Subject: KFY: Mt Vernon Signal Newspapers, 1900 - Rockcastle Co ------------------------------------------ Date: 16 Dec 1998 From: DBXP64A@prodigy.com (C.L. C_R_A_W_F_O_R_D) ------------------------------------------ MAY 4, 1900 STATE DEATH: Irvine Alcorn a Madison county farmer was accidentally shot and killed by his son, who was examing a pistol "Doe" Lowrey accused of a criminal assault on Mrs Haman Million in Madison county has been taken to Lexington for safe keeping Dink Farmer, Democratic condidate for jailer, of Lincoln county and Tom Gill met on the pike Saturday morning when the latter cut two ugly gashes in the side and breast of Farmer. They ahve been at outs for some time Deputy Sheriff Thomas Hountshell after searching two days for Moses Feltner who killed Jesse Fields in Breathitt county finally landed his man in Leslie county but found that Feltner was also badly wounded from a shot in the leg supposed to have been fired by Fields LIVINGSTON Mrs E. S. Elmore is quite sick this week Miss Lida Cook who has been dangerously ill s fast improving Lieut Dillion is much improved since he came home Mrs Marsh Owens is visiting at Maretburg Miss Dora Jenkins of Bowling Green is visiting her aunt Mrs Geo McCarthy Mrs Mamie Blick is visiting relatives at the River Mansion J.E. Singleton the traveling drummer has moved into one of Mrs Sue Mullins houses near the hotel H.J. Mullins was with friends here Saturday and Sunday W.C. Hester has moved his family to W.C. Cummins saw mill where he is engaged in business Bro Combs closed his meeting here Friday with 17 additions Mrs Margaret Sambrooks is visiting her sister in Cincinnati, who is very sick Miss Noakes of Crab Orchard is with her cousin Mrs Chumley this week Emerson Rice and conductor Ed Roller are here preparing for a fishing trip Dispatcher Moore is building an additonal room ot his house with many other improvements Uncle Henry Fish is here with friends for a few days L.W. Bethurum and C.C. Williams were here on business Mr Blankenship is visiting his son J.T. Blankenship E.A. Herrin is doing a good work with his rock quarry. He has just finished the sonte wall across Dr Cooper's lot, which adds greatly to the already handsome residence Jno Clark and his mother have taken rooms with Mrs Lon Quinn Dispatcher Merrimee is the boss fisherman. Last Sautrday he caught a bass weighing 6 1/4 lbs. Shorty being very small anyway he could not land him; he called manfully for help; Charles Burns who was near him plunged into the river an got his fingers in his mouth and hauled him a shore Last Saturday while out cutting ties Alex Mink let his ax glance striking Joe Walters on the hip cutting a very painful gash Mrs Sallie Satterfield and pretty little children arrived last night to visit her father Capt Bently and friends at this place BRODHEAD Mr Arch Albright was in town Saturday and reports all well and plenty of work Ex Constable Jim Hamm was in town Saturday looking around after the boys. Jim is a splendid fellow and has made a good officer. Dr Benton returned Friday night from a weeks stay on Cumberland river with a fishing party J.H. Dunn, Logue Thompson, Luther Jarrett and others have been fishing on Dick;'s river for three days returning Saturday W.P. Tharp has purchased hsi father's home place here and moved to it W.H. Collyer has moved to his summer home on the Sand Knob Mr J.McReynolds one of Beelick's merchants was here Saturday Miss Mollie Houk was visiting near Maretburg Sunday Mrs Barbara Houk and Mrs Elmen Houk were visiting friends near here last week BIRTH: Born to the wife of Dr J.S. Burdette a bouncing boy Miss Berda Hilton and Mr Smith, of Lancaster were the guests of Harry Hilton and family Sunday Miss Lizzie Simpson and Mr E. Brown of Lancaster were the guests of Miss Hellen Thurmond at the Frith Hotel last Sunday Dr Gene Brown was up from Standord Sunday BRODHEAD H.G. Sutton was here Saturday for the first time in nearly a year Captain Evans killed a mad dog Monday on the railroad near his house W.H. Pettus is quite sick and is not able to be on duty Mrs James Crawford reported much worse ORLANDO John Cope of Jackson county was here this week J.M. McNew is the ne fireman at the Rockcastle Stone Company's mill Coley Ogg the noted photographer is in our midst this week Geo Johnson is at Mullins Station this week D.L. Carter foreman at Langford Stone Quarry is on the sick list this week John Robinson was in Mt Vernon Monday on business Stephen Robinson was in Winchester Saturday Miss Ollie Caloway was visiting her mother at this place last week Mrs Dr Pennington was visiting at Rev Williams Monday The store house dwelling built by Moses langford at Langford was destroyed by fire Saturday. Two families were living in the house at the time Henry Bales who is working for the Big Hill Coal Company was in Mt Vernon first of the week on business for the company WABD J.L. Moyers has bought a farm of J.C. Graves. Price paid $2.50 J.J. Kinley and family were the guests of Mrs N.J. Searcy Sunday M.C. Sowder returned from Tennessee last week A.J. Cress was here from Disputanta Sunday last Mrs Matilda Graves who has been in Dade county Missouri since Christmas returned home last week WILDIE W.H. Jones is in teh city this week Bogie Phillips was in Richmond several days last week William Fish of Madison county was up to