Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1895-06-28
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tinue culGng our hocks and shipping
lambs.
Miss Annie Turpin. daughter of
Frank, is reported dangerously i'll of a
gastric ailment.
james Turpn after 45 years OF wan
derings and adventures has returned to
his native bills, rich in experiences, OBJ.
servations and nautical explosives with
which he copiously emphasizes his mar
ratives.
"A wedding in high life ia imminent
on Frye's Greek II the madame isn't of
her base in subdued inuendo. A hedg-
ling of the Baptist clergy is reported par.
ty Of the first part and is certainly OF
Methodist extract il Lorenzo Dow
counts anything in lists OF family q
favorite names.
Quite mortality hasiprevailed TO al
most determination OF the shoats OF our
end. 1t has been long time since q hog
died OF any disease except cholera (?)
but diminished ratiops and lice are re-
sponsible for loss in some instances on
ly one OF the many varieties which are
invariably fatal when coal oil and corn
are withheld too long.
Our vicinity was rarely so shocked
as by announcement OF sudden death Of
genial Jess Royalty. In his death Liber-
ty sustains a loss she will be long recoy-
ering The writer owed more OF his al
ways enjoyable visits to Cssey's capital
to Jess than any OF her excellent citizens
except your patriarchal correspondent
and his contemporary Charlie Prescott.
old things occasionally give way to
the new, and the long established beef
club system Of this progressive locality is
OF the past. We find it much the better
plan to promise the Phil Armour OF Hus.
tonvile deposit, and draw, ad lbitum,
on Col. Bill Reid's supply Of the fresh
est, juicest, tenderest and cheapest beef
procurable anywhere nearer than the
cattle markets OF South America.
Mics Julia Stage returned Thursday
.
BERTHE Enoch. Miss Burdette, OF Lex
ineton, spent few days with relatives
near here. Misses Lizzie and Matte
Thompson, OF Lancaster, are visiting
their cousins, Bette, Matte and Jessie
Powell, making galaxy OF az winsome
youngsters as any blue grass farm house
boasts. Col. Rudd Knott, OF California,
arrived few days ago on visit to Ken
lucky relatives, and is now with a sister
at Springfield. Aubrey Williams. OF
Hsrrodsburg, is visiting his cousin, Hor-
ace Bohon, in our suburb and is bewild-
cred by the fascinating girls be meets al
every turn.
One OF our young gallants who wac
"fotch up" in the brush and presumes
as unerring in home instinct as a shote
lately visited Texas and vicinity, Wash.
inston county, but he wandered aimless.
ly miles and miles over the wrong road
on return, hunting such landmarks az
churches, tob acco barns and mountains
which were conspicuous on the drive
over. When he had drifted around al.
most to his starting point he met a resi-.
dent who drew a map OF the country
scored mesnders in red, attached a string
and will certainly be gratifed to learn
that the hill.billy fiuslly got home safe.
Your correspondent knows something OF
the charming lsssies he met first time
on that trip and would condone his wan.
dering from a railroad track.
That farmers are justifably pessimis.
tic Grumblers a much more propitious
year than first half OF '95 attests. Spring
dawdled along till winter Tapped over
on Summer. Blackberry winter swoop-
ed down with unparalleled severity
just before Summer, proper, extermina.
ting early gardens, reducing to a nomi-
nality, the strawberry, raspberry and
blackberry crops, stunting blue grass and
encouraging the voracious veruicular
foragers which in many quarters devss.
tated field and garden, reminding the
faithful and impatient granger that,
there's no excellence without great Ia
Dor" the necessity Of try, try again.
and truth Of, 'the third times the
charm. Rust and fly threatened wheat,
meadows promised scarce half crop,
corn was just safely above clods when a
miniature deluge included this unfortu.
nate section, denuding the uplsnds, sub
merging the lowlands, sweeping fences,
footlogs, sawlogs, lumber piles, wagons,
water gates and indiscreet farm animals
from their bases. Bottom fields OF corn,
wheat and oats are fiat as founder and
many OF last two hopelessly ruined. Our
blacksnith's boat was adrift and he wad-
ed ashore with wife and babies, in fear of
drifting indefinitely aboard a floating
dwelling house. Our town square morn
ing after the flood was suggestive of a
/ aify that had axnariapcad diva aaian.;o