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

mails day, aud II 10 80 hours from daily
newspaper, q condition Of affairs NOT COM
mon In this great aud glorious ccantry Of
ours within 600 miles Of Washington. But
that doesn't make much difference, for has
not the town that remarkable newspaper
and journalistic wonder, Spencer Cooper's
famous HAZEL GREEN HERALD, which was
the one newspaper which Max O'Rell found
to meet his judgment as one Of natures
own. For myself ! don't see how "Brer"
Cooper has kept that paper going for 10
years, but he has and he owns command
ing site tor II, 10acre lot for IL to spread
IN and residence next door on the bluff
overlooking the town. The HERALD is the
only newspaper in the.count,, and some Of
It's cogent and corruscat,ng utterances have
gone around the world. 1t has a circula.
ton Of $50 and II made ia first appearance
on the day that Grover Cleveland was first
inaugurated. And "Erer" Cooper was aft.
erward postmaster. '.%~ lS6l# It.. VI Y @5a1 Il
., Hazel Green appears to have gone to ora.
cory, for here live J. II. swango, who has
taken nearly all the oratorical prizes in
Kentucky and carried Oh the big one Mt the
Worlds Fair; Henry Godsey and Jos. Taul.
bee and other famous prize winners. Jim.
mic Swaugo also writes poetry I know for
l have tackled some of il, BAT he will out
grow this as he grows older vi. ..vs"
Hazel. Green has some distinguished peo.
pie in her midst past and present q.
Swango, eight years judge and now regis.
ter of the land Office; w. o. Mize, ex.state
senator and enrolling clerk of the senate ;
Charles Buchanan, the deaf mute shoemaker,
who had charge Of TIE exhibit at Chicago,
awarded for superior skill Silas Ratcliff,
who died last year, aged 1903 years, who
voted first for Madison and for every Demo.
cratic president since that date, always
walking mile or two to the polls up to the
! time of his last vote John Spaniard Nickel
who owns rifle that has killed 500 deer,
800 of them by his own hand, and who can
beat dog trailing any animal in the woods }
Uncle Milt Gibbs, aged seventy, widower
times and looking around again Dave
Rose, the wild rider of Wolfe and lot more
! failed to see. T. ~-*". ~ e .t%- r.
| There are no saloons In town, but saddle.
bags are plenty and the loss is not keenly
felt. In the apple brandy season, when the
stranger sees pair of saddle.bags he knows
that relief is near, and he doesn't have TO
look far to ses a pair, either. Springs OF
mineral water abound, and famous ID this
section Is the Swango spring, now leased by
Col. Rye, Of Mason county. This water,
(which, as far as can learn, has never been
analysed, Is very peculiar in Its effects and
is sure cure for dyspepsia and half the
other ills aesh Is heir to. II will straighten
out a man ready to have the Jim jams and
put him on his feet quicker tban the Keely
cure. II turns everything 80 black that !
believe it will cure gray hair. sulphate Of
iron (copperasl is in it strong, and there are
magnesis, salts and q variety Of other things
useful in therapeutics. Whatever there 10
ISwango will make man eat his head %
If he isn't careful. The spring oniy yielda
about 10 or 20 gaiions y d.y sind tae w.sss
loses its yistus BY shipping Il any distaace.
i u oS' sI -.
Hazel Green wants railroad, and waatS
Il bad. Coal 10 abundant. and II miles
away chat 10 said to be the most e1tensivs
CANCEL ceal deposit In tho world ID swsisins
Il the railroad 20 carry IL 10 market. There
osgA. to DO rsllroS4z. ske==ss nsss come
from the outside, for there ism money
eaough 10 thess counties to develop theii
lsrssF xichea. Tho rssdjs,hoppd 70 get shsr,
sfssr awhile. bat II ought 10 be there thII
very ninuts.
There we're soldiers In Hazel Gresn Ia
var times. a. II wac crossroads for betl
a.miss. jobs Morssa sarns In. and We
told Of one man who was wiilssg "a tessifs
that he had given Gen. GsFAeid drink Of
one occasion, and 1t wssn's water, either
Another man said Il vas Ger Nelson.
don't know which one II wss.
There are four doctors Ia town, and on
Of them told me his practice sxsssdsd owe
aYe counties. Think Of getting up In III
!. middle Of the night, you city doctors, AM
riding over impossible roads into the thir'
coanty, and then, like as not, get o dolia
for Il.
Two men were lynched here to Q tree NOS
in front Of THE HERALD Office. Two cthe
men killed their men here later and wer
swung for II at Campton by due process o
!, law. III. F. Pieratt Ia postmaster, aud b
gets $500 year out fit.
There are several nice residences In tow
aud big frame Masonic hall on the hill
( but there is no opera-house and but on
q hotel. Neither Is there telegraph ofiic