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The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26
TUsCOLA

Most of our tobacco growers have
shipped their tobacco and are well
pleased with the proceeds.
Lorna Doone Cunningham has been
quite sick FOR several days.
Isaac Queen is still confined to his
room Ills condition remains un-
changed
There was time during the colonial
period of our history that tobacco was
a medium of exchange. That has been
beaten to frazzle by some as hounds
have become medium in places. They
are even sold on the .installment plan
and given better treatment than chill
dren.
We were taught that old hounds,
guns and rfiddles" We're the emblems
Of drudgery for women and poverty
for children. We never see a man
leading hound around and carrying a
gun on his shoulder or saving on an
old fiddle but we wonder If his wife is
getting wood wearing tattered dress
and his children barefoot. If that Is
peoples ambition it is all the same to
us, but we fail to see the bright side
of it If there be any bright sde.
Hats off to the BIG SANDY NEWS
for the wonderful fight it made for
good roads and the bond issue. If It
had not been for the press of our
county the bond issue would have been
hopelessly beaten. But in all ages when
the psychological time arrived there
was always power prepared to Head
the people Alright. The press this time
has been the agency to lead the people
from darkness to the light and liberty
OF a new day that is dawning for the
people of our beloved county. The
shadows are already disappearing and
hope is revived and an enlightened cit
izenry looks forward to the time when
distance in winter will be no greater
than in summer.
The vote Saturday shows that the
people are progressive and are looking
forward to greater and better things.
Long live the NEWSi
OLD LI1M JUCKLENS.' !
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26
E. K. RAILWAY MAY
BE EXTENDED TO
TOWN OF BLAINE

1t is reported that Messrs. Millikan
and Ayers, of the Union Oil & Gas
Company. are working on a plan to
extend the Eastern Kentucky railway
from Webbville to Blaine and that the
prospects of accomplishing the enter
prise are very good.
The L. X. rs in the hands of a re-
ceiver and the owners are disposed TO
CO. operate in any plan that will put
the line in position to increase its bus
mess. The extension to Blaine should
do this, and the people of that section
naturally are very much elated over
the prospects.
The Union company is spending a
lot of money in developments out there
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26
GAS so PER CENT
HIGHER in LOUISA
THAN In FORT GAY
Big Sandy River the Dead
Line That Raises Our Gas
and Lowers Our Oil.

Our sister town of Fort Gay has a
new rate for natural gas OF % cents
net per 1000 cubic feet. Louisa has
new rate of 30 cents net. This is an
increase from 27c gross to 40c gross.
&c discount for prompt payment was
allowed under the former rate and sc
will now be allowed from the 40c.
The same company serves both
towns from the same lines,
is 1t fair?
The United Fuel Gas Company is
! furnishing gas to Ceredo, Kenova,
Kermit, and a lot of other towns, at
23c net Barboursville. w. Va, is sup
| piled at PIC net All rural points in
Wayne, Cabell and Mingo have new
rate of 23 cents.
The rates just across the river from
Louisa are based on a liberal return
upon the investment and operation of
the gas lines and property, after maxi
| ing deductions for depreciation and
depletion. If that be true there Is
some bold and extensive profiteering
on this side of the Big Sandy river
| The gas company buys a large
amount of its gas for prices ranging
around 5 cents per thousand. They
are selling 1t to us at seven times the
cost.
The increase in price this time is
nearly 80 per cent. The increases
heretofore have been smaller and the
people have stood for them without
much complaint, but the raise is so
large this time that indications point
to vigorous protest.
We had been gradually advanced
from sc net to 25c net during the past
few years.
Another Discrimination.
Il A very difficult problem for the lay
man or the victim to understand is
why we pay so much higher for gas on
the Kentucky side of the Big Sandy
and receive so much less for the oil
we have to sell than the producers get
in West Virginia for the same grade
of oil.
j Lawrence county produces tBerea oil
and receives the same price as the
lowest parafine oils produced in the
State Just across in West Virginia,
not many miles from here. the Berea
oil brings a considerably higher price
from the same purchasers.
Evidently, Kentucky needs some leg
islation to protect her citizens against
this two-edged discrimination.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26
CENSUS TAKERS FOR
LAWRENCE COUNTY

