Subject: KFY: Mt Vernon Signal Newspapers, 1907 - Rockcastle Co FROM LONG AGO Submitted By: Ray E_v_a_n_s ray.evans@worldnet.att.net Mount Vernon Signal September 20, 1907 (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.) HAZEL PATCH NEWS Measles are prevalent at present, causing a decrease in school. Otherwise the community seems well. - H. E. Miller is visiting homefolks at Owensboro, and will attend the State fair. - Jno. W. Prewitt, Messrs. Morton & Vincent, J. J. McCall and Miss Grace spent part of the week in Louisville at the fair. R. C. Logan, concrete man, was sent to Williamsburg Monday. Mr. Logan, while in Hazel Parch made many staunch friends, and every one that knew him regretted the change. - J. M. Bandell visited in Mt Vernon Sunday and Monday. - O. D. Bryant, day agent, is taking a rest. A. A. Akers is working in his stead. - Mrs. Mary Williams visited her sister-in-law, Mrs. Cassie Cole, at Pittsburg this week. She reports a daughter of Mrs. Cole very sick. - Eddington, of Eddington and Griffith, of Knoxville,Tenn. were inspecting No. 6 tunnel Monday. - A. B. Sparks, of Longmire & Sparks, has been at the works at No. 7. No. 8 is under fair way of completion in care of Louis Douglas. - An all day singing and Sunday school picnic was held Sunday at the church house. Rev. Cloyd and Mr. Williams, of East Bernstadt, accompanied the singing class, attended and helped make a very pleasant day. - Logan McCall and Burdette McKensie attended the speaking at Mt Vernon Wednesday. OTTAWA NEWS Born to the wife of Mode Hamm on the 14th a fine ten-lb. boy. Both mother and baby are doing fine. - A two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Albright has fever. - Arch Hayes visited his uncle of Wildie from Saturday until Monday and reports a fine time. - Tom Albright is on the sick list at this writing. - Bro. Hurley filled his regular appointment at Union Ridge Sunday last. - Jack Laswell and Robert Cash are in from Lexington where they have been for a few weeks. - Mrs. Ellen Harp and Mrs. Sarah Albright visited Arch Albright Saturday and Sunday. - Mr. Newton Denny, son of John Denny, and Mrs. Sarah Long, daughter of J. J. Brown, were quietly married at the home of the bride on Thursday last. - J. S. Cash, the hustling merchant, of this place, is doing a fine business. - Issac Herrin bought a mare of John Denny price paid $160. - The school at this place taught by E. R. Gentry is progressing nicely with about sixty-five pupils. - W. G. Blanton is having some work done on his house. - Laswell and son will soon have their mill in running order again. - W. P. Hayes was in Brodhead Monday on business. - DEAD On last Tuesday night at 10:30 the death Angel visited the home of Mr. Jeff Owens and took from them one of the bright little girls. She took sick about a week ago with tonsillitis. She was laid to rest in the Freedom burying ground SPIRO NEWS (Delayed Letter) Mr. R. H. Long and family have returned to their home at Crawfordsville, Ind. after a three weeks stay with relatives at this place. - Miss Edith Dillingham spent last Saturday night with Miss Lizzie Chandler at Bromo and took in the box supper at Skeggs Creek. - Misses Maggie Brown and Emma Sutton spent from Tuesday until Wednesday with Miss Lillie McBee near Quail. - Mr. H. G. Owens visited friends in Garrard county last week. - W. S. Doan bought him a farm in Garrard county and says he will move the first of Nov. - Sam Sayers and wife visited the latters aunt, Mrs. Annie Graybeel near Wabd last Sunday. - Alex Wells of Livingston spent last Sunday with homefolks. - Mrs. Mattie Lola and Dorothy Owens visited Misses Ida and Locie Doan last Sunday. - Quite a crowd of young people attended the box supper at Skeggs Creek last Sunday. - Miss Martha McKinney visited relatives at Hansford last week. - John Sayers and wife spent last Saturday and Sunday with relatives in Mt Vernon . - Mrs. Ida Sweeny of Ind. is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. J. McKinney this week. - W. F. Monk and family spent Sunday with the latters parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hahn. - Miss Sallie Owens is no better at this