Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1898-12-16
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Wheat has Stayed 80
The writer is "A school boy once more.
We intend to forget war" camp
life, " etc, for awhile at least.
The school at this place is progress
ing finely. The teachers are women
and well understand their business. |
There are about 100 10 attendance.
The students OF j. w. l. will render
some christmas Exercises &C the
college Friday evening, 23rd. a sup
per viii be given some time during
Christmas week In the interest OF the
Christian church. Due notice in my
next.
Theo Wesley, the popular druggist,
will leave this place and set up at
Charlottesville about the 10Th. G.. 3.
Durham will handle some drugs The
l.. .. has already been transferred To
the latter. DR.. j. II. Wesley IL now
i. NJ, but Mr.. Durham will attend to
IL.
Farmers are done gathering corn and
can now enjoy the holidays. The crop
OF 'as Is the best known In years.
Wheat outlook for lSg9 was never more
flattering. Some IL Or 20 hogsheads of
tobacco have been shipped to Louisville
lately by Casey farmers, averaging
from IS Ia $40.
There Is "A literary society, which
meets every Friday night here. The
subject for debate il, Resolved 1t Is
Better To Have Loved and Lost Than
To Have Never Loved at All. Aifirma-
tive, Miss Florence Christopher; mega
tive, Niles Cora Gooch. Society jokes,
Clarence Coleman. besides many other
interesting pieces.
The tve-year-old child OF John sta
ton was inferred in the Middleburg
Cemetery Tuesday. IL is not known
what caused it, death, IL having been
found Ia bed, stifT and cold In death 1t
l. singular fact, yet true, that the
three last interments that have taken
place at the cemetery, were small chill
dren, all three having been found dead
Ia bed.
Caseyi.cs have the siugle-tree fever
aud IL doesn't seem to ebb ia the least.
Mr.. Brakeman, OF Smiths Grove, KY,
the Inventor and patentce, has been 10
Casey for two months ard has sold
about 80 counties TO Casey citizens, one
man has y counties and he could make
big money by selling his territory,
much less make personal canvass OF
the territory.
Your correspondent, who resembles
a telephone pole much more than a rain
barrel, has at last been eciipsed and
made midget by the side Of Col. A. a.
Powell, advertising agent for Church
q Co. The colonel was In town one
day last week aud he surely was the
cause Of much comment. He stands {
feet, ~ inches in his sock feet and
weighs only 275 pounds. He is much
slenderer than myself.
Fred Gelatt and wife have moved 10
the residence on Race street recently
vacated by DIR. |. 5. Wesley. Mr.. G..
is young business man. being inter-
ested In the timber business. He came
here from Indianapolis. Mr.. G.. sur
rendered 800 per month job TO go TO
war To fight Spain. He was a private
in the 9th Indiana battery OF light
artillery aud went To Porto Rico. Mr..
Lou Holmes, formerly a merchant of
this place, but now connected with a
Louisville Stove Co., was In town last
week on business. Fred Durham will
attend State College. John Tucker. a
telegraph operator OF Dallas, Texas,
visited friends at this place the first of
the week. Miss Florence Wesley has
returned from visit To her brother,
DIR. |. S. Wesley, at Lancaster. Miss
May Daugherty, of Casey's Creek, is
visiting Miss Della Godbey. Misses
Florence Christopher aud Cora Gooch
will spend Christmas week at their re-
spective homes, Buena Vista and Som
erset. Mrs. Malissa McAninch, who
recently fell and broke her arm, is
slowly recovering. The populace of
Middleburg extend congratulations and
best wishes TO Rev. Capt. Green, OF
Georgetown, who married Miss Sue
Coleman, of Burgin, last Wednesday.
Cotton Cowherd, who has been visiting
Leo. Collinsworth, returned to his
home in Danville Saturday. Leo. G.
accompanied him. Mr.. T.. S. Wells and
wife have moved TO Southern Missouri
MIR. Wells is an eX-Federal soldier, a
prominent worker and member of the
NJ. +, church, good citizen and will
be greatly missed.
/ Or ApENTE CnT