Licking Valley courier. [volume] (West Liberty, Ky.) 19??-current, 1917-08-23

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Paducah.-For the second training
camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison for
the officers reserve corps five Paducah
men have been accepted.
Ashland.-Dairyme here were re.
ported to be planning boycott against
the city to take effect if the council
passes an ordinance now under consid'
Grafton which provides for the, regu'
lation Of dairies.
iddlesboro.-The Atlas Coal Min
ing Co. power house, containing elec-
trical and compressed air equipment
of the plant at Capito, near this city,
was destroyed by fire. Loss estimated
at $500, with $4,000 insurance.
Pineville.-Between 10000 and 12,'
900 coal miners are idle in the fields
of Southeastern Kentucky and Eastern
Tennessee, it was estimated, as re-
suit of the strike declared last week
Coal production has been paralyzed
throughout the district affected.
Henderson.-Corn took another big
drop on the local market, falling from
So to $1.50. The decline is the great.
est in single day ever recorded on
this market. The food control meas
ure prohibiting the making of whisky
is said to have caused the big reduc'
tions.
Madisonville.-Karl Gates, 20 years
old, who was shot by soldier at Prov
idence last Sunday, when he failed to
heed a halt command, died In an Ev'
ansville hospital Gates was driving
car for Nebo garage and was re-
turning from Henderson with several
negro passengers.
Owensboro.-Judge Slack entered
judgment in the divorce suit of Wood
ford F. Axton against Jessie jolly AK
ton. dismissing the plaintiffs petition
for divorce on the ground Of desertior
and granting absolute divorce to the
defendant on the ground of cruel ant
inhurAan treatment. =
Ssc.tss -. = :S-;:sN Tho Rev fDr Y, w
Eberhardt, OF Danville, hash callet
as pastor of the First Baptist churcl
here to succeed, DR.. B. A. Dawes, whit
resigned after occupying the pulpit To-
the past ten years. His salary will b,
$2,25O, besides one of the handsomes
parsonages in Kentucky.
Louisville. .-Louisville's restricted
district is to be abolished Septembe
l by order of Mayor John H. Busche
meyer AMI just made public through
the Boar6cof Public Safety. The entir,
Police Department will be used,
necessary, the Mayor declared, t,
make the order effective.
isonville.-Tom Morgan, Presi
dent of Clay Local Union, Mine Work
ers of America, and Kell Tosh, uniol
organizer, with several miners, ar
under arrest as a result of the recen
pitched battle between United State
soldiers and striking miners at Dis
mond mines, near Providence.
Ashland.-Chesapeake & Ohio Fas
Train No. 23, between Ashland an
Louisville, ran into a runaway coal ca
near Meads Station, seven miles froI
Ashland, and as a result Enginee
Floyd Burns, Of Lexington, second oil
est engineer on the line, was probabl
fatally injured. Many others wer
slightly injured.
straightforward has been begu
on the carpet coating which will be a
piled on the state pike for one and
half miles west and one mile east
Shelbyville at cost approximate
$4,000. The process consists in swee
ing the dust from the roadbed, {
which asphalt is then spread with
: broom, and the resulting surface Ii
orally sprinkled with stone chips.
Barbourville.-The Louisville
Nashville railroad has started a fiy
mile extension from near Benhai
Harlan County, to property recent
acquired by the United States ste
! Corporation near the Kentucky.Te
7 nessee border The Steel Corporate
is planning to install one OF the large
coal and coke operations in the Sou
in the edge of Harlan County, five mil
, beyond Benham.
Lexington.-At special meeting
the Board Of Trustees OF the Univt