The Stanford interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1911-1912, 1911-04-18
PREACHERSVILLE

Preachersyille is ON the retrograde
From a red-hot daily mail for over "a
years. a mail service our sensible cit.
isens we're wont TO brag about, we are
now like a ship-wrecked sailor, mar
ooned on n desert island In the midst
OF boundless sea, without char or
compass OF even a glimpse of pass.
ing sail. We now get our mail in this
burg like our parents did fifty years
ago. Anyone going to Crab Orchard is
asked TO fetch mine. when is
known he is likely 20 call at the nost.
office. Blue eyed Betsy may oft THINK
her love faithless or else forgetting,
when his seeming delinquency is ex-
planned by the trqant letter coming
in after having toStay week at
crab orchard. ,Abrand new school
ho,No here and,not enough young
ideas for sen The school here
was put with the Hobbs school last
week. after a conference at Stanford
Monday, between Supt. Garland Sing,
Teton, trustees Blankenship OF the
Preachersville school. and Cress, OF
the Hobbs school. and patrons oil the
Preachersville school residing in that
part of thedistrict which was former
~ known as the Whites Mill district
II seems that the patrons in.'the old
Original Whites Mill district were
promised a school I'm the event that
there we're ever enough pupils in said
district for a school A good many new
pupils have moved into the whites
Min district. while equally as many
have moved out OF the district here
Then there are twenty-five families
which have no children In the legal
school age. living here. Presiden,
Roosevelt still preachees race suicide
and could make out a capital text
from our predicament
The re.estabiishment of Whites mill
ar a separate district. the consolida-
ton OF the district here with the
Hobbs district. will give a sufficient
enrolment OF pupils 40 necessitate
the employment OF teacher holding
Q first class certificate. More than
twenty years since these two districts
were one. and We had some mighty
good schools.
Removal OF the schsol nom our VII
lage. Adjustment Of our post-office--
only one more good lick Is needed to
Kill our little village. eventually. Many
years ago wslnui Flat Was q promis-
ing place bat nov In oaiy q name,
Shall We meet q Ike rite
On TUESDAY last Mr., rhonss Luns-
nusi aud. 3 Miss rssssr~srss'rcxtprnts
drove over 20 Staniord-a were unit
ell In the holy bonds OF natrimony.
The knot was tied by Rev. J. II. Jones
at his residence. They were accom-
panird by Mr.. ana Mrs. VIM. Aker,
who are brother-inlaw and siser of
the bride. The groom is farmer and
son OF Mr. and Mrs. Il, 7. Lunsford
and is hustler when It comes TO
work. while has bride is a daughter ot
Mr.. and Mrs. 5. d. Carpenter. and rs
both handsome and talented and a
general favorite with All We wish
them we'll
The recent storm did considerable
damage TO the barn roofs OF Rev Thos
Owens and son. Alfred Owens. over
in the Canaan section of Garrard.
born, TO the wife OF Rev. J. r. Rob
erts. a fine 10y.
The attendance at the subscription
term of school taught by Miss Lissic
Tettus. was cut down the last OF the
week. on account OF more than half OF
the pupils being III with grip. colds
etc.
= Mrs, Isifred owens ~ao has been at
the Gibson Ssnatorium At Richmond.
.was brought home last weed. She un-
derwent a severe operation but It