Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-08-10
Flat Creek.

at about S. cwt.
Preaching at Fassett's last Sun
day by Elder Parker.
Owings Lane bought some corn
from j. W. Fassett at 81 per Dbl.
C. W. MARYLAND is the champion
hay stacker in this part Of Bath.
Miss Emma Lane began her
fourth term Of school here Monday.
Tom Crockett is improving rap
idly, after a severe spell of sick
ness.
S. S. Eslill sold COW to A. Rhode
for $40 and 5 hogs to Sid Hart at
So. so cwt.
Miss Mary Snedegar, of White
Oak, after a pleasant visit on the
creek, returned home.
1t costs more for dull merchant
to dust off his goods than it does
to advertise and sell them.
1t is more blessed to give than to
receive, but the majority of us
know it merely from hearsay.
There is no such thing as an old
newspaper the oldest in print con-
tains something you haven't read.
J. NJ. Vice pulled a wagon-load
of onions off of an onion bed 6x3O
#. which he had been using out of
all summer.
The item We read in Odessa last
week regarding the kitten in the
hen egg is enough to alarm super
stitious readers.
Apples, pears and home grown
watermelons are on the market, and
it makes no difference who whips
in the Philippines.
Hurrah for Bascom Jacobs! He
has a new buggy and wears a
notched collar and a patriotic neck
tie. Oh, such a swell!
Is your eyesight bad? Reading
newspapers upon which the sub
scription has not been paid is said
to be hard on the eyes.
Clothes don't make the man, and
the season of the year is at hand
when he casts just as many of
them aside as the law permits.
Here is an unwritten command
ment which has been adopted by
all political bosses and corruption
lists: "Thou shalt not get caught"
I-Goebel.
We pity Mr.. Sore-head who
stopped his paper some months ago
and now has the audacity to con-
tinually hang around the postofiice
to read the Items.
Mrs. Sarah Hamilton bought
horse and phaeton, harness included,
from her sister Mrs. j. W. Mcgowan
for $500 and presented same to her
daughter, Miss Fannie Hamilton.
If Knob Lick will continue his
long columns of bimetalism and So
cialistic doctrines each week in the
future as he has in the past four
years no doubt but what the Unit
ed States will go populistic in 1900.
Probably before we write The
OUTLOOK again We will have at
tended the great Reunion Camp
meeting and the Lexington races,
and if we can keep anything IN our
head and do not see too much we
may give the readers of The OUT
LOOK a brief account of the trip.
While passing up Salt Lick a
few days ago near the Bath Co. line
we found some very bad roads-al-
most impossible, and the people
informed us they had no overseer.
We think it is the County Judges
place to appoint one and see that
they are worked. Good roads are
to county what railroads are to a
State. They develop the country
adjacent to them just as railroads
build up towns and cities. Good
roads are indispensable to success
full agriculture. They appreciate
land values, increase rents, encour-
age investment, while their saving
to the people who traverse them is
manifold in vehicles, harness, stock,
time, etc.
A neighbours calf that had bro
ken into a field of growing clover
filed himself with succulent herb
age in a greedy sort of way-and
as a result, became much bloated.
And the Calls master, not being
familiar with the effects of green
clover on calves. was rejoiced at
the appearance of the animal and
remarked on the swift manner in
which it was gathering flesh, but
the calf, which was suffering more
or less distress in his interior, re-
marked in a disguised way: "No
wonder that master of mine is a |
rampant Populist; he doesn't seem
to know the difference between wind
and intrinsic value"
For lack of space, we left out
the lengthy item replying to Knob
Lick till some other time.-ED.
All persons owning, controlling,
operating or managing threshing
machines or steam-engines are re-
quired IN moving the same over
the public highways to lay down
planks not less than one foot wide.
three inches in thickness, and OF
sufficient length, on the floors of all
bridges and culverts situated on the
public highways while crossing the
same for the wheels of said thresh-
ing machines and engines to run on,
They are also required in moving
the same along the public highways
on meeting any person or horses,
mules or other animals, to shut off
steam and come to halt at dis
lance of one hundred yards from
the place on the highway where