Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1919-11-07

Mrs. w. w. Snood, from Harlan,
was visiting here a few days on her
way home from Knoxville, where
she has been shopping.
NJ. T. Mcdonald, Of Little Bridge
has bought tht @. F. Ely residence
on Allison Avenue and will come
back to our town SOON
Miss Emma Unthank has resigned
her position with the Telephone Co
Miss Ethel Mills, of Harlan, has taxi
en- her place as phone operator.
/ Mrs. r. III. Hayden ,Jr. entertained
some of her young married friends
at the home of her father. DR.. G.
H. Albright. Saturday evening.
Drucilla Lyttle, from Manchester
stopped over hereon her way To
| Washington, ID. c. where she will
spend the winter studying music
] Mrs. Henry Walker has returned
home after a visit in Lincoln, Ky.
Saturday night Mr.. Geo. Tye's
family were frightened by burglars.
| J. w. Broughton, coal operator,
has recently purchased quite lot
of real estate near the l.. & N. de-
pot and later will build several res
dences
Mr.. ]. A. McDermott is on his
way to South America. He will
stop off in Louisville where Mrs. Nc
Dermott is with Jimmy who is hav-
ing his eye treated.
Jolhl H. Wilson gave his friends
quite a scare when he sank down on
the street twice Monday. The ply
stefan said his stomach gave him the
trouble
Walter Widener, who has been in
the U. S. Army Service for more
than three years, came in Monday
for visit of thirty days to relatives
and friends in this County.
Myers Clark, of Corbin, former
| ly Union College student, is show
ing the stun of which he is made
| by doing call boy duty" for the
railroad men and at the same time
is attending high school.
Owing 20 the fact that they SEEM
ingly switched another pair of legs
on him while in the hospital at Louis
Vile, the editor has not been able to
get around to help this week. How
ever, he is getting his walkers train
ed so they begin to obey and hopes
to be on the job next week
Rev. w. b. Minton went to Man
chester Saturday to hold services OH
Sunday. An effort is being made to
supply the many Presbyterians in
that section with religious services.
The 10y" of being n candidate
and receiving boquets of different
degrees of perfume, is past. Mark
| Twain says that when he ran for the
Office of dog catcher, his opponents
charged and proved it on him that
he had murdered his grandmother
and hidden her body by stealth.
Those--who are ayerse to extraordi-
nary publicity should steer clear of
politics where Office is involved.
Mrs. Lulu b. Smith spent the
weekend in Corbin with her mother
and sisters. She reports parts of
Corbin as flooded at that time due
tothe heavy rains of last week.
The approaches to the Richland
bridge were under water last week
due to heavy rains. The river did
not overflow. Great damage was
done to corn, In Clay County also
great damage was done and quanti-
ties of pumpkins were washed away.
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John Hunter, vocational student
at Lexington, spent the weekend
with his parents. Mr. and Mrs N,
A. Hunter. The vocational students
wear their Uniforms and Uncle Sam
is vry good to them granting them
an allowance and all supplies of
books and stationery
Ben II. Goodin, from Four Mile,
brother of Mrs. ]. A. Gregory, spent
Sunday at the Gregory home. Mr..
Goodin is building roads for Bell
County. They have a road eomplet-
ed thru tho county and several miles
of branch roads, The road TO
Straigt Greek is now under construc-
ton. These roads, which are now
limestone, win be covered with as
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