Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-06-04
SharpSburg.

SharpSburg.
Tollie Arrasmitb, of Bethel, was
here on Saturday.
Jacob Trumbo, of Mt. Sterling,
was here Thursday on business.
Col. A. T. Wood and wife, of
Mt. Sterling, were here on Satur-
day.
&C. Boyd, wife and little chill
dren visited relatives near Aaron's
Run on Sunday.
DR.. T. b. SrTsh. of Cynthiana,
was the guest %. d. J. w. Rather
ford Wednesday vsuE.
G. w. Baird auG wife. &C Nj.
Sterling, passed here Saturday to
visit friends at Bethel.
Miss Oracle Smith, of Cynthiana.
is visiting at her uncle's, DIR. j. W.
Rutherford's, this week.
Dudley Upton, of near Plum
Lick. Bourbon Co, is seriously ill
with hemorrhage of the lungs.
Waller Sharp, L. S. Rogers, Will
Peed and others attended the con-
vention at Owingsville on Satur-
day.
Lemmie Upton and little child,
of near Mt. Sterling, were visiting
relatives near town one day last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John b. Durham,
of near Moorefield, were the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Thomas ON
Sunday.
The drouth here has been broken
BIZ good rains for the last week,
and at this writing are having
more rain.
S. T. Stone, of MOorefield, and
John English, of Judy, attended
the funeral of VIM. Smathers on
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. LoOney, of
Winchester, visited at her mothers,
Mrs. Miranda Fletcher's, this and
last week.
Mrs. John Arnold, Sr., is very
poorly at the home of her son,
John c. Arnold, with something
like softening of the brain.
Rev. C. w. Thomas, of the Chris
tian Church, preached the Com
mencement sermon here on Sunday
at the Presbyterian Church.
Dogs made a raid on L. S. Rog-
ers' flock of sheep on Thursday
night last, killing two and wound
ing some ten or twelve others.
There is over half of the tobacco
crop already out in this section
and is looking well. Some CON-
plant of cutworms in some locali-
ties.
Miss Clemmie Jones, of Mont
gomery county, is and will be the
guest of Mrs. A. L. Moffett until
the close CT the exercises at the
Sharpsburg College.
The crop of bluegrass seed will
be almost an entire failure here,
but they can use the shippers on
some of the wheat, as it will not be
high enough to cut with the bind
erS.
Mr.. Hasty, who has been living
on the DIR. Bell farm near town,
which he bought some years ago
and had to give up on account of
faulty title, is moving this week to
his farm near Judy, Montgomery
Co.
Died, at his residence in this
place, Saturday night at II o'clock,
Benjamin +. Hughart of apoplexy.
He was stricken unconscious on
Thursday morning and never re-
covered. The funeral took place
on Monday at o'clock p. III.
Died, Thursday, May 2sth, at
his home four miles east of town,
after an illness of several months,
VIM. Smathers, Sr., aged about "a
years. The funeral was preached
on Saturday at $50 a. m. at the
Presbyterian Church by Rev. r. F.
Caldwell and the body inferred in
Crown Hill. "Uncle Red" as he
was always Familiarity called, was
born and raised on the same farm
where he died, the home place of
his parents. Of the eight children
born to his parents only two now
survive: Mrs. Ledford, of near
Sherburne, and Mrs. Beckner, of
Pleasant Hill, Mo. He was never
married, nor member of any
church. He was fortunate in ear
ly life in the accumulation of prop
erty, but unfortunate at the last.
He was a true friend, good to the
poor, generous to fault, and no
higher tribute can be paid TO any
one than to him: There lies an
honest man.