The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1916-02-09
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County Road Engineers Association
was held at Lexington.
Getty Barnett, %. of WOODBURY., was
badly injured when he was caught in
shaft at a sawmill.
Forty alleged night riders will be
tried in the Hopkins Circuit Court al
the February teEm.
With the burning of $4,000 bonds
the Indebtedness of Warren County
was reduced to s1O9,500.
Danville will have a new large and
commodious hotel The contract will
be let this week.
One million feet of walnut lumber
Is burned at Ivel, near Pikeville. The
origin is believed to be of incendiary
The State Farmers Institute will
meet at Lexington. February is. II
and IL.
John Colgan, the first man who
manufactured chicle chewing gum
died of Bright's disease in Louisville
VIII Austin, aged 81 years, formerly
or Bradfordsville, shot and killed him
self in Chicago.
David Pickett, aged 13 of Munfords
Vile, was accidentally shot and killed
by his brother, Leonard, aged is.
Flood pours over levee at Hickman
and 1000 are homeless, and many SUI
fering from hunger and exposure.
Richard Pryor, oldest native either
of Graves county, died at his home
near Mayfield.
John B. Graves, rs, considered the
wealthiest man, in Central Kentucky
died at his home in Georgetown Of
cancer.
The Montgomery County High
School has added domestic science
and agricultural department to its
curriculum.
Scott Insko, of Central Ridge, was
paid $25.26 per hundred for his 1915
crop of tobacco, the highest price paid
for last years crop.
The Government has appropriated
5000 for building lookout stations in
the mountains of eastern Kentucky
to guard against forest fires.
H. F. Mustain, Of Horse Cave. who
isspending the winter in Florida, was
robbed Of large diamond, valued a
$500.
Warren county fiscal court have de
cided to ask for state aid on the
building of roads and will request ar
appropriation Of $4,000.
The Court of Appeals sustained the
right OF Kentucky to tax and restric
foreign insurance companies as the
state from which those companies
come restrict Kentucky companies.
Baseball fans at Bowling Green ar,
getting busy in order to take advan
tage of the opportunity of joining the
Kitty League, which is proposed to bt
revived this year.
Gov. Stanley pardoned Geo. w
Rhodes, convicted in Knox County il
1914 for forgery and sentenced to the
penitentiary for from two to tel
years.
/ Miss Roberta Tyler, deceased
makes Christ Church Cathedral, o.
Louisville, of which she was a life
long member. the beneficiary of abou
$4,000 now and $4,000 later.
DR.. w. d. Powell. who has been sec
rotary of the Baptist Mission BoarC
Of Kentucky for nine years. yielded
to opportunities Of the executive board
and withdrew his resignation.
Business conditions in the Eight
Federal Reserve district continue sat
isfactory and in the Fourth UNUSUAL,
good, according to the Federal Reserve
Board Kentucky is part of both.
The military departments of the
State University at Lexington anC
Kentucky Military Institute at Lyndor
will be inspected by Captain John
Kingman, u. S. A. General STAFF.
Mayor Hickman, OF Greensboro
offers two pennies for every rat tai
delivered to police headquarters; con
sequently. there has been a big de
crease in the rat family"
The Bowling Green Y. M. G. A. hai
added a class in calesthenics and ap
paratus work for the ladies. No otheI
Y M. c. A. in the state has THU
feature.
The Third district OF the Kentuck.
Federation of Woman's Clubs held Ii
second annual meeting at Harrods
burg. in the Methodist Church. Mrs
Cora Wilson Stewart presiding.
Road Builders week, a short cours'
OF instruction intended to exten,
modern methods of highway construc
tion In Kentucky, was held under thu