Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-10-05

has been living in Somerset for
past two years and is sadly
afflicted with locomOrtor ataxia.
Another Rockcastle boy writes.
Victor H. Brown, son of Jarvis
Brown, Level Green, says that
after a number of years spent
in telegraph and railroad bust
ness, he has entered the auditing
department of the Sinclair Oil
and Gas Co., of Tulsa, Oklaho-
ma. wish you would sit down
sometime and write me few
lines as l never hear from any
of the old boys, but perhaps
will get pretty good lines on
most of them thru the Signal.
There were Lloyd, Minor Fish,
Jim Proctor, Joe Newland, the
Bryant and Pennington boys,
Conn Brown, myself and a mum
Der of others, all of us hammered
away on the ED grape vine"
telegraph line that reached from
Mt. Vernon via David Bryants.
and on beyond Buckeye. This
was the star ting point for
quite a number of telegraph
operators who have made good.
I sure would love to run into
the old bunch once more-Jim
Minor and Lloyd have passed
over the Great Divide. Give US
all you can on this subject. We
think it most interesting"
Everett c. Brown of Level
Green is ticket agent for c. G.
w. R'y, Mason City, Iowa.
Jack Brown, from Level Green
IS with the Pennsylvania rail.
road at Frankfort, Indiana.
Some of the farmers and stock
men, over here, have neat signs
at their front gate by roadside
This one appealed to the writer.
Locust Grove Farm, BowyeI
Brothers, breeders of high grad
short horn cattle. Drive in you
are always welcome" 1t occurs
to us that anyone owning a place
abu ting highway should have
the name of the owner posted at
the entrance thereof and thu
name of his farm, if it has one
1t would save lots of time eSpec
tally to travellers and strangers
desiring to find some particula1
place. Turn t. the right al
Bill Jones, follow the neighbor
hood road across his farm and
you Will find Joe AnderSon's
place about a mile away" Now
i Bill Jones has his a sign up
at his gate all is good and we'll,
not the traveller may drive by
his place or have to make in
IA rics at every house and every
person he should happen to meet.
Put up signs.
Typewriters shown on screen
in picture shows are usually O!
The Oliver brand
Automobile licenses issued in
Kentucky up to Septem Der 21s;
numbered 44753 1t is claimed
that OHIO has ISSUED somet hing
like 400, 900 during 1917.
1t will be rememb c~ed that
following the routing of Laurel
end Of Dixie Boone via mouth of
Parkers Creek, there Is some
criticism over it in which the
name of the Hon. Nat &. Sewell
was mentioned as being the prime
mover in this particular louting
direction, from ulterior motives
The writer was not one of those
critics. 1t is great source of
satisfaction to know of the big
work done by this son of the
mountains when mainly thru his
efforts $50 Geo Of Federal aid was
switched to Rockca>tle and Laurel
for the purpose of finishing the
gap in this great highway. This
was accomplished even after it
had virtually been decided by
the Sinking Fund Com missioners
to apply the whole Federal aid
fund to the construction of one
thru highway across the State of
Kentucky. Friend Sewell got
busy, and found good mountain
friends in the persons of our
Governor and Commissioner OF
Public Roads, and the deed was
done. The Dixie Boone people