writing. - Mrs. Mart Owens has returned to her home at Pine Hill after spending a week with relatives at this place. - J. W. Thompson of Sparks' quarry passed through here Wednesday. PERSONAL NEWS B. A. Riddle and Wm. Philips were in Monday. - Dr. Jones and John W. Stewart were over from Wildie Sunday. - Mid-shipman Caswell Saufley was here for a few days this week. - J. T. Sowder of Paint Lick, Garrard county, was here this week buying mules. - C. B. Henderson is at work on the Q & C. railroad. - Miss Roberta Davis is visiting Miss Beulah Wallen at Stanford. - Cris Kreuger, of LaFayett, Ind., spent several days her with his brother, Fritz Kreuger. - Dr. J. F. Baugh has his office over J. T. Adams store fitted up and ready for business. - J. R. Dodson and wife, of Wildie, was here Wednesday having some dental work done. - Miss Georgia McFerron was the guest of the family of her brother, Sheriff R. L. McFerron. - Ebb Bently was over from Cartersville Wednesday. He has just recovered from siege of fever - Mrs. Ann Foster, of Burnside, spent a few days with her niece, Mrs. Booth Purcell, in the country. - Marion Denham will move his family to Corbin in a few days. His run is between Corbin and Knoxville. - Atty. John W. Brown has moved his office over J. T. Adams store. He has two rooms nicely fitted up and very conveniently arranged. - Miss Ida Mae Adams went to Lexington Saturday to take her sister, Miss Elizabeth to enter Campbell Hagerman College. - Mrs. Margarite Grimes went to Cincinnati Tuesday morning to meet the music teacher for the Brown Memorial, who comes from New York. - Mr. and Mrs. J. Fish, Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Johnson, Mrs. G. S. Hiatt and daughter, Miss Mattie, U. G. Baker and R. A. Whitehead were in Louisville this week to see the big fair and buy fall and winter goods. - Mike Cain, the boy who has made his home with W. J. Sparks for the past two years left Monday for Corbin to take a position in the machine shop. Mike is a splendid young man and we wish him much success. LIVINGSTON NEWS Mrs. James Anderson and son, Lloyd, were visiting their many friends and relatives at Conway Saturday and Sunday. - Mr. and Mrs. Joe Stanley is very sick of typhoid fever. - Lawrence Rice, little John Owens, Egbert Hayes; Mrs. John R. Carter and Master Or'nee Hayes have all been on the sick list this week, but are convalescent at this time. - Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Thompson are rejoicing over the arrival of a fine baby girl on the 12th. - J. W. Baker is in the city buying a large supply of fall goods. - Billy Baker is back home again. He is clerking at the J. W. Baker's dry goods store. - R. A. Whitehead is in the city buying a large line of fall goods. - Mr. and Mrs. Jope Oliver and children spent Sunday with Mrs. Oliver's mother, Mrs. Sallie Jones, on Gauley. - John Baker and Fred Pike have gone to Louisville where they have accepted positions. - Mrs. Ed Quinn and children, of Paris, are visiting relatives and friends here at Mt Vernon and Brodhead. They left Sunday morning for Cincinnati and will spend a few days with the families of John Preston, at Ivorydale, Ohio, and Dave Preston at Elmwood, Ohio before returning to their homes in Indiana. - The "presentation picnic" at Red Hill, on last Saturday was a grand success. About 300 people were there, and loads and loads of good things to eat. The Jrs. did themselves credit (as they always do). Quite a lot of people from town were there, and all say a more enjoyable day was never spent before, and that the fragments which were left from that good old fashioned country picnic dinner would have fed Livingston for a week. - John Hall, of Somerset, is spending a few days with his father, Mr. and Mrs. James Hall, of this place. - Mrs. Will Satterfield and children, of Louisville, are visiting their many friends and friends here. - Mrs. Sue Mullins and pretty little niece, Miss Bertha Hicks, have been attending the state fair at Louisville this week. She reports a nice time, and says she had her fortune told by all the mediums there, and they told her she would be married three times before ten years