Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-06-09
South Side.


By the death of Elder James
Nichols Menifee county loses one
of its best citizens.
Menifee county on May 14th vo-
ted local option for the whole coun-
ty by a majority of 30l votes.
Only mari ID men are permitted
to go to war from this vicinity
That is surely square deal.
James Greer and wife, after a
pleasant visit with their many
friends and relatives at Salt Lick,
returned home Monday.
Mrs. Douglas Smith, of Salt Lick,
has many friends who will be glad
to hear that she is visiting in Mont
gomery county, after a severe spell
Sof sickness.
Your scribe will be absent for q
few days. but his devil will stay ct
the phone and give him all Of the
news. Therefore will be able to
keep South Side prominent in the
public eye-of the pretty girl
Ireaders.
If SIMPSONS hair is full grown
isn't it about time that he was al
lowed to pull down the pillars Of
the temple of Havana on the Span
ish PhiIistines and get at the work
! of "Schleying" them with the jaw
bone of-weyler3
Let the Wyoming correspondent
remember that it was the "new wo-
man" we were discussing. The
old fashioned as-ths-Lord-intend-
ed-them- woman is too perfect for
proclamation by our pen. We have
no new women" here.
'Tis said that the reason why
"West End" catches more fish than
any one else is that he is such an
interesting talker that when any
one comes to mill the fish come out
Of the water and crawl up on the
bank to hear him converse with
thsm and thereby lose their liberty
1t takes two boys with coffee sacks
to get them when Ben grows elo-
\ quent.
y At the class of Prof Kimbrell'i
writing school at Lower Salt Lick
little Lydie Rogers received the first
prize for the greatest improvement
in penmanship; Mics Effie Willie
second; Robert Willie, prize for the
most head marks; Willis Hunt wa.
the victorious apple-eater, and
Simpson Karrick the monster pie
eater; v. C. Razor, Henry Crouch
and James Kendall, judges.
Menifee seems to be ahead OF
bath in regard to telephGnes rhey
have built one from Mt. Sterling to
Eel, SO miles. and are now at work
on one from Frenchburg to Owings-
vile. Menifee has subscribed more
than half the stock, and Bath has
done but little toward it. The Bath
citizens should subscribe literally,
as it will be a paying investment.
The Telephone Co. says that with
proper encouragement they will ex-
tend the line from Owingsville to
Yale by way of Salt Lick and White
, Sulphur. -.-- s-
PERsONAL.-Mrs. Smith called on
, Mrs. Brown across the roaG today.
Mrs. Jones called on Mrs. Smith
yesterday to return a ''sifter" of
meal and n drawin' Of coffee she
had borrowed some time ago. Miss
) Green is out in a new calico dress
this spring,-low-necked and short
skirt. Miss johnson bought ten
yards of ribbon and a pair Of curl
ing irons yesterday. Bill Tucker
has a new pair of pointed-t oed
shoes. "Unrle" Ned went to the
store yesterday and bought q new
rake. Sam Smith has just finished
planting corn. Crops looking well
here. We need more rain. This
correspondent doesn't intend to gel
left on reporting visits.
One Of the worst enemies to
American labor is not very fire..
quently discussed. 1t is the drInh
habit. Whether times are good q
bad, whether labor be idle or EN-.
, ployed, millions Of dollars Of wages
) are expended annually in the beer
halls and saloons. Many a poor,
weak fellow who is a slave to appe-
tite spends his money lavishly for
drink when his wife or mother at
home practices the most rigid econ
omy and then is not able to keep
the wolf from the door. II the wages
expended for drink in any single
year wet saved it would make an
enormous sum. The drink habit is
one of the curses of he American
wage-earner, as it is Of other classes.
MooNsHINE.