The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1917-06-08
poINGs THE COUNTRY OVER

Boyle county people have subscrlb
ed for $144,000 worth of Liberty
Loan Bonds. Her quota is $196, 900
Wilson Haldeman Escott, for II
years secretary of the Louisville Wa.
ter Co., is dead at his home near
Shelbyville.
An oil drilling outfit was unloaded
at Moreland this week and was haul
ed to Liberty, near which place drill
ing will begin at once.
Buck Griffin hung himself in his
barn at Grayson. He was just getting
over spell of typhoid fever and his
mind was in bad shape.
DIR. George N. Jean, of Danville,
has been selected an eye specialist
and will go to France with Unit A,
Pttsburg Presbyterian Hospital.
Forest fires in the Minsk region
have destroyed 100000 bushels of
wheat and the big elevators at Sara
toff. says dispatch from Petrograd.
Charles Sawyer, of Somerset, was
held in $4,000 by Commissioner
Lawwill, of Danville, on the charge
of having violated the liquor laws.
Mrs. Mamie B. Balwdin, whose
home was at Nicholasville, is dead
at Lovington, N. NJ, where she was
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Will
Casey.
Henry Harris, a prominent Bullitt
county farmer, was found dead at
his home near Shepherdsville. He is
supposed to have shot himself acct
dentally.
Lancaster has the promise of a
canning factory. 1t is hoped that it
will prove better thing financially
than the two that have born and died
in this county.
The United Confederate Veterans
reelected Gen. George P. Harrison,
of Opelika, Ala, Commander-in-
Chief and selected Tulsa, Okla, as
the place for the next annual re-
union. -,
Richard H.. Sparkling, Louisville
matchmaker, ended his life by diving
from the third story of the Young
Mems Christian Association build
ing. He is said to have brooded over
a love affair.
Brooding over her husbands reg
is;er;ng for army sert'tc Mrs. Hen
ry Hutchinson cut her thcoat and hel
husband found her on mis- return from
work lying dead in . "o"l Ct blood
between her two little children.
An effort was made to wreck the
train on which Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood went to Birmingham, but the
work of the scoundrels was for
naught. A log was discovered tied to
the track a few miles South OF
Chattanooga. =,
Five are known to have lost their
lives, and about twenty were injured
as the result of tornado that swept
down upon Bevier, mining town
of 500 inhabitants near Central
City, in Western Kentucky, Wednes-
day afternoon.
The Harvester. c:o1 trotting, was
sold bv C. X. G. Billings, of New |
York, for $4,000 to Paul Kuhn, OF
Terre Haute, Ind. Directum l.. hold
err of IA worlds harness records was
bought from Mr.. Billings by 5. 5.
Shurter, of Ellenville, N Y, for 49, |
200. i
John L. Helm, ST., was hit and
killed by an automobile truck IT.
Louisville Thursday. Mr.. Helm was
the son of Gov. Helm, twice the |
Chief Executive of the State. and
was prominent in financial circles
He was a distant relative of Con-
gresham Helm of this city. =,
Resigning his appointment to the
Federal Reserve Officers Camp at
Fort Benjamin Harrison. Ind, Ken
meth Alexander, of Woodford county,
probably the weathiest young man IN
Kentucky, has left for France to be
an ambulance driver for the Allies,
He is a turfman and farmer owning
some of the best racers in America.