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Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

WASHINGTON, March II 10y A.
P.)-Germany's sweep into Rus
STA is described by the War De-
partment's weekly military re-
view tonight as another futile
attempt on the part of the Ger
mans to shift the center of grav-
ity of the war, which still re.
mains on the western front,
where the Teutons face the
French, British, Italians and
Belgian armies, and the ever
growing American forces. There,
the review says, lie the positions
of the war.
American troops now occupy
trenches at four seperate points,
and as was recently disclosed, in
the principal sector their front
is four and a half miles long.
They have been constantly en-
gagged. the department says,
and the scope Of their activities
is being constantly extended.
Nothing is found in the situa'
ton by the department to indi-
cate that the Germans have
abandoned their plans for a great
offensive in the west, and it says
the Allies, while assuming. ar
alert defensive. are content tC
let the enemy break himself
AGAINST their impreonable line.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15
ROAD BUILDING IS AN EN-
CHEERING PROBLEM.

by
w. S. Canning, Division Engi-
neer Department. Public
Roads of KY.
Highway construction has
reached such proportions and
expenditures have be come so
enormous, that the problem
threatened to become one of
prime economic importance to
the county at large.
The amount of road money ex-
pended in the United States of
America is in excess of $500, ooo,-
900 annually.
The popular opinion that
money spent on engineering is
wasted, is clearly a fallacy.
What Commercial organization
would appropriate huge sums OF
money for any purpose without
making provisions for the proper
expenditure of the funds !!
The old hit-or- miss expenditure
of money is an economic waste
! The proper handling of to-
bacco crop is the result of train
ing and experience; so is thu
. rider of a winner of the Kentuc
ky Derby.
Why should we leave the con
struction of our roads, involving
an expenditure of large sum!
each year, to an unframed man
You should not think of allow
. ing a carpenter design a stee
: bridge. You would secure some
} one who know steel and bridges
Even as the proper spacing o
rivets in that bridge is a problem
for a trained mind; so is tn
> economic tlocation of a road; 1t
: drainage, its grades, the size o
its bridges and culverts, the Sc
Letting and placing Of the sui
facing material. a problem re
quiring the knowledge of ma
. skilled on that particular line Q
work. 1t requires q man VIII
has from education and exper
ence, obtained the :knOwledg
a that Is required to Instantly pei
n ceive points of error in plan, !
b. composition of material or il
y methods that would escape tn
unframed eyes.
Highway construction deman
e this training and experience ar
q piled with com mon sense.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

Don't do any seinlng yet. Only
one branch of the Legislature
has passed a bill to allow it. 1t
is more than probable the bill
will be killed.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

NOTICE = Please drop in at
Sutton & McBee's store and get
YOUR certificate of stock of the
Rockcastle Stock Pens Your
prompt attention is req uested as
we hope to be able to start work
on buildings at once.
G. D SUTTON,
Secretary.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

The six year old son OF Mr..
and Mrs. John Scoggin was run
over by heavily loaded wsgon
last week and was seriously in.
iured. He Is getting along very
well.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

Indications are that the salaries
and wages of all railroad en-
ployes who receive less than
SIoo dollars per month will be
boosted 40 per cent. to date from
Ian. ISt 1913.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

Mr.. John Callahan and Miss
Myrtle Gill were married yester.
day in the County Clerks Office.
The Rev. F. NJ. JOINS Oficiated
These young people are from the
Conway section and are splendid
young people.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15
SUTTON,
Secretary.

The Second Red Cross war
fund drive for $500, ooo,o 900 will
begin May goth, R. F. Grant.
drive director for the Lake d.
vision, announces. John K.
Downing cashier of the Phoenix
and Third National Bank, Lex
ington. has accepted the State
managership S. w. Calder and
w. o. Davis of the Kentu cky
River Coal Corporation will as.
sist Mr.. Downing. Kentucky's
quota is 5000. 900. France has
already been the beneficiary of
the American Red Cross appro.
prlatlon to the amount of more
than $50, 900. 900.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

Don't fail TO see Louise Huff
and Jack Pickford in "Great
Expectations, Dickens Works, "
at Boone Way Saturday March
| I6.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15
LOCAL

Be sure to see Fannie Ward
in the wears of the Locust" at
Boone Way tonight, Friday Mch
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

Twenty three Ford machines
passed thru over Dixie Boone
Highway, Tuesday on the way
from Cincinnati to Morristown,
Tennessee. A firm at the latter
place had purchased them for
it's customers and were unable to
have them brought thru by the
railroads.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