The following census enumerators
have been named for this county, They
will begin work January lst:
City OF Louisa. Robt. Dixon, Jr
East Fork. M. +, Jordan
Dry Fork, NJ. T. Sparks
Fallsburg, J, w Elkins,
Bear Creek, Add Skeens.
Blaine, Luther Burton.
Little Blaine. Mary Mci<inster,
Peach Orchard Frank Preston.
Gambill, Frank Preston.
Rockcastle. Tom Branham.
Lyons, Charley Bailey.
Upper Louisa, no appointment,
Georges Creek. Il. c. McKinster,
Cherokee, Pat Kinney.
Twin Branch, Sophia Pennington.
Swetnam, Roy Thompson.
Dobbins, John l.. Hibbard.
Lower Louisa, w. II. Vaughan.
Busseyville, w. II. Vaughan.
Gait, Monroe Webb.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26
Twelve Year Old Girl
Dies of Typhoid

Miss Yelma Stewart died Monday at
her home near Louisa. She was about
twelve years old and is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Clint Stewart, who re-
Gently moved to the Atkins farm near
this place Her death was caused by
typhoid fever.
She was niece of B. D. Lambert OF
Louisa.
The body was taken to East Fork
where burial will take place on Thurs
day in the Lambert cemetery.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26
MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Cam Runyons. 21. to Jessie Jones, IS,
of Peach Orchard,
George Savage, 2S, to Sophia Gladys
Pennington, "a, of Yatesville and
Dennis.
Ernest Jordan, 21, to Hazel Adkins
Is, of Fallsburg and Yatesville.
James r. Hayes, 23. to Carrie May
Borders, 20, of Matte and Ulysses.
Walter d. Salyer, 22. to Stella
Wheeler, 23, OF Ellen and Blaine.
John r. Moore, 20, to Ina Gs Nickel
16. OF Ellen and Blaine.
Harold II. Wriston. 49, to Elsie
Raines, IS. OF Fort Gay.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26
Will of Andy New
PrObated at Louisa

The will of Andy New, Sr, has been
probated in the Lawrence County
Court No objection was offered. He
left $1,000 to his son Tom, $500 to his
widow. $500 to II year old grandson,
$500 to one granddaughter and 5000
to another The remainder of the
estate, valued at about $4,000, is given
to his grandson, Andy New Jr,, whom
he raised. The latter is a successful
merchant at Chattaroy, w. Va.
The widow of Mr., New is in very
feeble health
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26
MART WELLS KILLED
AT ODDS, KY.

on Tuesday OF this week Martin
Wells was shot and killed by a man
named Harmon at Odds. 3 miles from
Van Lear. Wells then shot Harmon
and at last report Harmon was speech
less and thought to be dying, Wells
friends laid out his body in school
house and also put Harmon in there
and guarded the building. allowing no
one TO 20 in.
Wells recently returned from the
army and It is said some deserters IN
the neighborhood suspected that he
would cause their arrest. This is CIV
On as the reason for the trouble
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26
GOES TO FLORIDA.

James Hatcher, reputed 10 be the
largest coal operator of the Big Sandy
valley was in Ashland on Friday en-
route from his home in Pikeville to
West Baden Springs with an attend
ant and from there will 20 to Florida
and Cuba for the winter. Mr. Hatch
er Is an intense sufferer from rheuma-
tism and is travelling this winter in
search OF desirable climate conditions.
ashland independent.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26
WORK ON ice
PLANT TO START

