The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1913-10-09
STANTON NEWS.

The Rev. B w. Trimble. of Mt
Sterling, was a pleasant visitor in
our town Tuesday.
Mrs. Kate s. Bohannon Is visit.
ing schools of the county again this
week.
The writer is attending the great
State Sunday School Convention al
Louisville this week.
i Mrs. John Jackson was in Mt.
| SteliRa. last week. visiting hel
dad hter, and also on business.
i Mrs Fred Blackburn's mother,
Mrs Prewitt, of Winchester, is Wis
ting with her daughter this week.
We regret to learn that Mr.. John
W. Williams is quite sick and
must go to the hospital for treat
ment.
VIM. Hard wick and Fred Black.
burn are in Cincinnati this week
buying fall and winter goods for
lJne Har0WlcK store.
1 Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Boone and
family have moved to Winchester
where he will take up a position
that has been offered to him.
NJ. A. Phillips went to iexing,
ton Saturday where he met his son,
Toney, who returned home for a
brief visit with the home folks.
John w. Tuttl., of Estill coun-
ty, Democratic nominee for Repre-
sentative from this district, was
here Court day interviewing our
voters.
Mrs. Mary Jackson and Miss
Katie Jackson are visiting in
Louisville this week, and will
probaiy take in the Sunday School
Convention.
Mrs. Z. h. Clark left Monday
of this week to visit her daughter,
Mrs-. Msrtice Conlee. at near Paris.
and will return Saturday when her
daughter, Anna, will leave for the
same place.
Miss Helen WEIGH is in Lexing-
ton this week taking in the Trots
This is great event in Kentucky.
and the papers say the largest
crowd ever in the history of Ken.
tucky is on hand to see them.
Robert Blackburn was home over
Sunday and returned to Louisville
Monday, taking his sen. Colson,
with him where Colson will enter
Beechmont Military School. Mrs.
Robert Blackburn will 60 to Lou.
isville Tuesday.
We have been talking for gener-
atoms about the awful liquor traf-
fc in our country, and surely it is
a terrible curse to mankind. But
there has another evil arisen in our
midst in the last few years that is
as deadly if not more so than the
liquor traffic. 1t is an evil that
deals with the boys and young men
of our land, and it is time we be
gin crusade against it.. md that
evil is the deadly cigarett Last
year there there were Q, 1913, $50 ,O05
smoked, or Ill cigarettes TO each
person in tn. u. 5. As many of us
dc not smoke them some one had
10 smoke our share. The cigarette
slowly destroys th" brain If a
young man. The student in school
falls far below the nOn-cigarette
smoker. In fact if young boy is
attending school and then begins
to smoke cigai cites, it will not he
long till he will begin to fall behind
the other scholars, or else he will
soon drop out Of school altogether
Mary of the candidates are out
over the county shaking hands
with the people and getting ac
quainIed with one another. We
hope that the race in November
will be- as clean as was the Primary.
Enough has already been said by
the writer about the use of money
and whiskey, and we hope that
none of the candidates will stoop 50
low as to buy votes or ALLOW their
friends 10 do so for Them. Let us
vote for the men that are best
qualified for the place. and put
them in office brcaus. of what they
are wo.th 10 u NJ officer "f our
great eounty. There are sone as
fine people in Powell County a. can
he found in ali Ken'ucky The
writer has been in Ihonsands nf