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 August 30, 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.) PERSONAL NEWS Mrs. E. S. Albright is with relatives in London. - Miss Rella Hiatt is visiting relatives near Hiatt, Ky. - Mr. and Mrs. Sam Cox are taking in the London fair. -A. B. Furnish and Maurice Brown went to the London fair yesterday. - Mrs. Nannie Harp is visiting her sister Mrs. A. J. Howard at Barbourville. - W. R. McClure runs his hack between Pittsburg and the London fair grounds. - W. A. Fisher was called to Indianapolis Sunday on account of the death of his father. - Atty. J. W. Brown attended the burial of ex-Mayor Paul C. Barth of Louisville Saturday. - Mrs. A. J. Chadwell, of Fountain Head, Tenn. spent several days as the guest of Mrs. W. H. Cox. - Judge R. G. Williams spent Sunday until Wednesday with his parents Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Williams. - Miss Mattie Joplin will leave Sunday for Lexington to go to school. She will stop in Junction City for a few days. - Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Sparks went to Louisville Tuesday to make arrangements for locating there for the fall and winter and have their three daughters in school and at the same time have them at home. - Horace G. Edwards and family were here the last of the week visiting Mrs. Edwards' parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Livesay. Mr. and Mrs. Edwards has sold his property at Bandy in Pulaski county and will leave in the near future to make his home in Caldwell, Idaho. - Miss Lucy Baker, the girl who came here with Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Richards and made her home with them until about two years ago since which time she has been with Miss Taylor at the Langdon dormitory, left Tuesday night for Cincinnati where she will study to be a trained nurse. LOCAL NEWS Tip Hurd and Mrs. Katie Winsted were married yesterday. - W. H. Carmical has bought the restaurant of Carlos Menifee on Church street. - From two to three carloads of spokes and handles are being shipped from this point daily. -- The four month old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Carson was buried at Freedom last Friday. - William Hurt and Miss Sarah Metcalf were married in the county clerk's office this morning. Rev. W. R. Brisco officiating. - Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wren and Mrs. Mattie Coyle, widow of the late John B. Coyle, were married here Tuesday. Judge L. W. Bethurum performed the ceremony. - The Brown Memorial school opened Wednesday with an enrollment of 86, more than twenty-five percent increase over any former year. The attendance will go over 100 for the fall term which is most encouraging to the principal, Miss Ida M. Taylor who has labored unceasingly for the building of the school. - NEW RAILROAD DEVICE A new device for delivering orders to trainmen on the Pennsylvania railroad system became operative at noon today. To obviate the need for stopping trains to receive orders the trainmen will receive their orders while going at top speed. The orders will be places on hoops placed outside the telegraph towers and as the train shoots by the engineer or conductor will run his arm through the hoop containing the orders and take it along. The hoops will be turned into the roundhouse at the end of the run. Ex The above mentioned device was used by railroad agent at Mt Vernon nearly twenty years ago to deliver messages to trainmen without stopping trains. James Maret was the agent. - BIG ENTERPRISE A deal which is now on, if consummated will mean a big enterprise for Mt Vernon. On last Friday, W. J. Sparks and S. W. Davis took a thirty days option on the farm of R. B. Mullins, better known as the old Adams farm. It is the purpose of Messrs. Sparks and Davis to put in a rock crusher and lime kiln near the cut, a short distance this side of No. 1 tunnel. While it is known that the rock suitable for ballast purpose is there in abundance, yet the question to decide is whether or not the rock is suitable for lime, which will be thoroughly tested and if found to be, the work will be started at once which will mean much for Mt Vernon. Later information says that the deal will be a go and the rock crusher