The bee., 1916-10-10


an inmate.
AS proof OF what Pulaski County
is doing in pork raising Earl Brink
ley, the owner of an 11-months-old
Duroc Jersey pig that weights $50
pounds, carried off the blue at the
Somerset fair.
Marion has one Of the few schools
in the state that is giving special at
tention to the science of agriculture.
There is being taught in this school a
course in animal husbandry, agron-
omy and horticulture.
Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall
will speak in Paducah on October IA,
according to an announcement of Dem
ocratic State Headquarters in Louis
vile. No other Kentucky city will be
visited by him on this trip.
The Harlan Enterprise has been
forced by the extremely high cost of
paper and printing Office supplies to
reduce its weekly edition to a four
page paper from eight pages, its for
mer size.
Masked men went to the home of
Paul Berry, eight miles northwest of
Clinton, and whipped Berry and his
wife. Bloodhounds trailed the men
to the home of a farmer in the neigh
borhood. Warrants will be issued.
The Rev. w. B. Ragan; of Little
Hickman, is the owner Of horse So
years old. In the years gone by, when
Mr.. Ragan was Circuit rider" he
would drive old TOP" from one ap-
pointment to another. The horse was
foaled in Lincoln County.
The Court of Appeals affirmed the
Jefferson Circuit Court in the case
Of ]. H. Gray, barber, fined $50 for
working on Sunday. The Court held
that doing regular barbering on the
Sabbath for customers of the shop is
not a work Of necessity.
President Milton H. Smith, Of the
L. & ~, has been ordered by the SUI
preme Court of the District of Colum-
bia to answer questions by the Inter-
state Commerce Commission relative
to the L. & MS contributions to cam
paign funds.
"Keep this in remembrance of me-"
said Leslie Dowell. 23 years old, son
of Thomas Dowell, a farmer, near
Gradyville, as he. handed his watch
to his sister. The youth then went
to his room and killed himself with
shot gun.
Diphtheria patients must not be re-
leased from quarantine until two neg
ative reports have been received from
the state laboratory or a city labora-
tory, and scarlet fever quarantine
must not be raised under thirty days,
according to a recent ruling OF the
State Board Of Health.
Attorneys for Mrs. Alice Bridgeford
Carrier and Robert M. Carrier, mil
lionaire lumberman whom she is su-
ing for divorce and alimony in the
Louisville courts, have reached an
agreement whereby Mrs. Carriers suit
for alimony will be settled by the pay
ment to her of approximately $27O,OOO
A complete tabulation of the wom-
en- voters who registered at the regu-
lar registration at Lexington reveals
the fact that only 438 were granted
certificates, compared with ISL last
year. a so per cent decrease In sew
eral precincts not a woman voter ap-
peared.
Two negro children, two and four
years old were burned to death in
fire which destroyed a cabin on the
farm Of w. w. Carter, near Elkton.
The mother, Caroline Stovall, was
cooking dinner for the Carter fam
fly and had left the children in the
cabin.
In order TO increase attendance at
the Presbyterian Sunday School at
Nicholasville, Wilmare r. A. Dood and
T. II. Lowry furnished free trips and
tickets to a circus a Lexington to
every child who promised to attend
Sunday School every Sunday until
Christmas.
Mrs. Peggy Pruitt, Of Allen Springs,
Allen County, rode on a railroad train
Saturday for the first time, when she
travelled to Sturgis TO visit relatives.
She had never before seen loco.
motive. She is 70 years old and was
accompanied to Sturgis by her broth
er. John Harmon.