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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05
NO GAMBLING ALLOWED
Mayor Discover. City Has No ordi-
nance Against Gambling and One is
Passed and Made Effective at Once
Prohibits All Games of Chance.

Strange as It may seem. the city has
never had ar ordinance prohibiting
gambling in any form. Mayor W. Fl.
Jones has just recently discovered this
lack of law on the subject, so this
final passage an anti gambling ordi-
nance. 1t prohibits gambling or gam
ing with cards. dice. or in any form
for chance. for money or anything OF
value and all PERSONS are forbidden to
engage in such games.
The ordinance makes gambling
misdemeanor punishable by fine OF
from 81 to 500 and Imprisonment un-
til the fine is paid. The new ordinance
ie similar to the state law on the sub
ject
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-05
M;no. Council, Business.

The council prepared much work for
the water and sewer departments this
morning when it passed to final adOp-
ton resolutions ordering three new ex-
tensions OF water mains and also
passed to its preliminary adoption
resolution ordering a new extension Of
the sanitary sewer.
The sanitary sewer extension is to
be about 800 feet on East Nevada
street to serve the new factory build
ing Of the Light Draft Harrow Com
pany. The wateremain extensions are
on North Tenth street, from State to
Summit; West Main street. from Thir-
teenth to Fifteenth street, and on
West Boone street from Center to
Second street.
The application Of the Meeker Laun-
dry Company to hang an electric sign
over its place Of bushes, 115-117
West Main street. was granted, sub
ject to the usual inspection.
Property owners petitioned to have
the sewer extended from the corner Of
State and Eighth avenue to Bromley
street. and thence west to Fourth ave-
nue.. The petition was referred to tho
sewer department
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
Improvements In Business Houses.

Mr.. j. E. Stormes has removed the
stairway leading to the rooms over
Hurt & Anderson's furniture store, the
entrance to those rooms now being
by way of the stairway leading to
the rooms over the drug store, door
being cut on the south side of the hall
way at the head of the stair case. The
rooms are being thoroughly overhauled
and will make the handsomest suite of
office rooms in town. The furniture
store room is being thoroughly overhaul
ed and remodeled, the front being solid
glass with handsome entrance on south
side next to Haselden Bros. and when
completed will be one of the most pre-
sumptious store of its kind in central
Kentucky.
The Hemphill building has been re-
modelled and is occupied by Mr.. w. A.
! Dickerson. The buildings has Lew
shelving and other internal improve.
ments and has received fresh coat OF
paint, and now presents the most at.
tractive and clearly appearance.
| The inclination on the part of oul
merchants to remodel and clean up is
quite commendable and lends much tt
the appearance of the town.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
Ham--Rankin.

At the suburban home of the brides
parents at Hyattsville Tuesday after.
noon Rev. F. M. finder performed the
ceremony which united for life Miss
Malissa Ham and Mr.. Charles E. Ran
kin. Immediately after the ceremony
the happy young couple boraded the
afternoon train for Louisville, and
from there will make an extended tour
of the South, returning in about three
weeks to make their home with the
grooms parents in the eastern edge of
Boyle county near the Garrard line,
The pretty bride looked her loveliest
in a handsome white wolfe dress over
white satin and carried huge bequet
of brides roses and carnations. The
wedding was quiet affair, only the
immediate families and few friends
being present.
Both of the contracting parties are
well known and popular in Lancaster,
and are prominent members of society
in their own localities. The bride is
% years of age and is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. S Ham of Hyattsville
while the groom is the son of Mr..
Robert Rankin of the Hedgeville
neighborhood, and himself a prominent
young horseman and mule trader.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22