installed whether the rock is suitable for lime or not but we did not get this direct, do not give it as altogether reliable. - DEATH: Last Friday morning August 23rd at 9:55 o'clock, death visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Hysinger, selected for its victim their beautiful daughter, Ada, aged twenty. She was a victim of that awful dreaded disease consumption having been sick about 10 months. She bore her suffering without a murmur always seeming cheerful, greeting her friends with a smile the day she died. She leaves a father, mother three sisters, Misses Carrie and Louise and Mrs. Annie Rogers, six brothers, S. D., Wm., Jack, Wade, Burgess and Roscoe and a host of friends to mourn her loss. She became a member of the Rose Hill Christian church five years ago and has been a faithful member always in her place in church and Sunday school. Funeral services were conducted by Revs. M. G. Fish and A. J. Pike at the Rose Hill church. A large number of her sorrowing friends followed her remains to their last resting place in the family burying ground near the church. ORLANDO NEWS Born to Mrs. Tribble Bryant Aug. 20th a girl baby. - Mrs. Sarah Anderson, who has been very sick for a few days is slightly improved. - Mrs. W. D. Laswell and children were visiting Mrs. David Laswell Sunday. - Mrs, Doc Reynolds is very sick at present. - Dr. Laswell was called to Roundstone Tuesday to see Mrs., Joe Taylor is who is very ill. - Mrs. Flurry Evans, Lillie Hunley and Mrs. Jane Laswell were in Mt Vernon Monday having dental work done. - Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Anderson and Mrs. Dora Ball were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Hackett of Dudley Sunday. - Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Clifford are rejoicing over an eleven pound girl which arrived at their home on Sunday. - H. L. Smith has purchased what is known as the Chenault property of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wood also Mr. Woods stock of goods. - Madam rumor has it that we are to have a wedding in our town soon. And from the prospects she must have it is true. - Joe D. Reams formerly of this place but now of Trenton, Mo. writes from St Joseph, Mo. that he will probably loose the sight in one of his eyes caused by a piece of steel getting into it He had to be taken to St Joseph, Mo. to the infirmary before the piece of steel could be removed. - Mr. Abe Evans and two other employees for the Bridge Co. were seriously hurt Monday by a heavy timber striking them and knocking them from the pier of the bridge. One man was thought to be fatally hurt while the others will recover. Mr. Evans was brought to his home near this place Tuesday. (Abe Evans (1870-?) was a brother of my grand father John M. Evans (1860-1933) - Frank Adams of Hummel has a very sick child. - The thirteen months old child of Mr. and Mrs. Noah Mason died August 17th of summer complaint. Mr. Porter of Clay county was visiting his daughter Mrs. Rhoda Evans last week. - Miss Nancy McHargue was the guest of her grandson E. J. Williams while on her way to spend a few weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Marion Chasteen of Wildie. - Mrs. Lizzie Ball is spending a few days in Mt Vernon this week. SPIRO NEWS Miss Anna Hurley, of Jackson county, is visiting the family of Rev. Reubin Hurley this week. - There was quite a crowd of young folks attending church at Providence Sunday. - Miss Emma Sutton and brother, Monroe, of Brodhead, are visiting their many friends this week. - Miss Martha McKinney entertained a large number of her friends Saturday night, with a singing in honor of her sister, Mrs. R. H. Long, of Crawfordsville, Ind. - Mrs. Lou Owens is visiting relatives in Green county this week. - Freedom school is progressing nicely with W. G. McBee as teacher. - Mrs. Elizabeth Owens is visiting her sister, Mrs. Robert Hamm near Quail. - Mr. Albert Hahn is spending a few days in Crab Orchard this week. - Miss Jalia and Maggie Brown entertained several of their friends Tuesday night with a singing. - Mr. Sherman Sexton and family have moved to ,Mt Vernon - Miss Sallie Owens is no better at this writing. - Messrs. W. H. Owens and E. R. Gentry are the champion croquet players of