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Newspaper
Hartford Republican
Location
Hartford, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1918
Page
8
The county lists 117 white common schools five colored and six high schools with district numbers names and pupil counts. The German offensive of May 19 is described as waning with allies reinforced by American recruits and a likely push toward winter quarters and peace overtures looming.
Market on hogs and lambs up 25 cents with good demand and pens cleared. Hogs listed as Choice heavies 300+ pounds at 16.60, 165-300 pounds at 16.85, 165 pounds down at 16.70, troughs 14.55. Lambs selling Choice 19.50 19.75, Seconds 16 17, culls 14 16, best sheep 13 13.25, bucks 11.00. Cattle includes Prime export steers 16.00 17. Heavy shipping 14 15 00, light 12 14, fat heifers 9 15.50, fat cows 10.50 13, feeders 5.50 11. Calves bept veals 12 1.50, medium 6 9.
More than fifty airplanes and hydroplanes patrolled the Long Island shore today for hostile submarines. Observers watched up to 15 miles offshore with patrols extended toward the New Jersey coast. Military authorities refused to release details while reports say French British and Italian airmen will join as instructors to augment the force.
A Mississippi river steamer carried a glass‑cased box of four active rattlesnakes. Each passerby, drawn by instinct, pressed his finger to the glass and drew away as the snake struck. A Paris gambler, having lost his son and large sums, sought suicide at the Seine but clung to a lamp post during a lion escape, then turned toward the river to plunge in.
Beverages describe visits by Maj. J L Lallenger and others to family members in Beaver Dam, including Ella Ferguson visiting her parents in Vienna and Wahnlla Leach visiting Mrs. J M H Davis, with several townsfolk returning home after visits. Mrs. Harrison Austin dies near Sulphur Springs, buried at the family burying ground, husband surviving. A fishing party on Green River includes John Barrass, Clarence Baker, HL Taylor, Noble Taylor, Coakley Grey, Mason Taylor, Albert Leach, and Guy Taylor, reporting a pleasant trip and lots of fish. Imogene Plummer returns home after schooling at Howling Green.
Mr Beat Fuqua lost a fine mule last week despite multiple visits by Dr Hart of Beaver Dam. Fuqua had been offered 225 dollars for the use. James Daniel and family visited Snear Hartford relatives. Heber Midkiff and Bertha Brown with several Muffett family members traveled to Fordsville for teaching contracts. Maggie Muffett visiting near Deanfield with her daughter and new grandson. Dena Muffett Effie Whitehouse visited Lizzle Kelley and son. Ethel Muffett and mother spent time with Emma Fuqua at Fordsville. Louis Sharp visiting his daughter Mrs Noah Mosley. Leslie and Hewitt Edger went to Owensboro.
Chairman Rowan Holbrook is ordered to enforce a law requiring all ages 16 to 50 to perform at least 36 hours of productive labor weekly. Local officials including the sheriff, judge, and county attorney must compel the idle to work and report any negligence. The public is urged to report infractions, ensuring everyone idle goes to work or jail.
The county clerk’s office issued marriage licenses since the last report listing several couples with ages and hometowns including Chas L Hunter of Centertown to Pearl Renfrew Cromwell, Orson Maples Cromwell to Lena Westerfield Dundee, Frank S Atherton Livermore to Hazel Hudson Livermore, Claude Quisenberry Dundee to Gertie Gaither Narrows Route 1.
Howling Green Kentucky reports Thos Sanders his wife two sons and four daughters earned 225 dollars from ten days of strawberry picking. Sanders aided on Wade H Campbell’s three acre farm on the Nashville pike as Campbell faced a picker shortage. Campbell harvested forty gallons in a single afternoon from the three acres.
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