Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-09-28
Wayside Notes
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ward the Sloo, 900 road fund;
| this week, Tor use IN complet-
ing the gap in the Dlxie-Boone
Highway, thru Rockcastle and
Laurel counties. The Phoenix
Hotel management gave $500 of
| this amount.
"Nikalgin", - victory over
pain-an anaesthetic, discovered
by Gordon Edwards, IS, Of Mil
waukee, Is proving the most
wonderful anestheti~ and anti
reptile discovery of modern
times. 1t is now in daily use in
all the French and British hos
pitfalls in Paris and on the war
front. The manner of applica-
ton is by pressure jet to the
outer person and not injected.
The patient does not lose con-
seriousness but can watch the
physician amputate his arm or
leg without feeling any pains
from the operation. Burns from
gas or other sources are relieved
of pain Immediately upon appli-
cation of the anesthesia. This
great work of relieving pain is
carried on without expense to
the government whose soldiers
are receiving the benefits. Miss
Morgan of New York and other
Americans furnishing the money.
Howard Gordon, the discoverer,
has not asked or received a cent
for his discovery, but is kept
ousy in the various hospitals
looking to the applications of his
"Nikalgin," which is also prov
ing to have wonderful curative
powers as we'll as an anesthetic.
The labor problem is worrying
Clark county people. So many
have gone from here during past
three years to Ohio and other
factories and manufacturing
plants to the north that the
scarcity of labor here is proving
serious. Many of the farmers
and the road builders take their
forces back and forward between
town and country in wagons,
buggies, auto or auto trucks
daily. Laborers don't have t
t hunt work, works hunts them
besides furnishing the trans
portation between home anC
place of employment. The price'
during hemp and tobacco cut
ting rules high and wages arr
1 good at all times, with plenty o
work and laborers few.
Fou- deaths from automobile
accidents have occurred in thi
county within last two months
The latest took place on Thurs
Il day of last week six miles ives
4 of Winchester at Pine Grow
station when a freight trail
struck the machine of SPUR
| Sam Pursley, inhicting injuries
u from which he died four hour
u later. The writer saw the ms
/ chine Friday while on his way +
Frankfort. The auto was throw
% against a telephone poles wit
Y such force that it was LITERAL
smashed into scrap heal
This is the fourth death to tn
credit of THAT fatalistic roa
g crossing, within three year:
Il One man Carlisle Baldwin wa
Il drowned in Kentucky river /:
Jackson Ferry Sunday. A Cal
~ penter killed here last week by
~ falling scaffold.
- One among the many meriter
= Gus moves made by Governo
Stanley was his proclamation il
! sued to the people of Kentuck'
- under date of Septem Der 2Otl
- naming Sunday October 14th q
N GOOD ROADS DAY. 9Th
e, present conditions render IL
re construction and maintenance I
IS public highways necessary alik
a to our domestic prosperity al
n National Defense, and 1t is
S. prime Importance that popul'
to attention be called to the wi
is dom of a concerted and orga
lied effort to extend our syste
of public roads to co-ordina
them with inter state thOrofar
and to preserve them by capat
\; and scientific management in Il
by highest attainable state OF effit