this place. - Mrs. Sophia Owens has a severe attack of throat trouble. ---. H. McKinney is visiting relatives at Hansford this week. - Mrs. Mat Owens continues about the same. - The family of W. H. Owens visited the family of W, H. Gentry Sunday last. - George, the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Mat Owens was adjudged insane and sent to the asylum again. - BRODHEAD NEWS Dr. T. J. Stone has returned to his home at Tazwell, Tenn., after spending a few days here as the guest of Dr. O. O. Stone, at the Frith Hotel. - Miss Clyde Watson left Tuesday for Mt Vernon where she entered Brown Memorial school. - Mrs. J. W. Myers and children, of Richmond, Ky., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Tharp. - Miss Daisy Wilkerson has returned to her home at Liberty after spending two weeks at the Frith Hotel as the guest of Mrs. M. S. Durham. - Miss Ella Dunn, after spending two weeks with Mrs. J. G. Frith has returned to her home at Danville. - Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hutcheson were guests of Mt Vernon M. B. Salin, at Mt Vernon - C. C. Cable will leave for Havana, Cuba Tuesday where he holds a very lucrative position with the Snare and Triest Co. as an erecting engineer. - Chas. Pike returned to Knoxville, Tenn., Tuesday after spending two weeks with his parents here. - Miss Delia Flynn is visiting relatives in Louisville. - Mrs. Mary Albright is numbered among the sick this week. - B. R. Wilmott was up from Lebanon Junction the latter part of last week. - D. B. Rambo was in Maywood on business first part of the week. - John D. Pike returned to Lebanon Junction first of the week after spending a few days with his parents here. - Misses Clyde and Mattie Wilmott were guests of their cousin W. H. Leece on Copper creek from Saturday until Monday. - C. C. Cable was in Danville doing society there from Friday until Tuesday. - Dr. W. A. Jones, of Wildie, was here Tuesday to see Dr. W. F. Carter - Emery Albright is back from a week's visit to lady friends in Barbourville. - Jno. Robins and wife are visiting relatives in Garrard county. - Work in all three degrees at Masonic lodge Monday night Sept. 2nd All neighboring lodges are invited to attend. - The writer had the pleasure of spending last Sunday on Copper Creek with Wade H. Leece and it was as pleasant as anyone ever spent. At the proper time dinner was announced and the table was ladened with everything that is good for the appetite. If you don't think I did justice to it, just ask Squire Leece and his most estimable wife about it. - The Hop Club's second dance was really a greater success than the first one. Those attending from a distance were: Misses Daisy Wilkerson, Cora and Ada Wesley, of Liberty, Miss Ella Dunn, of Danville and Miss Carrie Frith, of Gum Sulphur and Messrs. Leece, of Monticello and Perkins, of Concinnati, Cable, of Havana, Carter, of Louisville. They all report the best and happiest moments spent there that night. - We are sorry to hear of Mrs. F. L. Thompson's illness , but hope for her rapid recovery. - M. C. Albright was in Berea on business this week. - J. R. Cass purchased of Granville Leece one bay mare 7 years old for $100.00. - Miss Lyda Hilton is spending a few days with her brother, L. B. Hilton at Rowland. - Drummers are as thick as fleas on a dog's back in Brodhead this week. Six to each merchant on average, but I've got no kick coming because I'm in the hotel business, so come on boys, the more the merrier. -Jno. E. Evans, M. C. Albright and M. B. Bowling are attending the London fair this week. - Quite a crowd from Mt Vernon attended the hop at the Frith Hotel Monday night. Among them were: Misses Fannie and Alza Thompson. Bulah Smith, Maude Graham, Anna Tate, and Mrs. Chas. Davis, and Messrs. W. H. Krueger, Cossie D. Sutton, Victor Tate and Maurice Brown. Come again you are always welcome. - M. B. Bowling returned from his home in Laurel county where he had been for ten days sick. QUAIL NEWS H. G. Sutton spent first of the week with relatives at Preachersville. - The protracted meeting at Providence closed Sunday with about thirty additions to the church. - Alec Proctor is numbered among the sick. - Jacob Elder and Wm. 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