Licking Valley courier., 1918-07-04
NEWS
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Pineyille.-The court house here
burned. The records we're protected
by the fireproof walls and ceiling. The
loss is $40 900. The origin is unknown.
Harrodsburg.-Oryille Bryant had
his hand badly bruised and torn in
moving betting at Che Bohon Buggy
Factory, where he is employed
Winchester.-The $1,000 War Saw
ings Stamp Club here has now reach
ed a membership of 60, with prospects
of going to 100 before the campaign
is over.
Harrodsburg.-T. l.. Menaugh, Jr., !
Herbert Vandivier have enlisted in the .
navy and left for training at the Great /
Lakes naval school, Menaugh is 1S /
years old.
Harrodsburg.-Srenuous measures I
have been taken in this city against
loafers, and the town is clearer of them .
than it ever has been Both white and /
colored men and boys have been sent /,
to the fields.
Barboursville.-The Irish potato crop |
in Southeastern kentucky is pro-
nounced almost failure because Of
adverse weather. County Agent VIII
liam Tye, of Knox county, is urging
farmers to replant during July.
Frankfort.-Representative NJ. L.
Lee, of Elizabethtown, will succeed
Sam Lykins, OF West Liberty, as Gus.
todian of the State Capitol. Lykins
will go with the State Tax Commis-
sion as a supervisor of taxes.
Lexington.-A naval reserve course
for undergraduate students will be in
stituted at the University of Kentucky
at the opening OF the session in Sep.
tember, Captain H. N. Royden, com.
mandant of the battalion, announced.
Owenton.-Paul L. Sidebottom, OF
Owen county, has given up his swivel
chair, which he has occupied in the
Philippine Islands for the last two
years as an employe OF the Federal
Government, and will 80 into the ma
.tlons military service. -.--.4ls .a.l---l--,
Lancaster.-The two.year.old child
of Scott Huffman, of Judson, this coun
ty was burned to death. The little
tot was playing with a match which
she lighted and caught her dress and
was burned so badly that death follow.
ed before medical aid arrived.
Whitesburg.-J. w. Bray, a farmer,
OF Wise county, near here, was shot
to death during a quarrel. William
Hartsock, a near neighbor, has been
arrested and taken to jail while the
police authorities are making an =.
vestlgation into the killing.
Stanton.-Ovie Faulkner, who on De.
| oamhar On shot apd L{Iiad Dnv ATuvv
an oil we'll driller, on train at Filson,
KY. was tried before the circuit court
at Stanton and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment Faulkner Is a native OF
Powell county and Mum was from
Ohio.
Frankfort.-A verdict of $4,000 dam
ages, awarded Mrs. Frank Mullins in
the Rockcastle Circuit Court against
the Louisville & Nashville for the
death of her husband a signal man
who was killed by train, was affirmed
by the Court of Appeals in an opinion
by Commissioner Clay.
LeXington.-Mrs. Helen b. Wolcott
state home demonstration agent, and
Mrs, Wallace b. Bartlett, district urban
demonstration agent, have left for O
trip to Paducah and the southwestern
part of Kentucky. They will establish
a war kitchen in Paduoah, making the
fifth in Kentucky.
Georgetown. - Beating his wa!
back to Atlanta, Ga, to rejoin his fam
lily Cloburn Maner, apparently abou
is years old, neatly dressed and bear
ing evidence OF refinement, was in
stantly killed By falling OIL fast train
southbound from Cincinnati, Just a
the entrance to Georgetown.
Paris,-Edward +. Simms, owner o
Xalapa farm, has presented to Genera
Franklin ID. Bell, OF the United State
army, a beautiful saddle horse. Tn
horse, Mercutio, is beautiful ba
charger, full sixteen hands high, an
saddle horse that has been most su,
cessful in the show ring. He is a Sc,
en.year.old.
Paris-Arthur NJ. Carney, q, WI
arrested here charged with being d
serter from the United States army
Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss. /
acknowledged to the arresting office
that the charge was true, and said
had concealed his uniform in a cree
: When arrested he was at work on
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