The largest locomotives in
the world is now being turned
out by the Baldwin Locomotive
works at Philadelphia. The
"centipede" is the name with
which they have been dubbed,
having twenty four drive wheels.
They are able to pull a train
FIVE miles in length.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15
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BrOdhead Tuesday.
Mrs. w. G. Hysi ger fell Wed
rcsday and broke h.r arm.
Little Marguerite O'Mara has
been seriously ilI with bronchitis.
Jesse Mead, IS was with his
bar, ntS between trains Monday.
Miss Ethel Azbill is visiting in
London and Gu ciDnati for a week.
Mrs. S. c. Med was a visitor
to MIS-. J. w. Brown during the
week
Miss Risse Williams is visiting
the family of Dr.. Myers in Win
chester.
A. j. Gentry is in from Elys
to be with a daughter who has
pneumonia.
Edgar Mullins has fitted up
rooms over w. A. Mckenzie S
restaurant.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis VanWinkle
have moved to their farm on
Chestnut Ridge.
Mrs. Bessie Mcclure, who is
attending Berea college was with
friends here Monday.
Joe Mckenzie, Emmett Sowder
and several others have gone 10
the Harlan coal fields.
Bill Langford and Pig Smith
are making good, firing along
this line of the L. & n.
Robt. Gentry is at home from
Knox county on account of the
illness of his sister, Miss Rissie.
Miss Rissie Gentry has been
very sick for past week with pneu-
monia. Her condition is critical
Mckinley Perciful is here to-
day from Wallins Greek and re
ports his brother, Bill, on way to
France.
Uncle Bill Payne is again in
charge of the mechanical depart
ment for w. ]. Sparks Co, at
Sparda.
Mrs. Z. H. White and little
daughter will leave soon for {
months stay with her husband
in Cairo, Ill.
Mrs. Roberta Moren, after {
two weeks visit near Level
Green left for London Sunday t.
visit a sister.
S. T. Paoctor will begin at once
the erection Of cottage Oh lot OF
West Main, opposite R. A. Spark
place, for Lewis Cooper.
Miss Helen Bond Chaplin. o
Brockwayville, Penn, was tn,
attractive guest OF Miss Ethe
Azbill for a few days during tn
week.
Jim Rickels and family, who hav
made Hamilton, Ohio their HON
for the past year or two, hav
returned to Mt. Vernon to max
their home.
Dan Moren, of London, VIII
has been engaged for past tw
years at McRoberts, was with hi
wife last week, who has bee
visiting near Level Green.
Joe Noe has sold his grocer
store to his father, T. N. NJ
and will farm on the Noe plaC
near town. T. N. Noe and b
son Charles will run the store.
Dave Craig has returned fro
Chicago. From the day he a
rived until almost the day /
left the Windy City, he was CO.
fined to his bed or room wit
a severe case of tonsilitis.
Morris Taylor was In Tuesd'
to take the examination for sc
vice with Uncle sam and pass
in a jiffy. While here order
the Signal sent to his broth
Emmett, who is at Camp Shelb
w. P. Caldwell and Dav
Humphreys engineers, who we
companions of the Boone WI
Man, on Clark county roads Ia
year have arrived in France a
are members of the 23rd U.
Engineers. Thew will be engag
in road building at the front.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15


ROAD ROUTING. The action
of the Fiscal Court in 1917 in
designating the "river route
for the xie-Boone Highway,
thru and from Livingston to
Parkers Creek, was endorsed
and affirmed Dy the Fiscal Court
sitting today, with an added pro
vision to the order that in case
the U. S. government decided
that said route was not available,
feasible or acceptable for it's pur-
poses then said government
would be authorized to designate a
route suitable to it's views. 1t is
believed the river route will be
adopted. The court ordered a
survey as soon as practicable.
The Signal is short one hun
dred and thirty-slx names which
were on the list last week. These
names we're cut at one slice fol
non-paymentof subscription. l.
people think we are giving ava
papers you are badly mistaken
If the Signal is worth 81 90 i
year 20 you take it and pay fo1
it, if not don't ask that you
name be placed on list with NJ
intention of paying. Youl
paper account is just as much
an obligation as your gro
Gerry account, yet some peopl
don't seem to think so. Anothe
thing don't be enough of chea,
skate to borrow from your neigh
Dor. This article is intende
solely for these NEVER PAY sub
scribers and we sincerely hop
that it will have the effect of helI
ing US to clear our list and fo1
ever keeping off those who belon
in this class.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