see his brothers A.T. and Henry Fish the first of the week Dr Lewis was in Mt Vernon last week Jack Baufle has been sick for a few days BIRTH: Born to the wife of Jack Hurst on the 21st a boy Logue Thompson was drumming around among our merchants the first of the week It is getting about time Dr Lewis was going back to Bradsfordville again look here Dock, better go, you might loose out S.C. Franklin and wife visited the family of T.J. Hayes Sunday Willie Hayes moved to J.H. Hamilton's place first of the week A.C. Towery moved back to his place near Roundstone and James Mattenny who occupied Towery's house moved to Jackson county PERSONAL Miss Ella Joplin returned from Paris Monday C.C. Davis has begun the foundation for his new residence J.J. Clancy and W.H. Cottengim were up from Livingston Monday last Our foreman S.C. Franklin and wife spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Tom Hays at Wildie Hon Sam Ward was up from Livingston Tuesday and W.C. Mullins was here Wednesday I.C. McCracken a merchant in the Eastern part of the county was here on business Monday Dr W. A. Brown of Parksville was visiting the family of Judge G. W. McClure the first of the week DEATH: J.T. Williams dropped dead last week at Lynchburg Va. He was a cousin to D.N. and J.J. Williams of this place Mort Owens little son of Jim Owens got his leg cut off while trying to jump a train at Brodhead Alfred and Quiller Riddle were fined each $25 and cost for assaulting John Taylor on the night of March the 16 U.S. Marshal Short brought in from Jackson county Saturday Jim Griffin charged with unlawfully manufactuering liquor W.L. Shropshire came over from Richmond last Saturday to see one of our handsomest and most attractive young ladies Dr Davis Says there is to his knowledge more pneumonia this spring than there has been at any time since he has lived here fourteen years PERSONAL Miss Berda Martin was in yesterday and ordered the paper sent to her brother Willie who has a position with D.C. Sandidge at Lynchburg VA. Mr and Mrs Theo Wesley are visiting relatives in Casey county this week. Dr John M. Williams is running Mr Wesley's store during his absence Dr John M. Williams has purchased the interest of W.C. Mullins in the Rockcastle Quarry Co., and also the Round Stone Quarry Co., at Withers. The transfer was made Wednesday While Mr and Mrs W. g. Proctor were returning home last Sunday from Mace Brown's thier horse became frightened ran off and tore the buggy all to pieces. Fortunately the occupants escaped uninjured J.T. Blankenship was up Wednesday from Livingston to look at J.J. Williams residence and get the plan of it as he has the contract for putting up one almost like it for W.M. Fields at Livingston A Clontz has purchased J.W. marler & Son's interest in the timber at Jelico and has gone there to saw up the trees. The whole boundry is 1700 acres and has on it some as fine trees as can be found anywhere in the state Capt S.D. Lewis of Rockcastle was here Saturday...Mrs E. Fishback of Livingston spent several days with the Miss Straub...Jason Wesley and Mrs J.B. Williams of Middleburg were here Sunday to meet thier brother Theo Wesley and family of Mt Vernon who are spending a week with them William Renner killed a mad dog near his home on Scaggs Creek Saturday and the greater portion of the day Sunday was spent by J.W. Marler, Bob Marler, Josiah Meece and W.A. McKiney in hunting for another which had passed through biting several dogs and some stock. So keep your eyes open and always give the road to the dogs Roberta Davis is yet absent from school having not fully recovered from her illness Miss Cox has proved her ability as an instructor in music the class is larger now than it has ever been before Recently a young man was asked to punctuate this sentence "I saw a beautiful girl: she was passing down the street." After considering a moment he replied; "Well, Professor, I believe I would make a dash after the girl." Our music teacher Miss Mary Cox after a few eves visit to her home, in Danville, will go to Chicago immediately after the close of school, where she will take a special course in music. She will return in September The pupils receiving the highest grades for the month of April are as follows: College dept R.L. McFerron 95 Victor Tte 95 Intermediate dept Fannie Sparks 96 Rissie Williams 96 Clydie Cass 96 Primary Dept Mattie Baker 96 Lula McCoy 95 The grades of all the pupils are much better for the last month than they have been for any other month during the year, which especially is commendable to them and very gratifying to the faculty Judge R.G. Williams is in London today on business Lawyer C.C. Williams has returned from an Illinois trip Miss Callie Adams a little Garrard beauty is visiting relatives here Misses Maud Coble and Dove B. Letcher leave tonight for Richmond to spend Sunday J.P. Lechleiter is walling up and fixing for C.C. Williams a cistern just back of his residence Fire broke out in the penitentiary at Frankfort Tuesday totally destroying the chair factory and all the machinery. It was well covered with insurance MARRIAGE: George Doss of Boyle and Miss Ella Parsons were married at Livingston yesterday when Squire Russell Dillion had his first experience in tying a matrimonial knot. ******************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent.