Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1919-03-21
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Walton.-The residence OF Barnett
X. Sleet on his farm near Walton was
destroyed by fire and Mr.. Sleet lost
his life in the flames.
Winchester-At the public sale Of
II. w. Powell, which was held in this
county, a hen and thirteen young
chickens sold to Mrs. Jacobs for SIS.
ysville.-Thleve blew the safe at
II. NJ. Harrison's feed store here with
nitroglycerine, securing about $500 in
cash and several hundred dollars
worth Of Liberty Bonds.
Owingsyille.-Clay Goodpaster, who
had been reported killed in battle in
France, surprised his home folks by
walking in on them one day recently.
He had been severely wounded.
Paris.-Mrs +. G. Arnold sold at
auction al acres of unimproved land,
on the Maysville pike, to Julian Frank
at S30J,7j an acre. This land Mrs. Ar
mold inherited from her father, the
late Amos Turney.
Georgetown.-rhe State Tax Com
mission raised the assessment of Scott
county farm lands S3,225OOO and its
town lots S275,OOO. A committee, com
posed of County Judge Robert Lancas-
ter, County Clerk James w. Hamilton,
Assessor J. NJ. Taggett and n. T., Arm
strong, went before the board to make
protest.
Cynthiana.-Veach ClOugh was pain
fully injured when Il. :. McCuuley's
huCkster wagon was overturned by the
wind. His leg was painfully injured
but was not broken as was reported.
Mr.. ClOugh has had an unusual
amount of trouble recently, having
buried his wife and an infant child
within two weeks.
WincheSter-Mrs. Emily Thomas,
O., mother of james Thomas, fell in
the fire while seized with a coughing
spell and sustained bad bruises and
burns about her face and eyes, Men,
berS of the family rescued her and her
condition is not serious. The family
lives on the place of w. J. Dickey on
the Richmond farm.
Observation-Disclosures Cole, 26-year-Old
son of Thomas Cole, of this county,
was found dead in barn on the farm
of Andrew Howard. on the Clarks Run
turnpike. He shot himself through
the head with a rs caliber revolver,
which was found clutched in his hand.
1t is thought lie became respondent
over i'll health.
GeOrgetOwn.-The will Of L. e. Nc
Graw dispOsing of an estate of $780,
600, has just been probated here. All
of his personally he bequeaths to his
Graw, to be equally shared, the latter
to Receive one-third of the real estate.
The remainder of his estate he be-
Queathed to his nine children.
HarrOdsburg.-A movement is on
foot among the friends of the ID. A.
Price Memorial Hospital to secure
enough donations to pay off the re-
naming $1,000 Indebtedness on the
building, and also raise $1,000 addi-
tiOnal as an emergency fund, with
which the board will be able to meet
any crisis. A nice, part of the sum has
been raised.
PariS.-PrObably never before in the
history of Paris and Bourbon county
has so much real estate and 50 many
farms changed hands as in the last
few months. AS most of these sales
were made subject to possession on
March l, this has been and will be
busy month for the movers, Dealers
In household goods report an extraOr-
binary demand for house furnishings
of all kinds.
Greenup-Dewey Osborne went to
his home at EdgingtOn, KY, near
Greenup, and got into an argument
with his brother, Fred Osborne. 1t
ended when Dewey secured single
barrel shotgun and emptied its con-
tents at his brother at close range.
Just as the trigger was snapped Fred
Jumped out of the path of the gun, but
six or seven shots struck him in the
face. His condition is not serious.
LOuisville.-PersoDal property val
ued at $l50,000 and realty valued at
$50, 900 was devised by the will of Gen
eral Bennett II. Young, prObated in |
the county court. Outside of a few |