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 19, 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.) BRODHEAD NEWS Mr. and Mrs. H. B. McClary have returned to their home in Dunmor after spending ten days here as the guest of relatives and friends. They were accompanied by McClary's brother, Frank who in the future will make his home with Mr. and Mrs. McClary. - M. B. Bowling is at home attending the bedside of his father who is very low of stomach trouble. - Miss Beulah Wallin of Crab Orchard is spending a few days here as the guest of Mrs. Jennie Wallin. - The two year old child of Mr. and Mrs. Whim Adams died of whooping cough last Friday night and was peacefully laid to rest Saturday evening at the Albright burying ground mid a crowd of sorrowing friends and relatives. The bereaved ones have our heartfelt sympathy. - Miss Lillie Smith, of Hiatt, visited her uncle Mr. Amos V. Smith Sunday and Monday. - Dr. and Mrs. Benton and daughter, Miss Willie, were in Stanford shopping last Tuesday. - C. H. Frith was in Lancaster and Richmond on business last week. - Mrs. W. H. Hutcheson, of Zenia, Ohio, is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. W. E. Gravely. - Mrs. Browning, of Livingston, is here for a few days with Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Rambo. - Miss Lillie Albright, of Barbourville, is a charming guest of Mrs. Mary Albright at the Albright Hotel. - "The Deacon" Wednesday night at the Opera House. A comedy in five acts. Don't fail to attend or you will forever be sorry. Proceeds go to the Christian Church. - Owen Cass is in Louisville with his grandmother, Mrs. S. A. Cass. - Miss Angie Hunt, of Maretburg, is visiting Mrs. Walter Miller. - Miss Helen Thurmond, of Stanford, is now smiling behind the railing in the Citizens' Bank. She will be here for two months. SPIRO NEWS Bro. Pike preached a very interesting sermon at Freedom last Sunday. - Mr. Add Sowder and family of Garrard County are visiting Mr. Rile Owens this week. - E. R. Gentry has gone to Hazel Patch this week to work. - Mrs. Goff and Mrs. Ben Vanhook of Pulaski County spent a few days last week with Mrs. Goff's daughter Mrs. Sophia Owens. - Mr. Dock Owens of Brodhead is spending this week with relatives here. - Mr. John Sowder and family of Hansford spent Saturday and Sunday with W. O. Mckinney. - The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McKinney has pneumonia fever. - Misses Minnie and Lizzie Gentry were pleasant visitors at this place last Sunday. QUAIL NEWS Wheat harvesting is the order of the day. - J. W. Proctor has typhoid fever. - Revs. Jacob Elder and Will Owens are getting along splendid with their singing school at Mt Olive Church in Lincoln County. They have a large attendance. - Nathaniel Gooch and family spent Saturday night with his brother in law, H. G. Sutton. - David Proctor has been doing some carpentering work for P. Q. Griffin. - Lamar Thompson will teach the Owens school this year and a Miss Debord will teach the Proctor School. - A protracted meeting will be held at Providence in August conducted by Rev. J. L. Chingman of Indiana. - Deputy Sheriff John Robins, of Brodhead, was through this section Friday last. - Cleo Wheeldon, our barber, will soon be ready for business. LIVINGSTON NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Gerome Adams and son Hilton were visiting relatives and friends in Corbin last week. - Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Lemonds and little daughter Elizabeth were in Louisville last week. - Carter Dugger has returned after a few days spent in Louisville. - C. H. Hanson manager of the Livingston Lumber Company has returned after being absent for some months and informs us that their mill will resume operation about July 1st which we are glad to hear. - Well the Mt Vernon ball team came down Monday and threshed our boys badly. Our boys could not interest them. The game was called in the seventh inning on account of scorekeeper E. S. Albright becoming weary in marking up the scores for the Mt Vernon boys they having made 31 runs to our boys only 2. This is even games as our boys beat them two weeks ago. So lets have the deciding game boys and scalp them proper. - Miss Emma Pennington was in Mt Vernon visiting Tuesday. - Miss Grace Wilson, niece of Mrs. J. E. Woodall left Wednesday for Los Angles, Calif. where she will enter school. - Miss Lucy Mahan the young Lady Evanglist and her father Mr. Lee Mahan took supper with Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Wright at the Eight Gables Monday. Miss Mahan will go from London to Louisville the first of the week and has promised to stop over and preach at the Christian Church one night on her way to Louisville. - Mrs. Eberlin and Mrs. Pollard of London were guests of Miss Lida Cook Monday and Tuesday. - Mrs. C. H. Rice is repainting her cottages on High street which adds considerably to their improvements. - L. M. Westerfield was in Louisville first of the week. -- The