Scarcity of news amid severe cold noted in 1912 roundup
The column records residents' comings and goings in Mt. Vernon and nearby towns, noting visits from Lena McCall and Miss Pearl McWhorter, teaching and sick lists, resignations, moves to Chicago and Louisville, and local tragedies including a child's illness and deaths. It also mentions bank directors, firm dissolutions, and community events as cold weather and snow persist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Tate
Mt. Vernon
Lena McCall
Maretburg
J.J. Albright
Pearl McWhorter
Berea
Ray Mahacy
Hiatt
Etta Moore
Emma Evans
London
John Evans
Goode Delaney
Albert Preston
Louisville
D. B. Chandler
Doc
Frank Brooks
Silver Street
J. W. Kincer
Kincer
R. S. Shiver
Brown Memorial School Dormitory Enrollment and Renovations
The Brown Memorial School reports expanding dormitory capacity with twenty new girls and full occupancy as renovations progress. Steam heat is installed in the new section and classes resume. sixty four students are enrolled excluding music and kindergarten with several names on the waiting list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Langdom Cemitery
Mary Quin Axia Mie Burnell
Katie Cain
M'rauda Purcell
Ida Hamlin
Beatrice Broyles Sallie Stewart
George Deaderich Cleo Pennington George Amy
Mary Napier Bee Eldridge
Elizabeth Gentry
Bertha Litton
Emma Griffin
Roberta Purcell
Mary MacLatham
Blanche Silvers
Clarice Houk
Ligzie
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Promotes Blood and Mucous Action
A 15 year testimonial supports F J Cheney Co Toledo with an offer of one hundred dollars reward for unsolved catarrh cases. The ad claims Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Walding Kannan Marvin, Toledo wholesale druggists, endorse the firm. Price 75 cents per bottle. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledoo
F. J. Cheney
Walding Kannan & Marvin
Toledo
O. Halls
Hall
Local Social Notes Mixed With Weekend Visits
Age of the Sand Spring section resident spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Gentry Evans. Dr G C Price of Wabd was in the area Thursday. Willie and James Adams and James Thompson of Mt Vernon hunted in the area and stayed with Mrs Sarah Kirby’s then returned Sunday. The Holy Rollers held services at W A McKinney’s home Sunday. Miss Martha Kirby visited early in the week with Mrs Gentry Evans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack. Hysinger
Hysinger
P. E. Shiver
Jacobs
T. J. Jacobs
Christian Church
R.S. Shoel
Christian Church Cemetery
Rebecca Wiggins
Josiah Wiggins
Asylum For the
Lexington
Ezra Shivel
Whitewood
R S. Shivel
W F. Carter
Watkins
Maywood
W. B. O’bannon
Stanford
Harvey Owens
Laura B. Cable
Bild@ Chandler
Maretburg
Nannie McWhorter
Jewel Francisco
Livington
G. F. Suten
Mt. Vernon
Lizzie* Holmes
Crab Orchard
H. C. Kirby
Elbert
Sarah Kirby
Gentry Evans
James Barron
Jane Renner
Cedarville
H C. Kirby
J. W. French
J. W. Kincer
Brodhead
George Deather
Age
Sand Spring
G. C. Price
Wabd
Willie
James Adams
James Thompson
the Holy Rollers
W. A. McKinney
Martha Kirby
Enrolment of New Pupils and School Activities
Several new day and paying pupils join the school this week including Virgie Griffin Rae Hunt Eya Mailies Miranda Parsons Hazel Reynolds Mamié McHargne Misses Ethel Chestnut Celia and Sarah Hiatt and Isabella Piag Viola De Bord. Boarding pupils Lenora Parrott and Willie Coffey plus Edith Hill of Cincinnati bring twelve new fiction books to Brown Memorial library. The Rev Mr Omnes conducts chapel and the literary society presents songs readings recitations and talks with a business session followed by adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgie Grifin
Rae Hunt -Eya Mailies
Miranda Parsons
Hazel Reynolds
Mamié McHargne
Ethel Chestnut
Gabitha
Celia
Sarah Hiatt
Isabella Piag
Viola de Bord
Lenora Parrott
Willie Coffey
Edith Hill
Cincinnati
Brown Memorial Kibgacy
Michel Omnes Hapel
Texas Wonder cures kidney and bladder troubles
