Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1890-03-21
HERE AND THERE.

IL. M. woodbridge, livery, feed " sale
stable, Fritz stand. Telephone 1922
So far as we are informed the storm
of Tuesday night last did no damage.
Buy goods Of 5-McGehee Bros.-6
GAINESVILLE, Tenn, and save money"
Jake Lieber will reopen his barber
shop in this city about the first OF
April
For rent, a large dry goods store
room on n. w. cor. Main and Ninth
street. d. j. Gish.
Miss Alice Hayes, in addition to her
millinery stock, has quite an assort-
ment of "Crazy quilt pieces.*
There have been few cases of
scarlet fever, of n very mild form, in
the city during the past few weeks.
Lost, two calico gray shepherd
match dogs, with one glass eye each.
Reward for their recovery. Ritter
Bros.
The ground whereClark & Johnson's
grocery stood is being cleared OF de
bris preparatory to the erection of a
new building.
The streets were well lighted all
night Tuesday night, in consequence
of the gas extinguisher's failing to
make his usual round.
We can not pay for big, flaming
advertisements, our profits are too
small. For good, honest goods at
low prices, go to Bush SHOE Co.
Miss Alice Hayes has moved her
stock of millinery in the house next
door to Postflice where she would
be pleased to have her old friends and
patrons call on hers
Our merchants who are beginning
to receive their new spring goods, are
hereby reminded the columns of the
KENTucKIAN are at their disposal for
letting the people know it.
The new form for use on the back
of envelopes is brief and to the point.
All our merchants and business men
generally should adopt this method
Of advertising the city aud county at
n distance.
S.H. Ward, a tenant on Judge Joe
McCarrolrs farm near the city, killed
dog few days ago tnat exhibited
strong symptoms of being mad. 1t
had bitten several dogs and other an
imals on the farm before it was killed.
We want somebody to point to one
man OF firm which has started in bus
mess here without taking advantage
of advertising in the local papers that
has been successful. Don't everybody
speak at once! Only give us time to
hear the first one.
The "Jim Aliensworth" whose name
appeared in the police news Tuesday
was not Rev. Jas. l. Allensworth, but
his son. The boy was not fined as
reported but was discharged, as it was
shown that he had merely been fro
licking with another boy.
Faint whispers have been heard of
late of the organization of gymna-
stun. We never throw cold water ON
an enterprise of any kind, but we have
heard this one mentioned, and have
noticed il so often in our columns,
that it begins to have the flavor Of a
chestnut.
The Columbus Clock is now on OK
hibition and is all that it has been rep
resented to be. 1t is well worth the
price of admission to see this triumph
of mechanism. 1t will be here only
few days and the public should lose
no time in calling to seeit. Anderson
building, Sixth street.
Joe Foeman, the colored desperate
who was sentenced to five years in
the penitentiary for assaulting the
GAINESVILLE Chief of Police Christmas,
has had his sentence committed by
Judge Tyler to one year in the county
Jail This is a case where the court
has interfered with the ends of JUS
tee. Foeman is a bad egg and his
first sentence was very light one.
The books for subscription for stock
in the seventeenth series of the Hop
kinsville Building and Loan Associa-
ton will be opened on April LIST proxi-
mo, at the office of the Treasurer at
the First National Bank, at which
time non-borrowers of the seventh
series are requested to present their
certificates of stock for redemption.
THos. W LoNo, Treas.
Important street improvements will
probably be made this year. Though
our streets and pavements are far bet
ter than cities having double the pop
ulation of Hopkinsville, there is still
great need of street work. The new
cement pavements put down last year
have not been fairly tested, as the win
ter was so mild that no one can yet
determine whether the cement will
stand the freezes and thaws of q Sc
we're winter.
We saw it stated in northern pa
per few days ago that artificial ice
can be manufactured at cost of 40