The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1917-10-05

| May Enter Race For Legislature.
The important matter of electing
four lay and four clerical delegates to
the tri-centenary session, of the Gen
eral Conference of the Southern Meth
odist church, to be held at Atlanta
next year, was one of the chief mat
tiers before the Louisville Conference
sessions. Another feature was the
presentation of resolution from the
Kentucky Conference. that it and the
Louisville Conference be merged so
as to solidify and strengthen Method
ism and its institutions in the state.
When his son, who w7s called for
service in the national army. left re-
Gently for Camp Taylor, Virgil L. An
derson, of Rockport, Ohio county. 1t is
alleged, went to the station with him,
and in the presence of other national
army men and large crowd abused
every branch of the government and
every public official from the Presi-
dent down to members Of the local
draft board. AS a result Anderson was
placed under arrest.
w. Logan Shearer, OF Lexington,
having been declared to be ineligible
because of the location of his resi-
dence, Rev. j. w. Porter. pastor of the
First Baptist church and vice presi-
dent of the Kentucky Anti-Saloon
League, is considering proposal that
he run as an independent candidate
for the legislature against William +.
Klair, Democrat
Three Ohio county physicians have
been notified to report for active duty
in the Officers Medical Reserve Corps.
Drs. A. B. Riley and b. F. Dewitt go
to Fort Benjamin Harrison, while Dr.
f. w. Fort will go TO Fort Ogelthorpe,
Georgia.
Seyenty-eight more men have been
drawn in Hickman county, this being
the third call necessary in order to
get the fun quota Of 1913, nearly all
married men having been exempted
and others failing to pass the exami-
nation in the first two calls.
John Williams pleaded guilty TO
charge of obtaining money under false
pretenses. at Winchester, and was
given sentence of one, three, three
and FIVE years, respectively, on four
indictments.
Bony Hall. deputy jailer of Whites
burg. shot and instantly killed Thos.
lawson, 35 years old, at Neon, above
The officer, it is claimed,
went to arrest Lawson, who resisted,
pulling a revolver. Lawson was shot
through the head.
After the testimony of thirty or
more witnesses had been heard and
arguments of counsel made, the case
Of the Commonwealth against Morgan
X. Finch, of Carlisle county, on
charge of murder, went to the jury in
the circuit court at Carlisle.
Mrs Rissie Garrett, arrested on a
charging her with raising a
money order from SIS to $50 at Nicho-
lasville, KY, is being held in the Gov
ington Jail. She was indicted by the
federal grand jury at Catlettsburg last
May.
The First Kentucky Brigade, COM
posed of the First Regiment, now at
Louisville, and the Second and Third
Regiments of Infantry, which have |
been at Camp Stanley and including
several other brigade organizations.
will probably pass out of existence as
| separate organizations soon after its |
arrival at Hattiesburg, Miss. This is
he statement of a Lexington man |
high in military rank.
With DR.. e. B. Chappell, OF Nash
lille, as the principal speaker. the an
liversary of the Sunday-school board |
vas celebrated by the Louisville Meth |
,dist Conference at Hopkinsville. |
Bishop W. A. Gambler. OF Atlanta,
on the temptations of Christ |
md the big auditorium was crowded
o overlooking.
J. A. Gilman, of Greenville, who has |
'ecently been commissioner as cap |
ain in the U. S. Engineers Corps, has
been ordered to report for duty at |
Fort Leavenworth. Mr.. Gilman came
% Muhlenburg county, and for eight
Years has been superintendent Of the
Ireenville Light and Water Co.
Suit for divorce was filed in the
clerks Office of Bourbon county cir
cult court at Paris, by attorneys rep
Mrs. Mamie Clay Howard,
wife of Edward w. Howard. In the
petition Mrs. Howard says that since
their marriage her husband has treat
ed her in such cruel and inhuman
manner as to show a settled aversion,
and to permanently destroy peace and
A big patriotic meeting was held at
Hindman last Thursday, following
which the Knott county quota of about
forty men left for an overland hike
for Hazard and there boarded Lou.
isville & Nashville train for Camp
Zachary Taylor.
Eleven insane men, four cripples
and four men with glass eyes, ma
jority Of whom reside in Indiana, were
among the 225 draftees excused from
army service in final medical exami'
nations conducted at Camp Taylor.
All Of these men we're members Of the
sacond contingent that reached Louis