The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1917-02-02
Our Kentucky ie!ghb0Is.

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John F. Tinsley has been appointed
postmaster at Maloneton. Greenup- co
William L. Pennington has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Fielden. Elliott
county, Kentucky.
Jno 3. Corns, of the Ironton Reg
lister, is quite i'll at his home in Iron
ton with bronchial pneumonia.
kolla Swartz. aged 49, and unmar-
ried, who was injured in trying to
board a moving freight train at Olym-
pia died at his home in Owingsville.
owingsville. KY, Jan. 25.-State
Senator Sam Bradley and Thomas
Evans. drilling for oil at Olympia,
brought in a fine well yesterday. Oil
men are leasing all lands in that neigh
borhood.
Morehead, Ky.-On account of being
unable to procure coal the large saw
and planning mill Of the Clearfied COM
pany, near here, has closed down in
definitely, throwing some sixty men out
of employment.
Paintsville, KY Jan. 27.-Hunting-
ton persons today purchased of +. NJ.
Stafford, of this place, the timber on
his farm for s15,700. 1t is said a large
mill will be erected at once to work it
into timber.
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Richmond, XIV, January 27.--Former
Governor James b. McCreary, of this
city, has received an invitation to de.
liver an address at the twentieth an
niversary of the Lincoln Memorial Uni
versity in commemoration of the birth
of Abraham Lincoln, to be held at
Cumberland Gap, Tenn. February lie
to ~ which he has accepted.
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Mt. Sterling, Ky, January 27.-Rel-
atives here have been notified that
William Peck, formerly of Sharps-
burg Bath-co was found dead beside
railroad track near Leavenworth,
Kan. IT is thought he was killed by a
train. He was 81 years old and is sur
vived by his wife and two daughters
The body will be brought to Kentucky
for burial.
West Liberty, Ky-Work has been
started on a resurvey of the graded
road purposed by the Fiscal Court to
be built from West Liberty to the o. &
x. railroad at Index. This road will
be along the line of the road which the
citizens of West Liberty are anxious
to have the Federal aid highway es-
tablish running from Western Ken
lucky to the eastern border of the
State
There was shipped out of Lewis CO.,
this week one of the most valuable
consignments of furs ever sent away
from this part of the State. 1t belonged
to Robert Elliott, trapper, of the VAL
ley Precinct, and was valued at $856.60.
There were pelts of skunks, minks,
muskrat and several other kinds, some
of them being almost perfect speci-
mems.
Jackson, KY, Jan. 25.-Edna Robin
son was today awarded $4,000 in her
suit against the Louisville and Nash
Vile Railroad company for damages
alleged to have been received by reas-
on of burning cinder entering her eye
through an open window of defend
ants passenger train. Attorneys ]. NJ.
Mcdaniel, Kelley Kash and Ryland c.
Musick represented the girl.
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Robert Estep, of Ford was taken to
Frankfort, charged with violation of
parole He had been arrested on
forgery charge. Estep, it is said, had
served two years of a five-year SEN
tence imposed in the Lee Circuit court.
Governor Stanley RENTED the bail
bond of Sol Fleming, signed by S. w.
Johnson, Miles Bates, Henry Hallana
and w, w. Williams in Floyd county I
Fleming was afterwards arrested and
sentenced for life for killing Sid Tack
ct. He has appealed. The trial judge
agreed to the remission.