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 September 14, 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.) PERSONAL NEWS L.R. Huges was here on Sunday. -- The young son of Jim Bell is very sick. -- Miss Sallie More is very low with typhoid fever. -- Supt. G. M. Ballard was at Grays Station Monday. -- J. J. McCall, of Hazel Patch was in town Tuesday. -- Granville Adams was here from London this week. -- M. S. Hollinsworth was down from Middlesboro. -- Lloyd Meret is spending the week with homefolks. -- John D. Miller was here this week attending court. -- Hon. Sam Ward, of Livingston, was in town Tuesday. -- Mr. J. L. Joplin is with friends and relatives here this week. -- Miss Annie Tate spent a few days in Brodhead this week. -- Miss Mattie Owens, of Barbourville, is visiting relatives here. -- Mr. And Mrs. J. R. Cass were guests of relatives here Friday. -- A number of railroad men have been here this week attending court. -- Mrs. Ella Hiatt is in Louisville this week buying her fall supply of millinery. -- Mrs. W. T. Brooks, of Paris was the guest of Mrs. J. W. Brown this week. -- Miss Bessie Mullins left Tuesday for a visit to her brother, Luther in Corbin. -- Mr. Clell Johnson, of the New Livingston Coal Co., was in town Wednesday. -- Bennett Ballard, of Cooksburg, spent a few days with his brother Supt. G. M. Ballard. -- Atty. Robert Harding, of Danville, was one of the visiting attorneys here this week. -- Mrs. Houston McFerron, of Pine Hill, is here visiting her son, R. L. McFerron. -- Miss Effie Scott, who has been spending the summer here has returned to her home in Louisiana. -- M. H. Doan, of Middlesboro, was a passenger on yesterday's train returning from the Bryan speaking. -- Miss Anna Peebles, after a six weeks visit to Miss Risse Williams has returned to her home in Alabama. -- Miss Bessie Sparks will leave Wednesday for Lexington where she will enter Campbell Hagerman College. -- Mrs. Bert Owens, of Maretburg, is very low with fever. The latest report indicates her recovery very doubtful. -- Victor Tate, who has a position under W. J. Sparks at Chester, Tenn., spent Sunday until Tuesday with homefolks. -- Mrs. Charles Arnold Borle von Eichen has a accepted a position as music teacher with the Brown Memorial School. -- George Johnson, of Wildie, will move next week into the residence which he recently purchased from Judge L. W. Bethurum. -- A letter from Conn Brown, at Modesto, Cal., states that he will leave for Alaska in a few days. Conn has a splendid position with all the opportunities of success before him and the good wishes of all his many friends here go with him to that Northern climate. -- Geo. McCarthy, one of the best firemen in the State, passed through Tuesday and told us that he would go to the Main line about October 1st. George has been with us on this division so long that he seemed to be a fixture and we regret very much to lose him from our number. -- A. Pennington heard William Jennings Bryan at Louisville Tuesday. -- Robert Cox has his new residence about completed and expects to move into it in the next few days. -- John M. Bundell was in Chester, Tenn. , from Friday until Wednesday. He will leave shortly for his home in Baltimore. -- Mrs. W. R. Brisco and son, Allan Pope, have returned from a visit to Mrs. Brisco's parents in Washington county. -- Miss Mattie Ferguson has returned to Louisville where she resumes her same position with the School for the Blind. -- Mr. And Mrs. Milt Proctor, of near Langford Station, were here Wednesday, Mrs. Proctor having some dental work done. -- Supt. G. M. Ballard went to Lexington Thursday to obtain appointments to State college for a couple of our Rockcastle boys. -- Miss Keith Sperry, of Louisville arrived Tuesday for a weeks visit to Miss Francis Sparks, her classmate at Campbell Hagerman College. -- W. M. Howard, of Paris, State agent for the International Harvesting Company, was here this week in the interest of that company. -- Walker Connelly, who has been working in the Bank of Mt Vernon, left Tuesday for Louisville where he has accepted a good position. -- J. W. Baker, from Livingston, and Dr. Benton, from Brodhead, were here Monday night to attend the meeting of the Royal Arch Chapter. LOCAL NEWS Are you working for the bond issue, if not, why not? -- Have you subscribed for the pike over old town hill? -- The watermelon days of 1906 will soon be a thing of the past. -- Cashier M. B. Salin has moved into the residence of Judge L. W. Bethurun, recently vacated by B. J. Bethurum. -- NOTICE: My handle mill at Mt Vernon will continue to run until Christmas. All parties having hickory suitable for handles which they desire to sell are requested to get it in by that time. Mill will be moved January 1st 1907. E. T. Wheeler, Agent, Turner-Day & Woolworth Handle Company. -- No matter what other kind of advertising you do, be sure to use the newspapers. If you have tried newspaper advertising and not found success, your advertising was poorly written or your system was wrong. Newspaper advertising can be made to pay anyone who uses it right, if the right goods and right prices are right behind the talk. RHODE ISLAND ADVERTISER. -- Richmond has an ordinance requiring citizens to cut the weeds on the streets and alley adjoining their property. The property owners refused, alleging that it was the duty of the city to do it. Judge