with prospect of making the plans
for the preliminary work, including one
gentleman from the KY State College
at Lexington, and who is an eminent
authority on water plants, and they
pretty much all of them agree that it
would be folly for US to go to the river,
when we can readily arrange the pres
ent lake so as to have sufficient water,
and so improve the quality as to make
it as good as the water from any els
tern, and all at cost far below that of
going to the river.
The present lake or reservoir covers
Al acres and has an average depth of
l3a feet, giving capacity Of i, 7?4 ,oe9
gallons. The experts say that the dam
which maintains this water supply and
which is 100 feet wide at the base, sub
stantially constructed and in splendid
condition, would support an additional
dam ten feet in height built on top of
it, and dam FIVE feet high would almost
double the present capacity and making
allowance for all losses from percola-
ton, evaporation & etc would assure
us of at least 35, 900, 900 gallon of water
which would be amply sufficient to sup
ply the requirements of Lancaster fol
all time to come, unless the require
ments should increase in such a meas,
ure as cannot now be imagined.
AS we have before stated, We are II
favor of the extension to the river, ano
we believe that is what the people
expected when they voted for the bono
issue, but we are fully aware OF the
fact that the Council cannot accomplish
the impossible, and if upon thorough
investigation, they find their mean
will not permit of their making the ex
tension and also installing a chemica
filter, but that it is within their mean
to make the additional dam and con
struct the new filter, and that the re
suits will be satisfactory water, bot
in quantity and quality, then we sa,
let us have the improvement of tn
present reservoir. We have confidenc
in our City Council, we believe that
is their earnest desire to conserve tn
interests of the community, to do tn
very best that is in their power wit
the peoples, money, we recognize tn
fact that the present dilemma was in
measure forced upon them and W
thoroughly appreciate and sympathiz
with them in their eXtremities, and W
I further sincerely believe that they wi
do the very best that is in their powe
In the matter, and finally that the pee
, pie will be satisfied with the result Q
their labors, whatever those result
may be.
While the matter is under considers
g ton, it is the duty of every citizen
attend the council meetings, take pal
in the discussions of the matter and t
offer whatever of advice you may deer
: proper. You will be welcome and ca
: probably be of assistance.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
Change In Position.

The patrons of the L & N at this
place will learn with regret that Miss
Sarah Reid, the accommodating and eff.
cient clerk at the depot has resigned.
The public will note with pleasure the
fact that she has accepted the position
as head operator at the telephone ex.
change and assumed charge on the 18th
Miss Sara is well acquainted with this
work having been night operator fol
quite while before accepting the posi-
ton at the depot. We congratulate
the company on securing her services
and predict for its patrons, prompt ser
vice, courteous treatment and a pleas
ant number please
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
julie 30-3l-August LIST, Dates For The
Lancaster Fair.

The Lancaster Fair as announced
over two months ago in the columns of
this paper, will be held on the usual
dates, July 30-31 and August 1st. These
are the dates upon which the Fair has
been held for years and upon which it
will continue to be held. The following
article appearing in recent issue of the
Danville Messenger would indicate that
Mercer county intends to hold their
Fair upon these dates:-
eat the recent meeting of the secreta-
ries of the principal stock fairs in this
section, the following dates were
agreed upon: Harrodsburg Fair was
fixed for July 80, 81 and August and
2, and Danville for August 7, 8 and 9,
Stanford August q, % 3D.
We would respectfully ask if we
may inquire whether or not the Ian.
caster Fair is considered among ''the
principal stock fairs in this section, u
and if so who, if anyone in Lancaster
or Garrard county was notified of this
meeting of secretaries, and who rep.
resented this county at the meeting,
and if that representative waved oul
dates, o. any other of the privileges Of
the Lancaster Fair.
We are exceedingly sorry that oul
esteemed Mercer county neighbors
have seen proper to hold their fair or
the same dates which we propose, ant
which we always have held ours, fol
each will necessarily detract some from
the others attendance. However. we
have gone too far now to make any
changes in our dates, even We're there
occasion for such change, for enough
of the leading horsemen of the state
who are accustomed to make exhibit
ions in fair rings, have signifed theil
intention of being here on our usua
dates to insure fair we'll up to on,
standard, and we cannot afford t.
disappoint them.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
Larue Simpson Remains Arrive.