The Lobaco company will start work
on the new ice plant building soon af-
ter the first of January. The brick
laying will be pushed during all the
weather that is at all favorable, with
the expectation of being ready to be-
gin installing machinery by March To-
Contracts for ice in some other towns
already have been closed by the COM
pany. The building will adjoin the
pottling plant.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26
Two Men Fatally
Shoot Each Other

a shooting ARRAY took place on Bea-
yer creek in Floyd county a few days
ago, eight miles from Dwale, We could
not learn the name of either. One is
a farmer and the other a miner who
went there from Tennessee a few
months ago. They shot each other and
the report is that one died and the
other is considered fatally injured. The
trouble arose over a COW belonging to
one man eating some fodder belonging
10 the other
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26

Misses Gail and Gladys Marsh stop
ped In Louisa for short visit to Mrs.
II. Genrhart and family. They We're
returning from school at Berea to their
home near Barboursvillc, w. Va, to
spend the Christmas vacation, Alva
Marsh, who was in school in Louisa,
went home for the holidays.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH,

Sunday School $3.50 a. m:
Preaching service 1880 a. m.
Evening worship o'clock.
Prayer meeting Wednesday p. m,
First Wednesday night in each
month business meeting.
You are cordially invited to attend
Ill services. j. T. POPE. Pastor.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26
nalnns. .HoME A BRIDE.

Eugene Mcclure and bride are at
Gallup visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. j. p. Mcclure. He has been IN
,ronnessee and South Carolina about
two years In Dairy and Extension
work. He was married Monday of
last week and brought his wife home
for a Visit
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26
THE CHURCHES
M. E. CHURCH SOUTH.

Sunday School 8 o'clock.
Morning service 10:30.
Evening service $3.50 o'clock
Epworth League Sunday $3.50 p. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday $3.50 pm.
Bible Glass Thursday 6;S0 D. m.
Choir practice Friday evening $3.50
to $50.
A cordial invitation is extended ev-
cry one to attend these services.
JAS. d. BELL Pastor
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

Preaching the first and third Sun
days in each month by the pastor, Rev.
Stambaugh.
Sunday School every Sunday $3.50.
Prayer meeting Wednesday $50.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26

NJ. e. Haywood and family have
moved from Busseyville to Louisa and
are occupying their residence on Lock
avenue which they recently remodel-
ed.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26
GOOD ROADS WIN BY !.
ENORMOUS MAJORITY
The Dawn of New Day for Lawrence County Broke Over
the Horizon Last Saturday. Vote Was Nearly
5 to in Favor of the Bond Issue.

lawrence county Is for good roads in
the ratio OF nearly 3 TO l.
Last OF the Big Sandy counties TO
vote, she beat the records OF all ex-
cept Pike county The vote by pre-
cincts is shown below.
Our readers win understand that we
refer TO the special election held in
Lawrence county last Saturday TO vote
on the question OF Issuing S2bO,0O0 in
bonds with which 10 build hard roads,
The proposition carried by an over
whelming majority, the vote standing
1853 20 3g1. IL was an overwhelming
victory for the greatest progressive
step this county has ever undertaken.
This means the beginning OF u new
ern In which greater prosperity, more
4 enlightenment. better schools and
churches, more comfortable living con
dtions, and country In which IL will
be worth while to spend our lives.
This election demonstrates again
that all the people need is TO be thor
oughiy informed on good proposition
like this There are a few exceptions
TO almost every rule and every sltua-
tion. But on the whole II shows that
not many men ARE willing to stand In
the way Of the progress Of their coun-
". Not many win try 10 defeat what
in best for the whole county because
OF some personal sore spot or griev-
ance or ret notion.
~ BIG Task Ahead.
Int the greatest job is yet ahead Of
AZ The citizens have spoken In un-
fIlsntakabIe numbers on the point OF
desiring good roads. and the general
course OF four roads has been outlin-
cd.
Now comes the work OF carefully
preparing for the issue and sale OF the
bonds. the survey OF the roads hy State
engineers. the decision ais to material,
ctc.. and the effort TO get the work
started by the time favorable wealth
or arrives next spring.
These n much enthusiasm now that
the Ice Is broken and the first big step
hns been taken. and we believe the
authorities will go ahead with the
work as rapidly as possible. Let ey-
eryhody pun together for the success
OF this great enterprise, as II means
more TO every man. woman and child
In the county than any material move
mcnt that has ever been attempted
Z here.
Old Lawrence VIII yet be one OF the
leading counties in the State. With
good roads and prosperous farmers>and
great oil field there win be no oe-
casion 10 worry about the future wei
fare OF this beautiful mountain coun-
"
Since the decisive expression OF last
Saturday nobody viii again accuse us
OF being dead and unconscious of the
Rfact. Neither win anyone doubt that
the citizens OF Lawrence have turned
over new leaf and arc determined
to get out OF the mud and the ruts.
December 20, 1919. should be a great
day In the history of Lawrence coun-
~
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1919-12-26
Revival Services.

