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works.
J. Rich Young, Danville Pike, killed
SIX skunks in one night. He sold the
hides for $40.
Several distillers in western Ken
lucky are bidding on alcohol contracts
for the government
Bud Caldwell, Somerset, who had
his feet frozen about four weeks ago
had them amputated.
At the Lincoln Day banquet II
Louisville there were seated nineteer
persons who voted for Lincoln in 1854
Somerset will sell telephone fran
,chlse providing for an automatic ser
vice and some other improved con
ditions.
II. Y. Thomas, Jr., Kentucky repre-
sentative, has asked Congress fol
$4,000 10 use for the fight against the
tobacco worm.
Seventy-three million six thousand
two hundred and fifty pounds Of bur
ley was sold in Kentucky during the
month of January.
A s250.ooo bond issue carried by Q
majority of more than eight to one In
Harlan County for the Improvements
Of the county roads.
John H. Miller, Cincinnati, contrib
uted $4,000 to the Union Methodist
College Of Barbourville. 1t is the
largest donation received.
The contract for constructing the
government building at Ashland has
been awarded to r. P. Farnsworth &
Co., OF owensboro, at :59.2GG.
When playing in the yard at home
in Ashland, five-year-old child Of
J. ]. Gilbert fell into "a kettle OF boil
Ing water and was scalded to death.
John B. Graves, OF Georgetown, who
died two weeks ago, left an estate
worth over million. He was said to
be the only millionaire of Scott
County.
Miss Evelyn Hall was arrested and
taken to Whitesburg on the charge Of
bootlegging moonshine in the coal
fields. She executed bond in the sum
of $500.
Kentucky tobacco growers will prob
ably be seriously hurt by the prohibi
tion placed by England upon the i'm
portation OF any leaf of manufactured
tobacco.
No one known to have tuberculosis
will be permitted to use any book il
the Public Library at Maysville, &C
cording to recent order of the Boart
Of Health.
T. Garrett Wright, 80, leading den
fist of Flemingsburg, and Miss Carrie
Belle Blair, %, of Thornton, were di
vorced last August and were remar
ried few days ago.
George Tackett, 20, a teacher from
Elkhorn Creek, surrendered to officials
at Whitesburg, after severely wound
ing his uncle, John Adams, in fight
at Tackett's school.
The Louisville & Nashville's state
ment of earnings for the current fisca,
year since July / over the same pc
riod Of the previous fiscal year shows
an increase Of $3,529,0 900.
Raymond Greiner, II, and Johr
Johnson, Is, of Louisville, while
chasing rabbits, found the dead body
Of woman identified as Mrs. Kate Pen
dleton in Cherokee Park.
The Kentucky Retail Hardware arC
Stove Dealers Association held theh
annual meeting in Louisville and dis
cussed ways of lettering and increas
Ing business conditions.
Dick Richardson. OF Union County
lately married Mary Joe Brown, o
Cave City As the ages of the two
added together only make 32 years
they we're 16 years each.
w. Edwards, clerk in the store o,
Fayette Burnett. Glasgow Junction
shot and killed w. d. Sanders in
duel. Edwards was shot four times
He was arrested and placed in Jail.
Bad debts are the bane OF the mill
ing business in the State, according
to the opinions of prominent men
the annual session of the Central Ken
tucky Millers Association, in session
at Lexington.
Church Barley, Georgetown, who
shot and killed Or. J. w. Davis, wa.
sentenced from two to twenty-one
years in the penitentiary for man
slaughter by the Scott County grand
jury.
Forty-six new names have beer
added to the Confederate pension list
During the last four years. since the
Confederate pension act has been IL
existence, there have been S,433 pen
sions granted.
t. A. Smith. OF Thine. bought tn,
largest hog reported in the county
from Bob Moreland, near Pinclney
vile. It weighed $40 lbs, payins
$50.92. II is Duroc and little over
two years old.
The Paducah and Muhlenburg Pres
byteries will hold laymen's meeting
in Hopkinsyille on May 3. and
The territory embraced in the two
presbyteries covers 81 counties Of
Western Kentucky.
Private Bryant. OF Blake. Ky, has
been wounded and his left leg ampu
tated. according to overseas casualty
list made public nv the militia deDart