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Newspaper
Mount Vernon Signal
Location
Mount Vernon, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1917
Page
3
A crowded Christmas bulletin lists residents visiting relatives in London and Lebanon Junction, moves between households in Hazard and Terre Haute, local youths and soldiers at Camp Shelby, weddings and engagements, and community notices including a farm rental ad and year end business closures.
Mrs S W Davis arrives from Mystic to visit sister Mrs J W Rider. Miss Ida Hamlin teaches Goochland school and joins family during Xmas break. Mr and Mrs Harvey Mitchell of Laurel visit friends in the county's southern section. Mrs Ina McVoy St Clair with a baby from Lexington comes Sunday to spend days with Mt. Vernon kin.
Corporal Victor Price and his mother are in Level Green. Mr and Mrs John Treadway of Terre Haute are staying with relatives. Chas C Stoll Oil Co of Louisville bought a fifty acre lease from Furnace Oil Co in Irvine district for 220000 dollars. Robert Ford resigns as U S Marshall for the Eastern Kentucky District. Henry Cox of West Liberty is likely successor with a 5000 dollar salary. James B Brown appoints W H Fish as Rockcastle County War Savings chairman to lead local sales. Prof Dieddue and his S E MS band impressed at the Graded School. London band members have made friends in Mt Vernon and will return for another engagement.
The Red Cross drive to recruit new members continues through December 31 with 460 members secured by Christmas Eve. Branches are forming at Brodhead Livingston Hansford and the Kentucky work should finish by January 15. Hospital garments will be made at Mt. Vernon headquarters and in Livingston Brodhead Wildie and Hansford with material limited and cutting starting Monday. The urgent need for garments calls for many workers at once.
A certified list presents names and addresses of individuals who failed to file the required questionnaire with the Local Board under the 1917 act. Included are Charles A. Allen of Lexington Kentucky, Robert Roy Perkins of Livingston, Arthur Stephen Rice of Conway, Johnson Rowe of Mt Vernon, John Mitchell Abney of Johnetta, and Walter M. Owens of Middletown Ohio.
A local ad notices Fletcher's Astoria barber shop staying open for New Year haircuts and invites customers to visit the old Cas Cox location opposite Miller's drug store. It also mentions War Stamps at the post office and a lost auto chain with a reward posted by J Fish. It urges payment of arrears and debt at court on January 7.
Collector of Internal Revenue Hughes announces a Federal income tax officer will be in Mt Vernon from January 2 to January 8 to assist residents in filing 1917 returns at no cost. About 290 taxpayers are estimated in the county. penalties for non compliance include fines up to 1000 dollars or jail. Residents should prepare figures now and report to the expert.
This remedy is touted as one of the best and most efficient medicines for coughs colds and croup and is described as pleasant and safe for children. Many mothers have given it their unqualified endorsement.
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