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 November 29, 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.) BRODHEAD NEWS Rev. J. W. Masters is holding a few days meeting at the Christian Church. - Turkeys lived hard here yesterday as nearly every family celebrated the day of Thanksgiving in the usual manner. - Madame Rumor says look out there is a wedding in store for us. - Rev. A. J. Pike has returned from Poplar Grove in Pulaski county where he conducted a very good meeting by adding twelve to the church. - Among those attending the Pohutukawa Club's dance at Mt Vernon from here were Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hutcheson, Mr. and Mrs. H.H. Hutcheson, Messrs. O. O. Stone, M. C. Albright, N. Giles Carter and E. R. Gentry all report a fine time. - G. L. Waterbury who has been here for the past two months as Asst. Cashier of the bank has resigned to accept a similar position with the Pine Knot Banking Co., at Pine Knot, Ky. and will leave Monday morning. - The furnace and chairs have arrived for the new Baptist church and will soon be installed. - Jack Wells, from Crab Orchard spent from Friday until Monday with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. F. Francisco here. - Chas. Hurt worked at Crab Orchard first of the week. - Geo. B. Lynne, of Crab Orchard was here to see Dr. O. O. Stone and have some dental work done. - Mrs. R. H. Batson of Lancaster is spending a few days here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hilton. - Jopp Albright sprained his ankle very badly while out hunting last Saturday. - N. Giles Cater was in Lexington first of the week on business. - Miss Elizabeth Cable royally entertained a large number of her friends last Friday evening from 8 to 11. All present highly enjoyed themselves. - R. S. Martin is in Junction City on business this week. PERSONAL NEWS J. Boreing, Sr. has moved to Livingston. - Miss Ida M. Taylor is reported very sick this morning. -- Mrs. Lee McClure is reported very low with consumption. - Hon. B. J. Berthurum was here yesterday for a few hours. - Miss Dugger, of Paris, Tenn., is the guest of Miss Anna Tate. - Mit Cook was here from Jellico a few days this week hunting. - Miss Lettie Coldwell, of London is the guest of Mrs. C. C. Davis. - Mrs. Mary Hayes, of Wildie, was the guest of relatives here last of last week. - R. A. Welch has been confined to his room for the past few days with his throat. - Mrs. C. C. Williams and daughter, Miss Risse, spent several days this week in Louisville. - Mrs. Ina D. Miller was called to Versailles a few days since to attend the burial of her nephew. - O. V. Jarret was in Lebanon Monday, to see the Royerl Wheel Co. for whom he buys spokes. - Mrs. Annie Shumate moved to the Joplin house today and will be ready for boarders in a few days. - Brit Durham and family will leave next week for Santo, Texas where they will make their future home. - Frank Sutton is here visiting his brother, Cossie. He will leave shortly for Missouri to make his future home. - W. A. Cox was in Louisville Monday buying his line of undertaker goods. His brother Claud accompanied him. - Dr. J. T. Carter, who recently came here from North Carolina and located, has decided to cast his lot at Livingston. - Miss Pearl Collier, of Crab Orchard, attended the hop here Wednesday evening as the guest of Mrs. C. C. Davis. - Joseph Harkins and sister, of Prestonburg, came over for the hop Wednesday evening and are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Adams and Miss Reca Baker. - Miss Matsy Myes returned from a several days visit at Corbin and other points. Miss Nellie Slivers came home with her to be her guest for a few days. - Jack Adams will leave Sunday for the West to spend the winter. Jack is a fine boy and we certainly wish that great success may crown his splendid efforts. - Willis Adams, H. H. Daily and G. W. Gentry, Sr. were summoned to London this week as Federal jurors. Mrs. Gentry accompanied Mr. Gentry to spend a few days with relatives at that place. LOCAL NEWS DEATHS: Dave Barnes aged about 35 years died at his home near Hansford last Friday. - Mrs. Betty Barnet widow of the late Billy Barnett died at her home near Pine Hill Saturday at a ripe old age. - The sad news of the death of Mr. A. B. Branaman, of near Wildie, which occurred early last week, reached us too late for our last issue. Mr. Branaman was one of the truly good citizens of the county, and in his death the county suffers a great loss, which will be hard to replace. (According to my genealogy information, Mr. Branaman was born in 1847 and died November 15, 1907. He was a brother to my wife's 'Norma Crawford Evans' great grandfather Henry Sanford Branaman. He married Mary Hayes in 1892. They had two children Ann and William Henry Branaman. His parents were Abraham Brenneman and Mary Ann Carpenter. He is buried in the Branaman cemetery at Wildie. Note that this family changed their name to Branaman about the time of his birth.) - It has been many years since Mt Vernon has had a social event of such magnitude as the dance given on Wednesday night by the young men of the Pohutukawa Dance Club. This little club composed by a number of the most enterprising boys and charming girls, has done much to infuse life into our social current, sluggish for anything to stir its quiet depths. The dance Wednesday night was given in the dining room of the Miller Hotel. The room was draped in yellow and white, and through the yellow shades a flood of golden light fell upon the beautiful faces of the most charming lot of young ladies ever perhaps assembled at any one party in Mt Vernon. In addition to our home girls there were many out of town visitors. It is hardly necessary to say that many gallant swains from home and abroad were present. The committee on arrangement, Chas. C. Davis, Victor C. Tate and Cossie D. Sutton, showed the real spirit of the Pohutukawa's by providing the best of everything for the occasion, not the least of which was the music for which they secured the services of the Richmond orchestra. To R. W. Dyche, Walter Miller and A. B. Furnish, the committee on program, is due the credit that this most necessary part of a successful dance was so perfectly arranged. Floor manager, Jack C. Adams, in his quiet way, managed things so that it all moved along like well adjusted machinery. At twelve o'clock an elaborate lunch was served by the chaperones, Mrs. Cleo Brown, Mrs. Willis Adams and Mrs. J. W. Brown. The lunch was served in just the way in which either of these hospitable