Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-09-02
Here, There, Everywhere

COHlcuy blll OiioW WHICH 10 ooohSu ~
the opera house for two engagements
this week, gave its first perfom-
ance before a full house Monday
night. The company gives a varied
program of mirth, melody and mus c,
and the last performance will be given
tonight. The picture program is be-
ing shown at the Alhambra both
matinee and night during their en-
gagement.
DR.. S. c. Reid and family accompan-
led byMr Reid's parents, motoredover
from Lexington, Sunday. They were
driving their new Buick, which was
stolen from their home two week S
ago. According to a statement given
cut by DR.. Reid the damage done to
the car was round about $400. The
thieves were indicted in court and held
over to the grand jury to await action.
Mr.. James Cornelison is here from
France for visit to his father, be-
fore returning to Oregan to take up
the Mission work with Indians, where
he has been for the past twenty years.
Mr. Cornelison is an old student
of Central University, and delighted
a Richmond audience with one of his
lectures last year in the Presbyterian
church.
The crack young Y. NJ. b.
colored base ball team went to
Winchester Monday and defeated
the crack ball tossers of that
city by score of 10 to 8. This
is said to be the first time that
the Winchester team has been de-
feated on its home grounds. The
batteries we're; for Richmond :
Cole and Blythe; for Winchester :
Tarr, futile and Evans.
Three tracts comprised in the Kear-
ney place near Greendale in Fayette
were sold at public auction by John
A. Kearney, except of James Kearney.
The home place 112 acres was
bought by John A. Kearney at $500
per acre. He also bought two acres,
cut off when the pike was built, at
S210 per acre. M. R. Green, of Kan
sas, bought fifty acres unimproved
at $207.50 per acre.
J. l.. Gregory, of Lexington, recent.
ly purchased from c. A. Tabor his
260 acre farm at Pine Grove, neal
Winchester. This farm has been il
the Wallace and Fulton families fol
over one hundred years. The price
Der acre was reported 1859.
The farm of 464 acres five mile'
from Lexington on the Frankfort pike
owned by J. C. Stone, S. H. Stone ant
John L. Buckley, which was sold a
public auction Wednesday, averaged
$3OS per acre. B. F. Perry, of tn
Perry Lumber Company, of Lexing
ton, bought 166 acres at 1851; 10
acres at 1901 and 127 acres at $27S
w. S. McCuddy, of Fayette count!
bought SO acres at $3.50 per acre.
The Will +. lillard farm q
1880 acres in Anderson county
near Tyrone, which was sold a
auction by Bond & Buckley, fol
| w. P. Frazier, was bought by Al
bert Ledridge, of Versailles, a
1927 an acre.
In Clark county, ]. w. Poyntel
sold to J. c. Fox a farm on the
Two Mile pike about IL miles
from Winchester, consisting O.
100 acres, for $500. 1t is known
as the Simpson place.
In Scott county c. H. Smith
sold his farm of 65 acres located
on the Oxford pike, two and one
half miles from Georgetown tt
w. B. Anderson and Julian Can.
non for $4,000 or $3.50 an acre
Tires valued at $4,000 being
shipped by Akron, O., rubber
companies to dealers were stoler
from the local office of the Amer.
lean Express Company.
N. H. Taylor, of near Paris
sold to Mr.. Cassiday, Of Lexing
ton. his farm containing III
acres, located on the Iron Works
lpike, in Fayette county, for $42s
per acre. Mr.. Taylor acquired
the place last year, paying $3S:
lper acre.
There was considerable trad
ing in stock ewes Monday. The
best ewes were sold at $16. Buy.
ers offered $40 for fat hogs. One
man volunteered to bet $40 tina
hogs would be selling at SIS be-
fore Christmans.-Versailles Sun
A drive for better cattle
sheep and horses has been in
augurated by the Department Of
Agriculture to improve the grade
of live stock now being raised in
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