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inc Stale OF kentucky about u ,hu'
December ] for use on the roads be
ing reconstructed under State aid.
A big Democratic rally will be held
I'm louisville Friday night, September
% al which Secretary of War Kew
ten u. Baker will speak.
officers OF the Louisville and Ken
tncky Master Bakers convention say
people of Louisville are row getting
loavcs OF bread a third smaller than
formerly for 8 cents.
The scarcity of coal cars will cause
n coal famine in many of the cities and
towns of Kentucky in the next sixty
days II relief is not forthcoming. &C.
coriing TO c. II. Coleman, general man.
agcr of Pineville coal company.
More than 5000 hogs in Kentucky
have been submitted to treatment
with globulin against cholera with the
result that the superiority of the re.
fined serum over the unrefned has
been demonstrated
Dr. T. Il. Welch. OF Nicholas lille.
declined to accept the secretarysh ship
OF the Kentucky tuberculosis Com.
mission The place pays 81 500 a
year. The commission selected DR..
Wclch to succeed Colonel l.. M Maus,
whose term has expired.
Governor Stanley appointed Miss
Jessie Yancey, of Maysviile, a member
of the state tuberculosis Commission
TO fill out the unexpired term of Mrs.
Desha Hreckinridge. resigned. Miss
Yancey is County School Superintend.
eni Of Mason county.
Attention has been brought to the
farmers of the dark tobacco district
that they should save all their tobacco
suckers. Warehouse men claim that
they will be in a position to pay good
prices for this class of tobacco this
year.
At NJ. f. Church, South. conference
in Nicholasvile the gift of an Oldham
county farm worth $4,000, to be used
rs the lOvatiOn of an Industrial school.
was reported by the Board of Church
Extension. The donor of the farm was
not a member of the church.
The Campbellsville Telephone Com.
pany, the Pinchem. Elkhorn and
Evansville Telephone Company and
the Csmpbellsville and Greensburg
Telephone Company desire to consoli-
date. and have filed application with
the State Railroad Commission asking
for the authority to make the merger
c. X. johnson, of Talega, and Charles
Habit. formerly of Hazel Green, have
rtaf Nhn na,tE - a
County News and will resume publ.
cation OF the paper. The first issue
VIII appear the first week in October.
The paper will be Democratic in poll
tics.
As against nominal shortage OF
Boo or 600 cars at this season, the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com
pany has reached a shortage of 1900
freight cars for the entire system The
depletion in rolling stock was ascribed
at the general Offices of the road to
various conditions
In the local option election held in
Cumberland County Saturday, eight
precincts out of nine gave q dry"
majority OF 81. The "drys" carried
the county by an estimated majority
OF 900. This election will close down
three small distilleries and a half
dozen roadhouses.
Federal Judge Cochran, who con.
yened the fall term of Federal Court
In Frankfort Monday has issued a new
rule providing that any case remain.
ing on the docket for four consecu.
tive terms without proceedings other
than orders for continuance, will be
dismissed
Mrs. ]. c. c. Mayo, widow of Colonel
John C. c. Mayo, late of Paintsville,
who did so much to develop the Big
Sandy region, was married Saturday
ito DIR s. p. Fetter. of Portsmouth.
DIR. Fetier and Mrs. Mayo met last
winter while both were at Miami, Fla.
The wedding was solemnized in Ash
land. The wedding was quiet affair.
A. II. Curran, of Maysville, directed
the attention of Secretary of the Navy
Daniels and members OF the General
Board of the navy to a tract of 800
acres at Dover, Mason county, Ken
lucky, as a desirable site for the pro.
posed Government armor plant The
tract is the old fighting ground of Dan,
iel Boone and the Kentons.
Uncle" John Shell, 108 years old,
was seriously injured near his home
in Leslie county when his mule fell
with him while he was returning from
Hyden, the county seat. Mr.. Shell was
born in 1905 in Tennessee His wife
died less than two years ago at the
age Of lO6 years. Mr.. Shell soon
afterward married again and has
baby at his house.
Instead of granting the appeal OF
Rodman Wiley for remission OF the
fine OF $3.50 assessed against him for
violation Of the laws OF navigation,
which resulted in the drowning of four
passengers in his motor boat Lapaz,
I'm the Kentucky river, instructions
have been sent by the Department of
Commerce at Washington to collect
the full amount of the fine
Unable TO extricate its head from
. three-gallon can which had been left
al the barn, a valuable Jersey bull on
the farm OF win Long, near Russell.
VILE. drowned itself In a nearby pond
One hour later Mr. Long found the
bull standing perfectly erect in the
pond. In Its desperate efforts TO rid
itself of the encumbering can, the
bovine put its head into the water and
held II there.