The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1918-03-05

Attention is called to the card
which appears elsewhere concerning
help by the farmers on the pixies and
roads of the county. Messrs. B. W..
Owens, S. T. Harris, w. G. Gooch,
R. L. Hubble and w. P. Grimes, Jr.,
five substantial citizens who have
ever at heart the interest of their
county, suggest that each farmer
give as much as three loads of bro
ken or crushed rock or gravel and
ask that they place it on the pike
as near their homes as possible dur
ing the week of March 18th, prefer
ably March 20 and 81. They sug-
gest that the county is not in finan-
cial condition to put the roads in
the repair they should be and that
to levy an additional tax to repair
the roads would materially increase
taxes. This would prove burden
some, while the method suggested by
THE above gentlemen would hurt no
one, but on the contrary would help
him in securing a better road to haul
the products of his farm to town or
railroad station. Three loads of
rock or gravel is all that is asked of
any man. What man with team and
rock on his place would not gladly
comply with the request? Surely
there are none who would not in
this favored section. Read the ar
ticle and discuss it with your neigh
bors. Push the good thing along and
ere long our pixies will be so greatly
improved that many will hardly know
them.
The government reports that the
prices of food increased two per cent
in February, making % per cent in
crease in year. Most of us know
by sad experience that this is not
news but a serious fact that is put
ting our noses to the grindstone, if
we attempt to eat enough. The New
York food profiteers, who bought 81
millions of eggs when they were re-
failing at ~ cents, did not get them
to market before they had fallen to
45 and are consequently in hole to
the delight of everybody who feels
the pinch of such mean speculation.
The government has ordered that the
eggs be put on the market no mat
ter the price.
A Lexington paper says that Judge
Kerr imposed sentences aggregating
60 years, during the term of the
criminal court just closed. A scru-
tiny of the cases unfortunately dis
closes no conviction of the
gambling gentry, whose energies
curse the city and whose presence
seems to be known to everybody but
the court and juries. We can not
imagine a more gratifying spectacle
than would be the conviction of a
dozen or more of these cormorants
and their incarceration in the peni-
Tertiary for the longest terms under
the law, but it seems that it will
never become a reality.
"When a man hath taken a new
wife, he shall not go out to war,
neither shall he be charged with any
business; but he shall be free at
home one year, and shall cheer up
his wife which he hath taken" Thus
reads a verse in the Bible. Then ac-
cording to holy writ the boys can
stay at home, but according to Uncle
Sam, those who have married since
May 18th and are of draft age, will
likely have to fight, the book of books
W tiiC Soheiuiy, hOSWiShoeoiuih6s
Two more surgeons have been
cited for court martial for the in
human treatment of a soldier who
died of meningitis. They were en-
ployed in a camp in Kansas. If this
keeps up, the question may soon be
asked shave we nothing but brutes
to see after the health of the brave
boys, who have offered their lives in
defense of their country"
A supplemental statement of the
value of Mrs. Flagler-Bingham's es-
tate places it at $65,741 ,552.62. If
it keeps on Kentucky will realize
enough from it to pay off her five
millions of indebtedness.
The Administration Railroad Con-
troll Bill was passed by the House last
night by a vote of 337 to 6.