women always do, whatever they undertake. Throughout the dance the three of them either by turns or collectively, served punch, lunch and delight of the merry dancers. There were about seventy guests and it was four o'clock in the morning before the jolly throng disbanded. - Hilton/Nevius: A pretty home wedding was solemnized at the home of the brides parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hilton of Brodhead yesterday. The contracting parties were Miss Lida Helton and Mr. John Nevius, of Stanford. Rev. Masters was the officiating clergyman who tied the nuptial knot pronouncing the ceremony which united the lives of these estimable young people. They will make their home in Lebanon Junction. LIVINGSTON NEWS Miss Ethel Reynolds, of Wildie, is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Alvin Reynolds, this week. - Mesdames Lee Reynolds and John Walton are attending the bedside of their mother, Mrs. Lizzie Parsons at Quail. - Miss Ella Stanley is on the sick list. - Mrs. Sam Ward has been quite sick but is convalescent at this time. - Emerson Rice is out from Lebanon Junction the guest of his mother, Mrs. H. W. Rice. - Mr. and Mrs. Ed Quinn and children are down from Paris spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hayes and other relatives and friends. - Miss Lou Anna Whitehead is down from Mt Vernon the pleasant guest of her brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Whithead. - Miss Myrtle Chewning led the prayer and praise service Wednesday evening. A very pleasant hour was spent. - Mrs. Harry Jenkins is out from Corbin to spend the winter with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hayes. - Aunt Nancy Owens was called to Somerset to see her mother, old aunt Jennie Todd, who is very seriously ill. - Aunt Hala Carson is quite sick at this writing. - Mrs. Susie Hicks is slightly improved. - Mrs. J. R. Carter was appointed leader for next Wednesday evening at prayer meeting. - Charlie Rice was here a few days last week attending the post office. - Wedding bells are ringing for a wedding pretty soon. - Casper Adams was in Maretburg a few days last week. - Urban Chewning is expected down soon to spend the winter. - L. H. Davis will move his stock of general merchandise next week into his store house recently purchased of Mrs. Sue Mullins. - Mr. and Mrs. Lee Reynolds and Mr. and Mrs. Will Graves and Mr. Alvin Reynolds have returned from Preachersville where they have been attending Mrs. Emmett Reynolds who has been very sick but is better now. - Mrs. J. T. Johnson is spending a few days at Bryantsville with her parents. - Claud Chewning is spending Thanksgiving with homefolks. - J. T. Johnson was in Mt Vernon Wednesday on business. - Miss Zelma Pike is spending a few weeks with her father, Mr. Richard Pike. - The charming Miss Anna Griffin, of Jellico, passed through Livingston last Friday enroute to Maretburg and Brodhead where she will spend a few days with friends and relatives. - Little Miss Pearl Anglin is very seriously ill of typho-pneumonia. She is in a very serious condition. - Master Thompson Riggles has chicken pox. Mrs. J. A. Oliver and little son, Basil, have chicken pox. - Geo. Sambrook is out from Middlesboro, where he has been attending school, to spend Thanksgiving at home. - Mrs. Mill Shelton, of Corbin, is spending Thanksgiving with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dickerson. - John Pope was in Paris a few days this week on business. GRIFFINS MILL NEWS After a long delay I have decided to try to give a few items from this (The Western) part of the county. - All classes of men were never busier than now. - The farmer, the foundation of the whole machine is gathering in his bountiful crops that the Creator has so wonderfully blessed us with. The echo of the carpenter's hammer can be heard from the foothills of the Cumberland mountains which causes us to know that we are living a midst prosperity. The shrill voices of the drover can be heard at every cross roads which should be and (and is) a welcome voice to the merchant for he well knows that we will soon present to him our money that the drover left us. The physician can be seen daily going to and from trying to aid nature in her great work to those who have fallen victim to the various diseases subject to humanity. - The coarser whistle from H. H. Beatty's roller mill can be heard from the Pulaski side whose busy wheels go around day and night to furnish flour to its hundred, yes, its thousands of customers. - John Riddle will at an early date go to operating a similar machine at the same place. - The district teacher too can be seen five days out of every week plodding his weary way and at the setting of each Friday's sun he only says another week is gone. - Last but not least comes the divine teacher with his golden sword (the word of God) teaching us how to live that we may not dread that awful enemy which is death. Stop; and think Bro., do you heed this teaching? - Eld's A. J. Pike and J. M. Cummins have just closed a very successful protracted meeting at Poplar Grove. There were twelve additions eleven of which were conversions mostly young men and women. May they be fed on the sincere milk of the word that their daily walks will show the world that there is a reality in their profession. Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempth he any man. (James 1.13) The writer was much gratified to be present with the Brethern at Friendship on last Lords day and find the Bible class progressing so nicely with Dr. T. J. Price as their teacher. They seem to be doing all that a God fearing and God loving person can do. - There is Sunday school at Poplar Grove each Sunday at 2 o'clock P.M. Everybody come and help carry on the good work. - W. H. brown of this place will move to Mt Vernon this week. We regret very much to give up Mr. Brown and his family but our loss will be Mt Vernon's gain. - H. N. Denny and J. B. Cummins went to Mt Vernon last Saturday on business. - Uncle John Hurst is still able to walk about with the assistance of a cane in each hand. - Aunt Cynthia Hawley is very low and not expected to live long. - The bird hunters are receiving but little encouragement this season. He (the bird hunter) would be a welcome guest in our homes but we certainly want to protect the birds, the farmers friend. ******************************************************************************* 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 *******************************************************************************