Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1892-01-16

cohh L. oou, w hLuu CIi'e,
James A. Keiser, Patrick Dolan,
Alexander Jeffrey, E, s. Muir,
d. H James. Fl. S. Reed. w. B.
HaW kins, w. II. Graham, James
I'M. Coyle, j. M. Logan, H. s. At.
kins, Wharton M. Moore, Mrs.
Mary NJ Brent, Mrs. Josephine
K Henry, L. & G. Strauss, w. IL.
Thompson, B j. Treacy,
Charles H. Woolley, j. @. A.
uayman, e. l. Price, Russell
vii on, Rev Charles L. Loos,
John +. Nntter, Ed S. Riggs,
David c. Vance, o. S. Poston, &
George Handy, }. o. Dedman,
James r. Haley, Robt. Nutter,
George NJ CoyIe, James c. Wal
lace, Thomas w. Moore, j. d.
Warrington, j. H Davidson, j. N.
Wilson, Mrs. M. C. Runyon,
Hiram Shaw, H. A. Guthrie,
w. T. Ficklin, d A. Morton,
Ben Miller Osborne, j. j. Rucker,
A. p. Morton, and D. thinner
man.
In addition to this Mr.. George
Handy of Harrodsburg gaze $25,
a gentleman connected with the
Queen & Crescent Road gave So 90
and subscriber to the stock laid
$40 90 and asked that his lame
might not be given as having done
| it.
The following subscribers have
refused to pay $4,000 each.
j. T. Slade and Claude Buckley.
The following subscribers to the
stock have refused to pay $40 90,
each.
]. D. Hunt, s. V. Fry, Rev w. F.
Rogers, George M. Ockford, John
Steele, Claude M. johnson, j. w.
Sayre, John 7. Shelby, Grandson
Smith, and Frank M. Smith.
The following have been several
times notified and have failed to
pay $1,000.
Ben P. Carpenter, w, s. Nc
Chesney, w. o. Sweeney, Roger
Williams, A. j. Cots, James Nc
Cormick, G. H. Stoll, A. M.
Harrison, Rev G.. M. Moore (col, 6
A. Kennedy, and D. c. Logan.
w, s. Marshall subscribed ten
dollars, and has paid part of it in
work.
Of those mentioned above the
following who have failed to pay
me have expressed their purpose
to pay me, Carpenter, McChesney,
Sweeney, Harrison, Moor (coPd),
Kennedy and Logan. l believe
that Carpenter will do it 1 do
not know about the others.
Of those who subscribed for the
stock, and whose names are in
cluded in those above as having
paid $40 each, there were the fol-
lowing, who with my consent,
took a receipt for the paper for
fue years instead of a stock certif-
cate:
j. T. Patterson, X. deRoode, j.
r. williamson and James G. Wal
lace.
said when 1 was raising the
subscription fund, that I thought I
would be able to pay each stock
holder ten per cent. gear on his
stock.
I am now ready to pay ten per
cent for the fret years business, to
all those presenting their stock GER
tifcates. Certificates have been
properly issued to all who have
paid their stock and a record of
them kept. Stockholders who take
the paper must pay for the paper
just as others do.
When / raised the stock for the
Blade it was my expectation to fur
nish fourteen columns of reading
matter. 1t has now, and for more
than half of the time has had,
twenty-three columns of reading
matter, all of which is specially
opposed to the liquor traffic. The
columns are now longer than when
there were only fourteen columns.
The probabilities are that the
amount of reading matter in the
paper will be increased.
When l started out to raise the
stock subscription for the Blade,
a number of gentlemen who sub
scribed to it, said l ought not to
start out without less than IS, 900.
1 said I wanted but $4,000.
When / had gotten all sub
scribed that l could get by simply
stating my purpose to those I met,
and in some instances having them
to volunteer to take the stock, it
all amounted to 1880. Of this
the parties named refused to pay,
or have failed to pay, $3.50, leaving
in all paid to me 81, 440
This leaves me $3.50 short of the
smallest possible amount upon
which l thought l could issue 1900
papers. If friends to the Blade
or enemies to twill furnish me
that balance of $3.50, 1 believe l
will now with Brother Neal, issue
10000 Prohibition papers each
week, and do it feeling all right
and comfortable about it. Ifthey
do no not help me out with another
cent, we expect to issue 10000
papers anyhow, but won't be SO
Jolly over it. Neal is as poor as a
church mouse. He got hrown oul
Of a buggy and badly hurt, and, in
consequence, got thrown out Of a
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