The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-02-24
dies At
ROCKPOR7
Judge David J. Wilcox Pass
es Away.
Other Items Of Interesting News
Gathered by Don
Carlos"
rsn.c,al n The FRepublican.

Especial to The Republican,
Rockport, KY, Feb. 21.-Judge David
j. wilcox, aged rs years, died at the
home home of his daughter Mrs. John
G.. Williams on north Main Street,
Wednesday morning. The funeral oc-
CURED wednesday afternoon. Rev.
b. F.. Jenkins of Greensboro official
ing. Besides his wife he is survived
by a large number of relatives. The
remains were Inferred in the local
cemetery.
EXCITEMENT AT NORWICH.
Some excitement was created at
,Nfortwick, the new mining town ON
the Illinois Central, miles south OF
this city, last week, when unknown
parties posted notice warning the Ne
grnas to leave within three days or
suffer the consequences. The officials
of the company offered to protect
the negroes. and at last account they
.wlJre still there. No serious con-
flict is expected between the races.
UROHIN LOCKED UP.
A little year old street urchdn,
was placed in cell at the city jail
Tuesday for the atrocious crime of
fighting on the streets of this Etald
and conservative puritan village.
a A PLEASANT VISITOR.
Miss Euva Kimmel, popular young
lady of Ceralvo, spent several days IN
Rockport the guest of Miss Lena
Rsnder, the operator at the Cumber-
land exchange.
A MIDGET POST MASTER.
Billy Everly postmaster at island,
the metropolis of Mclean county, has
the unique distinction of not only be-
ing the smallest postmaster in the
United States, but the smallest Mas
ter Mason, Odd Fellow and Knight
Templar in the State of Kentucky. Mr.
EVERY IS 4S years old and unmarried
He lis feet high. weighs less than
a hundred pounds and is lively, energst
ic and intelligent. He has basn post
master at Island for number OF yeals
and was formally hgert for the Louis
willie & Nashville Railroad Company
ait that place. The distribution OF the
mail ds performed by the diminutve
postmaster from an elevated plat
foorm and his dexterlty in manipulat-
ing the letters would do credit 10 has
larger breathren. He Is ably assist
ed in the performance of his official
duties by Miss Dosia ShacAltt, q
pretty and winsome young lady OF
Island. Mr.. Everly is one of lsland's
most progressive and public spirited
citizens and numbers his friends by
the hundred. He lis enc of the most
!. popular post-masiers in Kentucky.
AN OHIO COUNTY GIRL.
Miss Ara E. Davidson WHO Was So
crstly manried to Percy SmaaLwood,
the champion Middle distance runner
of the world in Pittsburg, Pa. Jan.
18th. was an Ohio county girl and
formally lived at Fordsville, winere
her parents Mr.. and Mrs. J. Il. Daydd-
son noww reside. Mrs. S9ailwocd is
25 years old and quite pretty. 'she
has many friends in Ohio county
She was nurse at the Oity Hos
pital for two years, later going from
Louisville to Pitttsburg TO accert a
position as Superintendent OF the
Homestead Hospital in that city,
AN ANCIENT HERR DOM
DIR. Frank Dewitt. who has. an OIL
flee In the Gibbs building on Main
Street showed us an unusual and in-
teresting relic which came INTO his
possession some time ago. It Is an
old Fashioned parlor lamp Of ''ye oiden
times" the lamp is said to be iso
years cd and does notebook Nike a lamp
at all II has been handed down
xhrough several gencrations OF the
HAIRED family and Is rare and valu-
able relic. DIR. Dewitt has also
quite a collection of indian relics
which he keeps at his office His col
<ection Is said TO be the most COM
plte of any in this section Of the
Stare
WINTER AGAIN.
A decided cold snap followed tine
rain Saturday night and ndpped tho