should pass. She says this is a great consolation to her. - Mr. and Mrs. Henry Owens was in Mt Vernon first of the week on business but made it convenient to stay until after the speaking. - Will Owens, Ken Singleton and Henry Delph were in Louisville on a pleasure trip first of the week. I don't know why, but they got lost from each other and as quick as one would find the depot, he would board the train for home, and oh, wonder of all wonders, "Hickory Bill" was the first to come home. He says that Ken and Henry told him to tell the "Old folks at Home" that they would be here "when the roses bloom again." - J. T. Johnson spent last Sunday with homefolks at Lancaster. - Mrs. Henry Jenkins returned to her home at Corbin Sunday. - Ernest Thompson and son were in Brodhead Saturday and Sunday. - Mrs. Will Sams spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Jane Owens. - Jane Hall was called to Somerset Thursday to see his daughter, Miss Eva, who is very low of typhoid fever. - The Jrs., of this place will present the Bible and hoist the flag to public school at Pine Hill, Saturday Sept 18th. A large crowd is expected as there will be about 150 people from Livingston to go. A big picnic dinner will be served on the ground, and everybody to take a basket full and running over of good things to eat. Music and enjoyment will be the order of the day. - Mrs. Georgia McClure, teacher at Pine Hill, will see to all arrangements. To miss this big day will be to lose the best day of your life. - Mr. Chas. G. Giving spent the first of the week in Mt Vernon returning Thursday morning He will leave today for Louisville. - Dr. and Mrs. Cooper now of Louisville, but formerly of this place, sent Mrs. Sue Mullins two quart bottles of whiskey to be presented with compliments to Aunt Ann Owens and Aunt Mahala Carson. They say that while they are glad to receive the gift, and thank the giver so much, that they would much rather that only a pint have been sent at a time as they are both great temperance people and fear they might accidentally get too much. - Judge J. W. Alcorn of Stanford, Attys John Brown and C. C. Williams of Mt Vernon were in town Thursday and Friday taking depositions before Mrs. Annie Miller Commissioner and stenographer, in the case of Bowman and Cockrell vs. Livingstom Lumber Co. to remove the boom in Rockcastle River. Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Thomas of Winchester, and Mr. Dillion of London were in town Thursday to give their desposition in the above case. - Miss Alice Mahan of Danville has returned home after visiting Mrs. W. W. Wright. - Miss Rose McFerron left this week for Berea to enter school there. - Mr. C. M. Offutt of Lebanon is working in the Dispatchers office. - Mr. C. G. Given has gone to Manchester and points in Clay county for a few days. SAND SPRING NEWS Mrs. W. M. Bullock, of Hansford, is very sick with typhoid fever. - Mr. George McClure, of Hansford, who got his thumb and two fingers blown off while work on the Southern railroad is improving. Mr. Sam McClure and family visited Wm. Price Sunday. - W. C. Cummins, better known as Buck, is having about 700 to 800 bushels of coal mined a week. - G. W. Deatheridge sold his farm near Hansford to Henry Bullock for $250 and bought Mrs. Matilda Cummins' farm at Sand Spring for $350. - Aaron Renner sold two hundred white-oak trees for $700 and a pair of mules to J. H. McKinney for $300, and two mule colts and a hog to W. M. Southard for $150. - The Hansford Telephone Co., with W. H. Graves as general manager, keep building more new lines. - J. W. Marler sold the white oak on his place to a Mr. McCellan, of Somerset, for $1400. - Drew Harper is building a large two-story house for Henry Bullock near Hansford, and when completed will be about the best house on the creek. - We are glad to read John Renner's letter from Ard, New Mexico. Write again Johnny. - J. W. Marler and wife and K. J. McKinney have gone to the State fair in Louisville. ******************************************************************************* 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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