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Paducah.-In an effort to have a fly,
less city the city commissioners pur-
chased 200 fly traps.
Paducah.-The Rev. P. H. Pleune,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, has been selected scout COM
missioner for the Paducah Scout Coun-
Gil to succeed w. R. Nagel, who re-
signed.
kinsville.-Charles w. Horn, 81
years old, persisted in flames which
burned the residence of his son, R. L.
Horn, at Lafayette. The son was bad.
ly burned while trying to rescue his
father.
Fulton.-Marshall Kendall, a we'll.
known man of Fulton, was instantly
killed when he was kicked by a mule
Kendall was in his barnyard. The
mule kicked him in the forehead
breaking his neck
Paducah.-The Delphic Club is rails
ing fund to provide members of the
Murray company, X. n. G., with com
forts and supplies not included in the
furnishings of the Government. Sew
eral members of the company live in
Paducah.
Sonora.-The fire of patriotism has
been started in Hardin county by the
Sonora Patriotic Club. A large Amer.
lean flag has been hoisted and unfurled
from 10O-foot pole by two Civil War
veterans, c. X. Tichenor, Confederate
cavalryman, and ]. C. Buckles, of the
Union army.
Versailles.-The Board of Education
OF WoodforS county has decided to
have a cooking equipment placed in
every one of the 26 rural schoolhouses
in this county. The College of Home
Economy of the University of Ken.
lucky will send teachers to these
schools to give instruction in domes.
tic science.
Whitesburg.-With Judge John F
Butler, of Pikeville, presiding, the
April term of the Letcher Circuit Court
was convened here. Judge Buffers
instructions to the grand jury were
need for combating crime, dwelling
principally upon the evils of whisky
and pistol toting
Lexington.-County agents enlisted
in federal home demonstration ssrk
In Kentucky are present here at t1e
annual instruction conference, which
will continue for two weeks. Sessions
are being held in the Educational
building, University of Kentucky. Mrs
Helen B. Wolcott, head of the work in
Kentucky, is presiding.
Louisville.-Thruston Ballard. a
Louisville business man, was told oil
his appointment as chairman of the
National Committee on the Cost OF
Living and Domestic Economy, a part
of the national preparedness move
ment. Ballard is known widely as a
former member of the Industrial Rela
tons Commission.
Paris.-A suit in which the state
seeks to recover back taxes for five
years from the personal estate of the
late John w. Tannes, of Bourbon
county, has been filed here by Sheriff
w. F. Talbot. The suit is directed
against the Bourbon Agricultural Bank
& Trust Co., administrators of the es
tate, estimated to be worth $4,000.
bourville.-Louisville men are
forming company to develop a large
boundary of coal and timber land in
Clay county. Judge Thomas Gordon
of that city, has been here for several
days and has made trip of inspection
over the property. 1t is said that Col
Dickinson, of West Virginia, plans to
install large salt works on the Gar
rard property, near Manchester.
Wilmore.-The faculty and the stu
dents of Asbury College here adopted
resolutions approving without reser
walton the course pursued by Presi
dent Wil&n in the present crisis, and