The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1922-08-15
PARIS MANS IMPRESSIONS OF
HAZARD TOWN

DR.. VIM. Kenney, of Paris, who is
temporarily located at Hazard, the
magic city of the mountains, has
evidently formed a very favorable
impression of that place, as may be
gathered from a letter which he
recently wrote THE NEWS, as fol-
lows:
Hazard, KY, August 10.
Dear NEWS:
Have been intending writing for
some time, but you know how one is
in strange town, always looking
around. We are having a nice stay
up here. Hazard, of
course, hasn't been Hazard since the
railroad strike. / think it is conced-
ed about 40 per cent normal, but
improving daily.
Il find real nice, small sized hos
pital here, where / get excellent
service. 1 have seen some surgery
here that 1 consider to have been
excellently done. Hazard is GER
tainly a very progressive little
town. Of course, owing to the strike
it is slowed up great deal to what
it was in May, when l was here be-
fore, but conditions at that are far
in advance of Central Kentucky. 1
have done quite bit of operating,
and have quite few slated for the
near future. 1 have made arrange
ments for clinic at one of the large
mines for next week, and expect to
see more of the country.
''The people here are vary courte-
Gus and kind. Although much noto-
riety has been given them through
the papers than other sections of the
State l can see no difference here
from other places My opinion of
the mountain people is that if you
attend to your own personal affairs
(the same the world over) the ma
tive people will attend to their own.
1.-THE people tell me there is
stay disease up here, that is, the
longer. you stay, the longer you
want to stay. The John Fox YER
sion of The Little Shepherd From
Kingdom Come photoplay was in
the main staged here, that is,
great many of the films were taken
in and around Hazard. 1 talked to
a native last night who said he was
with the party.
Among the prominent people
here who were formerly Bourbon
county residents or natives are T. E.
Moore, Jr., Rogers Moore, attorneys
and very prominent through the
mountain section; J. Irvine Demp-
sey, first vice-president of the Haz-
ard Bank and Trust Co.; Little
Irish,' who used to be with The AL
amo Theatre in Paris, and is now
known as Mr.. E. J. Mckinney, the
sign writer and decorator; Mrs. Bal
ley Wooten, wife of a prominent at,
torney, capitalist and banker,
daughter of Mrs. Dempsey; Dan Lin
chan, timer and furnace man; Mr..
Harbold, druggist, formerly with
Clarke & Co., in Paris, whose
daughter is now a member of the
Paris High School faculty; Tommie
Letton is at Lothair with large
coal mining company; Miss Henry,
of Carlisle, is a nurse at the hospital
and a great many others Ewho have
been in or near Paris are here;
Lewis Coleman, the big colored fell
low who was formerly chef at the
Kid Stout Cafe, seems to be one of
the leading plasterers of this sec
ton; Jesse Richardson, who used to
be Charlie Mitchell's man Friday in
the ice cream parlor, is in similar
place with Mrs. Speed Hibler.
Foremost of all is Mrs. L. G.
Hibler, known to all in Hazard and
for miles around Hazard, as we'll to
all the travelling men as Ma She
is a moving spirit in Eastern Ken
lucky, and I dare say that a great
deal of the success of this section is
due to the untiring efforts of Ma
She opens up the town and closes
up the town. Kind-hearted, sympa-
L06IlC, anu last UuI HUI least, 10y dl
to Hazard and Eastern Kentucky,
power in politics, her advice is
sought by National, State and local
politicians, and I am told that she
is seldom wrong as to her advice.
She is a staunch Republican, and
quite a few have come up this hol
low on North Fork of Kentucky
River to advise and consult with
her.. te rI
Teddy Roosevelt, Jr., was enter
tanned by her during his stay here
several years ago, and 1 am told
she did honor to this or any other
section in the elaborateness of her
entertainment of the royal bloods of
the Republican party She is the
most energetic little being you ever
saw, never still a moment, in her
own business affairs as we'll as those
of Hazard. She operates the Hib
Ter Hotel, Hibler apartments scat
tered all over the town, has a nice