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Newspaper
Richmond Daily Register
Location
Richmond, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1920
Page
2
Notice printed at the Richmond post office lists second class mail rates under the 1875 act. Subscriptions by mail cost 2.50 for six months and a yearly rate is shown, indicating standard publication pricing.
The Daily Register names Ralph Gilbert and Frank Ripley as Democratic party justice candidates from Shelby and Anderson counties, awaiting party action.
A house may be bought but a home is shaped by its occupants. Ownership provides security and permanence, turning a rented shell into a family castle, with the real home thriving on what the family contributes beyond the building itself. In Lebanon residents debate extending lighting costs as public needs meet private choice.
Relatives and friends here have received the following beautifully engraved invitation. Miss Bessie Bonnie Hamilton is a member of the graduating class.
Ranchers in Winnemucca Nevada report a wild man living on the Owyhee desert has begun killing cattle and sheep. They describe him as untamed with long hair and beard, seen by locals for years, cornered once but released. They urge Oregon authorities to capture him.
Paris finance committee approves a supplementary tax of 10 percent on bachelors incomes as part of new tax legislation. The bill allows a maximum 40 percent tax on income over 1,000,000 francs with reductions for lower incomes. Wage earners would pay 6 percent with deductions allowed.
Deputy sheriffs Kennedy and Nelson report several swarms of bees in the Ridge route area quit working recently. A large wine truck wreck on the road caused spilled wine, drawing the bees who appeared to be under the influence.
Mrs. Katherine B. Reddingfield, mother to her daughter’s child, becomes the only New York woman reported to be both granddaughter and grandmother. The baby’s great great grandmother is Mrs. Elizabeth Belasco of Brooklyn, who remains active at age eighty seven.
C. C. Weber of Cincinnati, architect, will be informed that plans for a new dormitory at Eastern Normal have been approved and will be sent to contractors. Lumber for storage sheds has arrived and rebuilding will start when weather allows, with larger facilities expected to enhance school property.
Omaha June 5 A private citizen wins right to call down a policeman for ordinance infractions per Police Judge Fitzgerald. Herbert J Connell attorney for the street railway observed a street car pass on the wrong side and later rebuked the officer who arrested him for the same traffic violation.
Louisville reports 17 year old Richard Coleman, a Black youth, fell from the second floor of the federal building, landing on his head twenty feet below. He immediately resumed work and told post office employees he felt little the worse for his tumble.
For sale one tobacco bed measuring twelve by two hundred twenty five feet with plants large enough to set out with a setter. Contact B Curent at 860.
County Clerk Maupin issued a marriage license to John M. Iaurie 31 and Mary Eleanor Coe of Oklahoma City. They left the courthouse without stating venue or officiant.
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