The Big Sandy news., 1914-04-24
LETCHER COUNTY.

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Whitesburg, KY, April 2s Com
gressman A. o. Stanley spoke at the
courthouse here Saturday evening.
The Letcher County grand jury
few days ago returned an Indictment
against Allie Amen, charging him
that the man stole $500 worth of jew
elry and other valuables from pack
peddler Mt McRoberts several months
ago. He was later arrtstea IN Bell
county and returned here Amen will
/ perhaps be tried at this term.
The case of the Commonwealth VS..
Lee Driver after being on hand for
some time resulted in Driver getting
lucky Reformatory. Driver killed a
woman named Nuna Lockhart in Jen-
lkins In December last year.
Eastern coal operators announce u
good sized coal development soon to
start up at Masu, near the Letcher-
Perry border below here on the Lex
ington & Eastern railroad, The initial
work is to start about May l. Several
hundred men will be given work in
the new poeration
! Willie Isaacs, OF the Boones's Fork
section, will so on trial in Letcher
Circuit Court here tomorrow on
charge OF having stole small sum of
money from neighbor several
months ago. Isaacs is but mere boy,
| about l6 years old.
1t is expected that actual construc-
ton of The Cumberland Telephone q
Telegraph Co.'S long distance tele-
phone line ofrm Hazard into Whites
burg and so on via Fleming, Raymond
and McRoberts 10 Jenkins in the big |
coal fields will be started ut once,
The connection is greatly needed, as
the present long distance service, via
Pikeville, is very inadequate.
At Bottomfork Creek, near here,
Mr. Gillie Webb, aged IS, was mar
ried after brief courtship to Miss
Stella Adams, aged l6. pretty little
daughter OF James y. Adams farmer,
They will reside at Bilvia. A number
Of other weddings have occurred IN
the county of late,
County Judge Henry T. Day and a
number OF the members OF the Letch
er Fiscal Court went to Blackey the /
past week to look out location for a |
new steel bridge soon TO be construct
ed across the Kentucky river at mouth |
of Line Fork Lctcher county is a
wake TO public improvements. Three
other bridges will no doubt be built |
across the river above this city, ar
rangements having been practically |
completed looking to that end.
Letcher county, too, is determined
to have a system OF model roadwayB
in all parts of the county. Your corr
respondent was informed by Judge
Day that there would be slS6. 500
available for the building OF good I
roads this year.
Sunday evening rain began falling !,
here and ere nightfall the Kentucky /
river was rising rapidly. Monday
morning found splendid logging +
tide in the river with thousands OF
saw logs moving in some places. es-
pecially on the Middle Fork. Trouble
some, Carr's Fork, etc. Logging men
were successful in making fine run
Sunday mail service is soon to be
instituted from nearly all the postof-
fees along the line of the Lexington
& Eastern In Perry and Letcher
counties. This is step In the right
and the Government is to be
in their enterprise in
no fha Sunday aarpioa 1
II is expected that the Letcher Cir
cult Court will close the latter part
of the week as practically all the
cases set down for trial at this term
will be tried out. Judge Butler, of
Pikeville, is both an able and learned
jurst.
Prof. Bennett Adams left for his
return to Louisville to resume his
studies in the law department OF the
Kentucky University.
John s, Webb was Blackey busi-
ness visitor this week.
r, NJ Turner, lr., one OF Bluefcld.
w. Vas good business men, was
here during the week hooking over
Letcher county's extensive coal and
timber fields. He has an eye on this
section.
J. f.. Lang. the hewed stave expert
man, has seen here from Jackson. He
has some stave interests on Thornton
creek
H. NJ Collier Eolia. and J. L. Nc
Cormick, Big Stone Gap, Va, repre-
senting The Mineral Development Co.
have been here and in the country
above here for several days.
Geo w Orr, London travelling man,
was calling on our merchants.
r. T. Thorpe and ]. G. Egan, Of st.
Louis, were registered at the Whites
burg hotel Monday.
Geo. II. McMasters, of Ft Ontario,
N. ", was here Saturday and gave
the Whitesburg company State militia
their annual inspection. Capt Nc
Masters complimented the boys on
their splendid showing and fine drill
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