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 January 24, 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 R. E. Albright left Sunday night for Richmond where he entered school Tuesday. - Albert Hiatt was with homefolks in the Hiatt section Sunday. - Miss John Eva Hilton is the guest of her sister, Mrs. R. H. Batson at Lancaster this week. - Prof. E. R. Gentry was a distinguished guest at the Reynolds House at Maretburg last Sunday afternoon. - The Citizens Bank at this place declared a dividend of 8 per cent, placed 2% to surplus and same officers were elected. - Miss Maude Watson has returned from a two weeks visit to Mt Vernon and Livingston. - Miss Jewel Francisco entertained quite a few of her friends last Saturday evening very royally. - Homer H. Wallin of Somerset was here Sunday to see our fair sex. - Dr. O. O. Stone was very unexpectedly called Sunday to pay the last rites to his beloved father. Mr. Stone was 67 years of age and lived at Tazwell, Tenn. Judging from the Dr. we are bound to know that his father was a good and great man as the Dock was familiarly called a chip from the old block. Mr. stone had been a sufferer many years from rheumatism. We extend to Dr. Stone our heart-felt sympathy in his dark hour of trouble. - Miss Elizabeth Cable and Brack Durham have returned from a two weeks stay at Liberty in Casey County. - O. W. Turpin has been appointed Marshall. Look out boys "quit yo foolin." - A. E. Albright and daughter, Miss Hazel are visiting in Livingston this week. - Rev. A. J. Pike is assisting in the protracted meeting at Livingston this week. - Miss Owens has returned to Maretburg after spending a part of last week here as the guest of her cousin Miss Mattie Owens. - J. W. Hutcheson is in Middlesboro this week on business. - Cattie Frith says it pays to advertise. He has had over 40 applications for positions since your last edition. - Our Board of Trustees are certainly to be commended on starting a movement on foot to have the River which splits Main Street wide open, tiled. The town gives $165.00, Fiscal Court $65.00. The rest being made by private subscriptions and such men as John Robins, J. Thomas Cherry, T. S. Frith, J. W. Hutcheson, Dr. Percy Benton and Albright and Adams are giving liberally. If you are not able to give you certainly can work so let us put our shoulders to the wheel and cause this not to go through just because some other men won't give as much as we think they ought to. This will be the greatest improvement ever made within our borders. - John Robins has purchased a new light plant for his new drug store another movement for improvement. - Rals Wilmott will leave for Hot Springs, Ark., to take treatment for rheumatism. - Miss Etta Cable is visiting her grandparents in the country. ORLANDO NEWS The measles are raging in this vicinity. - Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mullins went to Blanche Saturday to see his daughter, Mrs. Dunn, who is very low. - Mr. J. C. Childress suffered a stroke of paralysis last Friday and his recovery is doubtful. - Mrs. Elmer Williams and infant are down with the measles as is little Gertrude Evans. - Born Tuesday to Mrs. J. B. Reams a fine boy. - George Childress was called to Hamilton, Ohio to the bedside of his father, J. C. Childress. - The Flat Rock Church has elected the Rev. Fred Jones as their pastor for the year 1908. - Cleveland Jordan, son of Houston Jordan, died last week at the home of Mr. Charley Coffey of that awful malady consumption. - Miss Annie Proctor, of Wildie, is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. A. Wood. - Mrs. Sam Bryant, who has been very sick, is reported better. - Mr. Bennet Ballard and family, who have been living in Lexington for more than a year, have moved to his mother's near Big Hill. - Wallace Laswell is on the sick list this week. - Mrs. Lizzie Ball visited friends at Pine Hill from Saturday until Monday. - J. M. Laswell was in Mt Vernon Saturday. - Alex Helton's children have the measles. -- Mrs. Martha Ball, of Hazel Patch, was visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Ball this week. - Rev. Wm. Williams is running a private phone line which will connect in the store of H. L. Smith at this place. Elmer Williams also has a private line running from the depot to his place. - Mrs. Jas. Reynolds of Langford has been very sick for several weeks. - The eight year old child of Mrs. James Childress died last week of spinal trouble. - The subscription school which was to have commenced last Monday at Maple Grove was postponed on account of measles. CONWAY NEWS The petition sent here for a pardon for Caleb Powers has been signed by most everyone in this section regardless of politics. - It looks like the way supervisors raised taxes in this district they must have thought a gold mine was not far off. - Mr. Chambers Oldham the accommodating clerk for the Roundstone Lumber Company here and Miss Mamie Jones of Mt Vernon were married in Barbourville on the 15th. The happy couple took a bridle trip to Cincinnati. They have returned and are making arrangements to go to housekeeping on the J. H. Sigmon property. We wish the young couple a long and prosperous life. - D. C. Pullins while out hunting this week killed a rabbit as white as snow. It is the first white rabbit ever found in this part of the woods. - Mr. J. C. Wood has sold his interest in the Hart farm to Mr. Ham Dalton for $650.00. Mr. Dalton will move to the farm in a short while and begin farm work. - Mr. A. W. Stewart of Wildie passed through here this week moving to his new farm in Madison County near Kirksville. - Mr. U. S. Berry has taken the job of repair work to be done on the public school house here. GRIFFINS MILL NEWS Did you all notice what a pretty clear day last Saturday was? There is plenty of news in this part of the vineyard if ye writer had time to gather it, but you see how it is, it keeps me busy cutting stove wood for Cinda. Bro. farmer are you measuring yourself by the busy enterprising all the year- round laborers; or by the man who works through April, May and June? Did you