series of meetings is to begin next
Sunday night in the M. b. Church.
South. Rev j. d. Bell, pastor, will do
the preaching He extends an invita-
ton to all to attend and take part
Presiding Elder c. A. Slaughter was
in Louisa Sunday. preaching morning
and evening to good sized ,congrega-
tions.
Christmas greetings and best wish
es to all for the New Year.
JAMES d. BELL Pastor.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-07-22
NO EXCUSE NOW
Think it over

Come back here" were the shrill
cries that overlook a crippled Ar
gonne hero as he hobbled from a
Chicago drug store where he had
purchased his favorite bunion pad
to ease his remaining foot wrecked
when fighting Huns in the trenches.
He had deposited the regular price
stamped on the box, 25 cents. You
come across with two cents more to
meet the luxury war tax on corn
pads for crippled soldiers" he was
told. And as the hero digged down
for the extra brownies, he was heard
to mutter something familiarIy sim
liar to what Sherman denominated
war-American Economical.
Even the children are taxed on
every stick of candy they buy and
ice cream they eat.
During the rush OF war and neces-
city for raising money rapidly, the
passage Of this act can be excused
but there is no excuse now for fail
ure to change this "nagging tax"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-07-22
THINK 1T OVER

Back in 1910 the people Of Cali
fornia passed a law taxing savings
bank deposits.
The law has been ignored by as
SCISSORS as taxation OF such deposits
is nearly always double taxation as
these accounts are usually held to
pay off Indebtedness on property
already taxed.
Now the law is to be enforced
In the meantime the city of New
Orleans is carrying on a nation wide
campaign TO attract industries and
home buyers and one of the main
arguments in its advertisements is
that bank accounts in Louisiana
are not taxed"
This is a good object lesson for
California or any other state. with
the taxation mania. Legislators may
tax and regulate man to death and
drive money out of a state but 30
far no legislator has been able to
pass a law which could force a man
to do business under adverse con-
ditions. ge 1-t
Think II over.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-07-22

the exception OF few old obsolete
guns at the mouth or the Columbia
river the Oregon coast was wholly
unprotected
Louis J. Simpson, as president of
the Pacific coast league. discussed
the need OF the highway as a de-
fense OF the Pacific coast and told
OF the measures already taken In
California and Washington 70 ex-
tend the road from the Canadian
boundary to the Mexican border.
The showing made by the Oregon
men before the committee was so
Unexpected that Representative J.
w. Summers OF Washington, in a
close OF the hearing, said.
Il want to compliment the Oregon
delegation in congress and the visit
ing committee. No witnesses before
any standing committee Of which
am a member have presented their
case so concisely and so convincing
ly as has the Roosevelt coast mill
tary highway been presented. Speak
ing for myself, l predict fayorable
action by our committee"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-07-22
DYsPEPTIC MoNKEYDoM PEssI
NISTS

