Licking Valley courier., 1917-11-08

meeting was held here. The synod So
lected Marion for the 1918 meeting.
Observation-Disclosures to work out
q new schedule of freight rates on coal
which will remove present inequalities
and establish competition on a fair
basis between Eastern and Western
Keatucky mines, was granted by the
Kentucky Railroad Commission in ses-
sion here.
Lexington. - Lexington's biennial
movement for the Suppression OF
Commercialized Vice" took the form
Of mass meeting, at which speeches
were made by Mayor James c. Rogers
Rev. VIM. T. Punch, e. E. Snoddy,
George c. Hunt, chairman of the Vice
Commission. and others.
Lexington.-Pullet n, Lady Walnut
Hill, owned by DR.. r. Lindsey Ireland,
Of Louisville, won the national egg.
laying contest, which closed on Octo-
ber 81 at the Experiment Station. She
had 2S9 eggs to her credit during the
last year. The worlds record for pro.
duction in single year is 314.
Dawson Springs-7car Hudspeth, q !.
negro, 'shot and instantly killed Louis
Perry, another negro, here. The trou
BILE is said to have arisen when Perry
attempted to shove the wife of Hud.
speth down a railroad embankment,
and when reprimanded for his act
seized an AK and attempted to strike
Hudspeth.
Lexington-The Kentucky Hard
ware and Implement Dealers Associa-
| tion elected officers as follows: Presi.
dent, Gus Albrecht, Louisville; First
Vice President, c. S. Troutman. Shep-
/ herdsville; Second Vice President, A.
T. Byron, Owingsville; treasurer, NJ
d. Joran. Olive Hills; Secretary, ]. NJ.
! Stone, Sturgis.
nchester.-Sustaining a motion
for peremptory instructions made by
the attorney for the contestee, Jake
Gay. Judge W. r. Shackelford, at the
special term OF the Clark Circuit Court
upheld the will OF Mrs. Elizabeth Gay,
wealthy Clark county woman and
landed proprietor, disposing Of her
SS75,00O estate.
Mt. Sterling.-Two children, twins,
we're burned to death in Meniiee coun.
ty, near Rothwell, when the residence
OF Price Tabor was destroyed, An old.
er child was rescued. Mrs. Tabor had
. gone to a store and left the children
, at home, when, II is stated, the young
! sters turned on the gas and set II afire,
: causing an explosion.
} Scottsville.-A new oil pool was
/ opened in Allen county when Chris.
tian and others from Oklahoma drilled
in a large flowing well on the Susan
Moore farm seven miles north of here,
: near Barren river, The lucky find is
; ten miles from the present producing
! pools of the county and opens field
!, that bids fair to increase the large oil
. industry Of the section.
Louisville.-Events of Importance in
the life OF the Eighty.fourth Army Di
! vision occurred at Camp Zachary Tay
;, lor last Saturday and Sunday Cover
= nors of Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana
=, were present and figured in important
exercises at the camp, The raising oI
the official flag of the division on @
giant fiagpole was the principal fea
ture.
n Loulsville.-Reserve Corps officer,
k stationed at Camp Zachary Taylor
n have been notified of the procedure
e that would be followed by the govern
Il ment in dealing with those who wer,
IA reported for ineillciency or mlscon
Ie duct. Gen. Hale has received auther
" ity from the War Department to con
n. vene a board OF officers whenever
r. serious report is made against re
serve officer.
Mlddlesboro.--Five hundred miner
IN employed at the TT. Ridge Coal an
"A Coke Co, operation went on strike o
n. the refusal OF the company to re.en
ia ploy as a miner man who had bee
@. working as motorman and who recen
n ly had resigned.
n. Carllsle.-The most remarkable a,
"a vances ever known are now noted
n. farm lands in Nicholas county. A.
re kimbrough sold farm of 300 acre
"a for $SS,19S for which he recently pa
n. $4,000. Two years ago this farm sol
for $4,000.