Subject: KFY: Mt Vernon Signal Newspapers, 1906 - Rockcastle Co FROM LONG AGO Submitted By: Ray E_v_a_n_s ray.evans@worldnet.att.net Mount Vernon Signal November 30, 1906 (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 Dr. Perkins, of Paint Lick, was here yesterday. -- S. W. Davis was in Tennessee a few days this week. -- Charlie Davis, brakeman, is at home on the sick list. -- Miss Bessie Mullins is visiting relatives in Livingston. -- A. B. Furnish is visiting his parents in Gallatin county. -- Victor Tate was here from Chester, Tenn., this week. -- Miss Bettie Hicks, of Brodhead, is the guest of Miss Jennie Davis. (Note: As a youngster in Brodhead in the 1940's, I remember Miss Jennie Davis Robbins as a prominent citizen of Brodhead). -- George Cook, of Jellico, is visiting friends and relatives here this week. -- Jack Lawrence is able to resume his work as night operator at the depot. -- Jailer O. V. Jarret was in London attending Federal Court this week. -- Jack Smith spent Thanksgiving with his sister, Miss Elizabeth, at Loretto. -- W. B. Whitehead is slowly recovering from his attack of rheumatism. -- Miss Lizzie Adams has returned from a short visit to friends in Brodhead. -- Little Miss Sadie Richards is visiting her grandparents in Gallatin county. -- C. B. Henderson, conductor out of Knoxville, is visiting his family here this week. -- W. H. Hutcheson, of Kirksville, was here Sunday calling on one of our young ladies. -- Minor Fish, who has been at Williamsburg several days for his health, is feeling and looking much improved. -- M. C. Miller, Jr., who has been telegraphing at Wigwam, Colo., for the past two years, is visiting homefolks here. -- Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Hughes, of Stanford, spent Thanksgiving with the latters parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Thompson. -- J. A. Proctor, of Quail, one of the best carpenters to be found anywhere, is doing the woodwork on Fish's new store. -- Miss Marguerite Fish left Monday for Fountain Head, Tenn., where she will spend the winter with her grandmother. -- R. E. Thompson, wife and daughter, Lillie, are spending the week with Mrs. Thompson's mother, Mrs. W. M. Poynter. -- Mrs. W. J. Childress and Miss Mattie McFerron, of Livingston. Spent a few days this week with her brother, R. L. McFerron. -- Messrs. Joe Newland and James Proctor, operators on the Illinois Central, are spending a few days with homefolks and their many friends. -- Miss Rose McFerron, of Pine Hill, who is just recovering from a severe attack of Typhoid fever, is spending the week with her brother, R. L. Mcferron. -- The writer spent a few hours at Williamsburg Monday, and found our good friend, Judge J. B. Fish, suffering very severely from an attack of rheumatism. WILDIE NEWS L. T. Stewart made a flying trip to Horse Lick Wednesday. -- Jas. R. Hayes has had a bad case of grippe the past week. -- Will Branaman went to Rockford Sunday to see his relatives. -- A. W. Stewart and Tom are in Texas this week. -- Mrs. Cythiia Coyle, of Berea, was down Sunday visiting her parents. -- W. H. Jones and Lee Hensley made a business trip to Mt Vernon Tuesday. -- There were several Berea students home from school Saturday and Sunday. -- W. A. Chasteen came home Sunday from Berea. -- A. T. Fish, Jr. Was over at Oak Hill Saturday and Sunday. -- Jas. H. Brooks and wife were down from Columbus, Oh., first of the week. -- Rawley Parson was down from Berea Tuesday visiting friends . -- Tom Branaman is in London this week on the Federal Jury. -- Jas. Moon, of Welchburg, Jackson county, was in our village Sunday on his way to London. LEVEL GREEN NEWS Miss Maggie Hamlin and brother, Marion, attended church at Freedom Sunday. -- Miss Maude Forbes accompanied by misses Lillian Hilton and Burdette Owens, of Brodhead, visited her parents here Saturday. -- Miss Maude Forbes gave an entertainment in honor of her guests. The gentlemen from afar were E. R. Gentry, A. C. McClary, and Victor Martin, of Brodhead. -- R. L. Brown