The Tamiami (Tampa-Miami)
Trail out of Miami. Florida is
straight for "a miles, with not a
curve.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

The train bearing F. r. Asher
and wife from Oregon to Ken
lucky, some two weeks since
was stuck nine hours in a Colo
rado snow bank.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

White Plymouth Rocks. The
best winter layers. Eggs 81. so
per setting.
w. II. MILLER
Phone ~.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15
When Group Comes
Treat Externally

The old method of dosing delicate little
stomachs with nauseOus drugs is wrong
and harmful. Try the external treatment
-Vick's .'Vap-O-Rub" Salve. just rub a
little over the throat and chest. The va
pors, released by the body heat, loosen the
choking phlegm and ease the difficult
breathing. A bedtime application insures
sound sleep. 25e, soc, or Sl.00.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15
SERVICES AT THE CHRIS
TIAN CHURCH.

Sunday School GAS.
Preaching service II
Junior Christian Endeavor $50
Senior Christian Endeavor $50
Mr.. E. R. Gentry. who is to re-
port in New York on March Goth,
will be here over Sunday and l
have requested him to address a
meeting in our church at 1890.
We hope that Mr.. Gentry's many
friends, together with the friends
and relatives of our soldier boys
with whom and for whom he is
working, will feel that this meet
ing is for them.
II. T, YOUNG. Minister,
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

Prof. j. L. Pilkenton of Brod,
head has been appointed Federal
County Director of the United
States Working Reserve. He
has appointed as his assistants
Prof. D. H. Lyon, Prof. L ]
Webb, Mrs Alice Davis and Mr.
John Scoggin.
1t is the duty of this Board tc
register every boy between thu
ages of rs and FL years of age
in some kind of work during va
cation period. In next week.
issue will appear bulletin, issuet
by Government showing facts
scope and suggestions on Boy!
Working Reserve. Boys VIII
want to work at home can do so
those whose parents do not wan
them to work, but prefer tina
they grow up in idleness do no
either have to register or work
The boys who want to do some
thing will have an opportunit,
not only to help themselves bu
help their country as well.
| Be sure and read Bulleti
which will appear in next week
tissue.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15
H. T. YOUNG, Minister.

The Board of Supervisors COM
posed of S. S. Daily, G. H. York,
w. M. Baker, Rev. F. M. Jones,
and Fl. Z. Gentry, are in session
this week. Many raises will be
made for the reason that the
State Board has raised Rockcas-
tie 500, 900. and it is the duty
of the local board TO equalize and
rsise the property to that amount
The raises will be made this
week and the board will NEE,
again on Mch. 1870 and 2Ist,
to hear complaints from those
whose property has been raised
Owing to the enormous increase
in farm lands and decrease in
town property, the farm lands viii
necessarily be hit hardest by
the raise.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

John J. Johnson. age about 65
years. dropped dead at Pine
Hill Wednesday.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

Some of our citizens think
that their early flowers are worth
being asked for, and feel it an
imposition for others to come
on the premises and help them
selves without as much as with
your leave" being said, while in
fact the owners are glad to do.
nate them where appreciated.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

The parcel post limit has been
raised to 70 pounds. into the third
zone, and so pounds to other
zones. One may mail grind
stones, bricks or most any old
thing provided the package
weighs no more than 70 pounds.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

Examination will be held Goth
day OF March 1918 from s to 4
o'clock in Office of County Judge
in court house for applicants for
County Road Engineers for Rock
castle County.
Cam Mullins J. R. =. G.
Att S. F. Bowman, q. K. c. G..
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

