The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1916-10-13
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Charles Evans Hughes, Republican
presidential nominee, will speak in
/ Ashland and other points in the Big
Sandy valley on October 18th.
| Senator Ollie James will spend ten
days in Kentucky speaking for Will
son and Marshall. He will begin 4t
Mayfeld October 10th, and close at
Eikeville October 26th.
! Roy A. Dickson, abductor OF IL
year-old Catherine Lethig, Of Louis
vile, was shot and killed by Sheriff
j. L. Smith IL miles east of Shelby
| vile.
| Louis Lee Haggin is planning to
eclipse the $250,O 900 residence butt
hear Lexington on the part of Elmen-
dorf inherited from his grandfather,
James Haggin.
John Weddle, a conductor who runs
q passenger train from Memphis to
Bowling Green was shot fatally by a
negro passenger whom he was trying
to put OFF the train.
| A woman has right to protect her
home, Police Judge J. ]. Riley at Lex
ington ruled, in Diminishing Mrs. Lula
Davis. who used broom to chastise
her husband after she had broken a
window to get at him.
Miss Laura Goodbar 46 years old.
4 resident of Lexington. Va. fell or
jumped to her death Sunday night
from second-story window OF sani-
tarium in Louisville, where she was
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 800
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 a.
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 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 farmer in the neigh,
borhood Warrants will be issued.
The Rev. W. B. Ragan, of Little
| Hickman. is the owner of horse IS
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 J. H. Gray, barber, fined $50 for
4 working on Sunday. The Court held
that doing regular barbering on the
Sabbath for customers of the shop is
not work Of necessity.
President Milton H. Smith, of the
L. & N, has been ordered by the Su
preme Court of the District of Column.
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, y
said Leslie Dowell, 20 years old son
of Thomas Dowell, 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.
alive reports have been received from
the state laboratory or city labora-
tory. and scarlet fever quarantine
must not be raised under. thirty days,
according to recent ruling OF the
State Board of Health.
Attorneys for Mrs. Alice Bridgeford
Carrier and Robert NJ Carrier, mil
lionaire lumberman whom she is SUI
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 $270,OOO.
| A complete tabulation of the wom-
en- voters who registered at the regu-
lar registration at Lexington reveals
the fact that only 43S we're granted
certificates, compared with 751 last
year, so per cent decrease. In sew
eral precincts not woman voter ap-
peared.
Two negro children, two and four
years old. were burned to death in a
fire which destroyed cabin on the
farm OF W, w. Carter. near. Elkton
The mother. Caroline Stovall. was
cooking dinner for the Carter fam.
lily and had left the children In the
cabin.
| In order to increase attendance at
the Presbyterian Sunday School at
Nicholasville. Wiimare R. A. Dood and
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