The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1907-03-30
CORKERS AND TWISTERS,
By. Mrs. O'Houlihan.

whether the anlmOSlt1eS engendered
by class prejudice towards some of
those connected with the glass fac
tory, and seemingly fostered by the
legal luminaries of the city and coun-
ty, may not, in the end, have the eff
feet of driving from Frankfort the
very industries towards whose es-
Enlistment so much money, time and
labor have been given. There con-
nected with the glass factory and
other factories that may be estab-
lished should be treated exactly as
other citizens, with the same rights.
privileges and courtesies as other
citizens, and not as objects towards
which the special prejudices of the
labor have been given. Those con-
should be allowed display.
An important suit, it is said, will
be filled in the Franklin Circuit
Court against the city of Frankfort
| by William Skies, in which damages
in the sum of $4,000 are claimed.
1t is alleged in the petition that the
said Bill Skies was passing down ST.
Clair street, barefooted, when one Of
his feet laid itself upon lighted
cigarette, that had been carelessly
thrown upon the pavement, thereby
causing him to leap high in the air
and come violently down upon the
curbstone, thereby causing him to
break a suspender button and to
bruise his right toe, producing great
disturbance and anxiety of mind, and
inflicting much bodily harm. The skin
of the toe was SO seriously bruised
that he has done little work since and
his physicians say there is posi-
bility of blood poisoning, locomoter
ataxia, cerebro spinal meningitis
Bright's disease, or other dangerous
complications. He further says his
suspender button was of peculiar
make, and can not be satisfactorily
replaced. Ketchem & Pullem are the
lawyers in the case.
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| Much credit is due to the manager
of the Frankfort street car line, Col.
J. D. Sallee, for the establishment,
and almost uniform observance, Of a
timetable schedule for the running
of cars. not only great con-
veniene kveling public, but
is profitable to the company. Under
the former management cars were
likely to be found anywhere, or no.
where, at any time. If citizen
knows when car will pass a given
point, with reasonable certainty, he
will wait for it. But if its appear
ance is matter of guesswork, he will
not wait minute, and the fare is
lost. So he will arrange to take the
car for a given point if he knows
the minute it will ""go by" for that
point.
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| The ground hog came trotting to
the front last week, and the weather
prophets and the almanacs had to
hunt their holes.
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| Mercury is said to freeze solid in
the thermometer at temperature be-
low zero of 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
In the arctic religions spirit thermome-
ter alone can be used.
| Daniel Boone was a great philoso-
pher, as well as a cunning strategist.
When captured by the Indians he
accepted the situation with appar-
ent cheerfulness, and made himself
useful to his captors. Although able
to knock the center spot out of a
target with his rifle, he would general
ly miss far enough to let some of the
best Indian shots beat him. This
tickled their vanity, and they gave
him more privileges; and he made