30 Jan 1920
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Newspaper
Mount Vernon Signal
Location
Mount Vernon, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1920
Page
1
Local items list visits from Mrs Lucy McCall and family from Maretburg and London pastor Rev W G Asbill. Mentions of illnesses birthdays and moving to Stanford. School events prizes and a marriage announcement accompany community updates and local business activity.
The Second Regiment of U S Engineers organized at Colonia Dublan Mexico for Pershing’s expedition sailed Sept 10 1917 aboard the Carpathia from New York. In France W C Wood from Rockcastle rose to Corporal at Chateau Thierry and fought at Belleau Wood Vaux Soissons and Champagne. He credited luck to a rockcastle girl’s photo carried from El Paso.
An excerpt from Alfred Lord Tennyson's Ulysses expresses a restless longing to explore and learn. The speaker rejects stagnation and wallowing, valuing ongoing pursuit of experience, discovery, and knowledge beyond human limits.
An AP dispatch from Atlantic City reports the Interchurch World Movement approved a nationwide newspaper advertising campaign. The plan, to start February 1, targets the church press and broad media to promote world evangelization and reduce duplicated fundraising efforts. Dr. R. M. Crossfield of Transylvania College spoke during a three day Atlantic City conference.
Professor Paul Imamura, B D, a 1918 College of the Bible Lexington graduate, now teaches at Tokinogawa College in Tokyo. He studied at Transylvania and earned a master’s from Columbia University. He recently lectured in Tokyo on “Can Religion Be Taught?” and offers courses in Religious Education, Sociology, and New Testament Theology.
The New York Alumni of Transylvania College will host a dinner to honor college president R. H. Crossfield on January 31. Guest of honor will be General George B. Duncan, recently back from Europe and soon to leave for Seattle. Kentucky author James Lane Allen, a Transylvania alumnus living in New York City, has accepted to attend if his health permits.
The text promotes Chamberlain tablets as improving appetite and digestion while aiding bowel movement. It claims no pepsin or digestive ferment are present and that the tablets strengthen the stomach to perform its functions naturally.
Instructions for selecting a warm sunlit site for a tobacco bed and preparing the ground. It covers bed width nine feet, spring plowing to at least six inches, removing stones and roots, burning the bed with careful wind direction, and mixing ashes with soil after burning. Continues next week.
The 3960 pounds grown by Webb Offutt and C. D. Biddle of Scott county sold for an average of 116.57 a hundred with a top basket at 1.24 a pound, a new world record. The market, after holiday lows, has risen to its strongest level in history. Growers urged to bring tobacco to market now.
The Union Sunday School at Oak Hill house led by Rev. M. G. Fish progresses well. Many small items follow: Mrs Laura Lear traveled to Mt. Vernon on business. James Henderson’s family is sick with measles. Frank Adams visited Berea. farmer Rigsby sold tobacco to Knuckles & Co. for 1685 dollars. Various moves include cows sold, horses bought, relatives visiting, and multiple locals named, with births, illnesses, and travel noted among neighbors and kin. A fine boy was born to A. G. Talbott’s wife. several relatives are visiting or recovering from illness as listed. Community chatter wraps the week in this rural Kentucky town.
Elwood Hamilton announces that deputies of the Internal Revenue Service will tour the state to assist taxpayers in preparing 1919 income tax returns. They will visit county seats and select towns, offering blanks and information to ensure accurate filings. In this county the man will be in Livingston Feb 28, Mt. Vernon Feb 24–25, and Brodhead Feb 26.
Advertisers claim Chamberlains Tablet have cured others and restored health so readers can eat any food they crave. The note urges tryers to experience relief from stomach trouble and regain appetite.
Sheriff announces public land sale for unpaid taxes on February 16 1920 at the Mt Vernon courthouse front door between 9 am and 4 pm. Deputy will offer the real estate to the highest bidder to satisfy tax interests and costs due to the State and County.
A historic Mt Vernon district tax roll catalogs numerous individuals and parcels paying taxes and costs. Entries list owner names, property sizes in acres, and amounts due from 4.20 to about 28.78, across multiple town lots and tracts in Walnut Grove and Scaffold Cane No 4 areas.
A fragmented Livingston entry shows tax and cost notes for Kelly J. C. 60 A and Jones F. M. with amounts 9.90 and 10.59 cited among garbled terms. The record lacks complete names, dates, or context.
A continuous list of property owners in Brodhead and nearby areas with assessed acres, tax amounts, and costs. Names include Brown P. C., Barnes Wade, Daniels, Guha Davidson, Hamm Margaret, Metcalf C. C., Thompson, Ballard J. M., Cox Jane, Denny J. F., Gravely W. K., Joaccia, Hicks Larkin, Lovings T. F., Martin J. W., Oliver J. W., Overbey, Owens Richard, Painter Mrs. Mary, Pike A. J., Pike John, Roberts Lutisha, Robins Walter, Thomas W. E., Abney Jack, among others. Amounts range from a few dollars to over sixty dollars.
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