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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02
The Telephone.

The work now being done in Lou
lisa very naturally makes our cid-
zens think of the uses Of the tele-
phone and the many changes and Inn
proVements which have been made
in its construction and mode Of op-
Grafton since the first "hello'rang
over the wires. John Vaughan in
the September Scribner speaks in
this interesting fashion of what
Central does:
To-day instead OF turning crank
TO get "Central's" attention
you simply put the receiver to your
ear. Lifting the receiver off the
hook lights a tiny electric lamp in
the exchange
The light goes out when the
switch board operator thrusts into
your lines answering jack a metal
plug, the zig Of the answering cord,
one OF a pair Of thread covered wire
cords associated with your line.
The calling cords tip, plugged in
10 the multiple jack OF the number
you give to Central" lights anoth-
er small lamp. termed supervis-
ory lamp. Pressing key rings the
bell of the given number that Is,
Of the subscriber with whom you
desire to talk.
When he takes up his receiver his
supervisory lamp goes out Henoe,
there is no lamp alight while the
conversation is in progress. The ~
turn Of your receiver To its hook
lights yo6g supervisory lump. When
the other subscriber hangs up his
receiver his supervisory lamp lights
agnin.
Both lamps agl1w apprise the op
orator that the conversation is clos
ed. She pulls the cords out of the
jacks disconnacting the lines.
Not word of your conversation
has been heard, not second o.
time has been wasted. What
change from the telephoning of pio
neer days-the days of Edison's bat
terry. crank ringing, helloing 70
Central" had Language and tn,
twenty mile limit
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02
McCreary and Beckham.

When all sides OF the Senatorial
race In Kentucky and the political
situation In general are considered
II is difficult 20 see why any Demo
crat who is not under personal OBJ
legation To Mr.. Beckham should vote
fOr him In the primary neNt Tues
day. On account OF the complica-
tions into which Gov. Beckham has
become involved during his admins
traion there can be doubt that he
will prove 10 be weaker candidate
before the whole people when the
facts are fully known than is Sena-
TOR McCreary, With Beckham out
OF the way, all machine talk and
charges are at an end Whatever
there may be In the nature OF a
machine" will thereby be destroy
ed Percy Haley will no longer be
in authority Through the influ-
ence OF Hager, Percy has already
been dethroned, so far as the State
Committee is concerned lie should
never have reached the position he
once attained in the management OF
affairs He has not the right kind
OF a reputation. Yet he is Beck
hams closest adviser and was APP
pointed by the Governor as one Of
the three members OF the State
Board Of Control This Board Is
one Of the most important in the
State because IL has control OF the
hundreds OF the thousands Of dollars
spen, annually In buying supplies
for the State prisons, Feeble mind.
ed Institute. asylums. etc, None
but the best men should be put ia
such position.
In Louisville the temperance peo.
pie are now very much in doubt a,
to the Governors sincerity in theil
behalf and thousands OF them hav,
decided that he has been playing
them for their votes Some OF N,
ministers are oulspoken against hin
because OF this condition.
I So 1t looks like bad politics Il
choose him in preference 10 a mar
who has a clean record aud is fle,
from these handicaps
I Senator MeCreary is credit u
his State lie is decent morull,
and politically, and naught can b,
hfully said against him. Hi
services have been earnestly AM
honestly rendered lie attends strict
ly To business and looks closely 81
ter the interest OF his constituency
Every citizen OF the State who write
him or visits him receives prompt at
tenilon There is absolutely n,
complaint Ia file against him and I
would be wrong TO turn him out
One more term Is doubtless all ha
be wants or would accept Ken
lucky should do the wise thing an,
give Il 70 him.
\ Partisan Democra
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02
HIcKsvILLE

Corn gathering is all the go here.
w. NJ. Holbrook has returned from
business trip TO Pike county.
A large number Of people from this
place went to Webbville last Thurs.
day to hear the eloquent speech
made by Mr.. Kehoe.
Misses Cussie and Ranvillia Hill
brook and Maude Roberts were vis-
iting Miss Hester Holbrook last
Sunday.
Our little town is rapidly coming
to the front. We now have gem
eral store post office, blacksmith
shop, steam grist mill. and photo
graphic studio. all of which are own
ed and managed by Al Hicks. "Al"
is a deserving young men and we
wish him success.
Grover Hicks attended church at
Daniels creek last Sunday.
j. X. Woods was here this week
buying hogs
VIM. Holbrook was visiting rela-
lives at Webvllle last Saturday and
Sunday.
jeff Burton, of olioville, was here
this week
Miss Maude Roberts has resigned
her position as school teacher here
TO teach better paying school on
Dry fork
Bro, Daniels will preach here next
Sunday. Let everybody come out.
Mulberry.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02
GALLUP

