Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-05-03

tnOSe Gays was extremely scarce, ,
the news being held to mere
quarter of a column which Was
headed, by Telegraph Reported
for the Cincinnati Daily Enqu r.
er." U. S. tro 'ps We're march
ing into Mexico. News from Eu-
rope was from three to four
weeks old.
"I'll take half of the fee you
you will receive for the marriage
ceremony you are to perform, in
payment for the rig | am furnish
ing you," said the liveryman to a
clergyman who had been called
to the country to tie the knot for
couple. Il am a Thousand
times obliged to you." remarked
the groom after the splicing took
place The liveryman was non
plussed upon receiving his part
of the fee when the preacher
advised that he was tive hun
dred times obliged for the use
of the rig.
A number of newspapers clipt
Billy Caldwell's letter from
France which appeared in Sig
nal early in April.
The prediction that the petro-
leum supply of the world would
be exha usted within next so
years has been headed off. Dis
coveries of oil bearing shales. by
the U. S. Geological Survey, in
Colorado and Utah, in inexhaust-
able quantities mountains of it,,
which produce Sc gallons to the
ton of shale. Of all the quaint
ties of oil ever produced thru.
out past ages it is comparable
only as drop in the bucket
with reference to these late dis
coveries in the west by Uncle
Sans men. There is no danger
of the buzz wagons running
short of fuel for some centuries
yet.
'rhe past winter being so un-
ia, orable fer hempbreaking and
the work has been delayed so that
it will be up in the summer be-
fore it is completed which makes
the scarce labor market, lover
here" even Scarcer and more
di fficult to obtain for highway
and other work.
Nat B, Sewell, one of Laurel
county's gifted sons, State In
spector and Examiner, who has
so signally and successfully
managed the intricate and diff
cult affairs and duties pertaining
TO that Office, has many staunch
and prominent friends over the
State who see in him most suita
BILE timber for the candidacy for
nomination for Governor. In
conversation with Mr.. Sewell, in
reference to the rumor of his
probable candidacy, he admitted
to the writer that he had some
suggestions to that effect from
som, of his friends. He gave
no intimation that "Barkis is
willin;" MANY friends ask me
to run; 81 am in the hands of
my friends but remarked: cit
is indeed pleasant to have friends
who place me so highly in their
estimation, and 1 greatly appreci
ate the same; but my belief is
that the time has arrived for our
party to drop fractional differ
ences and unite upon and nomi-
nate the strongest man We have
in the Democratic party, no mat
ter what section of the State he
may hail from. If we do this
we shall elect our ticket next
year. But you may mark it down
once for all, that the people,
rather than the politicians, will
say who is the most available
man to head our next ticket"
In the language of Col. Null
berry Sellers, There's millions
in it," for the man who will in.
vent successful power hemp
break. More than a hundred
different machines have been
tried out, with varied or partial
success. The old wooden man
power break is still resorted to.
Increased wages to labor in
this mart of the moral uinavard