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Newspaper
Mount Vernon Signal
Location
Mount Vernon, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1920
Page
3
Mt Vernon Kentucky postoffice records show second class mail matter entered with times 518 pm to 12:45 am and agent Jas Landrum listed. The notation references Lovieville and Naswvllce R.A. Co. and shows contact details for the agent.
Mrs. W. H. Fish is recovering. Miss Anna Brown remains very sick. Mrs. John Helton of Pine Hill has typhoid fever. A G Baker has been home sick for several days. Edd Smith of Hiatt Section now located in Detroit. Mrs. Cora White confined to her room. J Preston Young had severe tonsillitis but improving. James Lovell O Mara has pneumonia and has been a very sick boy from the start, though some symptoms are better.
In town for the February Court visit R L Langford’s Restaurant offers hot lunches regular meals and lodging. People move and travel between Livingston Mount Vernon Disputanta Woodlawn and nearby towns with notes on farms tobacco sales and local service bids.
On Saturday the Merchants of Mt Vernon will distribute about 50 dollars worth of season tickets for the White and Myers Chau tauqua. The giveaway occurs in front of C C Davis Drug Store and trade checks are requested for eligibility.
Local item notes Emanuel Reynolds and Miss Maria Branaman wedding at Langford's Restaurant. Edith Moore and Emmett Bryant announce a secret marriage from Mt. Vernon. Joe's offers groceries at fancy prices amid community chatter. Jason Reams dies of pneumonia near Hazard, buried near Dudley. A Mt. Vernon trip in February seeks small mules aged 4 to 7 years, 47 to 52 inches high.
The Signal acknowledges publication errors in last week's Bond Issue Fund report due to mis-set type. The corrected copy is published this week exactly as it was received.
Reports mention two or three Small Pox cases in town with no expected epidemic. Judge Mullins states county not liable for the disease and individuals must care for themselves if able while obeying health laws. Those exposing others face fines and imprisonment. Over one hundred residents in Mt Vernon have been vaccinated in the last two days to stamp out the outbreak.
The text urges quick use of Cham berlain's Cough Remedy at first signs of croup, arguing it is within reach, prompt, and effective, and compares parental heroism in protecting a child to readily treating croup early with the remedy.
Farmers and business leaders pressed Rockcastle Fiscal Court to fund a county agricultural agent for another year but were denied. The Rockcastle Agricultural Association mobilized to raise about 170 dollars. Mt. Vernon residents pledged 250 dollars and 80 dollars already collected, leaving a shortfall to be filled in a week or ten days. Treasurer FP E Miller urged local support by mail or delivery of checks.
Article notes that about 200 million women are Chinese and entering industry in large numbers. Shanghai mills employ many women and children with long hours and low pay. spinners toil from dawn to dawn and weavers work long shifts for meager wages. In Canton 150,000 women work in factories earning up to forty cents daily for women and fifteen cents for girls. The National Young Women’s Christian Association plans to place sex rotaries and an industrial conditions expert in China to develop social work in factories, improve worker conditions, and provide recreation health lectures and classes.
The American Red Cross announced five delegates to the first meeting of the League of the Red Cross Societies in Geneva. Willoughby G. Walling Otis H. Cutler Mrs. Wm. K. Draper Samuel Mather and Eliot Wadsworth will sail Wednesday aboard the Cretonian.
Junior Red Cross activity expands to about seventy five percent of U S schools this year. February 22 marks the last day for long junior auxiliaries in the current school year in your county. Lake Division Director Mrs Harrison W Ewing urges participation as the year’s work aids children at home and abroad.
A sheriff warns that dogs must be licensed or face arrest and fines from ten to one hundred dollars. Tip Langford, sheriff, says he does not want to enforce the law but may if needed and notes a twenty five dollar fine for allowing an unlicensed dog.
J F Lunsford writes Jan 5 1920 expressing sympathy for a family’s loss. He recalls memory of the departed, quotes biblical verses, offers comfort that death ends sorrow, and asks for news about the girls. He signs as friend and brother, sending best wishes.
Help wanted advertisements seek salesmen to solicit orders for lubricating oils greases and paints with salary or commission. Address Te Harvey Oil Co Cleveland Ohio. Also listing for sale a 50 acre tract near Mt Vernon with barn dwelling peach orchard timber and cord wood in Kentucky.
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