Born, to F. c. Mcclure and wife
on the 7th a bouncing boy.
7. S. Mcclure and wife from Mar
tin county. were visiting their par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. C. Mcclure.
last week
Don Belcher made a trip to Peach
Orchard Friday.
Miss Patsy shannon is visiting
relatives at Whitehouse this week
Miss Addle Gilkerson attended
church at Needmore Sunday.
Thomas Hale spent Sunday with
home folks.
Mrs. G. C, Mcclure has returned
from a visit to her daughter at
Paintsvllle.
L. T. Mcclure. of Delaware, o..
arrived Monday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. r. Summons and
Master Frederick, from Pitisburg,
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs, S. Y. Dob
bins.
J. H. Mcclure is making prepara-
tions for corn
G. r, Brown was visiting John H.
Mcclure Sunday
A. S. GIlkerson shipped several
barrels of apples to Louisa and Ash
land Tuesday.
Mrs Emma and Martha Burgess,
Of lise, We're shopping here last week.
/ G. W. Shivel and A. Hannah We're
visitors at Harry McClure's Sunday.
Mrs. ]. J. Mcclure, OF Chapman. was
shopping here Tuesday Pansy.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02

The mere fact that great many
people have been in the habit of us
ing a railroad trestle us a footbridge
and that the railroad company had
made no complaint, says the Court
OF Appeals OF Kentucky, does not
give the people any special rights
on the bridge or compel the rail-
road company to exercise special
degree Of care for their safety
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02

The society editress of the NEWS.
ever on the watch for everything
new in the rcalms of fashion,
learns that at a recent High links
affair certain young ladies added
zest and beauty to the occasion IS
flutterers" whnt she wants to know
is, what Is "flurterer9" Don't
everybody in Catlettsbure answer at
once.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02

The friends Of DR.. and Mrs. J. r.
Reynolds. OF Mt. Sterling, will be
giad 70 hoar u I their son Frank
Inns injuries n eived from the kick
Of pony are lot 50 serious as was
first reported
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02

Rowland Spencer, Of Kise station,
and W. d. Short, of Louisa, were the
guests of DR., w. T. Atkinson, Wednes.
day for dinner, at Paiutsville. Mr..
Spencer is in the merchandise bus
mess at Kise, while Mr., Short is in
the hickory handle business at Lou
isa
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02

Sunday School is progressing nice
ly w. d. See supt Also our school
is flourishlng Mr.. Peters teacher.
A large crowd attended meeting
at Summit Sunday night report a
fine sermon by Bro. Low
Miss Myrtle oBrien was here Tues
day evening
Jennie See is on the sick list.
Mrs. B. ], Galloway and children,
Virginia and Johnston, and Miss
Jennie wenman left Saturday via.
n. and w. for Thacker 70 spend the
winter
Chiley Peters,of Hoot Owl branch
visited S ella A Wallman Sunday
Messrs. Fred and Robt Peters call
ed on friends here Saturday night
Miss K'zzie See who has been a.
tending school in Ashland. visited
home folks Saturday and Sunday.
John Sammons, of Summit. passed
through here sunday en- route to
Lick creek
Fred Sammons. Of Point City b
seen In our community often.
Rumcr says wedding is golng
81 lSe place soon sweetheArts
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02

Stock at large in this city is too
common an occurrence TO be accident )
al A citizen asks the NEWS to IN
Quire who collects the pasturageg
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02
Recital.

Miss Kate Freese, soloist, and Miss
Mae Stafford. reader, teachers in
the X Kntucky Normal College, will
give a recital at the Opera House,
Friday, Nov 3, 1906, at eight p. m.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02

The vmcter of Lockhaven and
Louif minister went duck hunting
Wed esday. but the ducks never
heard Of It.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02
Got a Deserved Pounding.

