The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1897-08-25
CORRESPONDENCE
Valley VIEW.

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Mr.. c. F. Bryant made a flying visit
to Versailles last Tuesday
Hon. John d. White, of Manchester,
was here Friday on business.
Mr.. Geo. w. Hutchinson came up
from Troy on his bike" last Saturday
Miss Mary Belle Hambrick, of Nelson
county, is visiting her aunt, Ms. A. d.
Goosey.
Misses Sina Wharton and Matte
Howe visited Mis- Hattie Moore, at
Spears, last week.
Miss Rosa Ashbaugh, of Cincinnati, is
spending few days with Mrs. Morgan
Taylor, near Perkins.
Miss Hattie Northcutt, of French
burg, is visiting her brother, DIR. Elmer
Northcutt and family.
VIM. I.edlord went to Winchester
Saturday to consult DIR. Brown in regard
to his failing health.
Miss Clara Roy, of Indianapolis, Ind,
is spending few days with the family
of her brother, G. A. Roy.
Misses Kate Clark and Mayme Lynch,
of Lexington, visited the family of Sid
Taylor, at Million, last week.
The wife of Captain F. NJ. Spurlock,
of Catlettsbnrg, was called to the bed
| Si6a of kar Siol- rroDd Jou,xLio. - I;..1o
child of Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Owens, at
Ford. last week. After spending a few
days there, she visited the family of q
A. Roy and ether relatives here.
sALMAGUNDA.
Born, to the wife of bud" Jenkins,
{ August 7, boy.
J. A. Young, road overseer, is putting
, the roads in fine condition.
Rev. Mr.. Cheek is holding protracted
meeting at Bethel Christian church.
Mr.. King caught two catfish Saturday
that weighed forty-five pounds piece
Rev. o. ]. Young is holding an inter
esting revival at Antioch Christian
church, on Tates Greek.
The Southern Lumber Co. has bought
f of Wharton, Roberts and Day all their
lumber on the Wharton yard.
O. T. Soper, whose saw mill has been
idle for some time will begin operation
Wednesday, giving employment to fifty
men.
: IL. NJ. Morgan and Morgan Taylor are
in Clay county buying cattle. They re.
: Gently bought 100 head of parties in that
county.
In our spiritual depravity, Rev. Mr.
Miller found us when he began a serie,
Of meetings here last Friday night. Mr.
Miller is forcible and attractive talkel
and the people who listen to words o
wisdom as they fall from his lips cal
not help but be edited and forced by
power divine to say Of themselves:
"A pilgrim painting for the rest to come
The exile anxious for his native home
The meeting will continue severa
days and those who fail to hear Mr.
Miller will miss feast for their soul anC
0 an awakening to tleir duty to God.
One day last week Leuis Biggerstaf
went to J. ]. Embry's after fine hog
= and after putting the hog in his bugg,
and starting home he had occasion I,
stop in the road, wien the hog becam,
tired of his cramped position in tn,
buggy and began terrible squealing
u which scared the horse Louis was driv
ing and caused it to run of, smashin,
; the buggy into smithereens and KILN,
the hog which Louis priced 30 highly
u Louis, who is only fifteen years old, re
l grets the loss of his hog, and when tn,
b: subject is mentioned heaven-movin,
tears course down his boyish face.
= Last Sunday evening our ball team
f the Bung Holes, played an aggregation
q composed OF players from Logana an,
Nicholasville. Figuratively speaking
G they opposed team in which every on
o WAS star, picked from the milky wa,
= of the sidereal system of base bal
! The game was lost by the Bung Hole
on account of them sending the small
Opaque sphere through the air and as
!. wandered through the interstellar spac
v and began to descend toward terra firm,
q the galaxy of bright stars that had beer
, picked from the baldric ways of the bas
ball system completely hid the ball from
; view as she whizzed from star to sta
q that overshadowed the luminous Quail
@ ties of our boys, who met defeat bravely
e A joke worth relating is told an,
e vouched for on Mr.. Woodson Masters
n who seeing an advertisement of a ms
d chine for killing potato bugs, orders
one, and it came to hand ., K. 1t wa
an innocent looking continuance, cor
sisting of two small paddles, which wer
: numbered ''one' and "two." When II
n started toward bis potato patch, wit
d vengeance in his heart and a smile {
ghoulish glee in his counienance, he fe
y that perfection could be possible in
n world like this. On reaching the plac
3, for bloodshed and placing his ugly col
r trivance ~ on the grounds. he prt
k ceeded to read the directions for doin
n the deadly work, which was: "Tak
IS paddle No. two, place the bug thereon
IS and after an sx10 smile has encircle
y your face in spiral form and centered i
&, your chin. take paddle No. one, an
i swoop down on the bug, which wi
e cause death to epsue at once
vt JAY ELL Ess.
Ie The mercury at ST. Joseph, No
It climbed to the 100 mark.