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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1908
Page
7
An Advance for Winchester offers a new engine and other machinery and says it can furnish day current for light heat and power for fans and motors. They invite estimates on electric lighting noting light is safe cheap and convenient and can be metered if desired after recently installing new equipment at great expense.
Passenger trains from Winchester are listed for East, West, and South routes with daily and Sunday patterns. Eastbound services include Nos 36 22 28 24 with times 8 42 am 11 57 am 6 30 pm 9 25 pm. Westbound Nos 27 21 25 23 run from 6 22 am to 4 38 pm. L and N lines show Nos 29 83 9 31 10 31 32 and Nos 84 10 32 with morning and afternoon departures, plus L E lines Nos 2 4 and No 1 3 for daily and Sunday runs.
Daily connections scheduled except Sunday with trains from L. L. Junction Campton Junction Beattyville and O. K. Junction linking to Mount Sterling Campton Beattyville Cannel City and way stations. General manager Mdowell and J Scott issue the notice.
W A Orton outlines a crop rotation plan for root knot control in cotton. Key ideas: use immune crops to starve the pest, build soil humus, ensure annual income, and keep weeds down. Lists crops immune or susceptible to nematodes and suggests multi year rotations with winter oats and Iron cowpeas or peanuts, plus wilt resistant cotton in later stages. Also notes beekeeping facts and practical farming tips for bees and equipment.
Horace Swan, Georgetown Del., suffered an ear injury when lightning struck his store. He recovered from the shock, discovering his ear burned to brown. J M Steison of Winchester Ky lists hours and contact details amid the notices.
This notice urges merchants to advertise in the Winchester News to reach over 1,400 Clark County homes daily and 2,000 by Christmas. It claims good times ahead after the election, calling for timely business and widespread readership across Winchester and rural Clark routes.
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