Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-08-31
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chester Daily Democrat Mrs.
Kiser was Miss Annie Warren of
Stanford. Miss May Warren, a
sister, is an attractive and popu-
lar visitor of the family III their
elegant apartment home on North
Main street.
Hemp harvesters, blue grass
stripping machines, tobacco
planters, traction gang plows,
manure spreaderS, self binders,
corn harvesters, hay stacking
machines, hay balers and ted
derS are some of the numerO as
things the writer had never seen
in operation until his sojourn in
Clark county. Neither had he
seen any tobacco cutting during
the past half century. Loose
leaf tobacco market was another
thing he had not seen before.
How quickly time passes and
age creeps upon one before he
is aware of it. 1t seems but a
short time since | came to Mt.
Vernon to take the railroad
agency, when | was a boy of q,
just 40 years ago on first day of
the present August. Babies of
that day have grandchildren of
their own. Nearly all of the
older people have past over the
river. The county and town
have virtually been repeopled
The population of Mt. Vernon
was 800 and the county had
800 people, today it shows 1850
and $4,000 respectively. The
town had large barn-like dilap-
dated old building, sitting on
the hill, called a school house;
some ninety or a hundred feet of
brick and stone sidewalks and
probably as much plank walk the
remainder plain dirt The tele-
phone was not in general use
anywhere in the world. Electric |
light was yet to be invented, as
were electric traction lines, wire
less Itelegraphy, airplanes the
moving pictures, the submarine
boat and many other things in
common use today.
The writer has just been pre-
sented a copy of the latest, best
and most accurate wall map of
Kentucky, by the National
Map Company, Indianapolis
We furnished much of ,the road
data to the publishers, last
year. Besides being plain and
distinct, the map shows all avail
road and traction lines, giving
distances between every station.
All cities, towns, villages, cross
roads and post Offices Fare given a
place. All the main highways
are shown by heavy red lines,
the inter-cCunty seat roads and i
many of the lesser Travelled ones
appear therefore. The National
and transcontinental highways
such as The Dixie. Jefferson
Davis, Boone Way and the Mid,
land Trail are given the best
representation.
That which makes the writer the
proudest is the fact that our
Mt. Vernon originated road, the
Boone Way, covers a large space
and is given the most prominence
Of any highway On the map The
lettering along the lines showing
up in almost box car size.
We would be glad for every
roads man, and especially those
interested in our highway thru
the Cumberlands, would secure /
a copy of this most authentic,
complete and reliable map. In
our next letter we will advise
about prices and places where
the map may be gotten.
One is sometimes let to almost
believe that letter writing will
soon be numbered among the
lost arts. Some of our friends |
rite at times; many of them new.
er, not even replying to letters
ritten to them. We believe the
following words were attributed |
to Robinson Crusoe while So
Journing on an uninhabited island |
of the seas.
''Oh ye winds from across
the sea,
Watt some friendly word
to me-"