A Texas remedy advertised by Dr. E. W. Hall of St Louis claims to cure kidney and bladder issues, Gravel, Diabetes, back pain, rheumatism, and other renal irregularities in men and women. It promises bladder relief for children and offers mail order if not carried by local druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Wonder
Bej
Hfc
E. W. Hall
Olive Street
Louis
Local notes from Spiro area and Freedom church
Spiro features include Dorothy Owens visiting aunt Mrs. B F Vanhook at Qcola Pulaski county and Ada McKinney visiting Martha and Mattie Owens. Cleveland Black from N C visits J W Dillingham family. W H Owens near completion of two story dwelling with concrete walks. Others finish homes. T B Dillingham and family visit from St Louis. Bradley Brown at Mt Vernon. W E Dillingham returns to Berea. Sunday school at Freedom grows under J N Griffin. Mrs Nee dies of pneumonia and is buried at Freedom. A J McKinney mule drops dead. Elisha Scott sells farm to A J Blanton and moves to Harland county. Brown & Albright plan to move saw mill to Sayers timber. Rev A J Pike unanimously chosen Freedom church pastor for next year. Mrs Nancy Owens and granddaughters Gracie and Lena Owens return to Livingston after visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spiro
Rockggstle
Dorothy Owens
B. F. Vanhook
Qcola
Pulaski
Ada McKinney
Flat Lick
Martha McKinney
Mattie Owens
Cleveland Black
N. C
J. W. Dillingham
W H Owens
James McKinney
Cleveland Mink
T. B. Dillingham
St. Lows Mo
J. J. Nee
Freedom
A. J. McKinney
Elisha Scott
A. J. Blanton
Harland County
Local Residents and Happenings in Livingston
Monday visits noted as Livingston hosts travelers and students from Berea and Mt Vernon. A private school opens Monday in the public building and several families move in or travel. Mrs Kate Riggs dies January 15 after tuberculosis, leaving husband and three children. burial in Livingston cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will McCullough
H. L. Delph
Delph
Oklahoma
Georgia Amyx
Ida Hamlin
Brown Memorial School
Mt. Vernon
R. J. Lemonds
Elizabeth
James Painter
Lebanon Junction
E. Rice
Nannie McWhorter
Jewel Francisco
Brodhead
John Brown
Frank Stapp
Lebanon
Hight Gables
George HK. Durham
George Jarrett
Berea College
Earl Rice
Harvie Mitchel
Supt. Johnson
London
Union Hall
A. H.hamlin
Roy Magruder
Gladys Oliver
Prof
Dickerson
James Mahaffy
Kate Rig
Forecast of tariff conflict shapes 1912 presidential odds
Mt. Vernon Ky January 15 1912. A political forecast discusses how tariff history from 1789 to the present shapes party lines and the 1912 race. It notes likely platform themes on public utilities control tariff revision and Interstate Commerce, but declines to name a nominee, promising future essays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Clay
Republican Party
Congress
Taft
House of Representatives
Woodson Wilson
W. J. Bryan
la Follette
Roosevelt
Beveridge
Clark
Clark and Other Presidental Timber
Inter State Commerce Commission
Court
Rheumatism Relief Ad Encourages Liniment Use
An advertisement claims most rheumatic cases are muscular or chronic and relieved by Chamberlain's Liniment. It urges liberal use and notes sale by Chas C. Davis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Chas C. Davis
Life with a New Year resolution slips like glass
A fragmented old-timey note describes the struggle of keeping a New Year resolution as fragile and prone to breaking. It likens effort to carry a pane of glass, noting the path ahead is very slippery and uncertain.
Cough Remedy Claims Safety for Children
Advertises Dedicare cough product for children noting Chamberlain's Cough Remedy helps with colds croup and whooping cough and contains no harmful drug. Sold by iCyne C. Davis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
iCyne C. Davis
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Randa Tate
Duke
Baptist Church
Storm
Hansford
Demitory
W. L Richards
J. W. Brown
E. S. Albright
W.L. Crawford
Mollie Miller
A. G. Lovell
Sutton & McBee
Emporium
Good Shoes
Cais
The
Literary Society
Song— Society
Bernice Landrum
Mattie Huff
Miss Rowlee
Texas
Livingston
J. E. Woodall
Luther Hamlin
Itt
AHE
Oana
J. S. Donahue
Haven
Mich
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