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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1908
Page
2
Women in Carlisle Pa form a civic club to promote town cleanliness, ordinances against litter and spitting, tree planting premiums, and open air summer entertainments. The group grows from 150 to over 800 members and inspires similar efforts in other towns.
Do not limit your work to money shaking enterprises. If you live in the country, get as much pleasure from environments as possible. Try to improve the home ground from year to year. Plant somewhere on the premises a few trees every year, which will add more and more to the happiness of your family.
Selecting goods from a catalogue and paying in advance of delivery is like courting by phonograph and telephone, mildly exciting but likely a poor investment.
Port au Prince December 21 General Antoine Simon was sworn in as Haiti's president at the palace in a brief ceremony attended by foreign diplomats and naval officers from American and Italian ships. Senator Paulin presided and urged constitutional respect while General Hippolyte spoke for Simon promising focus on agriculture and commerce and government economy.
Governor-elect Judson Harmon and his wife will reside at 394 East Town Street Columbus after a thorough house search. The selection followed several days of inspecting nearly every available residence with little rental prospect for a governor.
Memphis. James Hallratty alias James Hanley 23 and James Cosgrove 21 were arrested in Memphis for alleged involvement in the Oct. 20 robbery of Henry Steven son, messenger for J. W. Allen & Company, of $2000. Both were sought by Chicago police.
Memphis Mississippi Dec 21 The Lee line will discontinue St. Louis packets because of low water on the Mississippi River until a more favorable stage appears.
Major John P. Hains U S A demonstrated an automatic pistol like the one used by his brother Captain Hains in the Astoria Schutzen park. He fired six shots in one and three fifths seconds and again with two six shots before a mainspring broke. The test aimed to prove regular spacing of rapid fire amidst testimony in the ongoing Hains trial.
Morgan W Va Dec 21 The Marilla Windowglass company at Marilla turned out today and will need at least three weeks to reheat the glass and resume work. At the Jones plant here the fires will be drawn unless the men return to work today.
Governor George Curry urges statehood for New Mexico in his annual interior report. He touts a wideawake population, excellent credit, no strikes, strong laws including gambling prohibition and strict Sunday closing, arguing New Mexico deserves statehood.
Former U S Representative Eugene F Loud died at his son in law Captain J J Callandin s home in San Francisco after months of illness worsened by the death of his daughter five months earlier and his wife on December 6 He had been an invalid for some time.
In Baltimore attorney general Charles J. Bonaparte said the libel suit urged by the president against Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World is still under consideration and no definite course has been agreed upon.
Duquoin Illinois December 21 The fire in Joseph Leiters Zeigler mines has grown more serious over 48 hours with flames near control and extensive damage. Leiter arrived by special train to direct firefighting efforts in Zeigler.
T Harvey Smith secretary and general manager of the Akron Realty company died from an apoplectic stroke. He arrived in Akron in 1906 from Massillon where he was a school principal and served two terms as Stark county treasurer.
Eastbound trains No 26 daily express at 8 42 a m No 23 daily recesses 11 57 a m No 28 daily except Sunday 6 30 p m No 24 daily 9 25 p m Westbound No 27 daily except Sunday 6 22 a m No 21 daily 8 03 a m No 25 daily except Sunday 2 50 p m No 88 Tim blysh 4 38 p m
The timetable lists southbound trains on the Louisville and Nashville line with numbers and stations including Cincinnati Knoxville Paris and Atlanta. All trains will stop at Winchester and run daily except Nos. 9 and 10 which skip Sundays. Nos. 29 and 30 will be discontinued between Paris and Rowland on the new timetable.
Daily connections except Sunday link L and E junction with C&O for Mt. Sterling and Campton junctions with Mountain Central for Campton. Beattyville junctions connect with L&A for Beattyville. O&K junctions connect with GO&K for Cannel City and stations. End by McDowell and Scott signatures.
The sultan of Turkey runs a tiny in palace cigar factory with about six workers. Turkish grown tobacco is cultivated for his use and only the very best leaves are kept for cigarettes. Much leaf is discarded, with up to a hundredweight examined for one pound of premium tobacco.
A. H. Kirkland, Massachusetts gypsy moth campaign superintendent, observes that newborn gypsy moths cannot feed on pine for three weeks after hatching. Therefore white pine plantations can be established without moth damage if undergrowth and nearby deciduous trees are cleared, denying caterpillars food and forcing starvation.
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