The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-07-01
WORK OF A MONTH
DONE IN PADUCAH
Few Fines, Big Sales, Many New
Buildings.
The Police Got In a Good Month 3
Work-Increase in All
Business.
PATIENTS AT THE HOSPITALS

The sale Of stamps in the local post
Office for June will be about the same as
in other months, $500 or more. The
money order business l. on the steady
increase, and when the reports are fin
ished Paducah will show her custom
airy increase in receipts.
Manager Joynes, Of the East Tenn
essee Telephone Company, thinks
that If telephone increase is any indi.
cation of increase in busIRrss, aud
he believes it is, Paduoah baking
wonderful strides His com Hny dur
ing the month just closed put in about
/ 100 new telephones in Paduoah. The
company is now doing . vast amount
Of work in the county, having many
crews out stringiDR wires and extend
ing new lines
The company yesterday received
another car load of cable, and will
string IL on South Sixth and over to
the southern extremity O. Eighth
street. The company is now string.
ing q new cable all the way to the I'LL
nois Central passenger depot IN the
southwestern part Of the city.
The FIRE department had but fifteen
runs for the month Of June, and none
Of the fires was serious, all losses be.
ing small While none Of the alarms
was false, the total losses for the month
OF June will be under e., 600.
June had an unusually large num-
Der OF marriage licenses, there beng
20 issued to white couples and nine
TO colored, while quite a number of
Paduoah people were married else
where, some at Cairo and some at
Metropolis
During the month OF June there
were 90 patients admitted to the ILL
nois Central hospital. At the ending
OF May, twenty-six patients were al
ready IN the hospital, and today there
are but 33. This is very light for the
summer months and the physicians
say the health generally is improving.
There were but twenty patients
in the city hospital during June and
several Of these were surgical cases
while others were there before.
Revenue Stamp Deputy Louis Be-
bout has completed his report for the
month Of June and it shows much bus
mess done.
His collections were o., 63s. &C, and
stamps were issued for $50 barrels OF
whiskey. This is "A good months
business.
The arrests made during June
amounted to 1888, more than for the
preceding month. They were divided
as follows: Drunk n; gaming, 2
drunk and disorderly, l3;esoaped from
asylum, dis rderly conduct, 13;
breach of he peace, "a breach Of ordi-
nance, 3O;. obtaining money under
false pretense, / vagrancy, /; mali
oious assault, pretty larceny, 8 i'm
morality, 8; malicious cutting, Il;
malicious shooting, /; malicious
wounding. 1; carrying concealed
weapons, .; grand laroeny,2 crazy,
/; suspect, 8; false swearing, Ii;
presenting pistol at another, j; for
gerry, /. Total, 1873.
About thirty building permits
were issued for the month just clos
cd, most of them, however, being
for small dwellings. About the most
expensive building of the lot is the
frame hotel built by Alderman
Charles Smith, on Myers street near
Farley Place, the cost being $4,000.
City Treasurer John Dorian hes
been a very busy man the past several
days and hiss collected for the month
of June in the neighborhood of s7l,-
900.
The tax payers began coming up in
large numbers the first of the week and
the biggest day was yesterday, when
| sis, 900 was collected. Colonel Dorian