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Volume XXX No. 18.
MAYSVTLLE, XY., THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1922.
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ADAMS COIIIITIAII
KILLS HIS NEPHEW
WHILEJH BUGGY
Neighbor County Ik Searched for Vfn.
Thornton, Who, After Killing- His
. Nephew Said lie Would Drown
f Himself In Ohio River.
Manchester, Ohio, April 20. On a
lonely road ten miles west of here
William Thornton, 45 years old, far
mer, who Uvea at High Hill, In the
.veatern eectlon of Adams county, shot
and klllod his nephew, Ned Thornton,
i'i years old, shortly after midnight
Wednesday morning.
Thornton and his nephew had been
MhIiIiii; at a pln-e oust of Manchester
and were driving home In a buggy
when the shooting occured, It Is said.
According to a version of the short
ing given out by Harmon Holderness,
Prosecuting Attornoy of Adams coun
ty, both Thornton and his nephew had
been drinking nioontdilne wblxky.
William Thornton Uvea with his
brother, Michael Thornton, about two
miles weft of the point where the
shouting occur:d, and Ned Thornton
lived With his father, Thomai Thorn
ton, two miles from tho homo of his
uncle.
After the shooting William Thorn
tnn went to hU home and told bin
brother. Mlchaeal Thornton, that he
had killed Ned.
"You will find the boy's body down
the road a couple of miles," he said
"I am going to drown myself In the
Ohio River "
With this statement he flod from the
home nnd no trnre of him has been
found
Michael hurried to the home of his
brother Thorns and told htm of tho
murder of his son. The two brothers
ret out together to find the body. They
found It In a pully about fifty fee'.
Irom the cene of the shooting. Traces
of blood on stones showed that Thorn
ton had dragged himself away from
the road after the shooting. There war
a bullet wound In his chest. Near thr
body was a .38-caliber revolver.
The two brothers reported the
shooting to Ch.irlos Felt It, Sheriff of
Adams county, who, with two deputies,
Aaron Meeker and William Garret.
fearched"the hills of Adams county for
some trace of tho slayer.
Prosecuting Attorney Holderness
ps Id that he had little faith In thr
statement of William Thornton that he
intended to drown himself in the Ohli
river. Holdornesi said that he believ
ed Thornton was hiding out In thi
hills which abound in the western sec
tion of the county.
The sheriff and his men returned
here late Wednesday night and report
d that they bad been unable to locate
Thornton.
prune SALE.
Of Household and Kitchen Furni
ture at 204 Wood street, on Saturday
April 22nd. at 1 o'clock p. m. 1SA4i
IMPORTANT MEETING
WOMAN'S CUB
The annual buslncsp mooting of tin
Mason County Woman's Club will b(
held Friday evening, April the 21st
at 7:45 o'clock In the City Mission
room on East Third Street. The elec
tion of officers, reports from standing
committees, and tho discussion of
plans for the ensuing year make
urgent a full attendance of all Inter
ested In the progress of the club.
PROPOSED SALARY SCHEDULE
SENT OUT BYjUPT. COLVIN
State School Superintendent Sends
Ont His Recommendations an a
Salary Schedule for Teachers.
Frankfort, Ky April 19. A sug
gested schedule for Kentucky school
teachers, ranging from a minimum of
S50 a month with certain percentages
of Increases based on education to a
minimum of $95 a month for college or
university graduates, today was sent
to county school superintendents by
State Superintendent George Colvln.
If e Is endeavoring to aid county super
intendents In making up their salary
schedules.
He suggests that 50 a month be the
basis of fixing the salary of teachers
with eighth grade education, $53 for
one year of high school, $56 for two
years, $59 for three years and $62 for
high school graduated. For each year
of normal school work finished after
ihe eighth grade he would add 10 per
cent to the minimum salary, paying
uch teachers $65 a month on gradua
tlon. If, however, high school grad
uates attend norma? rchools, he would
pay those completing one year $68
month, and two years $76 a month
For the third year of college or unl
versity work done he would make the
minimum $85 a month and for grad
nates of colleges or universities the
minimum would be $95 a month.
The state superintendent says that
principals should receive $5 to $30
month for supervisory work, based on
he Importance and slie of their
schools.
THIS
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TTNCTITB AND
FRIENDLY SERTICE
All the services ren
dered In the usual bank
ing relations and many ad
ditional advantages are ex- -tended
to our customers. If you
are Interested In purchase or sale
of bonds, mortgage notes or other
securities, or are deslrtous of credjt or
other special Information let us
know your needs. It will be a
pleasure for as to know what
we can do for you.
We are here to serve you.
FARMERS TRADERS
BANK. Maysrllle.
1 -tt Kentucky.
METHODIST PRATER SERVICE.
