The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1914-05-08
LETCHER COUNTY
AND WHITESBURG.
What is Happening in this
Rich Coal Territory
of Kentucky.

Whitesburg, KY, May 6-Robert
Oaks has entered SUIT against The
Consolidation Coal Co. for $4,000 dam
ages for an injury received in the
company's electric sub -station In Nc
Roberts about year ago. Attorneys
James p. Adams, Ed C. ORear and T..
c, Holiday have been employed by the
in the case. 4.
Oaks lives in Breathitt county and
was employed by the company at the
time he received the injury The case
viii be vigorously prosecuted.
Owing to the dry weather that has
been prevalent here and throughout
the county for the past ten or twelve
days farm work, especially piiw al
has been dc.ayed 4JasidurHh aul
not more than ono fourth ol the cys.j
is planted at this date, and very little
blowing has been done Farmers re-
port ground so hard that II is impossi-
BILE TO further prosecute the work.
Thus from present indications farmers
are going to get in a. mighty small
acreage.
Sunday mail service was instituted
Sunday along the Lexington a. East
ern whereby every important postof-
flee will be supplied with Sunday mail.
Among the list In the county TO be
supplied are: Whtesburg, Indian Bot
tom, Mayking, Sergent, Craftsville,
Chip. and Fleming. McRoberts was
already supplied with Sunday mail.
There was new schedule that be-
came effective that day which leaves
McRoberts about forty minutes later
in the morning and arrives back the
same time earlier. This will be great
Improvement over the old service.
After only n few days Illness Andy
Brown, aged about 45. one OF fletcher
county's best citizens. died at his home
on Beefhide Creek east OF here OF
pneumonia and complication OF dis
eases He was brother In law OF
James NJ, Wright, OF Boones Fork
and was a member OF good family
II is said that no less than six thous-
and people took In Sun Bros, circus
at Jenkins Saturday. coming largely
from nearly every section OF the cuun-
ty. A large number OF people from
the rural districts of Wise and Dick
enson counties, Va, came There was
some drinking, number OF dlstur-
Dances and officers made twenty or
more arrests. Six or eight automo- :.
biles piled between the business sec.
ton OF the city and the show grounds
carrying people and doing good bus
mess. The whole country has an eye
on the push and energy OF the city OF
Jenkins.
The NEWS correspondent was In
formed by MIR, Black the new operator
for the Western Union In Jenkirs,
that the telegraph company is doing
wonderful business there. The Consol-
idation Coal Co. and the other com
panies surrounding finds the service a
great convenience over the old way
that OF telephoning their Western I'm
ion business via Pikeville. The pro-
gressiveness OF the w, U. is TO be
complmented,
A few days ago jenkins Y. NJ. C. A.
work was moved from the large tenn
porary building, erected during Jen-
kins' pioneer days, into the splendid
modern, new, massive building Just
completed at cost OF between 500, 1000
and $4,000. This building is perhaps
the best arranged building in the city.
thoroughly modern in every respect,
and every visitor into the city is at
tracted by the building. The pretty
new city hospital building, beauty