Don't fail to see Louise Huff
and Jack PickfOrd in "Great
Expectations, Dickens Works.
at Boone Way Saturday March
10.
Don't do ANY seinlng yet. Only
one branch of the legislature
has passed a bill to allow it. 1t
is more than probable the bill
will be killed.
Indications are that the salaries
and wages of all railroad en-
ployes who receive less than
SIoo dollars per month will be
boosted 40 per cent. to date from
Jan. ISt 1918.
The train bearing F. r. Asher
and wife from Oregon to Ken
lucky, some two weeks since
was stuck nine hours in Colo,
rado snow bank.
The parcel post limit has been
raised to 10 pounds. into the third
zone, and so pounds to other
zones. One may mail grind
stones, bricks or most any old
thing provided the package
weighs no more than 70 pounds.
Examination will be held Goth
day OF March 1918 from s to 4
O'Clock in Office of County Judge
in court house for applicants for
County Road Engineers for Rock
castle County.
Cam Mullins J. R. Z. C..
Att S. F. Bowman, Q. Il. c. G..
Twenty three Ford machines
passed thru over Dixie Boone
Highway, Tuesday on the way
from Cincinnati to Morristown,
Tennessee. A firm at the latter
place had purchased them for
it's customers and were unable to
have them brought thru by the
railroads.
The largest locomotives in
the world is now being turned
out by the Baldwin Locomotive
works at Philadelphia. The
"centipede" Is the name with
which they have been dubbed
having twenty four drive wheels
They are able to pull a train
FIVE miles in length.
| Some of our citizens thinl
that their early flowers are worth
being asked for, and feel it al
imposition for others to come
on the premises and help them
selves without as much as "witl
your leave" being said, while il
fact the owners are glad to dc
nate them where appreciated.
George Owens has leased tn
Stanford opera house and too
charge this week His son-ir
law, Henry Daily, will manag
j Boone Way and also have charg
of the Monumental Works. MI
? Owens Is a good show man an
E the move lovers of Stanton
e may expect the best of servic
5 under his management.
Atty. c. c. Williams left Wee
n nesday for Catlettsburg wher
: he will be engaged for the ne,
z week in the trial of the cas-
: of Ewing ct al, VS.. N. U. Bon
i and The Rockcastle Oil an
Lumber Co. This suit is fc
y $325, Doc. 90. which the plaintiff
:. claims as commission due the
d on the tract of land which Bon
d bought from the Rockcastle c
n & Lumber Co. The plaintiff
? claims that under contract tn
d they were to receive all ov'
o 5000 600, which this land sold /
Y the Rockcastle OIL & Lumber q
# to Bond, brought. The purcha'
d price was $e25, 900. 1t will ma
, urally be hard fought case {
d both sides, but Mr.. William
feels hopeful of the final outcom
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

George Owens has leased the
Stanford opera house and took
charge this week His son-in-
law, Henry Daily, will manage
Boone Way and also have charge
of the Monumental Works. Mr..
Owens Is a good show man and
the move lovers of Stanford
may expect the best of service
under his management.
Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1918-03-15

inferred at the Mt Vernon, KY. PostcFhce
as second-ciass mail matter.
The Dolores star., 1918-02-15
CHAPTER VII.
Each In His own Trail.

eoeh IN MS own urAtis
CINCE nothing In this world IL abso-
lutely immutable -the human
emotions least Of all perhaps
Billy Louise did not hold changeless
her broken faith in Ward. She saw it
broken into fragments before the evi-
dence Of her own eyes and the frag-
ments ground to dust beneath the
weight Of what she knew of his past
things he had told her himself. So she
thought there was no more faith In
him, and her heart went empty and
aching through the next few days.
But, since Billy Louise was human
and q woman-not altogether because
she was twenty-she stopped after
awhile. gathered carefully the dust Of
her dead faith, and, like God, she be-
gan to create. First she fashioned
doubts Of her doubt. How did she
know she had not made q mistake,
there at that corral1 Other men wore
gray hats and rode dark bay horses;
other men were slim and tall, and she
had only had . glimpse, after al, and
the light was deceptive down there IN
The shadows When that nrst doubt
was nodded and she had breathed into
The Dolores star., 1918-02-15
He Took His Tin Hat or,

A man staggered down the trench
with blood running over his face and
over his uniform. There was so lit
tie room at this point that we had
to flatten against the wall to permit
him to pass. Close behind was an
other soldier with a small red cross
on his sleeve, not a Red Cross nurse
as they never are at the front. He
started to tell US that the wounded
man had just taken his helmet off
but the wounded man preferred to
tell the story himself. II just took
off me tin hat to scratch me blooming
top piece when whang Shrapnel. And
now it's me back to blighty under me
own power" He wobbled on.-London
Chronicle.
The Dolores star., 1918-02-15
GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER

has been household remedy all over
the Civilized world for more than half
century for constipation, intestinal
troubles, torpid liver and the generally
depressed feeling that accompanies
such disorders. 1t Is q most valuable
remedy for indigestion or nervous dys-
pepsia and liver trouble, bringing on
headache, coming up Of food, palpita-
tion Of heart and many other symp-
toms. A few doses Of August Flower
will Immediately relieve you. It is
gentle laxative. Ask your druggist.
Sold in all civilized countries.-Adv.
The Dolores star., 1918-02-15
, Was Like So Many Doctors
Afraid to Tell the Truth.

