The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1919-08-04
RUGGLES FILLED
WITH PEOPLE ON
LAST SUNDAY
Literally Hundreds From MaysyIlle
Attended-Camp Grounds Well
Filled-Serylce Fine.


Ruggles Campgrounds, August g.
II Ruggles ever had real ideal day
for the closing Sunday the biggest of
all campmeeting days, this Sunday has
been that very ideal day. After a
night in which we all shivered on ac-
count of the cold the sun came up
from a clear sky warming the atmos-
phere to an ideal temperature. The
rains of Thursday had made the
grounds fresh, laying the dust. Then
the campers were all feeling fine,
ready to entertain the crowd. And the
crowd came by the thousands. The
gate receipts exceeded any Sunday in
all the history of the campmeeting.
Most of crowd came in automobiles,
one truck bringing even thirty from
the Salem neighborhood near German
town. People are here from as far as
Bath, Nicholas, Robertson and Brack-
en- counties. The automobile has been
great help to Ruggles Campmeeting.
1t was a great sight to walk through
the woods and see the great number
and variety of machines. The crowd
while the largest in the history of the
campmeeting, has been the most or
derby. So far we have not heard of a
single instance of misbehavior Cred
It prohibition with this. Furthermore
the crowd attended these services, that
is as many of them as could get under
the tabernacle and within hearing dis
lance standing outside. Many had
come expecting to hear DR.. Bunton
and were little disappointed. But
when they heard the great sermon
preached by DR.. Blodget in the morn
ing they felt we'll repaid for coming.
DR. Blodget preached one Of his best
sermons. He had perfect attention
throughout and made a profound i'm
preston on the audience. The sermon
was preceded by an inspiring praise
service conducted by Mr.. George N.
Harding. Then Rev. Ashley sung one
of his solos by request he and Miss
Muse sung for the third time one
of their most beautiful duets, Don't
You Hear the Bells Ringing"
Rev, Peters led the early prayers
Several had gotten up real early to
surprise H. Carr Pollitt whose forty
fifth birthday happens to be this good
Sunday AT six a. IN. they assembled
on his front porch, sung several songs
gave him forty-five cheers and poked g
birthday card through a crack in the
window for him But they couldn't gel
him out of bed; it was too cold fol
Carr that early. The crowd ther
marched to the tabernacle for the
morning yrayers.
Superintendent Literal preached al
3 p. m. AS he had to leave early tc
catch the afternoon train at Maysville
he pevailed upon Evangelist R. NJ
Reynolds of Mt Sterling to give the
large audience message.
The evening service is to be in the
nature of platform service, several
speakers being on the program for
this the closing service. More about
this service in our final report.
We are not suffering from any water
famine out here as you are in Mays
Vile but Maysville's water famine has
hurt the confectionery very much
these last few days it being almost
impossible to get ice for lemonade and
orangeade purposes or very little ice
cream. Many of our Maysville folks
are thinking seriously Of remaining
| here until the water famine is relieved
They say What's the use to 60 home
while we can get plenty of water out
here?" Others who have good cisterns
at home are wondering whether they
will find any water in them when they
| return.
II would take entirely too much
space to mention personally the many
Maysville people here today. Literal
ly hundreds Of them are here. We i'm
agine Maysville must be little quiet,
We are sure that after reading the big
scare headlines In the papers that we
dc not look forward to returning home
with very pleasant anticipations.
The final preachers to arrive and
get their meal tickets we're Revs. H. E.
Trent of Vanceburg and ]. D. Haggard
Of Maysville.
ONLY FAIR COURT DAY CROWD