The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1912-04-05
LANCASTER

this city.
The Chautauqua Circle met ON last
Saturday afternoon with Mrs. L. L.
Frisbie ON Water street.
An interesting Easter service will
be held by the Junior c. 4. Society
ON next Sunday evening.
The Republicans will hold mass
convention here on April 9th to
elect their delegates to the district
and safe conventions.
"A Declamatory Contest will he
held here on the evening of May the
10Th. the competitors to be students
in the Garrard schools. The best
young lady will be awarded a hand
some necklace and the best young
man q gold watch.
Mrs. Robert Holcomb died Mt her
home in north Garrard after pro-
tructed illness from tuberculosis.
aged % years. She leaves young
! husband. an Is months old infant. n
mother and several brothers and sis
ters. She was formerly Miss Poor
and niece of Merchant. Il. 5.
Brown. of this city.
j. Fleece Robinson sold 100 bar
relS of corn to the Garrard Milling
Company at $3.50 per barrel; the
milling firm reserved 100 bushels of
this superior grain to be sold in the
local market for seed corn at $3.50
per bushel.
p. l.. Kelley exhibited in Licking
ton his five fine varities of seed
corn selling 200 bushels at - and
could have sold much more. such is
the excellence of this Garrard maize.
j. b. Leavell sold several wagons of
corn to d. +. Rankin at - per bar
rel.
The backwardness of the season
has retarded the poultry business as
well as all other branches of indus
. try. Some thrifty farmers wives
have so far only about two or three
dozen young chicks to their credit,
though Mrs. J. NJ. Cress the cham
pion poultry raiser of this section,
reports as many s. $50 chickens
and daily gathering of 100 eggs.
Some Garrard farmers are wise
enough to improve their barnyard
breeds. Carlton Elkin having just re-
ceived a pen of fine chickens of the
Buff orpiagton strain from an In
diana fancier and W. 5. Embry hav-
ing added to his poultry pen of
Rose Comb Brosn Seshorns, and can
soon supply eggs 10 those who wish
Tor Matching purposes.
V. \. Lear has engaged about L.
800 lambs for June and July deliv-
eg'y at from SO to -. J. VI. Cress.
of the Preachersvile section has al
ready engaged 1000 lambs most
from Lincoln county farmers az
in June and July. J. NJ. Cress
bought 30 sheep from W. o. Walker
ut 50 and II head from John y.
Anderson at -. J. NJ. Cress bought
- hogs in Rockcastle. weighing from
100 TO 200 pounds at ) and ) ID
cents: the same trader purchased of
&. A. Brown - 200-pound porkers
at q cents and - hogs of the same
weight, from Thomas Rice at 3 -
cents. CreSS and Jones shipped two
carloads of hogs Saturday to Green
and Embry mt Cincinnati.
That Garrard is the banner to-
bacco county of Central. kentucky
if undoubtedly proven by the fact
that sample basket of : pounds
grown by h. l.. Kelley of this coun-
ty was sold Mt Lexington for 15c
per pound. II record breaking price
Tor the nicotine producer. About all
the 1911 crop of tobacco has been
sold. Sutton and Yates have de-
livered at Lexington on the 2lst o.
900 pounds receiving from l-2 to
30 cents, 1880 pounds selling at
1919 to $50; Jas Lackey sold p
800 pounds at from z to 20 cents;
Elijah Ray recently sold a crop on
the Fayette floors. and j. Il. Bourne
has 5000 pounds there to be sold this
week.
W. s. Embry sold three year-old
mule to W. T. Robinson of Boyle, for
S245. T. l.. Yantis bought a two
sear-o!d mule from William Palmer
for $40.
Denny Bros, sold pair of Swear
old mules to V. A. Lear for$400.
w. s. Embry bought three year.
old hybrid from J. NJ. Picard for
5000.
X. f. Thompson bought two COWS
from Taylor House for 800.
Epant- RenaIl,,a L.,nl. =, n 1900.