Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-05-19
QUIZ BOONE WAY MAN
In Winchester

The writer came to Winches
ter last week on an assignment of
State Road inspection. The pres
ent work is reconstruction of the
Lexington turnpike out of Win.
chester.
This city is different" to quite
a number of others in which we
nave spent time. The people are
so friendly to the stranger. 1t is
not just few who greet you with
unfeigned heartiness; it is the
whole bunch. Nearly everyone
you meet on the street has a
hearty good morning or evening
for you as they pass by. The city
is larger affair than we expect
ed to find. Its population is
something like 10000. 1t has a
street railway and all modern con.
yeniences, including four rail-
roads and fine turnpike system.
Main street and Broadway are
brick paved, and Lexington Ave
nue. is asphalted. Main street at
night is Winchester's Great White
Way. being up-to-date In that
electrical lire. Two telegraph
systems are found here, the Postal
and Western Union. The writer
has not forgotten the system OF
dots aud dashes that he was &C.
customed to some twenty years
ago and does part of his loafing in
hearing of the saunders"
A number of manufacturing es-
Establishments are found here.
The Hagan Gasoline Engine is
among the products. and is said
10 be as good as the best.
Winchester Roller Milk has a
big reputation.
Out on Lexington pike, about
two miles from the city1 found
the factory of the Mccormick
Brothers, who have patented and
are manufacturing the best blue.
grass seed s:ripper on the market.
Their building is about 40 by $50
feet and their product on hands
is probably twenty car loads of
completed machines. A machine
is pulled by single horse. Some
of the larger seed growers use
from fifteen to twenty machines.
Winchester is almost a city of
churches and I am told that the
big membership of the various
denominations accounts. to a large
extent for that friendliness and
fellowship shown among citiz-ns
and to visitors and strangers.
The old Presbyterian church
building, is on South Main Street
and is located diagonally opposite
the Brown-Proctoria Hotel. 1t is
of brick and was erected in 1857
1t is now occupied by the printing
establishment of the Winchester
Daily Sun, the church organiza.
ton having built a little further
down the street a much more
commodious and pretentious
building in 1894. The First Christ
ian Church also has a splendid
building and about the strongest
organization in the city. The Cen.
trail Baptist Church, on Lexing-
ton Avenue, has a fine new build,
ing. Diagonally opposite is the
building of the Disciples of Christ
a branch of the Christian Church,
which will not permit IN organ or
instrumental music in their SER
vices. Among some of the other
church buildings l have seen are
the First Presbyterian, Washing
ton Street Presbyterian, Imman-
uel Episcopal. First Christian,
Methodist and Catholic; the larger
number being located on Main
street. Main Street and Broad
way don't run parallel here but
cross each other about the center
of the city.
There are eight brothers of the
Gilbert family living out a few
miles from the city that are re-
markable from the fact that like
the old story in the third reader,
decades ago, that we old fellows
read when We were boys The
Giloert's father called them be
fore him before he died and re.