The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-20
Peebeles, Ohio.

Peebeles, Ohio.
Mrs. Lewis Whetsel and Verna
Chenoweth are the latest sufferers
from the "flu". Our town was GER
tainly hit hard by the epidemic but its
violence seems to be almost spent
with only a few scattering cases now
The ban on all meetings has been
lifted by the Health Board and school
was reconvened Monday, November IL,
though the scholars were almost i'm
mediately dismissed again in cele-
bration of the wonderful news of the
armistice.
The Ladies Missionary Society met
Wednesday, November 18th, at the
home of the President, Mrs. j. F.
Wickersham. This was it's first meet
ing since September Preparations
were made for the annual Thanksgiv-
ing meeting and for the Quarterly
"Tea" which will be given at the par
sonage Wednesday, November 20.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hook continues quite
ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
John Butcher.
James F. Hook of Trinity, and w.
H. Hook of Springdale, KY, visited
their mother, November 1, 2 and 8.
Our citizens will not admit that
they were tricked into giving cele-
bration without just cause Thursday
night, November 7th. They maintain
that their demonstrations had ample
justification in the election returns
Ohio went dry as well as Florida,
Michigan and South Dakota, enfran-
chised their woman citizens and our
National Congress went Republican
If these were not enough to justify
demonstration. All say that victory
over the Germans was worth two cele.
brations anyway.
Their friends in Ohio were very
much grieved to read of the deaths oil
Mrs Alice Yazell, Mr.. William Thrick,
morton, Mr.. George D. jenkins, Thos
p. Cooper and other valued friends IL
old Kentucky, as reported in the Ledg
err. Our sympathy to the Borrowing
relatives in thus rendered through the
columns of our beloved daily.
The reception in PEBBLES of the glat
news of the acceptance by German.
of the terms of armistice as laid dowr
by the Allies was on a par with tina
of her sister villages. To say the tow
went wild with joy is putting it mildly
The whistles, bells and guns were al
Communicated and everything will
which to make joyful noise was pu
to work, from tin pans, to carbide ex
plosions, tin horns and auto horns
The Boy Scouts and school children
started parade, soon Joined by 1
string of nearly hundred gaudil!
decorated automobiles and other We
hicles which wendell through tn
streets of our own town and then nois
lily proceeded to Jacksonville return
ing and going on to Locust Grove an,
back before exhaustion brought tn
hilarious celebration down to NOR
sober demonstrations. Patriots
speeches and fearful prayers O
thanksgiving filled the remaining
hours of the day until night fall whei
fire works and another noisy demon
stration was put on. National flag
and gay colored festoons were dis
played from every conceivable plac
and many unique ideas of decoration
were actrieyed. None was more in
teresting than that of the residence O
G. w. Hook where several large an
many small American and Frenc
flags formed the basis for the scheme
the center of which was the old his
toric flag which has been ably dc
scribed in the Public Ledger severe
years ago by G. c. Degman of Spring
dale. This was the flag made by hi
mother the late Clarissa Dogma
Sweet, Of material furnished by tn
late Jackson Tully, father of the pres
ent Postmaster at Springdale, durin
the Civil War. The Federal Steam
boats which passed along the rive
past Springdale during the war load
ed with Federal soldiers. would a
ways fire salute on catching sight {
this beautiful flag on its high libert
pole and as a compliment to 1t, the
bands would play as long as 1t was
their sight. At Mr.. Tully's death IL
flag was presented 10 the late C.
DegmaD and his daughter, Mrs. @. v
Hook, values II as her most pricelel
permission, II has swung In Il
breeze at the celebrations OF thrt
great wars--the Civil War. the Spar
ish-Amerlcan and the Great Wor