and Miss Josephine Elrod, of Somerset, gave us a pleasant call Sunday. Bob thinks there is no place like Somerset. -- Thos. Nicely and family, of Wabd, were visiting friends here this week. -- J. B. Cummins and wife spent a day pleasantly with Mr. and Mrs. Wade Mullins. -- Clarence McIneary, the fruit tree agent, of Plato, was in our midst last Saturday. -- James Bullock and wife spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Miller. -- Bro. Todd failed to fill his appointment at Friendship Saturday and Sunday, so there was quite a number of disappointed people again. - - Mrs. W. F. Debord and daughter, Viola, were visiting Mrs. James Stards, of Walnut Grove, who has been suffering intensely with cancer. -- How we pity the poor quail since the boys have been allowed to kill them. We think they should not molest the quail as they are such good friends to farmer's crops, and as everyone is dependent on the farmers it appears that by not killing the quail that we would be a help to the world at large. -- Mrs. J. J. Bebord who has been sick is better at this writing. -- Miss Helen Smith, of Buffalo, is spending a few days with relatives. -- Wade Brown has almost completed his barn. -- Wood chopping and gathering corn is the present vocation of farmers. -- Cricket O'Neil still gets around as well as lively as his name indicates. -- Miss Sallie Thomas, who is teaching at Rock Spring spent Saturday and Sunday with her mother. -- Schools will soon close then the teachers, as well as the pupils, will get a much needed rest. PINE HILL NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Willard Rose, of Jellico, have returned home after a pleasant visit with their mother. -- Mrs. Henry Doan, Johnie McHargue, Alex Rutherford and Sam Reynolds were in Corbin Saturday. -- Misses Birdie McHargue and Mary Burdine were in Mt Vernon shopping Thursday -- Steve Carpenter, of Lebanon Junction was with homefolks Friday and Saturday -- Mrs. Nancy McHargue and daughter miss Byrda left Saturday for Knoxville where they will spend the winter. -- Luther McHargue, of Corbin, is with homefolks this week. -- Bill Baker and daughter, Miss Lottie, visited relatives in Lily last week. -- Mrs. Kate Dolan was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Celia Welch at Mt Vernon Sunday. -- Mrs. Martha Gibson, of East Bernstadt, is visiting her mother Mrs. F. W. Poteet. -- Will Cottongim, of Lebanon Junction visited his family here Monday and Tuesday. -- Bill Barger is visiting relatives at Pittsburg this week. -- W. C. Simpson left Friday to join his family at Knoxville, where they went about three weeks ago. -- The box-supper to be held at the school house will be on Friday instead of Thursday night as stated last week. Everybody cordially invited. -- Misses Mattie and Emma Bond, of Corbin are visiting their mother, Mrs. W. M. Bond. QUAIL NEWS Nov. 30, 1906 Dr. J. F. Watson, of Brodhead, visited his mother, Mrs. Martin Owens, Sunday . -- Melvin Owens left for Somerset Monday. -- Mrs. G. W. Parsons is numbered among the sick at this writing. -- Jacob Elder and W. A. Owens are teaching singing school at Maywood. -- Born to the wife of Ranson Brown a nine pound boy. -- Wheat is looking fine in this section of the county. -- Robert Taylor is very sick at this writing. -- W. A. Owens and Jacob Elder closed a singing school at Pine Hill Nov. 18. They claimed to be the best choir they were ever in with 50 in attendance. BRODHEAD NEWS Thos. W. Evans, of Lebanon Junction, spent Friday night with homefolks. -- Ed Hurt has returned to Lebanon Junction after spending a few days at home bird hunting. -- Robert Hicks was in from Louisville Sunday. Robert and most estimable family will move there in the near future. -- Misses Maude Forbes, Lyda Hilton and Burdette Owens and Messrs. V. S. Martin, E. Gentry and A. C. McClary spent last Sunday in Level Green the guests of Frances Forbes. -- Jno. B. Nevins, of Stanford, was the guest of our fair sex Sunday. -- Robert Collier and family left us Wednesday to make