The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-10-13
Here, There, Everywhere

this week purchased the Hazard Tele-
phone Company.
Judge John F. Lockett, formerly
assistant attorney general, died at
Frankfort last week.
]. B. Gum, of Lexington, has pur-
chased the Elkhorn Roller Mills near
Stamping Ground, Scott county.
Mrs. Mary o. Noe, IA, formerly of
Charlottesville, died at the home of
her son in Columbia.
Clarence Lebus was reelected
president ofthe Burley Tobacco Com
pany at Lexington Tuesday.
F. C. Gentry, of Richmond, has
been appointed secretary and bust
ness agent of Eastern Normal there.
Eight hundred pigeons burned to
death when the pens of l. J. Eagle
of Lexington, were destroyed by fire
Tuesday.
Gov. Stanley this week pardoned
T. j. Luke convicted in Scott county
of perjury and serving from 2 to 5
years in the pen.
The government wheat crop esti-
mate shows a shortage this year of
four hundred bushels under the re-
ord of 1915 crop.
Everett Lowry, 20, of Madison
county, was given 20 years in the
pen by jury this week for killing
Cecil Thorpe, in Lexington saloon.
While Claude Ransdall, of Mercer
county, was visiting neighbor Tues
day, his horse hitched to the fence
was so severely stung by bees that
died within an hour.
Wesley Dowell, %, son of T. B.
Dowell, of the Gradyville section of
Adair county, committed suicide by
shooting himself with shotgun last
week.
W. ]. Dobbs, oldest SON of Repre-
sentative S. C. Dobbs, of Wayne
county, has been appointed Boy Di-
vision Officer at the Reform School
at Greendale.
A report from the State Depart
ment of Agriculture shows that dur
ing September 1,513,125 pounds of
the 1915 crop of tobacco was sold
for $16S, 26368, an average of Sill
II 100 pounds.
The Kentucky Board of Baptist
Missions lost bequest of $4,000
when the court of appeals Tuesday
set aside {. clause in the Will of the
late w. H. Simmons, of jefferson
county.
Triplets were born Monday to the
wife of Rev. A. V. Swift, a Methodist
minister, who lives out of Lexington
on the Versailles pike. One, a boy,
weighed Z pounds, and the other two
girls, weighed four and five pounds
each.
Burglars stole all of the records
except the tax books from the sher-
ifs office in Bu"ksville, Cumber-
land county, Tuesday night. Two
weeks ago the circuit clerks office
there was robbed OF Y indictm ents.
The Harrodsburg Herald says: A
wife of Richard Cornelius Sunday
night. Mr.: Cornelius is certainly fol-
lowing the Biblical injunction to
multiply and replenish the earth,"
for although only SO years of age he
is the father of seventeen children,
twelve boys and five girls.
W. j. Romans, of Lancaster has
again taken charge of the opera
house in that city and will make it
one of the best in Central Kentucky.
He has booked Coburn's minstrel
for Saturday, which attraction will
make a good "opener" for the house.
Mr.. Romans is one of the live wires
of Garrard.
Mat Blanton, who lives south of
Crab Orchard, was jerked out of a
cart to which he was driving a mule
late last week, and his head badly
cut. The injury was on his right tenn
pie and was very painful. Mr.. Blan-
ton was not prevented from coming
to court day sales Monday, however,
though he carried his head ''in a
sling"
Colonel Thomas j. Smith. of Rich
mond, died very suddenly in Cincin-
natl Tuesday night Death was due
to heart trouble. Mr.. Smith was
State Banking Commissioner under
Governor McCreary and has served
as an exalted ruler of the Elks. He
is survived by his wife and two chill
dren. Funeral services were held at
Richmond Friday.
L. 0. Martin, of Lilly Dale. Tenn,
who came to market here Monday
with a nice bunch of cattle, left his
little five-year-old daughter, i'll with
diphtheria when he left home and
was quite uneasy about her although
she had improved a great deal. His
other children had been treated with
anti-toXin to prevent them from hav-
ing this dread children's malady.
o. P. Newland was down, as usual
from Burnside, to attend court day
market here. He says that he will
be back again on Nov. 7th to vote
for Wilson and Marshall Forty-four
years ago he cast his vote for Tilden
and Hendricks and not once in that
time has he ever voted anything but
the straight Democratic ticket which
is certainly some record to be proud
of. Mr.. Newland says that he per-
sonally knows several lifelong Re
publicans in the section of Pulaski
where he is staying who are going
to cast their first Democratic votes
in a lifetime for Woodrow Wilson
this year. They tell Mr.. Newland
that Wilson has so far kept this
country out of the world war and
they are afraid in these critical times
to take a chance on changing when
so much is at stake.
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