Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-02-22
Here, There, Everywhere

DIR. German Miller, of Spears, has
been confined to his bed for two
months. He first suffered an attack
of pneumonia and never recovered.
Cleveland Hogston, of Elkhorn City,
died at Louisa after both legs were
cut off by C. & o. passenger train.
He was 80 years old and leaves wife
and two children.
In Mercer county at the public sale
of I. r. Gritton, horses brought from
i SIS to S1S5, mules from 500 to S165,
mich cows from $50 to s160, yearIing
steers S65 head, and corn from $3.50
to S10.75 a barrel.
William Beasley, for years clerk at
the Leonard Hotel, and one of the best
known young men in Lexington, and
Bertie Huffman, bookkeeper at the
same hotel, surprised their friends by
eloping to Georgetown AMI marrying.
County Judge Forest Stapp, of Gar
rard, and held Benjamin Grimese over
to the grond jury, which convenes in
March, in the sum of $1,000 bond o,
the charge of killing his nephew, Jas.
Grimes, at boarding house in La
caster on Saturday night. February 8.
In Shelby county the BAT acre farm
one mile west of Shelbyyille, which
Allen Davis recently purchased, from
Caudill Brothers, was sold by Riner,
Downs and Hanna, to Hunter Sanford
of New Castle, for S77,eo0. Posses
sion will be given March 1.
Eugene Yates, cashier of the Far
mers bank at Georgetown, and treas
urer of Georgetown College, died in
Asheville, n. c., Thursday. He was
so years old and brother of former
County Judge Joseph j. Yates, of
Scott.
S. P. Greenwade sold his 49 acre
farm just outside Mt. Sterling, on the
Hinkston pike, for $411 an acre to w.
E. Jones. This is the highest priced
and sold in that county except few
small tracts of five or ten acres which
have sold for $500.
James Robinson Thomas, aged 26
years. a young Clark county farmer,
died Thursday at the place of w. G.
Dickey, on the Redmon farm in the
county. He is survived by his mother,
Mrs. E. P. Thomas, a brother, Marion,
sister, Hessie, and a half sister,
1 Mrs. Hughes. ,-~- .-----z--
Doubling the salaries of public
school teachers within the next five
years, and an addition of so per cent
before another ten years have passed,
so that the minimum average salary
for teachers would be $500 is the
program urged by Commission of Ed
ucation Claxton.
Rector Fl. P. Manning, of st. Phil
ip's Episcopal church at Harrodsburg
has announced to his congregation
that he has declined the call to act as
assistant to Dean Massie at Christ
Church Cathedral, Lexington, and has
also declined the call to the parish at
Gastonia, N. C.
This will help lot to curb the Boil
shevid tendencies of some. Victor
L. Berger and four other socialists,
convicted of violating the espionage
act, were each sentenced to twenty
years imprisonment by Federal Judge
K. NJ. Landis, after he had overruled
motions for a new trial.
Six dogs made a raid on the flock
of sheep of John Williams, near Neva-
da, Mercer county, killing and Grip
pling many of them, and then attack
ed the cattle and hogs on the farm of
R. W. Purdon, who with his son, sue
ceeded in killing four of the CANNES.
Three of the four killed had license
tags.
| Blood poisoning from an abscessed
tooth, caused the death yesterday of
Edward W. Mccormack, 62, president
of the Citizens Bank at Waddy, and
one of the largest land owners in
Shelby county. He is survived by his
wife, who was Miss Lille Boswell,
and two daughters, Mrs. Bronston
Kenney, of Frankfort, and Miss Sarah
Elizabeth Mccormack.