The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-08-11
Heard About Town

G. H. Masters, local liveryman, has
added another Ford touring car to
his equipment, making two he IS now
using in MS business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Boyd, of the
Hubble section, are receiving con-
gratulations upon the birth OF baby
daughter.
Walter Anderson and wife, of the
Hedgeville section, are receiving con-
gratulations upon the arrival of a
bouncing boy in their home.
Deputy Internal Revenue Collectors
Fish and Cantrill, who have been
looking over local narcotic sales rec
ords this week, left Wednesday for
Mt. Vernon and Corbin.
Harry Jacobs says that Congress
man Harvey Helm has notified him
that he has obtained pension for
Mrs. Lucy 3. Jacobs, widow of the
late Daniel Jacobs, of Waynesburg.
News comes from Hood River,
of this county, is chief Of police of
that little city OF some 5000 inhabi-
tants, and that he is making an ex-
cellent Official.
Due to the solicitation of Mrs.
Mary E. Welch, the L. & N, has
agreed to erect 2 small waiting shed
or depot at Hayden's Switch, about
mile north of Rowland, which will
be quite a convenience to those using
that station.
W. II. Higgins has bought a nifty
Ford delivery truck, and has learned
TO drive it himself. He practiced
"baeking her up in the lot in the
rear of the Presbyterian church, but
the damage to the building is not
thought sufficiently serious to cause
the congregation any uneasiness.
News has been received from Flor
ida that Col. I. N. Bruce, of this city,
who is in charge Of a section of work
on the construction Of the Dixie
beCwcan Leasburg nd Mas
colt, has just been very highly COM
mended by the engineers in charge
for the splendid character of road
work which he has done.
John Engleman, who has been
campaigning his crack three year-uld
trotter Harrod's Creek over the
grand circuit tracks, was called home
by the serious condition Of his broth
er, r. C. (BUb) Engleman. Mr. En-
gleman has a stake winner in Har-
rods Greek and viii race him lit
tie later at the Lexington trOts. He
has him entered in several of the
biggest stakes there including the
$1,000 Three-year-old Futurity.
Mr.. Morgan Smith Baughnan, the
young hOrseman from Stanford, who
had his string on the local grounds,
has in his number one OF the finest
specimens of light horseflesh ever
seen in this part Of the state-a mare
pony, Just a little too large for the
pony cless, but fits well in the phae-
ton pony class This mare is undefeat-
ed in her class. He recently sold
her to Jones Brothers, of Tennessee,
for $3.50, but is to keep her for the
Fair circuit.-Danville Advocate.
Taylor Wesley, the staff of the
Louisville postofice, and Prof. L. G.
Wesley, principal of the High School
at Colliersville, Tenn, were in Stan
ford a short while Thursday shaking
hands with their many friends. These
gentleman lived at Waynesburg, this
county, number of years ago, and
are sons Of the late Silas Wesley, of
the Bethel Ridge section, of Casey
county.
]. F. Cook. the widely known
breeder and horseman of Lexington
and formerly of Lincoln county, was
host Monday night at seven-course
dinner, at his home on West Third
street, in Lexington, to three promi-
nent representatives of foreign pow
ers who are in the United States to
purchase horses and jacks for large
interests which they represent. The
guests include Carl Luttgen, mana
ger of the Casa Grande ranch in
Peru, the largest estate in the world
devoted to the breeding of live
stock, who is here to buy gated
stations and jacks; DR.. Lionel Shan
non, of the British West Indies, who
is here for jacks, jennets, saddle and
Percheon horses for sugar planters
in the three islands of st. Kits, An
tigua and Trinidad, and DR.. Honore
F. Lame, of Havana, Cuba, who has
been in Kentucky for several weeks
purchasing saddle horses for deer
hunting on one of the big Cuban es-
tates. The occasion proved a most
delightful one for both host and
guests.