The remains of Larue Simpson, an
account of whose death in Los Angeles
Cal. appeared in last weeks Record,
arrived Monday night and were in
tered in the Lancaster cemetery Tues
day afternoon. AS an evidence of the
esteem in which he was held in his ad-
opted home, telegram was received
here from Mr.. A, Grieve of Los Angel
es, for whom Mr.. Simpson conducted
an extensive business, instructing that
the sum of $50. be invested in flowers
to be placed on the grave of the de-
ceased.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
DR.. Charles W. Fox Former Resident OF
Garrard County Dies In California,
Where He Had Attained
Prominence.
Prominence.

The following account of the death |
of DIR. Charles w. Fox is taken from
the San Jose Call Times. DR.. Fox
was born in this cous.ty and will be
well remembered by many of our older
citizens. He at one time taught school
in the county. He is brother of Mrs.
Elizabeth Smith and an Uncle of Mrs.
John M. Logan, both of whom now re-
side in New York.
DIR. Charles W. Fox. pioneer mining
man and capitalist of this state, died
at the Hotel Vendome last evening a
little after O'Clock, at the age of So
years. He had been retired from ac-
tive business for the past five years
and most of that time he has spent in
this city at the Hotel Vendome.
The late DIR. Fox was well known
among the older business men of the
state and took an active part in the
mining booms of early days. He had
an important part in the transactions
of the old Bank of California and at
one time loaned the late Senator
George Hearst the money with which
the great Hearst fortune was later
amassed. The late CHARLES Fox was
widely known among all of the miners
of the bonanza days, and everywhere
he was known it was with reverence
and respect.
DR.. Fox was born in Lancaster, Ky.,
in 1926, and when young man entered
the Louisville Medical College, gradu-
ating later from the Cincinnati Medical
College.
He came to California from Panama
as ships doctor in the early spring
of 1850. Landing at San Francisco he
went to AmadOr county, where he
practiced medicine in the mining camp:
for several years, later going to Vir
ginia City, New. where he was present
at the time of the Comstock strike.
He gave up the practice of medicine
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
Browns Opening.

Mr.. R. S. Brown has announced that
he will have his millinery opening this
season on Saturday, March Both. His
buyer has been in Cincinnati and Louis
vile and this year has the largest and
most stylish line of ladies hats ever
shown in Lancaster. He asks each and
every lady in Garrard county to call at
his store on this date and inspect the
beautiful hats. You will also enjoy
yourself if you call for there will be a
large crowd of your friends there and
you will be entertained by music on the
grand piano which is to be given away
free to some young lady who wants it.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
Last Of The iii Fated MaineI

Attended by all the solemn pomp and
ceremony of marine burial the bat
tered hulk, all that remained of the Ill
fated battle ship Maine, was sunk in
the Gulf of Mexico nine miles off the
Cuban coast on last Saturday. Her
decks were strewn with American
beauty roses, and her battered and
rusty sides were draped with sombel
black. The immediate cause of short
but decisive war between the United
States and Spain now rests under sixty
fathoms of water.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
Act As Brutal And Barbaric As The Bat
tie Of The Little Big Horn Or Any
Other Indian Massacre, En-
acted In Virginia.

At Hillsville Va, village way up
in the Businesses of the Blue Ridge
mountains on last Thursday, when a
circuit Judge had just finished sentenc-
ing a man named Allen to a term of
one year in the penententiary for as
saulting and beating an officer and en-
abling prisoner to escape, a verdict
of guilty having just been found by a
jury, the condemned man and a score
of his friends opened general fusillade
in the court room, with the expressed
intention of "wiping out the court" ,
and when the smoke of battle had
cleared it was found that their threat
had been carried out literally and the
court was exterminated. The Circuit
Judge lay prone across the bar of JUS
tice with his life blood flowing from
fatal wounds, the Commonwealth 8
Attorney fell dead in his tracks the
sheriff, who sprang to secure the pris-
oner just sentenced, fell the victim of
bullet, and the Circuit Clerk was
mortally wounded and two jurymen
were wounded, also many spectators
were wounded, including young wo-
man who afterward died as result of
her wounds. After completing their
deadly work the assassine mounted
horses which were tied in the court
house yard and fled to the mountains.
Three of the Aliens, including the
one who was on trial and who was the
cause of the trouble have been re-
captured after bitter fight in which
Allen was severely wounded, and his
wife killed and are now in Jail at
Roanoke. The remainder of the out
law crew are at large and every minion
of the law in the State of Virginia is
on the alert for their capture The
Governor has sent another circuit
Judge to Hillsville, who has reorganiz-
ed the court and empaneled grand
jury and indictments have been return
ed against the participants in the car
mage, and every effort will be made to
bring every man connected with it to
justice.
Judge Thornton L. Massie, the cir
cult Judge who met such cruel and
untimely death, is well known in Ken
lucky, having married Miss Nichol-
son of Middlesboro.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
Interesting Lecture.

