Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-05-16
KENTUCKY FACTS

A't't III Nctllll iieto G. PcPeNisSS
OF $3.50 in 1920 and 1928 in
,19lO. Glasgow. the county seat,
has ESQ inhabitants.
Franklin county farmers rails
ed 344 ,242 bushels of corn and
II go bushels of wheat in 1921.
Kentucky contains approx
mate}y 26.715,S40 acres of land OF
which Il ORTIZ acres are class
fled as farm lands.
Kentucky, according to the
Commissioner of Agriculture
raises more race horses than all
the other states in the union put
together.
The old State Capitol building
at Frankfort, was completed in
1923, and the first session of the
General Assembly held in it con-
vened on December I, 1929. The
building was occupied until 1906
when the general state officers
moved to the present building,
The last session Of the General
Assembly held III the old building
vas in 1908.
The Mountains" one. OF thl
1--WE sections Of Kentucky, famil-
iarly referred to by residents o
he state. takes its name from the
cumberland Mountains in east
IN Kentucky. This region con
aims immense coal fields, for.
:sts aud minerals of many kind
his section is being rapidly de
eloped from every standpoint.
Robert ". Hunter. OF Provi
fence, is Chairman of the Re
publican State Central Commit
ee OF Kentucky. Charles A
Hardin, of Harrodsburg, is Dem,
,cratic State Chairman.
Alexander S. Bullitt, the first
lieutenant governor of Kentucky
was elected in 1900 and served
until 1904. He previously ha6
)een speaker of the Senate iron
tzQ2 to 1900.
The Kentucky Derby, world f.
nous thoroughbred contest, has
been run for 48 years in Louis
Vile. The distance is one and
one-fourth miles. Colts carry
20 pounds and fllies 121.
Frankfort was established il
January 1888.
,Owsley county raised eleven
bushels Of rye in 1921.
Kentucky has an acreage of
40,598 square miles.
The Bank of Kentucky was
chartered in 1907 with $1,0O0,0OG
capital.
In January 1880 corn sold III
kentucky at from $50 to Sis a
oushel Continental Currency.)
The first Kentucky divorce
aw was passed by the legislature
January 81, 1909.
Johnson N. Camden, of Yer
;ailles, is chairman of the Ken
lucky Racing Commission.
Tie first convention looking to
he division Of Kentucky from
Virginia was held at Danville on
December u, 1884.
The oil production tax of one
Der cent of the valte OF oil run
through pipelines brought the
state $270,939,S5 in revenue in
L9Z1.
The first geological survey OF
Kentucky was undertaken III
1888 by William Williams Math-
er. 1t continued only through
1889. Permanent survey was es-
lablished in 1884
The state fair was taken to
Louisville in 1906 after a bitter
fight between that city and Lex
ington for the permanent home
Of the exhibition 1t has been in
It's present quarters since 1908.
Motor vehicle owners paid in
TO Kentucky road fund total OIL
81 ,o79,597.27 in license fees.
The first wheat sown in Ken
lucky was planted in the fall of
1875 near Harrodsburg. 1t was
reaped July II and IS, 1777.
Bath county had 1896 popu-
Iation in 1920 and 1888 in 1910. |
fhe county seat, Owingsville, !
las 1000 population.
The first Kentucky legislature
assembled in Lexington June 4 !
L792. The members received S12f
or the session.
The Eastern State Hospital at
lexington was the first Insane
Asylum built west of the Allie
sl1eny mountains and the second
n the United States. It was
ounded in 1916 and one building
# the original unit still is Occur
lied.
The Virginia legislature on
December Is, 1888, voted to al
ow Kentucky to separate from