The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-10-11
EDITORIAL PERIscoPE

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The President continues to improve
and his married daughters have re-
turned to their homes.
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A new rule has been made pro-
hibiting the girls of Wellesley Col
lege from smoking. This is a blow
to matchmaking.
Spain is deluged with heavy rains,
but Spain can't be much ahead of
Western Kentucky in the line Of
Netness.
"A South Carolina mob made new
record this week. Instead of clos
ing" negro they had in hand to be
lynched they let him make a safe
getaway.
Wartime prohibition. operating
since December, 1916, and forbid
ding the sale and private importa-
tion Of spirits and strong liquors
has been made permanent by a
plsSRiscite in Norway
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Chicago came back with "a ven
geance after Cincinnati had dropped
out of games in the series of 8
games and won the sixth and seventh
games. The battle ground was trans
ferred to Chicago Thursday with two
more games to play in the first of
which Cincinnati won the deciding
game.
AT least one girl in the United
States is not to be bothered with
the high cost of living. By the will
of Charles Frederick Hoffman, pres
ident of the Hoffman estates, which
owned the Hoffman House and other
realty in New York, his daughter,
Marian K. Hoffman, now only seven
teen years old, is to receive. $50, 900
s@gear income from the estate of her
graz ther, the Rev. Charles Fred
eric Hoffman, besides eventually
getting the residue of her fathers
estate of many millions.
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The Honorable Ed Morrow will
make another visit to Hopkinsville
today and this time will perform at
the Court House He may be expect
ed to make good smooth speech
from his standpoint. provided he
steers clear of some Of the places
around town where the skating is
poor and the ice is thin. Among
lother things he will predict his own
election this time by 'steen thousand
majority. He makes this boast ev-
erywhere, but doesn't believe it him
self.
AS nearly as we can forecast now
the Kentuckian will become a tri-
weekly on Oct. 25. The change will
not effect the mail subscribers, IN
spite of the increase of u cents in
the price of paper within the last
80 days. The price of the paper tc
city subscribers; delivered by car.
fieT, win be $3.50 or cents week
but for the next two weeks casI
yearly subscribers will be taken at
$500. The great rush of job work
taxing the capacity of the Office
prevents us from making the change
at once.
One Fl preaching effect the Repub-
lican de by in ratifying the peace
treaty III the Senate will be to make
the tobalico market unsettled at
time wheil prices are due to go high
er than ever before. All of the
in the war zone are nor
mally heavy buyers of American dark
tobacco and the war prices of last
year should not only be maintained
but greatly increased by the unpre-
depted demand that will follow when
peace is declared and the markets
Of the world are again open to Ken
lucky tobacco. While Republicans
are playing politics and killing time
in the Senate, the farmers are kept
from realizing the just rewards of
heir industry. Wherever it is pos
sible, Republicans should be defeated
his fall.
Hogs Still Going Down.
A shart decline in hog values took
place at the Bourbon Stockyards.
Louisville, Wednesday. Tops ard |
light hogs declined S5c, pigs 6Oc and
hrowout 75c from Tuesdays prices.