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.
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Newspaper
Mount Vernon Signal
Location
Mount Vernon, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1914
Page
3
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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