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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1908
Page
5
The marriage of Miss Cordie Lee Salender to Mr. Henry Raymond Lucus of Middletown Ohio is planned for November 3 at 7 a.m. at St Josephs Church this city. No ecards. friends of the family are invited.
A sweeping personals column lists residents and guests: Mr. and Mrs. J. Crews Rash of Clay City sue Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Rash. W. D. Smith lodges guests from Lexington, Mt. Sterling and Paris visitations. engagements include Sam Ashbrook and Fan T. Bishop. numerous trips to Lexington Louisville Cincinnati and Detroit noted along with illnesses Typhoid reports and a paralysis case.
A charming Sunday dinner at the Brown-Proctoria Hotel featured Miss Elizabeth Clark Miss Sara Goodloe Benton Miss Margaret McKinley and Messrs Thompson Betts Wills Battaile and Floyd Clay, reflecting a refined social gathering.
Mrs. Harry Strother hosts a reception Thursday evening in her new South Maple street home. Mrs. James M. Pickrell entertains with a reception Wednesday afternoon and evening for Mrs. and Mrs. William French. Mrs. Will Grant gives a reception next Friday at her East Broadway residence.
Bloomfield and Brock sold to Mrs. G N Wasserboehr a lot on French avenue for 600 dollars and other considerations. Mrs Wasserboehr will begin at once the erection of a handsome new residence.
Buffalo October 19 delegates to the National American Woman Suffrage Association spoke at the Star theater on industrial hardship. Florence Kelley urged eight hour days for all workers and noted only four states grant eight hours to women, urging voters to elect judges who uphold protective statutes.
An overheated stove caused a fire in a Summit mining town dwelling, killing four children Morris Delaney 15 Robert Nagle 13 Joseph Delaney 9 and Charles Delaney 20 months while two others were fatally injured. Mrs Luke Delaney survived by leaping from a second story window and was taken to Johnstown hospital in dying condition Wilson Judge 10 sustained a broken leg and internal injuries.
Paris reports Bulgaria backed down according to Naoum Pasha the Turkish ambassador and a peace between Bulgaria and Turkey appears possible. He noted mobilization was ordered then suspended and that within 48 hours the situation could shift toward peace while interior unrest and martial law rise in Asia Minor. Jewish and Armenian massacres cited along with a perceived plot against Prince Sabah Ed-dine.
Educational Division Number 1 meeting at Ford on Friday October 20 features talks on primary training language study spelling lessons school government drawing narcotics diacritics and teacher salaries. Prof J M Hubbard opens and closes with remarks on better teachers and schools.
Belgrade Oct 19 M Milovanovics the Servian foreign minister left for Berlin London Paris and Rome to press Servia's wishes with the powers in a bid to reach an understanding on the Balkan situation. Crown Prince George warned him to speak as the representative of 250000 bayonets and not make concessions.
A Lexington Leader article about Burley Society officers salaries is denied as untrue by a prominent society member. He says President Clarence Le Bus and eight board members do not receive salaries, only expense reimbursement for travel on business from Winchester.
Thomas J Wilkerson and family move to Houstonia Pettis county Mo K D Sumpter completes a residence on South Kentucky street Symps Finnell relocates from Hayes street to corner of Georgia and Wickman Sam M Hisle moves to Frankfort Ky for his future home Farmers and Shippers Stock Yards Co build a new 50 by 80 foot stable on Winn avenue Mt Abbott Methodist Church holds service with topic The Ten Virgins Land along Jefferson and Jackson streets fenced repaved and divided into 506 by 150 foot lots for new residences North end of Jackson street near Jefferson and Winn avenue closed for bridge repairs over the C & O R R
The Hart Chapter D A R delays its regular monthly meeting from October 2 due to a Lexington conference. The gathering is rescheduled for October 30 at the home of Miss Annie Croxton with a request for all members to attend.
Judge William G. Ewing of Highland Park Illinois, a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship, will lecture on Christian Science at the Opera House on October 25. The public is cordially invited to attend.
Brother Dickey remarks that some people face so much trouble in life that even the devil’s dwelling would feel familiar to them. He uses colorful imagery to reflect hardship and resilience in community faith contexts.
Wanted readers with rooms to rent board for sale or help wanted to place ads in the column. Rates: one half cent per word per insertion five cents per calendar month. No item charged under twenty five cents. Ad dated 10 2 11. Be AN ad.
A child quarrel over play turns into a family moment as a mother forbids war games on Sunday while the eldest insists they are playing a remake. A secondary note unfolds about a New York fireman denied entry to a Fifth Avenue mansion for not wiping his feet, a scene the Cleveland Plain Dealer riffs on with class and humor.
In a dialogue Mrs. Peckem questions why Friday is seen as unlucky. Peckem jokes that it must be lucky since few people marry on that day.
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