The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-08-18
GENERAL NEWS

The order of Maccabees has gone all
the other frateinal orders one better.
The other fraternsl orders will not take
in man who is addicted to the liquor
habit Maccabees have adopted ruling
that when a man becomes an habitual
drunkard he must forfeit his insurance
and get out of the order.
A bronze statue of Andrew jackson
is TO be erected in the park in the cen
trial business area of Adairville by the
jackson Memorial Club. which was re-
Gently organized there. The club com
templates building boulevard TO the
spot where the Jackson and Dick ersc n
duel was fought. which is about one
mile and half from town. The scene OF
the duel will be converted into a public
park and made as attractive as possible
immigration was at its lowest since
1889 during the twelve months ended
July l, and the net increase in the for
eign population for the year was less
than IS. 600. Statistics issued show
326, 200 immigrant and 10T.5i non-im-
the year, while 20lO7I emigrant and
$50, 100 non-emigrant aliens departed.
Admission was refused to 2l,1l aliens
Miss Leila May Foley, the seventeen
year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs Cell
Foley, committed suicide AZ her home
il Mt. Sterling last week by taking rat
poison. No caus4 has been assigned
for the rash act.
On September IS, the people of Lin
coin county will vote on $3.50. 600
bond issue for better roads throughout
the county. The proposition will no
doubt carry by large majority.
Mr. and Mrs J. F. Mills. of Danville.
celebrated their golden wedding las
week. Fifty dollars in gold and many
other valuable and useful gifts were
presented the happy couple.
Last week during an electrical storm
in Nicholas cocnty, lightning struck
the house of Nicholas Westfail, a former,
and discharged both barrels of double
barreled shot gun which rested overa
door
Dependent because she could not pro
cure morphine, 10 which habit she was
addicted. Mrs Sallie Pigg. aged 40 years
! jumped in front of 9. & o passen-
ger tram at Ashland, Thursday, and
was killed.
There is movement on foot TO have
introduced in the next session of the
kentucky Legislature bill making it a
felony for a married man to desert his
wife or child. Hon. Geo. L. Sehon. of
the The Kentucky Children's Home
Society, says that 50 per cent of the
wards of the society have been deserted.
a large number of Central Kentucky
towns are putting the ban onhorse-trad-
ing on their principal streets and public
/ squares. Horse-trading is a nuisance
that should be prohibited on the
streets of any town or city.
l. Announcement has been made that
the annual conference of the NJ. f.
Church. South, will be held in Millers-
burg. KY, beginning Wednesday, Sep
TENDER l. Between 200 and 300 delegate s
| from all over the conference district
will be in attendance.
Hugh NJ. Willett, of Atlanta, Ga ,
president of the National Association of
Life Insurance Underwriters. in his an
nual address at San Francisco, last
week said: while we stand appalled,
by the enormous destruction of life and
treasure which has been going on in
Europe, G5o. 600 lives are destroyed an
nually in the United States by diseases
of the preventable class The economic
loss is, six times the amount of our fire
loss.
A story is current thata self-confessed
embezzler of Philadelphia offered to
kill himself in order that the firm he
had swindled might recover on his So
600 life insurance policy. He haG
embeZzled $4,000 from his employers.