The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1916-04-13
STANTON.
(By P. o. Derthick.)

Marion Atkinson has gone to Irvine
TO stay awhile.
Rev. and Mrs. j. @. Hanley were in
Lexington on shopping tour Satur-
day last. ~
Harvey Wells left last week for Mid
dletown, Ohio, where he has position
in the rolling mill.
Ben Hatton of Bowen and Mr.. Ford
Of Winchester were here last week
looking after Singer sewing machine
business.
0s johnson has returned to STAN
ton to work with Bob Stone this sum
mer. They have been papering for
Morgan Lyle and Major Blackburn, re-
Gently.
A card from w. r. Adams in Win
sor, Canada to the writer says that he
will be home in about month. He
says there is too much war in Canada
to suit him.
Guy Grove il building a new house
on the site where the old Grove home
burned some two years ago. He and
his bride will occupy the house when it
is completed.
DR.. Mitchell, who is at the head of
the Frenchburg College in Menefee
county, was here last week visiting her
friend, Miss Ida Paisley. She return
ed home Wednesday.
Guy Grove had the misfortune to
run nail in his foot few days ago
and it has given him some pain and
trouble, Are you surg that youSi tsai y
didn't get after you with a rolf -
Guy9
Misses Julia Evans. Bertha Carver
and Mary johnson we're in wincherter
on shopping trip. Miss Johnson went
on to Lexington where she met her
brother Leonard and sister Make. She
returned home Monday.
The road bond issue carried by big
majority. This will be good news to
one and all in Powell county, and we
trust that those who voted against it
will see their mistake and repent We
are sure they will repent when they
see good pike roads all over the county
Louis Pitcher, who is going over the
State lecturing in the interest of tenn
perance, was here last week and made
a talk, but met with poor success. 1t
was reported that the writer had Sc
cured him to come here, but this is not
so as the writer did not have thing
to do with his coming to Stanton, nor
did he know he was coming till he ar
rived.
The Magisterial District Convention
of Powell county will be held at STAN
ton on Saturday night, Apr. %, and all
day Sunday the 23rd. The program
will be found elsewhere in this paper.
Rev. George Joplin, the State General
Secretary, whose headquarters are at
Louisville, will give the main address
on Saturday night. Everybody is cor
daily invited to attend this, the Sun
day School Convention of all the
churches.
The writer attended the Intercolle-
giate Prohibition Association consen-
ton in Lexington last week where he
heard some very fine addresses against
the liquor traffic. The reader will re-
ceive the benefits Of these addresses
from time TO time. Suffice II 10 say
the liquor business is doomed and the
writer hopes 10 have hand in putting
il out Of business. To take look Mt
the drunken mess Of men and boys at
the box supper last Saturday night
was enough TO arouse the fighting
blood of every loyal and sober citizen
of stanton. And the shame Of it is
that many of the fathers OF stanton
have set the example before their boys
and these same boys are fast becoming
the drunkards OF our town.
Mrs. Minerva Abner, wife Of rilford
Abner, died at about . o'clock Tues
day morning, OF this week, at her
home, Of pneumonia. She was taken
sick Thursday and on account Of her
already enfeebled condition from a