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A movement is on foot whereby
Winchester may own local water
works.
]. Rich Young, Danville Pike, killed
six skunks in one night. He sold the
hides for SO.
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 in
Louisville there were seated nineteen
persons who voted for Lincoln in 1864.
Somerset will sell telephone fran
chise providing for an automatic SER
vice and some other improved con-
ditions.
r. Y Thomas, Jr., Kentucky repre-
sentative has asked Congress for
$4,000 to use for the fight against the
tobacco worm.
Seventy-three million six thousand
two hundred and fifty pounds of bur
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month of January.
A $250,000 bond issue carried by
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 greensboro, at $4,000
When playing in the yard at home
ir Ashland, five-year-old child of
]. ]. 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 a 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 5000.
Kentucky tobacco growers will prob
ably be seriously hurt by the prohibit
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 in
the Public Library at Maysyille, ac-
cordng to a recent order of the Board
of Health.
7. Garrett Wright, 80, leading den,
fist of Flemingsburg, and Miss Carrie
Belle Blair, 20, of Thornton, were di-
vOrced last August and were remar-
ried a few days ago.
George Tackett, 20, teacher from
Elkhorn Creek, surrendered to officials
at Whitesburg, after severely wound
ing his uncle, John Adams, in a fight
at Jackets school.
The Louisville & Nashville's state.
ment of earnings for the current fiscal
year since July l over the same pc
riod of the previous fiscal year shows
an increase Of $3,529, 900.
! Raymond Greiner, II, and John
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 and
Stove Dealers Association held their
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, Of
Cave City. As the ages of the two
added together only make 80 years,
they were 16 years each.
w. Edwards, a clerk in the store of
Fayette Burnett, Glasgow Junction,
shot and killed w. ID. Sanders in a
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 at
| the annual session of the Central Ken.