The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-01-31
DYE MIND THE TIME
When These Things Happened In
Paris, As Told in THE
NEWS Files!
DAYS OF AULD LANG SYNE
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
The Paris City School building
on Seventh street. destroyed by fire
ION night of Thursday, January %
1907. Was built in 1890 at cost Of
|$3o,oo0. Insured for $1,000. Or
January %, 1889. the old City
ISchool building. on Pleasant street
ion the site now occupied by homes
OF Ed. T. Hinton and Bruce Holla.
day, burned to ground.
Chief of Police Hill received mes
sage from Chief of Police at Mar
ltinsville, ILL.,, telling of the killing
There of George B. Dummy Davis
Body sent to Paris for burial.
Boprbon county branch of Amer
lean Society of Equity perfects Or
iganization and files papers of in
Incorporation with following incorpor-
ators: John T. Collins, James H.
Fisher, Thos. Henry Clay, ST., Thos.
Henry Clay, Jr., ]. Harry Holt, A.
P. Adair. C. H. Dalzell, John A. La
rue, Geo. X. Redmon, John Wood
ford, Jas. H. Thompson, v. w. Fer
guson, Sam Clay.
DR.. Robt. T. Wood, prominent
Paris physician, found dead in bed
at home by wife, Mrs. Margaret
Wood. Had been playing cards
with Dr. Brown, about an hour be-
fore retiring. Was native of Rob-
ertson county, and member of A O..
o. W., and the F. o, of A. orders.
Burial in Paris Cemetery.
Sam Woodford goes to Charleston,
West Va, to take position as indi-
vidual bookkeeper for the Kanawha
Bank & Trust Co.
Benz. Perry's latest joke: Isn't
it strange that while so much water
goes over Niagara Falls some of it
should be mist?"
Kentucky Legislature passes law
requiring all corporations to have
the word incorporated" spelled in
full, on all advertisements or printed
matter of all such companies, except
banks, railroad companies, insurance
companies, building and loan asso-
Citations, and such.
Rent of boxes in the Paris post
Office increased to seventy-five cents
per month by order of the Postoffice
Department at Washington.
VIM. Howard, Jr., thrown from de-
livery wagon. on South Main street
and painfully injured. Removed to
his home.
Edward Burke leased and occupies
the farm and residence of Mrs.
Shipp, on the Lexington pike, near
the old Fair Grounds.
Attraction at the Paris Grand :
The Depew-Burdett Stock Company.
in repertoire, starting with THE
Man Of Mystery"
Miss Clara nawson. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Dawson. of
Paris, died at home of sister. Mrs.
James Smith, near Paris, of scarlet
fever.
WIN. A. Parker, formerly of firm
of Parker G. James, locates in Pitts
burg; Pa, in clothing business un-
der firm name of Parker, Hobart
& CO,
Rev. Frank j. Cheek, former pas
tor of Paris Presbyterian church.
takes charge Of Covenant Presbyte
rian church, in Louisville.
Arch Paxton RECEIVERS from 6-weeks
illness of typhoid fever at home Of
brother-in-law, Geo. w. Judy, and
returns to duties with the Lexing-
ton Roller Mills.
Thermometers register ten de-
grees below zero. with heavy snow
on ground. Ice four and six inches
thick on Stoner creek Skating and
coasting being enjoyed by old and
young.
While skating on the McClintock
pond, near Millersburg, Geo. Bald
win, saw head of large fish sticking
up through an air hole. Captured
the fish, which weighed six pounds.
J. T. Jefferson and Hulin Kemper
sold vacant lots on HinkstOn creek
to the Kentucky Mining and De-
velOpment Company, on which they
expect to erect smelters and other
lead working machinery recently
purchased at cost of $4,000. Stock
in concern being sold at rapid rate.
Thomas McClintOck & Sons sold to
Scott Hudson three mules and three
horses; twenty-eight mules to the
Pulaski, Tenn, Mining Co., and
twenty-eight mules to Cincinnati
parties, all at good prices.
Cashier Wallace w. Mitchell re-
ceives five letters containing forged
drafts on the George Alexander &
Co. State Bank, of Paris, ranging
from $35 to SIS. One letter was
from California, one from Iowa, one
from Dallas, Texas, one from New
York, and one from New Orleans,
showing forger, E. r. Leslie, to be
'sOme traveller"
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Attractions at the Paris Grand