The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-05-19
Heard About Town

Col S. T. Harris went to London
on BUSINESS today.
Fred Bracket, of Cincinnati, who
has been here with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Bracket, returned home
Friday.
The Mozart Club will give an in
teresting program Monday even
ing at 8 P. M. Admission 25 and
35 cents. School children Is cents.
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eddie" Reichenbach in a Max
well was the winner of the $50 mile
Sheephead Bay race Saturday. He
will pilot a Maxwell in the 3OO-mile
sweepstake at Indianapolis Memorial
day.
Chief Bookkeeper Joe T. Embry,
of the Auditors Office at Frankfort,
came home today to attend the DEM
ocratic convention here tomorrow.
$50
John @. Rowland, clerk of the
Veranda Hotel, spent several days
at Moreland and Mckinney early in
the week, drinking the waters for his
health.
Capt. j. L. B. Coffey, clerk of the
Frankfort penitentiary, came III
Friday evening to visit his mother,
Mrs. Joseph Coffey, who continues
quite ill.
Mr.. Evan Lyon, of Gravel Switch,
has been here to see his sister, Mrs.
Bette Barnette, who recently re-
ceived a fall from which she has
been suffering very much.
The hustling Manning brothers,
of Turnersville, this week bought a
14-acre tract of land of George AL
corn on the Peyton's Well road in
the Turnersville section, for which
they paid $3.50. They plan to farm
it.
] C.. S. Woodland, of the Wilmore
Construction Company, was here
Wednesday looking over the work
which his crew has started in recon-
structing the Stanford and Crab Or
chard pike. He says that work will
be started from the Crab Orchard
end of the road very shortly.
Miss Josephine Hayden, OF Paris,
formerly of Stanford, has just been
appointed to a nice position in the
School for the Deaf at Jacksonville,
Ill. Miss Hayden stood highest in
the examination for the state of
Illinois and her grade was said to
be the second highest made by any
one taking this examination in the
United States. Her many friends
and relatives here are very proud
of the splendid work she is doing.
John Frank Stephenson, repre-,
senting the Merit Manufacturing
Company, of Mayfield, down II
western Kentucky, paid a visit tC
Lincoln this week and visited George
Stephenson and other relatives. Mr.
Stephenson is a native of Lincoln
being a son of the late L. V. Ste
phenson. He was given a cordia
welcome. This was his first visi
to his old home in thirty odd years
Local Agent w. l.. McCarty fol
the Dodge Brothers motor car, sole
couple of nice touring cars thi
week. Ed. H. Ballard, on the Lam
caster pike, bought one and thu
other goes to R. C. Hooker, on thu
Knob Lick pike. Mr.. McCarty ha
obtained the agency for one of tn
most satisfactory medium price,
cars on the market and is using SOM
printers ink in another column, a
! he knows that it pays to advertise
good thing when one finds it.
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Mat S. Cohen, Commissioner o
Agriculture, made fine selection
of head for the Horse Department
of the State Fair for this year whel
he landed clever bob" Elkin, bust
! ness manager of the Lancaster Rec
ord, for the job which has been hell
! before by Guthrie M. Wilson, O
Bardstown. Mr.. Elkin is one of tn
best posted horsemen this part O
the state and will make good any
;; where they place him.
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Lincoln county democrats will holt
mass convention at the court
house beginning at 1870 o'cloci
Saturday afternoon for the purpose
of naming 10 delegates and alter
mates to the state convention which
will be held in Lexington next Wed