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Mount Vernon Signal

Location

Mount Vernon, Kentucky, United States of America

Date

Jun 26, 1914

Page

3

Time Table Entry Noted at Mt Vernon Post Office

A timetable line records a 4.59 pm 3:53 4am sequence and notes entry at the Mt Vernon Kentucky post office as second class mail matter.

Mt Vernon, Ky

Oak Hill and Norton schools listed teachers

The community notes teachers for Oak Hill and Norton schools and a parade of locals visiting relatives and attending events. Names mentioned include Jesse Fish and Miss Anna Laura Rickles with other residents visiting Maywood, Lincoln county, and East Renstadt areas.

Anna Laura Rickles Maywood Stephen Dozier Ina McCoy Sarah Catherine Jack Catron Lincoln County Wildie

Palm Beach suits and a town lighting debate

Local notes describe Palm Beach suits at Fishs, tax books to be read July 1, and a push for citizens to settle taxes. Mt Vernon warms to electric lights with two 25 watt lamps for 6 hours, while the Mt Vernon Power Co plans continuous service until late hours to welcome night trains and shoppers.

Cam Mullins Mt. Vernon Power Co Mt. Vernon

Mt Vernon Fair Opens With New and Old Attractions

At Mt Vernon Fair in April 1967 the ad promotes sale stands and cheap secondhand buggies. It notes Judge J W Brown, long practicing since the 1870s, was summoned as a witness in a London court. The piece features humorous quips about heat and an elder figure named Father Heat and Gen Storms.

Cecil Williams J.C. W. Beckham U.S Beckham Mt. Vernon Will Owens Copley tLelow Kara

Union Ridge Children Day and Town Locust Note

Union Ridge hosts Children Day services in the grove at 10 o clock with a program of songs recitations and addresses by Rev A J Pike Rev Allen and others. A town warning reports looming seventeen year locusts with June emergence and tree damage risks. A death in Fort Worth ends the Newcomb line with tracing of Moses Newcomb family lineage.

W. J. Newcomb Wfe Fort Worth Mr. Newcomb State Agricultural Experiment Station Lexington Will J. Newcomb Texas Moses Newcomb James Newcomb James Johnathan Newcomb Johnnathan Stephen William Milton

Telephone Etiquette for Toll Stations and County Fones

Instructions on proper use of toll lines and exchanges. Emphasizes polite etiquette, identifying caller and destination, and avoiding dead head messages. Calls for noting caller location, adhering to five minute limits, and paying remittances to Mt. Vernon by the seventh of the following month.

George Thompson Pine Pill Joe Adams Irodhead Central Will Warren, Brodhead Roberts Pine Hill Will Warren Brodhead Mt. Vernon Bank of Mt.Vernon

Precarious condition of Judge J. W. Alcorn

Friends fear for Judge J. W. Alcorn who has been ill at his Danville avenue home for days. The 77 year old judge, tired by a torrid term of circuit court especially over railroad cases, suffered a neuralgic attack followed by a possible hemorrhage. Doctors from Lexington and his local physician are monitoring and treating him as possibilities are explored.

J. W. Alcorn Danville Avenue Alcorn Carl Wheeler Lexington E. J. Brown

Judge Shows Slight Improvement At Hospital

News from his bedside Tuesday morning notes a restful night with no material change in condition. A later report indicates slight improvement and physicians are more hopeful about his recovery.

Interior Journal

Fencing supplies from CGC Cox at Opposite Court House

Wide stock of American wire fencing and installation tools arrives. Includes staples hammers and posthole diggers. Call CGC Cox for fencing needs located opposite the court house.

CGC COX Court House Mt. Vernon

Children Cry for Fletchers Castoria

A traveler converses with old Cull who jokes about natural disasters saving him effort. He recalls a lightning fire, a cyclone felling trees, and now waits for an earthquake to shake potatoes from the ground. The exchange has a humorous tone.

Old Cull

Dr King's New Discovery Promises Relief for Coughs

A testimonial style notice urges readers to use Dr King's New Discovery for coughs colds and bronchial troubles. It claims weight loss and appetite decline improve with the remedy and cites a Muscatine Alabama wife saved by the treatment. Available at druggists for one dollar.

Dr King O. H. Brown Muscatine Ala Dr. King Kinc

Joke at court ridicules bigotry and polygamy

The Minnesota paper satirizes a judge asking what the prisoner is charged with. The officer replies with a quip that “three wives” would be rigonom-try, defining bigotry as one with two wives and mocking the misused term.

Minneapolis Waat

Also Mentioned on This Page

Mr. Vernon Jas. Lanpkum Serta North Jesse Fish Oak Hill Guy Roberts Norton Wabd A. C. Bowling London C.C. Williams Louisville Geo Bray Level Green Everette Mullins East Rernstadt Edith Riker Rose Ricketts Anderson Indiana Misses Grace and Emma _ Evers Taylor Lena Taylor Anderson George Deadrick Eureka Springs Mary Clarkson Langdon Memorial School Elaiae Blanford Livingston Mss Myrtle Brown Parksville Martin L. Jones K.C Fisk's Post Office Fish & Son Rose Bud Ethel Davis Wa. Arnold A. G. Lovell Corbin Mt Vernon Hen Cromer Skeggs Creek George McGruder KE. E. Snydh Ohio River J. A. Landrum Landrum Palm Beach Fish’s George Proctor Geo. Martin Rowland Robert Harry Miller Miss Clarkson J. W. Brown Sadie Richards R. A. Sparks Blanche Crawford Sparks Jett Madison County Isaac Bowmen Daniel Poone Bowman Jackson County Daniel Tommy Jones Mt. Vernon Fair F. L. Thompson Father Heat Gen Presbyterian Church John M. Macmillan Rockcastle Town Hill G. M. Ballard J.R.C.C McCreary Union Ridge Uon Ridge Blanche Lewis Ilome Haven Susie Burton Tommy Laswell Glenn Lewis Freedom Choir Dairy Wreath Jewel Owens Lezy Christian Luther Dodd Providence Choir Eulala Lewis Roberts Brodhead Choir A. J. Pike All Choirs Rev. Allen Jesus and the Children Ted Dillingham Ollie Lusw the Floral Cross KE. R. Gentry Julia Dodd Burdette Owens Song Lela Long Guy Hamm Jesus Huston Dillingham Our Savior Alza Young Charlotte Laura Dillingham Fletcher Castoria Henry Watterson Louisville, KY South Robert B. Jones Preumonia Peaslee-Gaulbert CO Secomoaa John Robins Nhew Clcths Johnston, Holloway 4 CO Spring Garden St Phila the Bank of Mt. Vernon Attorneys At Law Bethurum Undertaker Stanford Mount Vernon Monumental GEO. Owens C. Williams Arc Bank of Mt. Vernon Chu F Street J. C. Moore Jeweler COX Bros. Story
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