their home in Crab Orchard. Wednesday dislike very much to give up such people as these. -- Miss Elizabeth Adams, of Mt Vernon, visited her many friends here. -- The parties given by Miss Sadie Evans and Jewel Francisco in honor of Miss Elizabeth Adams on last Friday and Saturday nights were largely attended and highly enjoyed by all present. -- G. C. Carter of Junction City, visited F. L. Durham Tuesday. -- R. H. Hamm has employed N. H. Testerman as clerk and he will be found smiling behind Teed's counter. -- Rev. A. J. Pike has been unanimously called to fill the pulpit for churches in Madison, Boyle and Garrard counties where he has preached for a number of years. -- The box-supper at the school house Thanksgiving night was largely attended and boxes sold well and a good many boys will be found with empty pocketbooks. -- Miss Lillie Fugat, of Hiatt, is a charming visitor of Miss Clyde V. Wilmott. -- Mrs. S. E. Barnes held an auction sale at her store Wednesday which drew a good number of country people to town. -- Miss Blanche Crawford entertained the following young folks at her beautiful country home on Thanksgiving day. All say they had the best dinner they had ever eaten. Those going were Misses Etta Cable, Etta Frith, Vern Jarret, Katie Cass, Lizzie Tharp, Mattie Wilmott, Mattie Owens and Gertrude Martin and Messrs. Gov. Frith, Brack Durham, Owen Cass, Oscar Gravely Byron Owens Willard Hilton and Urban Martin. LOCAL NEWS Dan Roach, of Manchester, has accepted a position as stenographer in Atty. C. C. Williams office. -- The fill and crossing near Whitehead's mill, which connects Taylor Avenue with the main Mt Vernon and Somerset road, will soon be completed.. -- The Baptist and Christian churches will each have Xmas trees, one will be on Xmas eve and the other Xmas night. We are not informed as to what the Presbyterian church will have. -- If we could just place to our credit in bank to-day all that was eaten up in turkeys in the United States yesterday, the worries and hard work of the print shop we would leave to the other fellow. -- NEWLAND-HUDE: Mr. James B. Hude, of Columbus, Ohio, and Miss Alma Lee Newland, formerly of Kentucky, were married Monday evening November 12th, by the pastor of the Gift street M. E. Church, Rev. P. H. Fry. They will reside on Sandusky street. -- Since the building of the pike to the top of town hill has begun and people see what improvements can be made with a small outlay of money, some of the more enterprising citizens are favoring the issuing of bonds by the town to pike every street within the corporate limits. This certainly is the only way to improve our streets and roads and in the long run the cost will not be anymore. Let us have expressions from the citizens of the town. -- Last Friday night was the second of the college musicals of the season. The seating capacity of the college chapel was taxed almost to its full extent and everyone in the audience went away fully delighted. The junior and senior chorus were excellent and besides showing much musical talent on the party of the fifty or sixty boys and young ladies who took part, it likewise speaks for itself, in behalf of the splendid instructors, Prof. McDonald and Mrs. von Eichen. The solos sung by Mrs. Rider and Mrs. M. J. Miller, Jr., were two of the interesting numbers on the program. These recitals will take place every month. -- Fred Perciful, aged 20, son of William Perciful, died Wednesday of typhoid fever. -- D. C. Poynter, R. S. Devault, I. A. Bowman and Tom Branaman were at London this week as Federal Court jurors. -- Jailor, O. V. Jarret has ten more shiners, being brought here by order of the Federal Court at London. -- Messrs. Kelly and Burton have bought out the photographer's outfit of Dr. M. L. Meyers and have opened a gallery over the Peoples Bank. -- Mr. George Sutton, of Rockcastle county, employed by the L & N railroad, and Miss Lizzie Owens, of Brodhead, were married today at Junction City. -- Van Mason, aged about 50, died rather suddenly at his home