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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1908
Page
5
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President Roosevelt’s final annual message to Congress urges broad national control of interstate business, amended or new anti trust law, strict corporate disclosure, railroads under ICC, all securities oversight, rapid court injunction reforms, doubled Supreme Court salaries, and a national conservation plan including inland waterways, supported by Democratic votes and progressive Republicans.
The president outlines major recommendations including postal savings banks adoption, rural parcel post expansion, civil service extension to the census, statehood for Arizona and New Mexico, ocean mail act amendments, and reorganization of Navy to a general staff with four battleships. He criticizes Congress for limiting the Secret Service, linking past investigations to indictments, and urges stronger anti crime measures while praising Panama Canal work and Philippine self-government progress.
We announce James M. Benton as a candidate for Circuit Judge in the Twenty fifth Judicial District comprising Clark Powell Jessamine and Madison counties subject to the Democratic party action.
J Smith Hays files in Madison and Jefferson counties as a candidate. The entry is tied to Democratic party action. The declaration outlines eligibility and party involvement as part of the campaign notice.
Carrie Lee Hathaway announces a Christmas gift sale at her South Main Street home on Thursday afternoon December 17 from 2 to 5 o'clock. The items include hand-painted china suitable for Christmas gifts. The notice appears in The Winchester News.
Mr. Claude Williams of Versailles is in town for the Equity banquet. T C Lyon visits Lamor Va where he has been elected Superintendent of the Blast Company. Maurine Morrow faces diphtheria threat while Mary Lee Lyman is ill. Mrs. William Cumming is sick on Lexington Avenue. Abe and Cornelia Renick return from a Chicago trip. Dr. David H. McKinley offered Assistant Superintendent role at Lexington Lunatic Asylum.
Secretary Cortelyou recommended appropriations in a Washington report. Funding includes 25 000 for Winchester site and building, 30 000 for Danville site, 25 000 for Lebanon, 10 000 for London, 15 000 for Mayfield, 54 000 for Mt Sterling, 15 000 for Paris, 50 000 for Somerset, 50 000 for Big Sandy river dam projects, and 215 000 for locks and dams Nos 12 and 13 on Kentucky river.
The King's Daughters Bazaar will open next Thursday at 9 a m. The event promises the best bazaar yet with multiple tables. An eatable table will offer hot chocolate for 10 cents a cup and a 25 cent bargain table. Fancy work tables and a missionary table for children are planned as Christmas gifts.
The Daily and Weekly Monitor offices owned by W. K. Wall burned almost completely at 8:30 p m Sunday. Fire origin unknown though an explosion preceded the blaze. Loss heavy with only 1500 dollars insurance. Publications suspended temporarily.
Fragmentary line reads like a humorously garbled sales pitch about Christmas shopping and a merchant named mer chant and his clerks. Little coherent information remains to identify event or date.
The Annual Bazaar of King's Daughters opens Thursday December 10 at 9 AM in the vacant store next to Winn Furniture Company. The sale runs 12 to 5 and features community fundraising via the church group.
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