Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1891-05-08
HUSTONvIlls.

-Dogwood winter is in full blast and
the north wind is not tempered to the
shorn sheep.
Or. Brown hft last Saturday for
"ashington City to attend the session
oi the American Medical Associon.
Miss Josie Myers. daughter of VIM.
Myers, of Casey county. died of con.
sumption on the 9Th. Mr.. MYERS has
buried three grown daughters and son.
In law In less than two years.
1t appears that the hens of Clint
jenkins neighborhood are deyelopipo a
remarkable fondness for kittens. Mrs
nadgett missed sitting hen from Der
nest and a search discovered her hover.
ing kitten. The kitten was removed
ana the hen replaced on the nest. when
she industrlously resumed business
-" IN. Cabbell, of Lebanon, wasuplast
week on a flying visit to his mother Miss
Julla StaPg is able to move about her room,
after very severe attack Of grippe. MIR.
>. 1. Rose is recovering from an attack
OF typhoid fever. Mr.. Samuel Gam. AN
aged citizen of the Stringtown neighbor.
MOOD, WAS thought for several DAYS ma.
Die to overcome an attack of pneprnopia
out mas pulled through and is out OF
danger.
Mr. Tom Jasper, of Plano, Texas. ar
'Ved last week, contemplating stay of
several weeks. His plug hat was com.
plete disguise TO many of his old chums
Mrs. Dr. Cook and her sister. Mrs. Mont.
eomery' were up this week visiting Mrs.
soc owens. Mrs. Robert McAlister was
here visitidg friends. News from Mrs
"riggs reports her mother improving.
George Bradley got in from Alabama
tuesday afternoon to spend few weeks.
lie claims to have been luxuriatiuy in
nearly all early vegetables.
Sam Rutherford and Cole Carpenter
are the most enterprising farmers in this
END OF the county. Instead of turning
over clods with A harrow and wearing
them round as others are doing. Sam
armed himself with Ratchet and fol.
lowed the harrow, pounding the biggest.
Cole IN press OF spring work. converted
ms buggy into dump cart and hauled
all the stones Off his meadow. II revar
ACQUIRED to him to borrow Henry Stan.
ley slide and draw them to the brink of
the bluff, over which he could so easily
have tumbled them.
-One OF our meteoroloeists confiding.
ly predicts a frost the night of the 10th
INST. On being pressed for the basis of
MS prediction he promptly declared that
his almanac says so. The prolonged
dry clear, cool. windy spell has parched
and cracked the surface of the eronnd
Ike July and August weather. MANY
farmers have suspended work in corn
helds and will not resume till after a rain
has saturated the clods. whilst Others
are plodding along stirring clods with
harrows and drags or imbedding a few
with heavy rollers. Nearly all gardens
were p'owed before dry enough and all
helds show streaks where blowing was
resumed too soon, notwithstanding eve. /
y farmer declares that you had better
wait till next season than pillow too wet. /
Theories and practices do not ALWAYS ac-
ora with even scientists. | know am
Individual whose palms are literally full
d busters and corns, all from persisting
II plowing his garden when he confess
III 1t was too wet, ard the extra hard
pounding required to pulverize the clods
las produced the condition mentioned. /
Moreover, the job is but fairly commenc. /
a. 1t will not DO for the early bird TO
'e too previous 1t doesn't always in.
ure the catch OF an early worm"