The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1895-11-28

touching every 5yanch OF business. They
own 10 stores, thousands Of acres OF simber
and farming lsnds, saw-mills, sriss mills,
stock, town property, haildings Of ain Kinds.
They hsadlc Esiflions Of feet oflunaber every
year. and they are indsfstigabIs workers.
Taylor Day Ia never still minute, and he
goes with stsam-engine vigor that makes
everything hustle. The Hazel Green store
sometimes carries as much ss $4,000 worth
of goods, and the Jackson store does bust
ness of 100000. They are all hrst-class
business men, and never hesitate to spend
money whsn good will come Of II, either In
private or public. They are known through
out the entire section, and their word ia as
good as their bond any time and anywhere.
II is a remarkable combination, and another
like il have not yet discovered.
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saw a whole beyy of pretty girls at the
fair, several bevies for that matter, with
pink cheeks and soft eyes and pleasing fig.
ures, well.clotheJ, and / quite went into
raptures over them and grew poetic "A Gus.
tom noticed was desire on the part of
the youth Of the neighborhood to shoot
their guns on the streets at night ia man
ner so reckless thatwe had to put our lights
out so that they might mot casually put the
| light out for us with 45-callbre bullet.
Those youths have way Of shooting at the
stars and sometimes light in window
might be iuistaken for star. 1t isn't as
bad, though, as ii used to be. Judge Red.
wine, Of Breathitt, having taken the matter
in hand last year and sent several of the
shooters to the Jail in Campton, where they
are still undergoing reform. The judge is
popular and there ought to be more like
| him. .3..s @9a
Hazel Green is a Kentucky town with
Louisville papers as its standby, the Cou.
lrier.Journal having the most readers. No
magazines are taken except by the academy
The academy library supplies most of the
reading matter for the towns folk.
Green Trimble, ofMt. Sterling, lived in
Hazel Green for tifty-three years, his father
being the founder of the town, and he "kin-
der bankers to get back to the old place.
| He was arrested by the Union forces 10 times
during the war and he doesn't get pension.
! A peculiar custom, which 10 not as pre-
yslent as it used to be is the carrying Of y
i gun In pair of saddle bags. Every man
j who comes ia from the country brings his
saddle bsgs, and then 40 he strolls carefessly
about town he carries them over his sheal-
der. Nowadays there Is nothing in them
more dangerous than quart of apple bran
dy, but the revolver used TO be there, and
the man steadisd them across hia shsnlder
with his hand In the pocket gripped on his
gun ready for business. oas Of the sxr
prising features Of this mountain gan-csuy-
! ing practice Is that with so many gaus car.
Tlsd 20 comparatively tew people ssS shas.
i have been talking Ia these letters OF the
"moaatsin coantry." hsvs doES 90 Ia
| Difference to common usage rather than In
Difference 10 the facts, for nons Of shss conn
try Is mountainous. Bssstyyiils, foriasssnce,
ID aaly 7i5 feet above the sea. 1acksca, zs0.
end the highest polnt on this part OF the L.
and X. (rerrsa., osiy 500. The L. and f.
81 Lexington and o. Winchester 10 few feet
In sxsess OF 1900 fest above sea level, or
nearly 200 feet higher than the so-oasled
mosstsia tswas. Osiy the high hills sSeat
these towns are up to the level sfths blue
Grass plateau.
In soRslsqion, want 10 cay semethipg
4 ah0st q Astabls psydact OF thsss coansiss
| and sAs aarss sftAem. aishs say, IL
we're on the Prohibition ticket, tswis: The
produets Of dissiiisriss. IA ihis aessoa
|, apple brandy IL ths Said uaaas, ahaasiss 70
, whisky In The Writer, ana thass ere 70 tis-
Isilisries ia Bsesthiss, 5 In Lees 10 In Wolfe.
Din Perry and In owslsy. E2Sh dissiilssy
/ Yspcgts an average Of 10 gaiisas menah.
lshe dissillerss xesa being taken fSf II. and
} ths tax 10 paid On thst How mach 10 realty
; made sebody bat the distIilsFs ksow, hst
! the margin 10 saough 10 knock The eld-tiEa
| IA conshiner out Of business, Rn@ be 10 bar
, der 10 End than needle Ia hsyhtset-
! What's the use oftaking anY risk rhsn ths
scysrnment gives aian Gil the chsncs he
wsutsg New apple braady--the newer Ia 10
n the better II is-i land there's no dsnying thst
> good apple brandy Is powerful good) sslis
4 at a gallon, and the supply rarely exceeds
) the de,aaud. Another standby Ia sorghum
and when the mountainssr has apple brady
/ for a beverage aad sorghum for steady
diet. he doesu't care continental for yo'sr
) land that flows with milk and hcney. NOT
. much.
4 An expression heard frequently IN tissai
/ Green struck me as good eHs' hsn
asked man IL he was going sofssF 'sefe 3
A and he answered: IT shcse Acn." Wh<N y
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