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Bardstown Banquet Honors Congressman Ben Johnson
A Bardstown Commercial Club dinner at City Hall celebrated Congressman Ben Johnson for securing a $10,000 appropriation this session to buy a public building site. Speakers included Senator J. W. Newman and Judge Samuel Spalding, with Johnson lauding his community and pledging to remain in Bardstown and Nelson county. The event, attended by about 100 guests, featured toasts, music by the Bardstown String Band, and benediction by Rev. W. R. Wagoner.
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Bardstown Commercial Club
Ben Johnson
Mr. Johnson
City Hall
Bardstown
B. P. Grigsby, Sr
John S. Kelsey
J. W. Newman
Kelley
Samuel T. Spalding
Lebanon
Newman
Nelson County
Rowans
Hardins
Wickliffes
Frank E. Daugherty
Spalding
Daugherty
David Hirsch
Louisville
T. Scott Mayes
Springfield
Washington County
W. R. Anderson
Graded School Board
Commercial Club
W. W. Spalding
Fourth District
Marion County
Aee
J. H. Thurman
Ernor Beckham
C. J. O'Connell
Johnson
Kentucky
W. R. Wagoner
F. £. Daugherty
Messrs
J. L. Druien
G. M. Wilson