07 May 1920
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Newspaper
Mount Vernon Signal
Location
Mount Vernon, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1920
Page
1
Mrs Galen Rogers visits Crab Orchard and Owa towa. Hugh McBee moves on Main Street. The Brodhead Band performs for a large crowd and signs contracts for county fairs. Commencement at Brodhead Graded and High School features multiple plays and the baccalaureate sermon. Mr H Tharp dies in Junction City after cancer.
A montage of local history items from Mt. Vernon and Rockcastle including cedar vessels making, the first jail cost, ginseng trade, tanbark shipments, lumber sales, postmasters, coal and gunpowder production, phonograph arrival, train wreck missions, historic hotels, the Elkin Bell, and Democratic delegates at a state convention.
A poem by Longfellow bids readers seek sleep and solace in verse. The speaker urges gentle readings to soothe lingering day worries and invite night’s quiet music and rest, with lines about care folding away like tents at eventide.
A childlike diary records a week of farm chores and family moments. Slats recalls a beautiful day, dentist visit, church wedding, and mischief with a pup while observing family routines and town happenings.
Aden Owens spends time with home folks while Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hasty visit relatives. J L Bullock of Hansford guests Miss Mae Rash. Laura Lovell visits Miss Rash. Owens relatives attend Pine Hill church. Infant son of Ambros Hasty improves. Mrs. Cummins suffers throat trouble. Rev H L Owens at Cove. Sunday School on Old Chestnut Ridge hampered by weather. Continuous community interest urged.
Mrs. Maggie Martin lies in bed recovering after a fall. Mrs. Kitty Neal damaged her ankle in a Monday incident but is slowly improving. John and Mrs. Taylor return to care for Uncle Joe Sam Brook. D C Ponder opens a coal mine near town selling coal at 4.00 per ton. Miss Lillian Lynn visits. J B Pike nears Main Street store completion. School election completed with expected good year. Weather remains cool and rainy. A town wedding rumored. Juniors of Livingston Council No 167 plan graveside ceremonies May 30 with Daughters of America, 8 AM at the hall. Davis’ store offers ice cream and treats. Mullins & Quinn showcase new range stores at competitive prices. Dizie Highway work progresses well.
Sunday School grows with fourth Saturday night services at Old Ridge. Chestnut Ridge youths enjoyed a De vault cave trip Sunday afternoon including Nora Owens and Gladys Owens Cleo Pearl Helen Cummins Lena Zona Bissie Lovell Sherman Lovell Delbert Lovell Bob Owens Tulla Owens Oscar Owens Tilman Owens Bob Fields John Cummins Barrett Cummins Leonard Lovell Arthur Hansel and others. Bob Childress left for Ravenna for a new position. Mrs Hobart Fields visited sister Mrs Gee Lovell Sunday. Oma Collins Sallie Anderson Nellie Pigg visited Mr and Mrs Wm Owens Saturday and Sunday.
The Hiatt news item reports mumps among Mrs Ollie Frith Miss Addie Phillips and Humley Rigsby as well as illnesses of Mrs Elsie Adams Mrs W M Boyd Mrs J M Lear and Mrs Will Kincer. Visitors include W S Boyd Estelle Cecil of Corbin Jocel McClary and Chas Sargent. Residents travel to London Brodhead Mt Vernon and Livingston for visits and chores.
Last week reports note Albert Rigsby in Londay between trains Tuesday. Mrs Hattie Singleton of near Crab Orchard visits her parents Mr and Mrs John Singleton this week.
The Sanger Great European Show visits Mt Vernon on Tuesday May 18 aboard its own train from Lebanon. The program features Berry acrobats Siegrist Silbon penalists Silverton dancers Nelson gymnasts aerial christosens and St Leons plus educated Shetland ponies monkeys and dogs. Two performances at 2 and 8 pm with a noon concert and free ground exhibitions.
Abe Adams longtime resident dies at home after weeks with pneumonia a sudden Sunday decline He was born near the town and leaves a wife four children Mrs Beo Purcell of this city Mrs Victor Francis Co of Lebason Junction Will Adams and Roscoe Adams at home two brothers and a sister survive him.
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