DR.. w. L. Heller, State Registrar
of Vital Statistics, gave an interest
ing lecture at the Court House on
Thursday night. He discussed at
length tuberculosis, Pellagra, Spinal
Meningitis Hookworm and other dis
eases prevalent in Kentucky. He
made some very pertinent suggestions
as to improvement in the sanitary con-
ditions of the city, the schools and all
public buildings, more extended ac-
count of which we will give next week.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
Promotion For A Worthy Man.

Mr.. Stephen A. Walker of Lancaster
who for the past two years has been
connected with the international Har-
vesting Co. as salesman, has severed
his connection with that company and
has accepted position with the Bird
sell Wagon Co. to travel the state Of
Kentucky for them, the change to take
effect on the 23d of this month.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
We Hope So.

1t is expected that when the new
Fish and Game Commission is organ
lied and gets down to work in real
earnest. and the State Fish Hatchery
is placed in operation at the State fair
grounds there will be hard shedding for
the dynamiters and seine and net mani
bulators who ply their nefarious oc-
equations in the Kentucky River and
its tributaries in the Blue Grass section.
Frankfort News Journal.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
All Teachers Reelected.

AT meeting of the trustees Of the
Lancaster Graded School held this
week the entire force of teachers now
employed were re- elected to their re-
spective positions for the next school
year I912-19l3- Prof. Riley and his
splendid corps of assistants are giving
to the patrons of the local school one
of the very best graded schools in Ken
lucky, and the appreciation in which
they are held by the trustees and the
public is evidenced by their reelection.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
Attacks School PRINCIPAL.

A severe attack on school principal,
Chas. B. Allen, of Sylvania, Ca, is
thus told by him. "For more than
three years, he writes, 81 suffered in
describable torture from rheumatism,
liver and stomach trouble and diseased
kidneys. All remedies failed till | u.s.
ed Electric Bitters, but four bottles of
this wonderful remedy cured me COM
pletely." Such results are common.
Thousands bless them for curing
stomach trouble, female complaints,
kidney disorders, billiousness, and for
new health and vigor. Try them.
Only Soc at r. E. McRoberts & Son.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22

During the summer of 1911 when the
water at the lake became foul and un-
fit for use the City Council determined
to make some arrangement looking to
the improvement of both the quantity
and quality of the local water supply;
it was their intention to make a
thorough investigation as to the best
method and the approximate cost of Sc
curing the best results along this line,
then submit their information to the
people and ask the citizens to vote a
bond issue to defray the expense of the
work. However, the city Board of
Health brought the matter to a climax
by notifying the Council that unless
they Immediately took steps to improve
the quality of the water that they, the
Board of Health, would condemn the
lake. The Council was then perforce
compelled to submit the question of a
bond issue to the people at the last
November ele ction, which was done:
the issue carried. the city now has with
in its power the right to issue bonds to
the extent of about SIP, 1000. 1t is our
firm belief that it was tacitly under
stood by the citizens of the community
when they voted for this bond issue.
that the money was to be utilized for
the purpose of extending the present
system of water works to Dix river.
putting in supplementary pipe line
and pumping station.
Such are the facts in the case, and
we have no word of condemnation for
anyone in the premises, on the contrary
We believe that what was done should
have been done, but it certainly has
placed the Council in an unenviable sit
uation. the people are expecting the
water work system to be extended to
the river, have voted bonds for the pur-
pose, and upon investigation, it has
been found that the amount available
will not be sufficient to make the ex-
tension and to build new and modern
filter, the latter being an absolute ne
cessity. The filter now in use at the
water works is absolutely worthless in
so far as the performance of the work
for which it was intended is concerned,
that of purifying the water, for a re-
cent analysis of the water when it was
supposed to be foul, demonstrated the
fact that the water taken direct from
the lake was purer and contained a
less number of germs than that which
had passed through the filter and was
taken from the hydrant. So it is readi-
ly to be seen that modern filter is the
first necessity, for even if we had river
water, it of necessity would have to be
filtered before being used for domestic
purposes. The consensus of opinion
among experts, people who have made
a study of the question, and are in a
position to know, is that the best filter,
and in fact the only one which gives en-
tire satisfaction, is a chemical filter,
and the lowest possible estimate obtain
able for filter of this character is
$500. This cuts quite a hole in the
amount intended to extend the pipe
line and build the auxiliary pumping
station, and we doubt exceeding if the
amount remaining would be sufficient
to do this work.
There has been a great many civil
engineers here looking over the ground
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22

