The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1910-07-28

crops, and there is very kltls dairying
truca farming. and fruit nS6NIng car
ried on as speciality. We have $50
miles of turnpike road in the county,
all OF which can be travelled free OF
toll. With rate of taxation for
their maintenance OF about twenty
five cents on the hundred dollars worth
OF property The other public roads
of th, county belong 90 the general
statutory system Of roads and are well
kept. The Louisville and Nashville
railroad, Kentucky Central DiVi-
sion." crosses the county, covering a
distance of fourteen miles. There are
no uncompleted roads in the county
and none at present proposed. Drip
ping Springs is the only health resort
in the county. The wat er is Sulphur
and magnesia, and is very line for
stomach, kidney and liver tronbies.
There is sulphur well at Lowell and
one at Gainesville and either could be
made health resort
The average price Of farm lands. I'M
proved and unimproved, is about SO =
90 per acre. The labor employed is
native and the average price per day
is 81 90, and hard to get.
The County seat is Lancaster, wi h
a population of about $500. laid off III
a perfect square, extending one half
mile in each direction from the center
of the public square. 1t is fifth
class city. The business houses are
nearly all new and modern in their ar
chitecture. beautiful in design. and
are large and comfortable. Many Of
the residences are handsome, connie
diouS and elegant in design and finish,
and few cities have more shade trees
which are properly located for shad
ing the houses and streets In the heat
ed term. The public schools of the
county are liz good condition. with
wide awake teachers. trustees and
county superintendent. They are not
to any great extent supplemented by
local taxation. We have a bonded in
debtednesS of $4,000 fer county and
$40, 600 for the city, and the rate of
taxation for county purposes incluc-
ing the turnpike tax will be about
fifty cents on the one hundred dollars
worth of property, for city. seventy
five cts.
In 1903 Lancaster completed its
water works system. the supply being
furnished by an artificial lake one and
one-f0urth miles from the city. There
is plenty or water for all purposes and
1t lasts through the summer drouths.
We have six churches and a fine
graded school in the city.
Hon. Louis Y. Leavell, a prominent
member of the Legislature at its
Long Session died i'm July 1907.
leaving to the graded schools, an en-
dowment fund of about $50, 900. The
income on this fund with district tax
alton supplemented by state aid, has
made this one of the best graded
schools in the state and it will only be
question IF short time until we
Will have fiue new school building.
Garrard county is in the Eighth Con-
gressilnal, fifth appellate. Tnirteent h
Judicial. Eighteenth Senatorial and
Sixty-seveuth Legislative Districts.
PoSt-offices in the county are Lam
caster, Paint Lick, Bryantsville, Buena
Vista. Gainesville. Buckeye, Flat
Woods, Hammock, Judson, Marcellus,
Nina. Stone. Teate,sville, McCreary,
HyattSville. Lowell. Bourne and rural
routes, taking in the residences and
business houses in large part of the
county.
Lancaster has recently ,ructed
several new tobacco Warehouses. a
new flour mill, and now has two of the
best fl pur mills that Can be found any
where, creamery, laundry, plan-
ing mill, large Hotel, new mod.
ern up-to-date Sanitorium and all are
doing well. A canning factory, an
automobile garage. wholesale gro
Gerry. bOttling works or any Kind of a
factory would do well here and the
prospects are. that our town Will grow
very much in the next few years as
the new graded school has been bring
ing people into town every year and
the prospects are that when the new
school building is compile ed and the
grounds are improved i'm many other
ways, that more people will move TO
our town to get the benefit of our
school. A new street has just been
opened up and probably forty new
houses will be constructed in the next
few months. The people of Garrard
County invite all good people to come
here and live and we can promise
the stranger that if he should come
and live among these good people of
Garrard County, that his days would
be happy ones and he would enjoy the
cJmpaniOnsbip of good citizens and
loyal women.