When people so conduct themselves
that in the opinion Of the public
nothing viii do them 50 much good
as real pounding, they ought ,n
get IT, So last Friday night de-
monslrauve crowd, armed and equip
ped as the law directs, repaired 10
the residence of Rev O f. Williams
and gave him and his wife jusi what
they deserved Pounds OF coffee
pounds OF sugar. pounds OF butter,
pounds cf everything to eat and 10
usa Tables We're loaded. chairs pill
ed up. and rooms strewn with all
that would comfort and delight the
inner man. Thus practically and con
cretely did the minister's flock show
their tangible appreciation OF their
worthy shepherd To change the
figure, they believed the laborer
worthy Of more than his hire, and a
well filled larier Is the result
An unlucky accident occurred at
Round Bottom Monday when Lee
Cyrus and John Large two promi-
nent citizens became involved. il
seems that the two men were exam
lnine an old army gun belonging u
the fm'r when a load which had
be n left in the gun went off, sirik
ing Mr. Cyrus and mflict.ng deer
flesh wound
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02

Judge w, o. B. Ratcliffe, Of Pike
vile, has gone TO French Lick
Springs.
Mrs Tempt Radcliffe, of Island,
creek, one of Pike county's Oldest
and most esteemed citizens, died
Saturday night at the age of 81 yrs.
James Bailey, U. s. Minister 10
Guatemala, passed through Paints
vile last week en- route to Salyers-
vile, where he will visit his parents
for few days. He hasn't been home
for nearly three years.
T. S. Mcclure, the timber mer-
chant, Of Mcclure, his wife and lit
tie daughter are visiting their sis
ter, Mrs. W. Atkinson, at Paints
Vile. They were accompanied by
Mr. McC.ure's mother, Mrs. G. c.
Mcclure, Of Gallup.
Big Sandy has anoUher author. This
tine the field of music is the domain
enriched. and the author lives in
Plkeville The book is THE Begin
ner," or the First Steps in Piano
Music. but Miss Alice o Robertson,
published by w. A. Willis and Co.,
Cincinnati, and Chicago, and is we'll
spoken Of.
Judge A. ]. Kirk called special
term of the Pike Circuit Court, for
the purpose OF trials of common law
and equity cases, to convene on
November 10Th; and by unanimous
vote Of the bar, Judge J W. NJ. Stew
art, Of Ashland was selected a:
special Judge and request made
to the Governor for his appointment
The term is to last three weeks.
James Blanton and Dan Welsh
were arrested last Thursday for
breaking into the c. and o. ware
house at Paintsvilie the 22nd day
of last September They were ar.
rested on Whitehouse creek by
Deputy Sheriff Curtis Ford He a.
so arrested John Castle for disturb,
ing public worship. Castle gave
bond in the sum Of 800 Blantor
and Welsh We're lodged in Jail.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02

II Is announced at the Post Of
tice Department that hereafter the
delivery of mail by rural carrier viii
be permitted to persons residing not
less than one-quarter of a mile from
p'st- fflces at uninc lrporlted towns
or villages, provided such persons
viii erect boxes ON rural routes
Luther Damron, who was the fore
man Of the water-pipe gang when the
Lovlsa waterworks were in process
OF construction, was here several
days recently He has a good posi-
tion In the street car service in
Pltisburg and visited his Louisa
friends while on vacation.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02

Judge W. o. B. Ratcliffe, Of Pike
willie, has gone TO French Lick
Springs.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02

At nine o'clock this morning a
pretty wedding took place at the
Hotel Florence The contracting
parties were w. l.. Cordle, and Core
b riders. both now residing in Ohio
but formerly OF Lawrence county
Ky. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. z. Meek.-Catlettshurg Tn-
bune.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02

Mrs. Tempt Ratcliffe, of Island,
creek, one Of Pike county's oldest
and most esteemed citizens, died
Saturday night at the age of 81 yrs.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02

A l,cal plpsr says few trees have
lost thelr leaves. The frost being just
ssvera en- ush q color them nicely 4"
The frost has little to do with the
cslorlng OF leaves The eoloring is
the result OF the natural process
of the death of the leaf, depending
much upon the heat aud moisture
or the cold and dryness of the at
IN sph re. In Countries where frost
is seldom or never seen the decid-
uous leaves showing in the fall most
b sautiful shades Of cllor.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1906-11-02
PERT PARAGRAPHS
Picked Up At Pike, Paint and
PrestOnsburg.

