The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-09-01
1886
Aug. 27-Hot, awfully hot.

Aug. 27-Hot, awfully hot.
Arthur Preston of Graves Shoals i
in town.
G. r. Lewis is teaching school Oh
Lick Creek with an average OF ~,
w. ]. Crutcher and Lou Johnson o
Peach Orchard spent Sunday in Louisa
Conductor Williamson is one Of th'
most accommodating men we ever met
Rev. Capt. Music now runs a pusf
boat between Louisa, the Point and tho
Mo- Of Pond.
our public school opened Monday
with T. L. Moore as principal and Miss
Cora Abbott Assistant.
stanton Dean of Far West Kansas
arrived in Louisa Saturday to visit the
home of his boyhod days and to enjoy
the breezes of our mountains.
The strike in the coal mines at
Peach Orchard is ended.
G. NJ. Mcclure who has been spend
ing summer vacation left Monday to
resume his place as professor in the
Deaf and Dumb Institution at Dam
vile.
Sept. 3-Oil business on the boom.
Z. Broas of New York locates a
well at Lower Laurel, about mile
above the Vinson well. Mr.. Rigdon
at the mouth of Blaine has struck oil
and gas.
Prof. H. T. Lyttleton conducted
teachers institute in Pikeville.
Robert Crutcher died Saturday night
after a stroke of paralysis.
Rev. d. p. Holt preached on Lick
Creek Sunday.
Rev. @. H. Williamson. d. ]. Burch-
EFT and wife attended camp meeting
near Salyersyille Sunday.
Mrs. DR.. wroten and Mrs. Kate
Ferguson are visiting Mrs. j. M. DAY.
idson of Prestonsburg.
Misses Thursa and Mary Burns and
Mrs. Anna Smucker are visiting in
Catlettsburg.
NJ. s. Burns. r. j. Prichard and A.
]. Loar attended the Sullivan~McCat-
frey fight Saturday.
Jim Marcum who has been on an,
extended trip through the east re-
turned last week
Sept. JOG. F. Gallup of Catletts-
. ,
II is reported that oil is flowing in
large quantities from the Mansfield
wen sunk in 1866 on Paint Greek.
Rev. j. b. Hutchinson and wife will
celebrate their crystal wedding Sept.
IA in Catlettsburg.
Sept. 17-Born to the wife OF Jesse
Shannon girl.
VIM. shannon, John B. Clark and
John Allen leave for Kentucky river.
Work has ceased on the locks.
Sept. 24-we regret to know that
Johnnie Burns is sick with fever.
A few of our citizens are attending
the Soldiers reunion in Ashland.
Nathan Crum of Inez and Fleming
Webb of Glenwood have been appoint
ed postmasters.
Riding parties are all the go among
our Louisa ladies. Nothing is prettier
than pretty girl on pretty horse,
Rev. j. H. Hager appointed to the
Franklin circuit in Missouri confer
ence.
Mr.. Charles Cutter and wife OF Cow
ington We're recently visiting Judge
John NJ. Rice. AS Miss Amanda Rice,
Mrs. Cutter was long a popular lady in
Louisa
Miss Fannie Freese left Tuesday for
Mount Notre Dame, Ohio, to attend
school.
w. t. Young has a fine hammer
made by Thomas Burchett of Peach
Orchard.
Geo. P. Archer of Prestonsburg is
attending F. & H. College, Emory. Va
Rev. c. III III. Williamson preached his
farewell sermon at the NJ. E. Church
Sunday.
Miss Dora yinson left wednesday
for Nazareth. KY, to attend school.
She was accompanied by Mrs. Vic
Prichard and Miss Jennie vinson, who
will attend the Louisville Exposition.
G. B. Gray of Peach Orchard. made
agent for Chattaroi railway at Louisa.
His assistant is Will Johnson. Ben
Dixon goes 10 Peach Orchard as agent.
Oct. 1-Rev. Sheppard. Rifle. VIII
hanson, Snead and Holt have gone to
conference.
Col Jay H. Northup and wife have
gone to New York. The Colonel is
attending a reunion of his old regiment
the gath New York.
Al car load of machinery arrived for
the oil region.
Misses Lizzie and Thurza Burns
leave for Cincinnati to enter Wesleyan
College.
Sorghum crop of the valley immense
price 25 cents per gallon.
Oct. s-Mrs. DR.. wroten and little
George leave for Morristown, N. j.
A fire in cassville destroyed houses
belonging to Jas. Damron, Reynolds |
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