Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-11-20
HERE AND THERE.


robbed Wednesday night.
Mr.. Ben Rosenbaum's coal house
was broken into Wednesday night
by some thief who wanted fuel.
/ Mass Meeting of the Y. M. G. A,
at Methodist church Sunday at 3
o'clock p. NJ. The public is invited.
Born, to the wife of Mr.. Harry G.
Buckner, Longview, on the 18th inst,
a girl.
The special term of Circuit Court
for this county will meet next Mon
day. Civil cases only will be disposed
of.
Lee Chcancy was arrested We'd
nesday charged with gaming, his Of
Tense being the throwing of dice for
cigars.
John Wright, who kept a candy
tent here last summer, and who was
indicted in September for gaming,
was arrested Wednesday.
There will probably be no opposi-
ton to the reelection of the present
efficient Board of Councilmen at the
city election next month.
Mr.. j. d. Hays and family and Mr..
Moses Kaufman and family expect to
leave for California in few days to
make their home in the future.
Miss Alice Hayes will move her
millinery store to the rooms over
Jones IL Co.'S, on Jan. LIST, and in Or
der 10 reduce her stock she is now
offering special bargains IN millinery
goods.
The ladies of the Baptist church
will give an oyster and salad supper
on Tuesday evening, the 2lth, at the
Court House. Admission so cents
children half price. The proceeds to
be devoted to church purposes.
Arrangements are being made for
a "Mother Goose" entertainment TO
be given about the Christmas holi-
days for the benefit of the Public
School Library. Mother Goose and
all the members of her extensive
family are expected to be present.
Information as TO the exact date of
the entertainment will be published
in a few days.
The social event of the week was
the marriage at the Baptist church,
last night, of Mr.. Jos. G. Buckner,
third son of Mr.. S. G. Buckner, 10
Miss Mate Trice. The marriage was
announced to take place at 8 O'Clock,
TO be followed by a reception at the
residence Of the groom's father. We
went to press before the hour appoint
cd for the ceremony.
Mr.. NJ. G.. Miller, of the enterpris-
ing little town of Pembroke, is now
occupying his new drug store, which |
is In its finish and furnishings second
TO no establishment of the kind IN
Kentucky, outside of the large cities.
His dry goods store is also a very |
handsome and elegantly arranged |
building and both stands are chock |
full of goods and he also has a large |
grocery establishment across the
street from his new brick block. Mr.. |
Miller is one of the most enterprising |
and progressive merchants in the
county and is withal a pleasant, COM
panionable gentleman with whom it
is pleasure to do business.
Matters have looked more cheerful
for the l. A. & T., the past week and
we trust that the worst is passed. The
large floating debt of the road in this
city is being rapidly paid and retired
and this of itself puts our people in
better feeling towards the roads man
agement. In conversation with
Maj. Gordon he tells us that depots
and storage houses for the conven-
fence of shippers, will at once be
erected at the various stations. lie
says, moreover, that in day or two
he will be in position to make a
proposition to the bondholders that
he believes they will accept, in which
case the road will at once be built
through to Princeton. There is now
due the road $4,000 or more in I'M
paid subscriptions.-Toba Leaf.
On Dec. 3 an entertainment will be
given at the Opera House by the la
dies of the Nashville street Presby-
terrain church, assisted by ladies and
amateurperformers ofother churches,
for the benefit of said church. The
entertainment will consist of a "Mar-
tina Washington Tea Party" and a
charade in which the young gentle
men and ladies Of the city will take
part, after which supper win be set
in the room below, now occupied by
Jas. Pye Il Co., and all above and be-
low win cost the small sum of Scots.
From the well-known energy of the
ladies connected with the affair and
their performances ON the stage and
other occasions we are justified in
predicting that it will be success.
We bespeak good patronage for the
entertainment.
On Dec. 29th 1884 John I. Wright,
in common with several other mer-
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