The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-10-08
Middlesboro Visited by Safe Blower,

caught. All the money was recover
ed.
Sale of Alcoholic Drinks Must Cease
in Letcher County
County Judge II. T. Day gives fair
warning to proprietors Of soft drink
stands in all parts of Letcher Co.
that the sale Of drinks containing
more or less alcohol in violation OF
the laws of the Commonwealth Of
Kentucky must cease. Dealers must
comply with the Sunday closing law.
All are given thirty days to close
up and quit this unlawful business
after which the heaviest penalty
will be meeted out to violaters.
A New intercollegiate Game
There is always a degree of pleas
ant excitement when individuals or
groups are striving to win in any
kind OF game or contest. The last
week of September, four Of the lead
ing Colleges in Kentucky made COM
petition profitable when they enter
ed a membership campaign TO see
who could get the largest per cent
Of the, students enrolled in the
Schools to become members of the
Young Mems Christian Association.
Kentucky Wesleyan won the first
place, getting all except three men
to promise TO join and getting the
dues from all except eight students.
Georgetown College held the second
place; Berea College, the third and
Pennsylvania, the fourth. Berea
succeeded in getting the largest num-
Der to join, her membership being
at the end of the week 2.3.
Kentucky tuberculosis Commission.
Miss Marian Williamson, VINO has
been investigating health conditions
in Mercer County for the Kentucky
tuberculosis Commission in coopera-
ton with the Woman's Club of
Harrodsburg, has found 60 cases of
tuberculosis, and has lectured to
several thousand people in the last
six weeks.
Miss Emma Hunt has been doing
similar work in Anderson County.
The moving picture work of the
State Commission has been shown
during September at 10 points m
Mercer, Anderson, Jessamine, Fay
cite, Garrard and Scott counties TO
400 people.
Bass TO Stock Kentucky Streams.
Frankfort, Ky, Oct. 81. Quincy
Ward, executive agent of the Fish
and Game Commission, will send
800 channel cat and striped bass
fish Monday to be distributed in
the Cumberland River, between
, Pineville and Harlan. He also will
send 800 fish to Paris, Flemings-
burg and Carlisle 10 be distributed
, in the streams near those palces.
, The fish were caught out in the
, Ohio Observation-Disclosures Sun.
. The New Railroad
II is said that about fifteen hun
dred men are at work on the new
railroad to Irvine, mostly in bal
lasting and leyeling up the new
: track and putting in sidings. The
company has not yet announced
the names of the stations on the
road.-Winchester Democrat.
City Controller Sent to Pen.
j, Louisville, Ky, Oct. g. Samuel
NJ. White, former Controller
, pleaded guilty yesterday to en-
bezzling sii,50O by apprOpriatine
city bonds in his charge and was
sentenced to from two to ten years
in the penitentiary. He left for Frank
, fort at once to begin his term
White was City Controller for IL
, years until speculations were
charged last July.-Winchester Sun,
$4,000 Duroc is Dead of Injuries
Versailles, Ky, Oct. 3.-The Du-
| roe Jersey boar Defender, 7 years
, old, considered by many the world 5
! greatest hog of his particular breed
, owned by Mckee Bros, died at For
est Home Farm, near here, from an
} injury received two weeks ago. Nc
| Kee Bros, two years ago paid So
600 for Defender, said to be the
highest price ever paid for hog
/ Within the last month they had re-
fused an offer of $4,000 for him.
, His life was insured for $1,000
| Mckee Bros. own 200 of Defenders
| progeny.
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