Greenleaf. of the city court, has decided that the ordinance is valid and citizens must obey it. WINCHESTER DEMOCRAT. Mt. Vernon has an ordinance requiring the property owners to keep the streets in front of their property clean, but there is no effort on the part of the town authorities to enforce it. -- Agricultural Commissioner Hubert Vreeland, has set Tuesday and Wednesday, October 16 and 17 as the dates for holding the Farmers Institute in this county. An ample force of lecturers have been employed to cover the one hundred and nineteen counties and an instructive and profitable meeting for Rockcastle is assured. -- Here is minister who appreciates the editor. At a recent editorial convention he offered the following toast: "To save an editor from starvation take his paper and pay for it promptly. To save him from bankruptcy, advertise in his paper liberally. To save him from despair, send him every item of news of which you can get hold. To save him from profanity, write your correspondence on one side of the sheet and send it to him as early as possible.. To save him from mistakes, bury him. Dead people are the only ones who never make mistakes." Newspaper readers would do well to remember that there are no perfect people -- editors or readers. -- We want one or two columns on the road question every issue until the election. -- Jonas McKensie has just completed the new room to his store which he will use for clothing. -- Our correspondents have undoubtedly gone on strike this week as only two put in their appearance. -- We are glad to state that Mr. James McDonald is to remain with us as one of the instructors in the Brown Memorial School. -- If the town trustees will appropriate every cent of the treasury for the building of the pike over the town hill they will have done a good thing and will receive the plaudit of the people for so doing. -- About two months ago, Mr. H. C. Gentry lost his watch charm, a gold acorn, which he valued very highly because of the fact that it belonged to his father. A diligent search was made in vain to find it, and all hope was lost in ever finding it again. On Monday, Mrs. Gentry was dressing a chicken and in its gizzard found the must prized charm. -- The Brown memorial school opened here Monday with a good attendance. Several new teachers have been added and the school is better equipped than ever before. All the old pupils are back with many new ones, and this is sure to be a flourishing year. The people of this county should take great interest in the school and do all in their power for the upbuilding of the same. -- The case of Joe Taylor against the L & N R. R., Co., for the killing of his son Tommy, was called Monday and has occupied the entire time of the court this week. Attorneys C. C. Williams and Robert Harding, of Danville, represented the plaintiff, the defense being represented by Atty. J. W. Brown and Judge Alcorn, of Stanford. The case went to the jury yesterday. LATER The case went to the jury about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and after being out about 15 minutes, returned with a verdict of $10,000, the full amount asked for in the suit. The case will be appealed. -- DEAD: About two o'clock yesterday, the spirit of Mrs. T. Fish took it flight to a grander and nobler world. The deceased was about 70 years of age and belonged to one of the oldest and most prominent families in the county. For a long time she had been a sufferer from stomach trouble, but her condition had not been considered serious until a month or 6 weeks ago, and since that time, she had been gradually growing weaker. She leaves two sons, Rev. M. G. Fish and J, Fish, the merchant. The burial will take place to-day at the Hiatt burying ground, beside her husband, who was the late Judge Will Fish. -- MONEY BEING RAISED FOR PIKE Money is being raised among the people here by private subscription for the building of a pike across the old town hill. The proposed route starting at the residence of C. C. Williams and M. J. Miller on Main Street and ending at the corporate limits. The pike will not follow the line of the old road, but will follow in part a new right of way which will be donated by M. J. Miller and Fritz Krueger. At present this is one of the worst roads in the county and is the worst one leading into town. Last winter for months the road was so muddy that the wagons sank into the mud over the hubs of the wheels and at times was absolutely impassable. Over this road all the coal is brought into town, and is in winter traveled more than any roads leading into Mt Vernon. The building of the pike will be rather expensive owing to the grade, but this sum is quickly being subscribed by all public spirited citizens of the town. The pike is in this place a necessity and all should give their aid. Messrs. Miller and Krueger have most generously donated land which was valuable, and all others are falling in line with nice amounts. If Mt Vernon takes the lead in building this bit of pike, the people of the county will soon realize that a pike is not a luxury but a necessity and for Rockcastle to ever be classed a successful and prosperous county, pikes must be built throughout the whole of it. ******************************************************************************* 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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