while in Nevada and entered the min
ing and brokerage business, which he
followed for the next thirty-five years.
in 1905 he retired from active bust
ness and in 1876 came to San jose,
where he has been ever since, residing
at the Hotel FendOme.
In 1859 he married Sarah Jones, the
daughter of William jones, a promin-
ent pioneer of this valley. She sur
wives him. There were no children.
DIR. Fox has been attended for the
last forty years by James Gillian. his
old businhss associate, and the pair
have always been the warmest of
: friends.
/ The interment, which will be private
! will be in the Santa Clara cemetery.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
More Religion For Men.
More Men For Religion.

The Men and Religion Forward move
ment services began today Thursday
at the Methodist church, services at
2:30 O'Clock in the afternoon and 7:3O in
the evening; Friday at the Baptist
Church and Saturday at the Christian
Church. the same hours for service be-
ing observed each days. These meetings
are for men and boys only, and all who
CO do so should attend, as prominent
laymen from Louisville will be present
and will make interesting addresses.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
Judge Tarter To Speak.

Judge Roscoe .Conkling Tarter of
Somersed will address the Roosevelt
Club at the Courl House at 2 o'clock
tomorrow Saturday afternoon. Mr..
Tarter is judge of Pulaski county and
is one of the big guns of the Republi-
can party in the bloody Eleventh,
and is said to be speaker of consider
able force and elOuuence.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
Fair Meeting.

All persons desiring to take stock in
the Garrard County Fair Association
ton are requested to meet at the Gar
rard Bank & Trust Co. on Saturday af
ternoon March 23d at 2 o'clock. 1t is
desired to allow all who wish it to have
stock, but the organization must be
perfected at once and this will be your
last opportunity to secure stock.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
Circus Time Coming.

Already we begin to read circus adj
vertisements in our exchanges and
they prove much more interesting than
the claims and merits (?) of the vari-
GUS political candidates with which the
press has been deluged of late, and we
welcome the finish of the various conven
lions, when we may have a cessation
of politics for time, and the coming
of spring when We may have the op-
portunity to "take the children" to see
a good old fashioned circus.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
Editor Lamdram Here.

Lewis Landram, the clever editor of
the Danville Messenger, was here Sat-
urday and Sunday, called by the death
of Miss Mollie Smith who was an Aunt
of Mrs. Landram. This is the second
time within the year that Mr. Landram
has been called here on such a mission,
and the pleasure of SCENIC him is mar:
red by the knowledge of the sad errand
which brings him.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
High Grade Entertainment.

An OratOrical and Deelamatory Con
test will be held at the Court House in
Lancaster KY, one night during the
closing week of the present term OF
The Lancaster Graded School.
Handsome Presents will be awarded.
Ladies and Gentleman between the
ages Of twelve and eighteen will be adj
mitted. Particulars will be published
later.
The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-03-22
A Correction.

We were incorrect in our statement
in last weeks issue that DIR. Dick would
probably start Kelly Institute some
where in the state. The proprietors of
the Institute at Crab Orchard have the
exclusive Kelly rights for the state of
Kentucky,