Typhoid fever is prevalent in and
around Hager Hill.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-03-02
MAN AND THE MIcRoRE,

The expert who finds so many dead
ly things in so many different kinds OF
foods is rendering, doubtless, a very
valuable service to his fellow man.
Yet in no spirit of disparagement, but
merely by the way of the most casual
suggestion, it may be submitted that
the doctors often bring on diseases.
The analyst who ''trembles when he
approaches the breakfast table" may
be helping the inevitable microbe to
fasten in his system. The healthiest
and longest-lived mortals that ever
existed went on their unsophisticated
way with the most shocking ignorance
of the proximity of the microbe
To the lay mind it is sometimes
matter of wonder what effect the
thing that kills the microbe must
eventually have ON the man.-Boston
Globe.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-03-02
WATER VALLEY.
oooeoosoooeseoeoooosssesOs

WATER VALLEY, Tenn, Feb. 81
The subject of Bro. Blackwood's dis
course at Goshen on Sunday morning
was "Christ's Mission on Earth" He
delivered a soul-stirring sermon to an
attentive congregation.
Misses Annie Louise and Lillian
Kinzer are the guests of friends in
Nashville.
Miss Emma Gardner has returned
from a pleasant visit to relatives on
Carriers Creek.
Grover Oakley, of Franklin, is with
his relatives near here.
The many friends of Mr.. VIM. Ladd
will be sorry to learn that there is no
improvement in his condition.
Mrs. Thomas Johnson, of Turkey
Greek, has been quite sick for several
days, but is better.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Pope visited il
Williamson county last week.
Miss Bessie Evans is attending
school at Centerville, Hickman county.
Joe Hutchinson left Tuesday for
Texas to make his home.
Little Roy Montgomery, who has
been quite sick, is slowly improving
Quite a number of the Valley people
have been sick with colds and the
grip.
Miss Sallie Hutchinson was the
guest of friends at Santa Fe last week.
Mrs Roxie Church, Of Santa Fe,
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Park
johnson last week.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wakefield and little
daughter, Gladys, of Bethel, visited
"Orestra's" home last week.
Mrs. Fannie Mai Anderson is in very
bad health. She is now with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Dodson.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-03-02
SOCIAL.

Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Friersou, Jr.,
entertained very pleasantly a small
party Monday evening in honor OF
Miss Alabama King, of Birmingham,
Ala. the attractive guest of Mrs. John
Ruhm. il. The house was prettily
decorated in gift boquets of yellow
jonquils, and color scheme of green
and pink was carried out in the de-
lightful course of refreshments. Whist
was played at three tables. The lauies
prize was very handsome tiffany
glass vase with beauty face medal.
hon ornamented in gold, and the gen.
tleman's prize was handsome clothes
brush trimmed in silver and mounted
on horn. Those present were: Miss
King. the Misses Slitzell Miss Mary
Dale Craige. Mrs. Jno. RUBIN, Jr.,
DIs. Kittrel and McFerrin, Messrs.
Ravenel, Fetter. Williamson, Daniels
and Fl. d. Ruhm. DR.. Kittrell kept
score. Miss King will be the honoree
of several other socIal.tunctions while
here.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-03-02
LOCALS.

The large brick smoke stack for the
Mt. Pleasant Fertilizer factory is go
ing up quit fast. 1t will be 100 feet
high and is six feet in diameter In
side. Nearly all the frame work is up
now for both the factory and the en-.
CINE room, and from forty to sixty
hands are at work every day and an
effort will be made to have everything
in operation for the next season.
1t is reported that the L. & N. has
condescended to give the same rate
from here south on fertilizer that the
Nashville factories get. We don't
understand why they do not give bet
ter rates, but most likely they are on
to their job.
The different phosphate companies
who were burned out in December
have now moved back to their newly
repaired Offices.
Master Slaughter Lyon is not so
well and his case is thought to be
quite serious.
Master John Stephenson Frierson,
Ill, has recovered from what was
thought to be quite a severe case of
whooping cougKT-
Col. Q. H. Whitney, president of the
Putnam Fertilizer Co., was in the
city Tuesday and Wednesday. Col
Whitney, like every observing new.
conner. was most agreeably surprised
at the immense amount of business
being quietly carried on in the MT.
Pleasant phosphate field and, instead of
finding, as he expected, few hundred
cheaply constru cted huts, a really
decent city, did not hesitate to
freely compliment its push and en-
terprise and ItsDeauty.
|. Mr.. Geo, +. Scruggs has returned
from ten days trip to the markets,
in the interest of his firm.
:. Miss Irms Weleh will be with
George Bros. again this year and is to
arrive about March 18th. She Will be
assisted in their millinery department
by Misses Lille and Mamie. Johnson.
Mrs. Nellie Akin and Miss Kirk
patrick of Nashville. who come next
Monday.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-03-02
"sTAR-sPANcLED BANNER"