Clark circus which was billed for this place Friday 12th did not materialize on account of the exorbitant license which our town board exacted of them which we are told was $25.00 which looks to the public was done to freeze them out which they were successful in doing claiming as their reason for so doing that it takes all the money out of the town. Don't be selfish boys and want it all because you have the authority to grind your axes upon the public's grindstone. Don't abuse that authority by wearing out the grindstone. Bearing in remberance that you were elected by the majority of the people to make ordinances relative to the best interest of the majority and not to your own individual selves and if it is your intention to freeze the nuisances, as you call them, out we suggest that you begin at home and put the ice to them and I am sure you will have not our dissenting voice against your actions in freezing others out, But lets treat the public with the courtesies due it and not be cencured by the public as discriminating. - DEATH: Mrs. W. E. Graves (nee Chestnut) died on Sunday evening at 2:30. She was born Dec. 10, 1853 and united in marriage on April 6, 1870. Eight children, six boys and two girls, were born to that union. Funeral services were conducted by her cousin, Miss Lucy Mahan. Mrs. Graves was buried in the Gresham burying grounds. (Some detail in the previous extract of Mrs. Graves death was omitted) PERSONAL NEWS Mrs. E. B. Cox visited her parents at Pine Hill. - Miss Beulah Wallen is visiting Miss Roberta Davis. - T. J. Bowling has been on the sick list since Saturday. - Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Noe have been on the sick list since Saturday. - Conductor John D. Miller was with homefolks for a few days this week. - W. H. Fish was over at Level Green Monday setting up a new reaper. - Miss Hallie Brown, of Preachersville, is the guest of the Misses Thompson. - Mrs. C. R. Baugh, of London, will start next Monday for Colorado for her health. - Judge L. W. Bethurum was in Somerset Tuesday looking after some legal matters. - Charley Bowman, of Hiatt, will leave tomorrow for Colorado for his health. - Mr. D. R. Brock spent Saturday until Monday with his daughter Mrs. E. S. Albright. - Mr. H. H. Beaty was in Louisville Tuesday to buy some machinery for his flouring mill. - Fred Moore, son of J. W. Moore, is learning the banking business under Cashier M. B. Salin. - Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Sparks and little daughter, Mattie B., went to Louisville Tuesday for a few days. - Mrs. C. A. Truesdale, of Warsaw, Ky., is visiting the family of her brother, Cashier W. L. Richards. - S. B. Ramsey has begun on his new residence on the Proctor lot. J. T. Proctor is doing the carpenter work. - Mr. H. J. Mullins and daughters Mesdames U. G. Baker and James Lawrence, spent several days in Frankfort. - Miss Ella Thompson, of Preachersville, is the guest of her cousins, Misses Susie and Alza Thompson. - Mrs. L. R. Hughes, of Stanford, spent several days with homefolks here. Mr. Hughes came up and spent Sunday. - Bob Lee, having served 18 months in the pen for striking Tom McClure, has returned home. - Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Dooly and son, Master George, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Johnson Tuesday until Wednesday. - Spurgeon Smith has returned from the blind school in Louisville for summer vacation. -- The little Hanks boy and Lee girl also came with him. - Mrs. Mollie Miller has returned from Bessimer, Ala., where she was called on account of the serious illness of Mrs. Jonn Eckhoff, who used to be Miss Julia Omara. She has consumption and there is no chance for recovery. - A. H. Bastin, of Lancaster, was in Middlesboru during the week looking after the interests of the Kentucky Telephone Company's lines that are being built from that point to Lexington. This line will pass through Mt Vernon over the poles of the home company. - Ivan Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Martin, is at home with his parents for a few days before leaving for Lynchburg, Va., where he will accept a position. He attended school at Berea last year and to Ivan's credit it can be said, that he has not imbibed any of the short comings characteristics of so many young men. - Mrs. Chas. Montogemery, of St. Louis, Mo. is at home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Rickels. - Joe Brown, a son of the late J. N. Brown, returned yesterday from Lexington, where he graduated a few days ago from the Bible college and is now entitled to the word Rev. before his name. Rockcastle has never produced a nobler or better boy than Joe and we certainly hope for him the very best, in his chosen profession. He is very likely to go to Texas to locate. ******************************************************************************* 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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