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 March 20, 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 Rep. Isaacs and family, of Pulaski County, were in town Wednesday. - Chas. R. Pike, of Knoxville, Tenn., and John D. Pike, of Lebanon Junction, were with their parents, Rev. and Mrs. A. J. Pike here Sunday. - Wade H. Graves has at last got the telephone exchange in and she works to perfection. - Mrs. W. M. Wilmont is in Williamsburg attending the bedside of her daughter, Mrs. W. W. Brooks, who has typhoid fever. - T. Griffin, of Jellico, Tenn., spent a few days here this week with relatives and friends. - Thos W. Evans is in Louisville this week attending court. - Frazier Hurt, of Lancaster, was up and spent a few days with his cousin, Chas. C. Hurt. - Rev. J. A. Sawyers, of Pineville, spent a few days this week with Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Albright. - Rev. A. J. Pike was called to Livingston Wednesday to preach a funeral. - Miss Maude Watson will open her millinery store about April 1st. - Miss Rosa Pike, who is attending Sue Bennet Memorial School at London, spent Sunday and Monday with homefolks. - Master Cecil Reynolds, of Corbin, is spending a few days with Goebel Pike. -- A. C. Kidwell, of Lebanon Junction, was up from Friday until Monday. - Joe Baldwin and brother, from Big Racoon in Laurel County, were here Wednesday and Thursday on business. - Mrs. Thos. K. Francis has returned from a weeks visit to her mother, Mrs. Owens at Livingston. - Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Batson, of Lancaster, are spending a few days with Mrs. Batson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hilton. - Walter Miller, Jr., is on the sick list we are sorry to say. - Mrs. Ellen Mahaffey is visiting her sister, Mrs. Galen Rodgers at Crab Orchard. - Mrs. Walter Hurt visited in Maretburg last Sunday and Monday. She was accompanied home by her sister-in-law, Mrs. Angie Hurt. - Jopp Albright has returned to Corbin after spending a week with relatives and friends here. - Ezra Testerman has returned to Louisville after spending two weeks here with homefolks. - Dr. Percy Benton was in Stanford first of the week on professional business. - Mrs. Scanlon and daughter have returned to Louisville after spending several days here with Mr. and Mrs. John Flynm. QUAIL NEWS David Proctor, one of our boss carpenters, is doing some work for Irvin Long. - Wedding bells are soon to ring in this part. Look out Mr. Edgar Brown. - Eld. Martin Owens still remains in a very critical condition. - Rev. John Elder will preach at Providence the fourth Saturday and fifth Sunday in this month. - Sam Proctor says he will leave for the West soon. - Jacob Elder and Will Owens are doing splendidly with their singing school at Union. - The farmers are getting along nicely with turning the sod. - J. W. Swinger and wife were in Brodhead Monday on business. - Aunt Louisa Reynolds still remains very feeble. - Mr. George Noaks and wife, of Lincoln County, passed through this part enroute to his son-in-law, Mr. George Fishers. - P. J. Griffin, one of our hustling merchants is doing a fine business. ORLANDO NEWS Misses Woodia Wolf and Roxie Evans, of the Hummel section were visiting relatives at this place Saturday and Sunday. - Mr. W. F. Anderson and Mrs. Hester Robinson were called to Brindle Ridge Sunday, on account of the serious illness of Mr. William Riddle. - Dr. W. D. Laswell was at Wildie and Roundstone Monday on professional business. - Mr. James Anderson was at this place Sunday. - "Granny" Ball and her daughter, Mrs. Polly Laswell are very sick with the grip. - Mr. Wesley Abney family has been confined with the grip. - Rev. Williams preached a very interesting sermon Monday at Maple Grove. - Mrs. Alice Cook, of Blanche, and Mrs. Mollie Williams were the guests of Mrs. Hacker Williams Friday. - Mrs. Cynthia Reams was severely scalded in the face Monday by the explosion of a bucket of water. - Mrs. Lortie Krueger and son, Ed, and two little daughters, Henriatta and Mary, of Louisville, are spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. Lizzie Gadd, who is very low. LANGFORD NEWS The Baptist Sunday school was organized at Hummell Sunday with Charley Coffey as Superintendent, and Thomas Eagans, Miss Rhoda Lair, Mrs. W. H. Baker, Mrs. Mahala Coffey as teachers. Miss Woodia Wolf as Secretary and Louis McGuire as Treasurer. Everybody invited to attend. - W. H. Baker, our hustling merchant, is doing a good business at home and on the road. He had a little bad luck at Somerset this week. His horse became frightened at a street car and fell and bruised itself up so bad that it will be some time before he will be ready for use again. - Misses Woodia Wolf and Roxie Evans were guests of Mrs. Abe Evans Sunday last. - Mrs. Jane Coffey visited Mrs. Lillie Sharp Sunday. - There will be preaching at Hummel Grove next Saturday and Sunday. - Lee Proctor, clerk for the Ky., Free Stone Co., is on the sick list. - Lee Carter has moved into the house vacated by Henry Adams at Muelersville. - Tom