On September 10, 1914, during our
second war with England, a young
Baltimore lawyer, Francis Scott Key
made his way to the British admiral's
ship in Chesapeake bay, in the hope OF
obtaining the release of a friend, DIR.
William Beanes, of Upper Marlbor-
ough, Md, who had been captured by
the enemy and was then held prisoner
by the admiral, presumably to be ulti-
mately carried off.
The admiral yielded to the lawyers
appeal; but, as a combined attack by
land and sea was to be made that very
night upon Fort McHenry, he stipu-
lated that neither he nor the doctor
hould leave the ship until the fort was
reduced.
1t was during the suspense of that
terrible night, and while pacing the
deck of the English ship, which show
cred shot and shell on his beloved
home, that Francis Scott Key com
posed the now famous poem. 1t was
subsequently sung to the music Of
then well known English tune, ITO
Anachreon in Heaven" and has re-
tanned it to this day.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-03-02
EXAMPLE OF ovERcoNFIDENcE.

Gen. Pleasant Porter, an Indian
chief, desires to enter the senate, says
the Kansas City Journal.
But l am by no means overcon-
fident in the matter" said the chief
in an interview. Il know that if |
get the election I'll have to work hard
for it. Overconfidence causes lazi-
ness, defeat, humiliation.
my ancestors who came from Nor
ristown, sometimes illustrated the evil
of overconfidence with an antecdote
of Norristown man.
This man was talking to a beauti-
full young lady, an heiress, at a ball
Yes she was saying, when l don't
wish to accept mans attentions, and
he asks me where live, l say in the
suburbs.
Ha! Ha! Excellent he said. But
where do you live, Miss South?'
In the suburbs, Mr.. JONES' she
answered"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-03-02
KILLING AT
ARROW MINES.

A deplorsble killing took place Tues
day afternoon out at the Arrow mines
about two miles south of this place at
about noon. when ]. W. Kitchen. a
foreman, killed with a pick handle, a
laboIer by the name of Z. L. Weber.
Details of the real cause of the killing
are meagre. but a summing up of what
has been heard is, that Weber
had for some time, until this week,
been working under Kitchen and that
at the time of the killing Weber YVES
complaining that Kitchen had not
treated him right, and that be was in
the act of taking vengeance with an
open knife when Kitchen used a pick
handle on the head. causing the Death
OF Weber two or three hours there
after. Both were white men. Weber
leaves wife and a number of small
'nildren.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-03-02
ABSENT MINDED.

Capt. Alexander Hutchins, of Ellis
worth, Me-, although a sea captain
of ability, has always been noted for
absent mindedness. On one occasion
while at home between trips, he de-
cided to have a spare chamber in his
house lathed and plastered. Being
somewhat of carpenter, he under
took this part of it himself and labor
ed at it industriously for a day or
two.
1t was finally lathed according to
his ideas, and as he drove the last
nail and surveyed his work, not wlLn-
out pride, he called his wife to see
what a good job he had done.
She climbed the stairs and then
paused, somewhat perlexed, and, af-
ter looking in vain for an entrance,
said: why. Alec, where's the door,"
by thunder!" exclaimed the cap
tain, in amazement. Il forgot all
about it." He had actually lathed
himself into the room.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-03-02
JORDANS ARE LOCATED.
Son Had Testified He Didn't Know If
Father Was Alive.

LITTLE ROCK, Feb. 26.-It was
learned today that Thomas d. Jordan,
former Comptroller of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society, who was want
ed during the recent insurance inves-
tigation in New York to testify con-
corning the so-called yellow dog"
fund, is at present stopping at one of
the leading hotels in Hot Springs, Ark.
Mr.. Jordan is there with his wife, He
did not care to make any statement
concerning his absence from New
York His wife said:
81 am sorry we have been found
here. 1t will cause too much needless
publicity"
Asked concerning the testimony of
her son before the Armstrong Commits
sion to the effect that he did not know
whether his father was alive or dead,
she said that the statement was true,
that the young man did not know any
thing about his father.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-03-02
DIRECTORS OF COM
MERCIAL CLUB MEET.

The directors of the Mt. Pleasant
Commercial Club met in the Ingra m
offices Tuesdayssat eleven O'Clock and
organized, electlng J. E. Anderson.
President, H. D Ruhm, Se1retaryE
W. D. Shofner. Treasurer of the board.
H. D Ruhm and E. L. Gregory were
appointed committee on BYLAWS,
and will prepare and present for adop
tion bylaws. W. D. ShofneI and F.
s. Wheeler were appointed to select
and present for consideration at a
mass meeting five additinal members
of the board of directors. On motion
the meeting adjourned to meet
Wednesday in the Ingram offices at
II O'Clock a. m.