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Fifty-fourth Birthday Anniversary Cele brated— Fire Damages House of J. B. Reid—Other News. Dry Ridge, March 13.—Mr. J... KR. Carruthers had with him yesterday his wife, children, four sisters and some of his nieces and nephews to help him enjoy the fifty-fourth anni versary of his birth. It was a day to be enjoyed and remembered, I I am sure, for the kindness, the hospitali ty and pleasant entertaining of this family is known far and wide, and am also sure that we, and all his other neighbors, join his relatives in hoping that he will live to have many, many birthdays to celebrate. He gave to his relatives a splendid dinner and a most pleasant day. They gave him their best wishes and many useful presents. The names of those present were John Carrithers and wife, Billie Carrithers and wife, Houston Hunsinger and wife, Ernest Davis and wife, Chester Frederick and wife, Rob Carpenter and wife, Ed. Curry and wife, Mrs. Margaret Hoke, Mrs. Mary Tyler, Mrs. Nat. Blankenbaker and children and little Miss Georgia McKinley. Mrs. David McKinley is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Burdine Cridwell. Roy Reid and wife attended church at Cedar Springs yesterday and dined with Mrs. Effie Miller. Mrs. Emmett Davis went to Louis ville last Friday. Mrs. M. G. Baston spent the day Friday with Mrs. Burdine Gridwell. Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Wigginton spent Thursday with Dr. and Mrs. Reid. Mr. and Mrs. Hickman Harris went to the city one day last week. Misses Annie Reid and Bessie Dra goo spent Sunday with Mrs. M. G. Boston and daughter. Mr. George Clark, of Chicago, is visiting his parents there. Four members of the Snyder fam ily have been very sick the past week. Three of them have pneumonia. The home of J. R. Reid caught fire last Friday morning, and had it not been for the timely assistance of the near neighbor men and a Mr. Spotts, who was covering the barn, the dwell ing would have burned. Miss Annie Reid and Roy Reid were in the city on business Saturday. Mrs. J. R. Carrithers left home this morning to spend a few days with her daughter, Mrs. Ernest Davis. Everything is beginning to look like spring. The phone is kept busy with our talk of the eyes we are or are not getting. How many hens we have sitting and whether we are or are not taking Charley White Moon‘s medi cine. Mamie Clare, Ethel and Virginia Wood and Rev. G. J. Daniel. The C. W. E. M. Society of the Christian church met with Mrs. Omer Jones in her beautiful new home. The subject for the afternoon was “The child of the church; train him, for the child of today is the church of tomorrow.”’ The devotional ser vice was led by Miss Mamie Clore. Papers were read upon the subject by Mrs. John Waters, Mrs. Maud Cox and Mrs. Omer Jones. Mrs. Cox sang a beautiful solo. Mrs. Omer Jones played the guitar, after the pro gram. Mrs. Jones served assorted cakes and shrub. Those who attend ed were Mrs. John Waters, Mrs. W. ©. Quisler, Mrs. John Tharp, Mrs. Henry Frank, Mrs. Ed. Cox, Mrs. John Orr, Mrs. Lawrence Cox, Mrs. John Tatchell, Mrs. Wm. Wood, Mrs. Blackwell and Mamie Clare. Col. A. H. Hardin, who was operated upon for stomach trouble last Sun day morning, died the following Thursday. He was eighty-one years old and a member of Crestwood Christian church. The funeral was preached at the Brownsboro church by Rev. Roger Nooe, of Crescent Hill. The interment was in the Brownsboro cemetery. Mr. Hiram Woods is quite ill and very feeble. Mrs. Geo. West is quite ill. Miss Margaret Smart was the week end guest of Mrs. H. C. Hill, of O'Bannon. Miss Tabitha Slaughter spent Wed nesday with her aunt, Mrs. Forrest Carr. Miss Elizabeth Jones spent last week with the Misses Hardy, of Lyn don. Mrs. W. H. Mullholland, from Lou isville, was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Jas. Dugan, Thursday. Mrs. McCarty and Miss Pearl North were guests of Mrs. A. K. Maddox last week. Mrs. Wm. Hord spent last week visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Mare tha Lea, at Shelbyville. Miss Ethel Woods was the week-end guest of Miss Virginia Woods, of Anchorage. Mrs. Enos Jones and her son, Doug las, spent Saturday with her sister, Mrs. L. Payton, of Louisville. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Tatchell and little daughter, Mildred, spent the week-end with her mother, Mrs. T. K. Hoke, of Jeffersontown. Mrs. Robert Cook, of Todd’s Point, spent last week with her mother, Mrs. Allen Poulter. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Clore spent the weekend visiting his mother, J. W. Clore, of Brownsboro, and attended the funeral of Col. A. A. Hardin. Miss Sallie Woodsmall returned from Owensboro last week, where she has been spending the winter with her sister, Mrs. John Kelly, of Owensboro. Mr. and Mrs. Will Stockoff are re ceiving congratulations over the ar rival of a fine baby daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Will Tharp are re ceiving congratulations over the ar rival of a fine baby boy. Mrs. Clark McDonald, Mrs. Viola Caldwell, Mrs. Lawrence Vox and Mrs. Henry Frank spent Saturday in the city. The Foreign Missionary society of the Methodist church had a delight ful and profitable meeting with Mrs. T. C. Gaines Thursday afternoon. The Children’s Guild of the Meth odist church met with Margaret Weatherbee Saturday afternoon. A good number of the little folks at tended. Miss Pearl Rooksby entertained Sunday Miss Jennie Lee Wood, Messrs. Everett Brooks and Carter Sweeney. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hill enter tained Sunday Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Hill, of O'Bannon, Mrs. J. BR. Hill and Miss Hattie Hill, of Anchorage.
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