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—Phots supplied by Airs. Ellen Dees. The Sentinel-Echo, Aug. 4, 1936 Wmn. Lovelace, Jr, father of the late Sid A, Lovelace, was con tractor on the Livingston to London star route and it was carried mule back by Carr Justice Jong before the railroad came to Living ston, Sept. 8, 1870. With the coming of the railroad to Livingston the demand for extended services became so great that Mr. Lovelace and his brother, Jesse Lovplace, purchased two stage coaches which they placed on daily schedules between the two points, and these they scept in service until railroad passenger service was extended to London at 5:00 p.m. July 15, 1982. Divers on these stage coaches were Jesse Lovelace, father of Grant Lovelace and Mrs. Ellen Dees, Tom Alexander and LaFayette Lovelace. Also a smaller stage was bought for extra and special services. Mail and passengers were transferred there to a hack and driven to Sublimity Springs and to Rockcastle Springs by J. R. Hardin. Only LaFayette Lovelace, now living in the West, survives, ‘the photograph of the old Lovelace Hotel was loaned to the Sen tinel Fiedo for reproduction here by Mrs. Elton Dees. Seated on the stage coach is Wm. Lovelace, St. father of Jesse Lovelace and Wm. Lovelace, by, and astride the ‘comb of the porch roof is I. R. Hardin, while in the right second floor window is Nora Lovelace, now Mrs. Wora Hays. Neither Grant Lovelace nor Mrs. Dees could recognize any of the others, but told us that Little Dick Ewell might be able to tell us the names of several others. ‘The old Lovelace Hotel was situated of the northeast corner of Main and Manchester streets, where the Catching buildings is now. Before it was burned in 1891, this hotel for several years sported a long front porch. The above picture was taken in the Inte '70's or the early 'SG's, When the Rockcastly River Rail way Co, and the Bond-Foley Lan der Ca.heen business, all Uncle printing, excepting gome ecard and other small jobs, way down in the elites by firms speciallaing in vast road printing and office forma. Those sal jobs were done by Cha Sentinel-ehe. Ib was not long Us larger joka came trivkthyg or way, and within a few month Thy Sentinel-leehe had turned “gally and printers In quite a big way, for us. Until they ceased op erations we did all the printing of both runs, excepting these bom hooks, engraved stationery and a few forms too large for our presses. On a basis of material costs and an hourly charge, they made sub tantial savings, and we found the work quite profitable. So far in I can remember there was never deligecation of overcharge or un satisfactory service. They were our largest customers of all time. Among the forms we printed for the Railroad were their card sod trip tickets, bills of rnding, way bills, freight bills, and innumer able other norms for both.
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London Sentinel Echo
London, Kentucky, US
Thu, Feb 06, 1919
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