find anything to do last week while it was snowing and yet not expose your health? Well let's not let the panic scare us and cause us to sit down and talk about hard times, let us just keep right on tilling the soil in a systemic way and the government wheels will resume their usual revolutions as before. Parents do you want your children to have a book education along with their common sense? The answer: Why certainly I do; for I can see where I missed it by not going to school when I was a child; and yet we are willing to let our children miss it too. We say we have to work our children in the fall; and will send them in the winter; but when winter comes we say the weather is too bad or we are not able (financially) to send them; but never too bad for them to rabbit hunt or otherwise expose themselves worse than going to school; and the money spent foolishly would pay for the tuition. Are there any orphans in your neighborhood? If so, read James 1:27 and learn your duty. - The little five- year old daughter of Will Ping of this place was burned to death Thursday Jan. 16th. A natural death is bad enough; but an incident like this is deplorable. The heart broken parents have the sympathy of the entire neighborhood. - Cole Broughton of Somerset will move into our vicinity in the near future. We welcome all good people in our midst. - W. J. Cress contemplates going to Hoosier about the first of March. - W. L. Cummins of Mt Vernon passed through last Saturday enroute to Riddles Roller mill. - Logan Ping of Pulaski County makes his regular visits to this neighborhood each Sunday. - Cal McClure and family visited at W. H. Cress's Saturday night and Sunday. - Uncle John Hurst is still able to visit among his children and also fill his place at church and Sunday school. - Charley Latham the hustling stock trader of near Plato passed through last week and reported that business was a little dull just now. - John Cummins (better known as trader) sold to Mrs. Mary Brown a colt for $52. - Beatty and Albright, also Riddle & Sons are doing a thriving business with their roller millers. - Joseph Hasty, son of J. L. Hasty who has been making his home in Kansas for some years, is visiting homefolks at this place. - Joe Brown is spending most of his time between the plow handles. Joe says winter plowing makes for a full corn crib. but, it seems like I'm always too busy to plow. - Feed your cows a gallon of wheat bran and shelled corn twice a day and you won't have to buy so much coffee; but wait a moment, I forgot to count the cost of the shelled corn and brand. - Miss Mable Cummins has returned from a two weeks visit to Mt Vernon. Ye writer was shaking hands with his many friends in Mt Vernon last Tuesday. - The New Year has passed 18 of her mileposts out of 366. Has there been any New Year pledges broken yet? John Kincer one of Rockcastle's best teachers was in this vicinity last Saturday on important business. - I wish the teachers would get up an educational column for the Signal. I think it would be very interesting. Who will take the lead? PERSONAL NEWS Will Cox's children have the whooping cough. - Miss Kitty Smith is at Stanford nursing a typhoid fever patient. - D. Bryant, L & N conductor, spent a few hours here yesterday. - George Proctor was in Rowland first of the week. - Dr. A. G. Lovell is suffering from a severe attach of lumbago. - Victor Tate is able to be out again after severe attack of two weeks. - A. W. Stewart was here Wednesday winding up some business matters. - Will Fish and S. B. McKensie were in Louisville a couple of days this week. - W. M. Owens and H. L. Delph were pleasant callers at this office Wednesday. - Mrs. Jane Bloomer is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. Matilda Houk. - James I. White was up from Stanford Tuesday mixing and mingling with his many friends. - Judge Chenault was over from Richmond Wednesday pleading his cause before the board of supervisors. - Dr. R. H. Lewis was over from Wildie Wednesday and told us he had sold his property at that place to W. M. Hayes. - W. G. McBee one of Rockcastle's foremost young men entered Eastern Kentucky State Norma School at Richmond, Tuesday. - Hon. W. A. B. Davis writes that things are getting a little "hotter" at the capitol, especially in the senatorial race. - Larry Welch left Monday for a drive to Scottsville in Allen County. He will visit the family of his grandfather there whom he has never seen. -- Mrs. R. B. Mullins was called to Tennessee yesterday on account of the serious illness of her mother, Mrs. House who is suffering from a cancer on her arm. - Master John Jarrett, son of Jailer and Mrs. O. V. Jarrett, who was Somerset badly burned last week, is improving and it is believed that he will now recover. - We are glad to know that Capt. W. H. Spradlin, who was taken Somerset very sick at Stanford last week has recovered sufficiently to be moved to his home in Tennessee. - Mrs. Nannie Harp received a message Tuesday from her husband to join him in California. She will leave at an early date. He is now employed in naval service. - Wade Graves, the hustling manager of the Hansford Telephone Company was here Wednesday. He expects his wire and other supplies in today to construct the Brodhead exchange. (This telephone exchange was in operation until the early 1950's. It was owned and operated by the Dees Telephone Company. It was one of the last telephone systems in the state to be replaced by the Bell 'dial system.' I have in my possession one of the Kellogg desk model telephones that sat on top of a hand- cranked ringer. In fact; it was being used in 1953 by my wife's family in Brodhead, when I talked to her to arrange our first date.) - Frank Mullins and wife spent several days here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Mullins. While he was here he purchased the W. B. Smith property in the White addition and will soon move to town. ******************************************************************************* 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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