ed for our placer If you are, come on.
l was just starting back. I don't dare
be away any longer" II that were a
real unburdening Ward was an unrea-
sonable young man. Billy Louise look
ed at him again, and this time her
eyes were clear and friendly.
Ward was not satisfied, for all the
surface seemed smooth enough. He
was too sensitive not to feel q differ
ence, and he was too innocent Of any
wrongdOing or thinking to guess what
was the matter. Guilt is good barom-
eter Of personal atmosphere, and Ward
had none Of 1t. The worst of him she
had known for more than a year. He
had told her himself, and she had heal
ed the hurt-almost-of the past by her
firm belief in him and by her friend
ship. Gould you expect Ward to guess
that she had seen her faith in him die
a violent death no longer than two
weeks ago? Such a possibility never
occurred to him. .f
For all that he felt there was a DIFF
ference somewhere. He carried back
with him At Of the blues which SEEM
ed to have attacked him without cause
or pretext, since he had not quarreled
with Billy Louise and had been warm
~ welcomed by "mommie." Poor NOM
mile was looking white and frail, and
her temples were too distinctly veined
with purple. Ward told himself that 1t
was no wonder his Wilhemina acted
strained and unnatural. He meant to
work harder than ever and get his
stake 20 that he could go and make
her give him the right to take care Of
her.
He seesn b figure the cost OF CON-
The Dolores star., 1918-02-15
4 KLOND|KE TO THE
REAL FARMER
A Western Canada Crop Estimat.
ed at $4,000, Makes
$4,000.

Messrs. Harris, formerly Of Audu-
bon, Iowa. wrote the Audubon Advo-
cate" expressing their satisfaction Of
things in Western Canada. They 10
Gated at Makepeace, Alberta. They
say there are those who make good,
and those who fail. The former are
those that land agents refer to when
advertising their land. "But." contin-
ues the letter, "A great many Of the
farmers in this vicinity pay for their
land with their frst crop. A man
near here bought q section of land in
the year 1915 for $23 per acre. He
summer Of 1915. In the fall Of 1916
he threshed 10000 bushels of wheat.
which paid for his land. all expenses
and had balance Of $4,000. In the
fall Of 1917 he threshed nearly a.
much of the other half Of the section.
At the present time he would not take
$50 per acre for his land.
1--WE have had five crops in Alberta.
The two dry years (1914-1917) our
wheat made 20 and 30 bushels to the
acre respectively. In 1916 we raised
so bushels of wheat to the acre on
summer fallow. The best results are
obtained by plowing or breaking in
the summer. working it down in the
fall SO that 1t will retain the moisture.
Thus farming one-half your ground
each year.
"Persons owning land here and still
living In the States should, II they
don't feel themselves able to come up
here and finance themselves until they
could get their first crop, get some of
their land broken and worked down
in the fall before they come. The
next spring they could come and put
in the crop, fence and put up their
buildings. This way they have to
wait only one summer for their first
crop.
ut Is not advisable for a person to
come here in the spring, break out
land and put it in crop the first year.
because the moisture Is not in the
ground and q failure Is almost GER
tain unless it is an exceptionally wet
year.
zone Of the boys from that locality,
Mr.. Peder NJ. Jensen came to Alberta
last spring. He bought q 5000 Rum
ely Oll-Pull engine on the 9Th day Of
June, 1917. After that date he broke
100 acres of prairie sod for which
he received IN average Of $500 per
acre.
"Mr. Hansen from your community,
was, up here last fall with several
prospective land buyers from that
neighborhood. At that time he in
quired the value Of the crop on the
section we were farming. We told
him that it would probably make in
the neighborhood of $4,000. This
same crop when sold brought nearly
$4,000. The most of it being sold
when prices were low for the year,
Advertisement.
The Dolores star., 1918-02-15
1nterchanoe.

"This prohibition proposition" COM
mented Broncho Bob, won't be work.
in right for Crimson Gulch until Jug
Vile gets just as dry as we are"
"Why should you care about a neigh
boring settlement?"
swell. it's little too close. Some O.
the boys are driftin' into the way Of
spending their money for liquor in Jug
Vile and usin' old Crimson Gulch as q
sort Of dormitory to sleep 1t on"