Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-03-04
HEARD ABOUT TOWN

The many trends OF Mrs. John w.
Barclay, formerly Of this county, but
now of Camden, N. Y. will be glad to
know she is slowly improving from
double pneumonia following the flu.
All the family have been ill with the
flu, with no one to give medicine and
water but a 3-year-old child for sew
eral days, the only one in the fami-
ly that escaped it. Mrs. Barclays
mother is with her now.
Mack Hughes, of Danville, sold to
B. r. Pemberton, of Chicago, a five
year-old sorrel gelding for $500. He
sold at the Lexington sale sorrel
mare for $500 and a horse for $3.50.
d The Kentucky Jockey Club, which
controls the race tracks at Louis
vile, Lexington and Latonia, will
ask permission for 60 days of rae
ing. Lexington wants 13 days
Churchill owns 10 and Latonia %.
S. J. Embry of Stanford who at
tended Sam Burdett's mule sale at
Columbia the other day says the l. J
He says mules sold all the way from
$10O to 1855. He also attended the
sale at Lebanon, where they brought
from $14O to $3.50. K. Dunnigan, OF
Boyle, bought pair of two-year-nld
mare mules at Lebanon for 5000
Fire originating in the attic de-
stroyed the home of Jessie. Agee, in
Shelby county. "a 7fl1--.-t .-
A scratch on the thumb caused
the death OF w. Taylor. 75 Little
Garner. Boyd county. blood pois-
oning having resulted.
A $4,000 automobile which James
Caldwell of Paris, had just received
from the factory, bolteG into a black
smith shop as he was driving it home
from Versailles, and the car was dam
aged to the extent of $1,000.
The Sheriff was appealed to fer COM
pulsory vaccination in the family of
Stephen Eaves, a WUodford county
store keeper, a member of which has
smallpox. The health board estab-
lished a quarantine, but encountered
opposition to vaccination.
A bulletin ssued by, the College OF
the Bible at Lexington, sets out that
the engineer at the institution re-
ceived 5000 per year more than the
dean, and a plea is made for better
pay for eductors.
The campus and buildings of the
Princeton Collegiate Institute in Cald-
well county, have been bought by the
trustees for the new high school,
bonds having been voted for the pur-
pose.
Got Smith sold the following bas-
kets: 265 lbs at 81 1-2c; 240 lbs at
32c; 48O lbs at soc; $40 lbs at Ia 1-2c;
100 lbs at 10 l-3c. =
Arch Doty sold the following bas-
kets: 260 lbs at 10 1-3c; 255 lbs at
IL Lie; 800 lbs at &c; 215 lbs at
8 1-4c; 400 lbs at lie; 400 lbs at &c;
25O lbs at &c; 245 lbs at 5.10c; 27O
lbs at 5.10c.
Delayed payment of S1,062 family
allotment has enabled Frankfort girl
deserted by her soldier husband dur
ing the war and compelled to earn
support for her two children by work
ing in factory to buy little home
and have comforts that proverty had
denied them.
A rock may be deadly weapon in
in criminal prosecutions only when SC
designated by the jury, according tc
decision of the Court of Appeals in q
Perry county case, where the court
erred in giving that definition in in
structions.
In Hancock county Mrs. Evelyr
Bush, 81, blind author, whose --latest
work was the conversion of the 23rt
psalm to verse, and Mrs. Eliz;
Sterett, 8S, spent an afternoon sing
ing and listing old songs. The lis
totalled 800 when they had stopped