Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-11-16
scATEs' MILL DISTRICT.

Our farmers are about done SOW =
ing wheat in this section. Wheat is
looking very well.
Corn gathering and tobacco strip
ping are in order at this writing.
Mr.. Dan Cranor is teaching very
interesting school at this place. Mr..
Cranor Is live, energetic young
man and our directors would do well
to procure lis services in the future.
Ed. Il. II. Moore, of Madisonville,
is conducting meeting at this place
this week. lie arrived here Satur-
day night, but was taken seriously
III Immediately after his arrival and
did not commence preaching until
last night. lle will probably remain
here the remainder of the week.
Mr.. Philip Datson died at his home
near this place on the 9TH inst. lie
had been sufferer from dYsentery
for several days and was thought to
be convalesccnt until Monday night
when he began TO grow worse ana
gradually sank until the angel of
death relieved him of his suiferings
Thursday. His little babe followed
Sunday. They were inferred at the
new burying ground near the Chris
tian church.
One residence, one business house
and one tobacco barn have been erect
ed in our village this season and
White Il Murphy are now building
a large and substantial barn for re-
ceiving and pricing tobacco.
Mr.. f. NJ. Garner talks of moving
his blacksmith shop hither and an
undertaker's establishment and ma
sonic hall are being agitated. The
county demands that all branches
of trade be represented here, railroad
or no railroad.
III il is profitable to sell whisky in
our district or if the traffic has been
kept up at all your Crofton cor
respondent is entitled TO credit for
making the discovery. The little par
agraph in my last did not imply that
all the citizens of Scates' precinct
were temperate. l stated and do re-
peat that the majority of the ladies
present at Mr.. Henry's speaking sig
nified their opposition to the move
ment and that their husbands, SONS,
sweethearts, etc., were temperate, and
to them Chose ladies,) the horrors OF
intcmperanco. as pictured by the
friends of prohibition were as "fairy
fiction" No man was more disgust
ed at the drunkards at the August
election than was the writer. But
where did they.come from? Some of
them were imported here and voted
for certain Prohibitionists who also
imported the whisky, and what
grand time such men will have now.
When men cannot buy their drinks
with money "Buck" has no idea who
of his neighbors will sell his vote for
drink since there is no penalty for
importing and giving it away. AS
to Charlie Trotter's death this was in
deed a very melancholy affair. Char
lie was dear good boy and left
great many warm friends of whom
the writer was one, TO mourn his UNI
timely death. This however was but
The out'growth of an old gambling
feud, with which poor Charlie had
nothing 10 do. But enough, the cleo
ton is over, the movement is now
law, the issue is between the loyal
and the lawless, and let us all come
out on the side of the loyal and do
hope that those who worked so faith
fully for this movement will be equal
ly faithful in etlecting rigid enforce
ment Of the law. But in conclusion
| wish TO say that the report that
those drunken men forced the officers
of the last August election to aban-
don the polls is false. The contest
was very close between two candi-
dates for j. p, and each received a
heavy vote 10 the last, which togeth-
er with the inefflciency of the clerk
who finally gave the job up to one of
the judges, kept the polls open till
very late in order to poll the vote,
when, for want of light, the officers
were forced to abandon the polls
without posting and signing them.
With kindest feelings toward your
Crofton correspondent and all others
who worked for the movement with
an eye single to general good, l am as
ever the same unwavering,
ROUGH AND READY.