It has been said that immortality
Is the curse OF the race; that rum is
running the people; that neglect OF
child-life is undermining society;
that contempt for law is destroying
the state; and now comes one d. B.
c. Keister a noted specialist, who
declared before a congress Of scient-
lists at Philadelphia that the United
States is now second only to China
in the use of opium, and that there
is danger from our use OF narcotics
Of the people degenerating back in
to something worse than monkey
dom.
Mr.. Keister and his high-brow fol-
lowers can go back to monkeydom
IL they want TO, but we are just go
ing TO keep right on, and in due
course OF time expect to become a
pretty decent sort Of man. one who
writes cheerful things instead Of
damning everybody and everything
in sight Just because the universe
and the people are not perfect. IL
anybody goes back to monkeydom It
will be for two reasons-one because
he sprang from monkeydom some
where back in the dim and distant
past, and another because he has
scrambled brains OF the monkey
brand. Some may have monkey
brains, some fatty degeneration OF
the think-tank. and still Others
brains OF the grapenut variety II
takes all kinds OF people TO make a
world, including bilious scientists
and those who predict all sorts OF
dire calamities for their fellow men
for no other reason than their own
iiyers are disordered and need shak.
ing up. ...t. .t.,.,t
There are many destructive agen
cies, such as immortality, rum, OPT
um, social friyolity and green cog
gled specialists who can see nothing
about the apple but the rotten specl
where the worm took bite. In thu
meantime. we should all go right OF
following the even tenor of our way
growing in grace. advancing in edu
cational enlightenment, increasin
in wealth. adding to our peace o
mind and contentment, consciou
that our civilization is growing bet
ter all the time.
Evils there are, and the best cur
for them is to cultivate the good
the true and the beautiful. Sendin
the country TO the bad is an enter
prise the pessimists undertake wit
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-07-22
DELEGATION CAPTURES
FOES OF MILITARY ROAD

It was with an absolutely reversed
mental attitude that Representative
Thomas B. Dunn, chairman OF the
house roads committee, closed the
hearing last Friday on the Hawley
bill appropriating s2,5O0,OOo for the
Roosevelt highway
And the same state OF mind had
come over the rest OF the committee
by that time. All OF the cynicism
and all Of the antagonism with
which the members OF the commit
tee at first turned their faces to-
ward the Oregon representatives
disappeared soon after B. F. Jones,
of Newport, author OF the Roosevelt.
highway bill which passed the Ore
gon legislature, told something oi
the conditions in Oregon due to
Uncle Sans retention of such great
areas OF the lands in the state.
Mr.. Jones made a talk that would
have won any jury, because he did
not overlook the human interest
side. And Senator Chamberlain
said that the people of the state had
met the government $3.50 on the
improvement of harbors other than
the Columbia river and that to do
this the people of the counties on
the coast had voluntarily taxed
themselves.
And then Senator Chamberlain
reminded the committee, as did
Representative Hawley and McAr-
thur, that the dangers Of war are
not over and he remarked that the
danger now is on the Pacific coast
and not on the Atlantic.
Representative Macarthur cited the
figures given recently by Senator
Phelan OF California showing the
rapid growth of the Japanese birth
rate in California as compared to
the white, and said it behooved con-
gress to prepare for the defense Of
the Pacific coast. He said that with
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-07-22
James Barrett, Prop. Phone 1Ss

The Townley organization won
out and is already campaigning for
A dollar in the bank is worth two
in your mind.
; Praise the living-the dead don't
need it.
control of the states Of Washington
and Nebraska.
In spite of prosperity in many
parts Of the state cutting down the
league strength, in other sections
it gained votes.
The almighty dollar showed its
potency. Townley is the first
agrarian, leader who has been able
to finance reform party.
AS class organization, organized
TO secure specific advantages for a
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-07-22

Whose specific duty is II to take
care Of the Chautauqua grounds in
the rear of the City Hall? Is it
anybody's business. or everybody's
business? What is everybody's busi-
ndis is always nobody's business.
For lack of water all the grass along
the edges is dead and before the
season is over all the beautiful
young naples will be gone as well.
1t should be somebody's business to
keen that lawn watered.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-07-22
rowNLEY's ORGANIZATION WON

. The program Of state-owned big
business and state-managed bank
ing and insurance won out in North
Dakota
The Legislative program Of the
Non Partisan league was endorsed
by small majorities at the recent
referendum election.