Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-03-30
KENTUCKY NEWS
An Epitone. of Most Important
Events ,Transpiring i'm the State

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Paris.-At a meeting of the direc-
tors of the Bourbon Tobacco. Ware
house Co., consolidated" here, div
idend of IL per cent was declared.
-Stanford's "a n d m e
courthouse, built five years ago, has
been damaged by fire. The blaze start
ed on the second floor. The loss is
about $4,000.
Observation-Disclosures struck
barn on ]. ]. Prices farm near Fair
view and killed two mules. Lightning
also struck Winfield O'Brien's stable
near town and killed mule.
Lexington.-Lady Walnut Hill has
Just laid her seventy-sixth egg in as
many consecutive days. She is at the
Kentucky Experiment Station, where
she is in the federal egg-laying con-
test.
in this city to erect in Mcdowell Park
a monument in bronze or marble to
perpetuate the name of Theodore
O'Hara, who was born here in 1920.
1t is proposed to raise by popular sub
scription a fund sufficient to erect
creditable memorial.
Lexington.-The Executive Commit
tee of the University of Kentucky
Board of Trustees approved the pro-
posal to establish at the university
reserve officers training corps under
Act Capt. John c. Fairfax, U. S. A,
commandant at the university, will be
in charge.
Albany.-Taylor Poison, about rs
years old, a veteran of the Union
army, is charged with killing his step
son, Thomas Parmley, 10 years old, at
Nora, in this county. Poison was ar
rested and is being guarded at his
home, where he is recovering from an
attack of illness and is, as yet, unable
to come to town.
Paris.-In the Bourbon Circuit Court
Ella Walters and George Cravens, who
were jointly indicted on the charge of
HOUSEKEEPING and stealing a lot of
brass from the Paris Gas & Electric
Co., were each sentenced to serve
three years in the penitentiary. The
Walters woman is the first white wom-
an to be sent to the penitentiary from
Bourbon county in over twenty years.
Frankfort.-Rodman Wiley, Com
missioner of the Department of Public
Roads, has written letter to all
County Judges in Kentucky, asking
that in building gravel or macadam
roads this year material be left every
1000 feet along the road to be used
for maintenance. Mr.. Wiley points
out that this would effect great saw
ing in the cost of maintaining roads
that are built new or reconstructed.
Louisville.-Many Kentucky distil.
1ers are watching with unusual inter
est the outcome of a suit in the federal
court here by Albert Casey, admins
traitor of the state, suing for the bene-
fit of the Kentucky Distilleries and
Warehouse Company to recover from
J. Scott Mayes, collector of internal
revenue of the Fifth district of Ken
lucky $4,000 penalties assessed be-
cause of alleged equalization" frauds.
Henderson.-The Henderson cotton
mills was awarded judgment for S95S
by a jury in Judge Young's court
against the Chicago, St. Louis & New
Orleans Railroad Co. for a strip OF
land less than half an acre, which the
road sought to condemn for railroad
purposes. A value of $4,000 was placed
on the land by the mills. The rail
road offered to purchase at $500. This
was the first condemnation suit tried
in this city in fifty years.
Observation-Disclosures Josh" Robin.
son is going to the Confederate re.
union in Washington. They have al
ready made arrangements for a place
for him to stay-"because they are
mighty particular about me now that
l am the only colored man left to 60
to the reunions" he says. Uncle
Josh" is the only black man in the
United States who wears the Southern
Cross of Honor, given by the United
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Barbourville.-Heads OF Is national
banks of Southeastern Kentucky and
Northeastern Tennessee met at Cor.
bin, to consider the recent ruling OF
Comptroller Williams, limiting inter.
est to be charged on loans to per
cent. 1t was the consensus of opinion
that smaller national banks will have
to take out state charters if this ruling
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