Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1916-03-16
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Physicians Of Hazard have estab-
Iished a hospital at that place.
Sixty miles Of county roads are to
be improved in Henderson county.
A wind storm damages Louisville to
the extent of 100000.
A Louisville school was granted per.
mission by the Board of Education to
establish a savings bank.
The Winchester City Council has
voted in favor Of the city owning its
own water plant
The road bonds of Galloway county
were sold at a premium. The interest
rate is four and one-half per cent.
A cooperative association OF tobacco
growers OF Daviess county has de-
termined to pool the crop of 1916.
The Court Of Appeals rendered a de,
cislon which requires the Illinois Cen.
trail railroad to pay franchise taxes to
Kentucky on sS,276,OOO.
Judge Robert Slack refused to sus.
tain the injunction asked by citizens
OF Daviess county to prevent the issue
Of 100000 in bonds for road purposes.
A majority OF the Lexington city
commissioners oppose the showing OF
the Birth Of Nation" a motion pic.
ture play.
Hickman planters prepare for the
1916 crop Of cotton. The acreage is
expected to be unusually large this
season.
A series Of fires, suspected to be OF
incendiary origin at Central City, are
being investigated by the state fire
marshall
The Commercial Club OF Harlan has
started a publicity campaign exploit
ing the coal field and hardwood timber
wealth OF Harlan county.
The Kentucky Good Roads Associa
ton announced that plans were beinl
developed for pressing good road.
work in. the mountains.
Hundreds Of parents in Louisville at
tended the clinic given by the Babies
MIX Fund Association in connection
with Babys Week.
A suit TO test the validity Of tn,
road bond issue for s15O,OOO, whicl
was passed in Campbell county las
November. has been filed.
Two hundred miners OF western
Kentucky attend the 18th conventio
in Louisville and discuss the considers
ton OF a wage increase and revisio
OF the constitution.
A petition for a special election thi
spring to vote on a s25O,OOO road bon
issue in Marion county will be pr,
sented to the County Court on Marc
25.
Awakened by his dog at 3 o'cloc
in the morning Edward Steedly. Loui
vile. discovered his home in fame
and escaped a moment before the rot
fell in.
A nitroglyeerine magazine explode
near Louisa and killed Mont Fout
the man in charge. Only small piece
Of his body we're found. His team
two horses was also killed.
Mrs. Fila Greene, 60 years old,
, near Mt. Sterling, became despondei
over illness in the family and col
mi,ted suicide by leaping into a cI
tern.
A reward Of $500 has been offer,
for information as TO the whereabou
OF s. W. Bedford, the missing Inst
ance man Of Lexington, who disa
peared three weeks ago.
By taking prisoners from a Jail a
putting them at work on public roa
the prisoners are not removed to t
extent Of changing the compensate
OF the TALLER, under a decision of I
Court OF Appeals.
Peter q. Campbell, labor lead
Louisville. who was acquitted OF k
ing Fred S. Ewald, during a uni
meeting disturbance January 20, v
sued for $4,000 by the widow
Ewald.
There will be no more poolrooms
Mayfield after the license on the
naming one expires in June. I
Council raised the license some Il
ago from 500 to $500 and refused
change H.
Earle Hahn. a young man resid
at McNary. Muhlenberg county,
completed successful amateur W
less apparatus. Hahn receives
official time from the Arlington,
naval station. He will install send
apparatus.
X. G. Pulllam. OF Lexington,
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