Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1916-06-23
MEMBER OF
KENTUCKY PRESS A SSOCIATION
OUR BOONE WAY MAN
In Winchester
BY JAMES MARET.

Col. K. K. Perry, OF this place,
Is spending the warm months at
WaltOnia, his summer retreat, six
miles above Livingston, up Rock
castle river, near Crews Ferry on
Boone's Tail.
Crews Ferry, we are told, took
its name from Zach Crews who was
born in Madison county in 1902
died in 1888 and his remains are in
Winchester cemetery.
The writer has made arrange
ments to have photograph made
of the monument of Capt. James
Estill, which is in Richmond
cemetery. 1t was erected by rel
atives some so years ago and is in
a fair state of preservation, tho
time begins to show its relentless
hand thereon. The monument
is about fifteen feet in height sur
mounted by Life size statue of
that celebrated historical person
age.
Winchester will send booster
train" into eastern Kentucky to
advertise her big fair and the city's
business interests
Judge S. B. Dishmon, of Bar
bOurville, a warm Boone Way and
good highways advocate, put the
good roads, plank into the
National Democratic platform at
the st. Lonls convention last week
Pretty good for the mountains of
south eastern Kentucky. The
Republican platform max IS no
mention OF good roads, one of the
leading questions of general inter
est before the American public
today.
The Searcy family, at this place
has an old Boone" chair, which
has been handed down thru var
ious families since the days of
the great Indian slayer.
Cleveland Hays, a Rockcastle
boy, is operator at Patio, in south
Winchester, the junction of the
new road from here to Irvine.
Russell Proctor, of Mt. Vernon,
is operator at Heidelberg. He is
making an eff TT to be transferred
to Winchester. Every one Of the
boys would like to locate in the
Clark county capital.
We met a travelling man, in
the drug store of c. c. Davis (the
Brown ProclOria Pharmacy that
has the gift of writing names or
sentences upside down and ba' k
ward, and can write with two
pencils at the same time, begin
ing at common center writing
to right and left, the writing
to the right is just plain writing
but that TO the left is reverse and
backward and must be placed be-
fore looking glass to be read
easily. He does this double writ.
ing and carries on conversations
with bystanders at the same time
The writer has preserved samples
of the writings.
Since the writer dubbed j. A.
Oliver "hello 10" all OF his numer
Gus friends address him by thai
salutation.
The Clark County Republican
will shortly begin publishing a
number of illustrations and ex.
tracts from advance sheets OF
Maret's history of Daniel Boone,
Trails and Highways.
Winchester Rockcastle colony
here, including DR.. M. L. Meyers
Cleveland Hays, c. G. Davis and
]. A. Oliver and Miss Nola Jones
requests the writer to send their
best regards to all old friends
back in the mountains.
The Boones in Winchester are
the lineal descendants of Squire
Boone, brother of Daniel.
The celebration and silver jub
lice held by the engineering
department of the University Of
Kentucky last month when
monument was dedicated to the
first railroad built west of the
Alleghanies, at which many prom
inent and leading railroad officials
were present. recalls the fact that
the writer's father George d.