The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-09-05
Heard About Town


the l. j. subscription price will be
$1.5O a year but till then you may
subscribe for as many years in ad.
vance as you wish at 81 year.
Jesse Manning has taken a posi-
ton with j. H. Baughman & Co., at
the mill
George Burdette, electrician OF
the Danville phone exchange, is laid
up at his home with a severe boil on
foot.
c. S. Lyons, the well known Hang
! ing Fork poultry fancier, was laid
! up with the grip last week and I'M
| able to take his birds to the Nicholas
vile fair to show.
A record attendance was register
ed at the reopening of the Stanford
| Graded and High Schools Monday
and every indication points to a most
successful year.
Contractor J. r. Powell has q force
of men charging the entrance porch
to the lower grades in the old college
building down town. He will have
it in shape the opening Of school on
Monday.
J. K. Baughman, Of the West End
Judged the mules at the big Nichol-
asville fair last week, and reports
from there are to the effect that he
gave splendid satisfaction in every
way. i-~...- - .'--'-'--..
John G.. Baugh. who has been max
ing his headquarters at Berea, since
coming back to Kentucky, after his
visit to Missouri, came down for the
fair last week. He may yet decide to
return to Lincoln to make his home.
Mr.. w. E. Skies, who has been as
sisting his brother. Cashier H. G.
Skies in the Crab Orchard Banking
Company, while 7. Hhays Bronaugh
was taking a vacation, returned to
his home in Louisville Saturday.
The road workers on the Danville
pike are reopening the old Huffman
quarry, having found an underlayel
of clay beneath quarry which was
| opened at the Hammond place neal
the Hanging Fork covered bridge:
Contractor Will Stone is just fin,
ishing up nice eight room bunga'
low on his lot on Portman avenue
west of his home and the cottage
occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee
Fife The new house will probably
be occupied by the latter when the
finishing touches are put on it:
D. B. Srragens, who taught in the
! Stanford High school last year has
accepted a position as local editor
of the Georgetown Times, weekly
paper. Spragens has had an inclina-
ton for newspaper work for years
and his many friends here will wish
him unbounded success.
J. F. Cover lost five god sheer
from inflammation of the bowel:
last week.
The Messrs. Sweeney, from Ekla,
taxa, Mont, who have been visiting
old time friends in the West End anC
in Casey county, spent Thursday al
the fair here and received many
warm welcomes from those who haC
known them in bygone days. Thi:
was their first visit back home tt
Kentucky in half dozen years. They
are both prominent business men IL
their far western home, and inciden
tally, have been longtime, appreclat
ed subscribers to the l. j.
! The |. ]. has received a much ap
preciated letter from Mrs. j. L. Kidd
of Montezuma, Iowa, who is forme1
Lincolnite. Mrs. Kidd has been quite
i'll for some time, her many friends
! back home will regret to know. A
! soon as she improves she will go viii
| her husband and Jack VanhoOver t.
Minnesota, which the physicians sa!
will be better for her. Mrs. Kid
is a sister Of Mrs. Bette Martin, o
the Arabia section, of this county
and she has brother at Jumbo, bot!
of whom she is anxious to see and T.
whom she sends her love and hes
wishes to all of her friends.
"You can say for me that tn
sweepstake saddle ring shown at til
Knights of Pythias Fair Thursda.
afternoon was the best that has beel
exhibited ct any fair this year, Lex
ington not excepted" said Mr.. JOIN
Dolan, of Lexington, who was one o
the Judges here and who knows a
much about a horse as anybody, t
an |. J. man. u do not believ
there will be another ring to com
pare with it unless many of the sam
| horses gather at the State FAIR" n
added. 1t was a great fair ali tn
way thru and the Knights Of PYth
las are proud of their effort. The,
worked hard but the result is so plea
sing that they are sorry that the,
did not do more.
The Somerset News said Friday
Col. Ed. Walton, of Stanford, was i
the city yesterday taking in tn
sights, and enjoying a real ian
Thirty years ago the managing ed
tor and Ed. Walton ''stuck" type to
gether on the Interior Journal, whe
it was under the editorialship of hi
brother, w. P. Walton, and it wa
the best paper published in the State
While we have not seen Mr.. Walto
for 80 years, he has changed yer
,, little, and is the same jolly old DO
that we knew when we were kids
for neither Mr.. Walton nor the write
are what you might call old. w
were glad to see our old friend, an
he will always be a welcome vlslto
, to Somerset, where he has host Q
friends. -