Licking Valley courier., 1917-03-29


Parls.-At a meeting of the direc.
tors of the Bourbon Tobacco Ware
house Co., consolidated" here, div
idend Of II per cent was declared.
Stanford.-Stanford's hand S m
courthouse, built five years ago. has
been damaged by fire. The blaze start
ed on the second floor. The loss is
about $4,000.
MISUNDERSTANDING struck
barn on j. j. Prices farm near Fair.
view and killed two mules Lightning
also struck Winfield O'Briens 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.
Danvlle-A movement is on foot
in this city to erect in Mcdowell Park
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.
scriptioa a fund sufficient to erect a
creditable memorial
Lexington.-Th 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
the provisions of the Federal Defense
Act. Capt John c. Fairfax, U. S. A.,
commandant at the university, will be
in charge.
Albany-Taylor Poison, about Is
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
housebreaking and stealing a lot OF
brass from the Paris Gas G. Electric
Co., we're each sentenced to serve
three years in the penitentiary. The
Walters woman is the first white won.
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 a great say
ing in the cost of maintaining roads
that are built new or reconstructed.
Louisville. Kentucky distil.
lers are watching with unusual inter
est the outcome of a suit In the fedora
court here by Albert Casey, admins
traitor of the state, suing for the bene
fit of the Kentucky Distilleries anC
Warehouse Company to recover from
]. Scott Mayes, collector of interna
revenue of the Fifth district of Ken
tucky $4,000 penalties assessed be
cause of alleged equalization" frauds
i Henderson, The Henderson cottOr
mills was awarded judgment for S9j'
by jury In Judge Young's cour
against the Chicago, st. Louis & New
Orleans Railroad Co. for strip o
land less than half an acre. which tn,
road sought to condemn for railroa'
purposes. A value of S2,5OO was PLACED
on the land by the mills. The rail
road offered to purchase at $500. Thi
was the first condemnation suit trie,
in this city in fifty years.
rganheld.-"Uncle Josh" Robin
son is going to the Confederate re
union in Washington. They have a
ready made arrangements for plac
for him to stay-"because they ar
mighty particular about me now tha
am the only colored man left to e
to the reunions" he says. "Uncl
Josh" is the only black man in tn
, United States who wears the Southern
, Cross Of Honor, given by the Unite,
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Barbourville.--I Heads OF IL nationn
banks of Southeastern Kentucky am
Northeastern Tennessee met at Cot
I, bin, to consider the recent ruling q
, Comptroller Williams, limiting inteI
! est to be charged on loans to 6 pc
cent. 1t was the consensus OF opinio
, that smaller national banks will hav
!, to take out state charters II this ruin
:, is enforced, as the banks in smalhs
, towns, they claim, can not do a prof.
able business on such an interest, al
loans considered.
Frankfort. rt.-George +. Smith, @
: Beattyville, Major Of the Third IA
, talon, has been appointed Colonel d
!, the Second Regiment, Kentucky N,
tlonal Guard, to lilf the vacanc
caused by the resignation of ColonC
Allen Gulion,
Covington. n.-Covington nremen ar
=" quietly mahing extensive plans for tn
y organization of a Kentucky Police an
y Firemen's Protective Association an