Eagan, of Cove, will move into our community in a few days. - Mr. Anderson Proctor has gotten able to go about the house. - Mr. Marvel Coffey remains very feeble. - Elmer Rector is doing extra work in office when Lee Proctor is absent. - Mrs. Andy Robins is in a helpless condition. - Mr. George Taylor does not improve any. - Mrs. James Reynolds is about well again. PERSONAL NEWS (From 3/13/1908 ISSUE) T. D. Mullins is at work on his new house. - S. C. Franklin was in Bertha Saturday and Sunday. - J. E. Craig is very seriously ill at his home near Quail. - Maurice Brown is working at East Bernstadt for a few days. - Mrs. Cook is visiting her daughter, Mrs. G. M. Ballard. - Conn Brown is acting agent during the absence of Mr. J. A. Landrum. - Atty C. C. Williams writes that he is having a most delightful visit in the South. - E. B. Cox was in Livingston Sunday. His mission was a friendly one. - Earl Briton, of Somerset, is visiting his brother Roy L. Briton of this place. - Chas. Lyons, the lumber man, was here Wednesday to take up a car of lumber. - Congressman Harvey Helm was in town yesterday shaking hands with his many warm friends. - I. A. Bowman is moving to the J. A. Wood farm near Conway, which he has rented for a year. We dislike very much to lose Mr. Bowman from our number, as he is one of the best citizens we have. - Mrs. Rebecca Reynolds, of Maretburg, is reported dangerously ill. - Sid Baugh spent a portion of the week with his brother, Dr. J. F. Baugh. - Mrs. J. C. Carmical who has been sick for several days is improved. - Col. R. M. Johnson has been very feeble most of the winter and seldom appears on the street any more. - Jas. Taylor has been awarded the contract to carry the mail between Mt Vernon and Orlando for another year. - G. W. Taylor, of near Langford, continues to be in poor health. He has been confined to his room most of the winter. - Master Jack and Maurice Brown of Lebanon Junction are visiting their cousin Miss Ione Smith and other relatives here. - Mrs. R. B. Mullins received word Wednesday that her daughter, Miss Margarite, was very sick at the Stonewall Jackson Institute in Albington, Va. - We overlooked the personal of Mr. J. E. Herrin, of Bertha, who came down last week to attend the burial of his brother, E. A. Herrin. Mr. Herrin has been located in Bertha for several years and is enjoying good health and a goodly portion of this worlds goods. DEATHS (From 3/13/1908 ISSUE) Granville Pearl Landrum died of stomach trouble Tuesday morning at him home in Elizabethtown. His remains were intered in the Landrum graveyard yesterday afternoon. He is survived by his wife, and a son and daughter. He was a brother of our splendid townsman J. A. Landrum, W. B. Landrum, of East Bernstadt, and John B. Landrum. Mr. Landrum received a message Tuesday stating that his brother could not live and he left on train #24 for Elizabethtown. But he had only gone as far as Brodhead when he received another message that the end had come. PIONEER GONE TO HER REWARD Mrs. Alvina B. Lykins, whose maiden name was Stigall, was born April 22, 1836 in Crab Orchard, Ky., and died February 19,1908, at Sheridan Lake, Colo., after an illness of four years. She was united with the Christian Church when seventeen years of age, and has ever since lived a devout Christian life and has gone to enjoy the Christian's rest. In early life she was united in marriage to James Huff of Mt Vernon. Of this union nine children blessed their home. Four of them preceded their mother in death. Five yet, live to mourn her death: Mrs. M. S. Albright, Mrs. Jennie Kinder and J. D. Huff of this place, George Huff of Columbia, Okla., and R. E. Huff of Fordland, Mo. Twenty-five grandchildren and two great grand children are among those to mourn her departure. While living here she was the oldest of the family representing four generations. Being left a widow, she later married Thomas Lykins, a wealthy farmer in Gentry County, Missouri, where they lived. After Mr. Lykins death, she came here as one of the pioneers before the building of the railroad. Funeral services were held at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jennie Kinder at 2 p.m. Friday Feb. 21, 1908. Services were conducted by Rev. C. E. Lincoln of the Christian church. He was assisted by Rev. S. A. McNeilan of the M. E. Church. The house and yard was full of friends and neighbors some of who had come a long distance to pay their last respects to one who had spent so many years in their midst. She was gently laid to rest in the Sheridan Lake Cemetery. Six of her grandchildren served as pall bearers. LUCY BAKER, who came to Mt Vernon eight years ago with the W. L. Richards family, and who for the last three years had been one of the dormitory girls of the Brown Memorial School, passed away at the Children's Hospital in Cincinnati last Tuesday morning. ******************************************************************************* 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 *******************************************************************************