near Orlando yesterday morning. He had been a sufferer of dropsy and heart trouble for fifteen years. -- The L & N will sell round-trip tickets to all points on the system at one and one-third fare December 20 to 25, inclusive, and December 30 to January 1, 1907, inclusive. Limited to return January 7, 1907. -- The following information was received here a few days ago concerning a former Rockcastle citizen who went West many years ago; Mr. James Love Terrill died very suddenly of apoplexy, August 30, at Sulphur Springs, Indian Territory, which place he had made his home since March. The deceased was the grandson of Dr. Joplin, and was born in Mt Vernon Vernon, Kectucky. -- MARETBURG NEWS Bro. Karr is expected to fill his appointment at the church Saturday and Sunday . Sunday school is still progressing nicely. The report of last Sunday's exercises was very good, all the classes were represented by a good number, all the teachers present. Number of chapters read the preceding week were 131. The report of the Treasurer shows a nice surplus in the treasury. -- DEAD: After an illness of several months hard suffering from heart trouble, Mrs Jane Burke passed away on the 21th of this month. "Aunt Jane," as known in the community, was a respectable old lady possessing many good qualities and winning the love and esteem of all those who knew her. She leaves a son and a host of friends to regret the vacancy occasioned by her loss, but our loss is her gain, as she expressed her willingness to go. "A good name is better than riches." -- Mr. Hartz still improves, only paralysis of the knees and feet prevent him from walking. -- Mrs. Dora Owens remains about the same. -- Misses Eila Carson and Julia Revnold, of Brown Memorial college are at home for Thanksgiving. -- Mr. Edgar Griffin, wife and son, of Knoxville, spent last week at Mr. N. Griffin's. -- Messrs. T., John and Alf Griffin, of Jellico, spent last week with relatives here. -- Mrs. Cleo Howell and little daughter, Gertrude, spent last Saturday until Sunday with Mrs. R. E. Reynolds. -- Miss Montie Martin, of Mt Vernon, visited visited at Elmer Houk's Saturday and Sunday. -- Miss Bettie Lewis Livingston is visiting Lena McCall. -- Rev. C. C. Metcalf is in North Carolina closing business there. -- Mr. and Mrs. Scroggins and daughter, Lily, of North Carolina have come to make their home in Kentucky. As of yet they have not gone to keeping house at their home on the Gan's property. -- The Misses Dillingham, of South Carolina, after spending a few weeks at Asheville, N. C. have joined their parents here, who now are settled in the Josiah Mullins's property. --Mr. Mullins moving near Cedar Creek, Lincoln county. -- J. J. McCall spent Saturday and Sunday with homefolks on his way from Stanford to Hazel Patch. HIATT NEWS Mr. Homer Chestnut is quite ill with rheumatism. -- Our revival meeting closed here Sunday night with only one addition. -- Misses Lou Phillips, Nora Bower and Thessie Sigmon were the guests of Miss Bessie Hiatt Saturday night and Sunday. -- L. T. Stewart and family of Wildie were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Early Sunday. -- Little Miss Gertrude Chasteen has been quite sick. -- Rumor says we are to have a wedding in this part soon. -- Misses Rhoda Bowman and Martha Daily, also Messrs. Bob and Harve Bowman, of Mt Vernon, attended church here Sunday. Dr. Jones, of Wildie, attended church here Sunday. -- Mr. Albert Fish, of Wildie, was here Sunday. -- Miss Eva and John Fish were the guests of Jesse Fish Saturday night and Sunday. -- Dr. E. I. Brown, Will Warren and DR. Price, of Stanford, are spending a dew days with Mr. Allen Hiatt Hunting. -- George Brown and daughter, Miss Eliza, of Freedom, attended church here Sunday. -- Mr. and Mrs. Amos Smith, of Brodhead attended church here Sunday. ******************************************************************************* 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 *******************************************************************************