younger friends at a birthday party. Refreshments were served at 6 o'clock tea and fireworks indulged in at night. -- Mrs. Douglas Brown returned to her home at Lebanon Junction Monday after spending several days with her sister, Mrs. N. E. Testerman. -- Miss Maude Forbes visited Miss Carrie Frith at Gum Sulphur last Saturday and Sunday. -- M. C. Albright is in Louisville this week on business. -- Jack Leece has moved into Mrs. J. M. Clark's house on Hill Street. MARETBURG NEWS M. Hartz and Mrs. Dora Graves are improving. -- Aunt Jane Burke remains about the same. -- Farmers are complaining of the past wet and warm weather spoiling corn and fodder. The cool weather being very welcome. -- Mrs. Bessie McClure of Paris, who has been visiting her mother the past week went to Lebanon Junction Wednesday to visit Mrs. Fannie McClure. -- S. H. Martin and wife spent Sunday with homefolks. -- Mrs. Florence Sage and little sons, Robbie and Urban, after a two months visit to her father and mother returned home in St Louis last week. Mr. Sage came to accompany his family home. -- Miss Monte Martin, of Mt Vernon, and Messrs. Alf Griffin, of Livingston, and Geo. Thompson and son Claude, of Lincoln, attended a number sermons of the protracted meeting conducted by Brother Kerr of Keavy, Ky. At our church last week. PERSONAL NEWS Miss Rose McFerron is very low with typhoid. -- Marion Durham is with homefolks this week. -- Judge Lair has been sick this week. -- Atty. C. C. Williams was in Cincinnati this week. -- Dr. and Mrs. Lytle Adams are with relatives at Wilton.. -- Mrs. Sue Henderson, of Parksville, is with relatives here. -- Born to the wife of C. B. Henderson, Sunday, a fine baby girl. -- Judge P. D. Collier will move to Lincoln county the first of next month. -- Grover Johnson who has been very ill with pneumonia is improving. -- Mrs. Matilda Houk is visiting her sister Mrs. Jane Bloomer in the country. -- Mrs. Jim Tate of Brodhead spent a few days this week with Mrs. Alice Tate. -- Judge L. W. Bethurum spent Saturday until Sunday with relatives in Middlesboro. -- Mr. M. C. Miller was taken very sick Tuesday. It is feared that he suffered a slight paralytic stroke. -- We are glad to know that W. H. Baker is doing so well in the mercantile business at Langford. -- John Menife, of Stanford, passed through town Wednesday with a pair of mules enroute for London. -- Miss Alza Thompson, of Mt Vernon, spent several days with the family of Mr. Robert Thompson of the East End INTERIOR JOURNAL. -- Mr. And Mrs. W. J. Sparks spent Saturday in Cincinnati, where they went to place their daughter, Miss Fannie in the Conservatory of Music. -- Cossie Sutton left Tuesday for Level Green to open up his new stock of goods. Cossie is very deserving of success and we sincerely trust that his efforts will not be in vain. -- Mrs. M. Pennington has returned from Asheville, N. C., and is now with the Doctor at Bertha. She has gained about forty-five pounds and is in better health than she has been for years. -- Allen Pope Brisco, while wrestling with one of the students in the Brown Memorial School yard Monday was accidentally thrown, breaking his collar bone. He is progressing nicely at this issue. LOCAL NEWS Gov. Beckham will speak at Stanford Tuesday. -- The first snow of the season fell Wednesday, the earliest in many years. -- WANTED: About 500 binds of good blade fodder and tops. Call this office. -- The call for the election of the bond issue will be found on page 4 of this issue. -- FOR SALE: Two large Berkshire sows and one milch cow. W. C. Sympson; Pine Hill, Ky. -- Work of laying the concrete blocks on Fish's new store was begun Tuesday. J. P. Lechleiter and Johny Ramsey are doing the work. -- We want to urge upon our farmers the importance of being present at the Farmers Institute which convenes here next Tuesday and Wednesday. Come on Tuesday and we are confident that you will be sufficiently interested to come back on Wednesday. A half dozen or more practical farmers will present and deliver lectures.. -- HELLO LOUISVILLE Mt Vernon now has telephone communication with Louisville over the independent home telephone lines. -- The cement blocks for James Fish's new store have at last been completed and the work of the erection is now progressing rapidly. From all appearance this promises to be one of the prettiest storerooms in town. -- The directors of The Bank of Mt Vernon met last Saturday and declared the usual 10 percent dividend, besides putting $1000 to the surplus, leaving an undivided profit of $600. This is indeed a splendid showing and speaks well for the management of that institution. -- Mt Vernon is a t last seems to be on the up hill march. Enterprise has been creeping in until now on every side we see a band of progress and thrift. Work is progressing on the new pike over the town hill road to the Spout Spring is being improved, and the water works are in perfect operation in the county jail. -- TELEPHONE The Rockcastle Home Telephone Co. , has just completed a new metallic circuit between Mt Vernon and Lancaster which greatly improves the service to Louisville, Lexington and all other Central Kentucky points. Direct connection will be made with Knoxville and East Tennessee points during this month via Barbourville and Jellico. The Livingston exchange is being rebuilt, all old wires will be removed and new ones installed and new phones put in within the next ten days. The Conway Brush Creek Langford line will be rebuilt and new wires strung from end to end by the middle of next month, and other added improvements. Rockcastle will have a splendid telephone system. Electrical Engineer, H. V. Bastin is in charge of the work. W. M. Stanley will do the work on the Conway line. -- The contract was let Saturday night to J. W. Rider for the construction of a turnpike from the railroad crossing at the depot to the top of town hill, contract price $500. The work of construction has begun.. -- DEAD: At midnight Wednesday night the soul of J. C. Carmical departed this life for its greater reward beyond the Jordan. Conscious up to the last and with a prayer on his lips this good and noble man passed into Eternity. His life had been a model one, the life of a perfect Christian, a child of God. He was born May 7, 1838 in Pulaski county close to where Somerset now stands. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the Union Army, making a loyal and faithful soldier until he was overtaken by the ravages of smallpox owning to which disease he was honorably retired in 1865, at which time he settled in Mt Vernon. A year later he was married to Miss Harriet Ferguson, which union was blessed with eight children, five of whom are still living. two boys and three girls; C. K. Carmical, W. Carmical, Mrs. Kittie Smith, Mrs. Sallie Soward, and Mrs. Nannie Harp. For nearly a half century he has been a minister of the Gospel and has proved himself a worth soldier of Christ. For several years he was pastor of the Baptist church at this place and at the time of his death had charge of the congregation at Preachersville. Bro. Carmical was one of our best citizens, and it is with the deepest regret that we bid him good-bye as he goes to meet his Father. The funeral services will take place at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon in the Baptist church, after which the body will be laid to rest in the Presbyterian cemetery. ******************************************************************************* 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 *******************************************************************************