The recular wld-week prayer and
orshlp service at Third Stroot M. E.
hurch Thursday evening at 7:30
''clock led by the pastor. The test of a
-nvived church Is the Interest In the
:nld-week service. Let all assemble
ir this service At the close of the
i rnyer service the choir will have
ihlrty-mlnute rehearsal. Every mem-
lKr of the revival chorus, especially
i hose members of this church, are ex
incted to be present
W. 8. PETERS, Pastor.
L. A If. ENGINE BREAKS DOWN.
Flues on the L. A N. passenger en
gine at the local round bouse Wednes
day evening burst and It became
necessary to send to Paris for another
engine which arrived here In time to
ake out the early morning train
Thursday morning on time.
Colonel John W. Thompson, of West
Second street, Is visiting relatives at
Lexington
STRAWBERRIES
When you want tiiem 'Phone 20.
Also all FRESH VEGETABLES as they coine on the market.
SPECIALS
DUTCH CLEANSER, can 10c
OLD TIME BUCKWHEAT, 5 pov.rda packf.ge 25o
MARROWFAT BEANS, pound . . 10c
I'INTO BEANS, 3 pounds 25o
CODFISH, 3 brickf for 25c
CAN MILE, per can 5c and 10c
CHEESE, -per poend 25c
CRACKED HOMINY. 3 pounds for 10c
Can BLACKBERRIES ... 15c
DINGER BROS.
LEADING RETAILERS '
JOHN
Paint Your Floors
With
Floorlac
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For Sib By
W. DAVIDSON & SOUS
OPENING DAY IN
BLUEGRASS LEAGUE
IS AJALA ONE
Great Crowd Hero To Witness the For.
ma! Opening of the Bine Grass
League League Magnates
fleet Tonight.
Play Ball!
The 1922 season of the Blue Grass
League opens at the East Second
street ball park Thursday afternoon at
S o'clock when President Thomas M.
Russell and Secretary-Treasurer E. L.
Wlllett toss tho first baseball of tho
year with an official Blue Grass
League U. K on It.
Great interest is shown among
Maysvllle people in support of Mana
ger Boskeus' aggregation of ball play
ers. To show tho keen Interest of tho
city and the extent to which the local
ball club is being backed, most all lo
cal business houses closed at 1:30
o'clock and all employers and em
ploees are crowding the street cars
on their way to the East End park. It
Is estimated thRt all records at it-
tendance at ball games in this city
since the old Ohio State League days
will be broken this afternoon
As a fitting celebration for the open
Ing a grand street parade was held,
starting at the Centrul Hotel, head
r.aarters of the local team and the
league, the parade moved through the
principal streets to music furnished
by our two juvenile bands, tho best In
Kentucky. Just as the famous Cardinal
band has brought the attention of the
ftnte and the nation to Maysvllle as a
musical town, we are expecting the
baseball club which bears Maysvllle'
name to bring reputation to the best
little city on the map In sport circles
this summer.
The lineup for the opening game is
as follows-
Winchester. !
McCourt, second base.
Thoss, catcher.
Zapplln, first base.
Carroll, shortstop.
Henry, right field.
Baskett. third base.
Shea, center field.
Pallard, left field.
Vallandlngham pitcher
Tavener, pitcher . . .
May si Hie.
Welmer, center field.
Class, third base. (
Connolly, catcher.
Slayback, second base.
KreBscr, shortstop.
Dresel, first base.
Margerum, left field.
Bosken, right field
Elnenman, pitcher.
Shaw, pitcher. ,
James -Red" Roberts, Captain of
he world famous Center College foot
ball club, will umpire me openms
game assisted by two other official um
pires of the league
For Sale Two wall case. Miss
Stella Archdeacon. ZOAprst
lHSASTROrS FIRE AT
MILI ERSBI RG THIS HORMftG.
Word reached Maysvllle Thursday
morning that M'llersburg waB visited
by a verv disastrous fire at about !
o'clock- A moving picture theater and
restaurant were completely destroyed
by the flames.
QUEEN OF SHEBA" TO
BE REPEATED SATURDAY.
NICHOLASVILLE BOY IS
KILLED JjUUTOMOBILE
Seren-Tear-OId lad Meets Accidental
Death In Front of His Home on
Tuesday Was on Errand.
Nlcholasvllle, Ky., April 19 James
H. Hill, seven-year-old son of Mrs.
Pearl Hill, a widow, was killed In
stantly this morning when an automo
bile driven by Reed Elliott, of near
Harrodsburg, accidentally struck the
boy while In front of his mother's
home on the business block of Main
street.
Elliott In a statement made after the
accident said that he was driving
noth on the right side of Main street
at the rate of about ten miles an hour
when he saw the child standing on the
curbstone about fifteen feet ahead of
him, looking directly across the street,
As he drove nearer, the child started
across the street, and Elliott sounded
his horn and turned quickly to the left
Elliott said. The child ran under the
wheels, which passed over his body
while Elliott was making every effort
to stop his car and attract the boy's
attention, he declared.
There were a number of witnesses
.vho rushed to the car as it stopped
The child was taken to his home and
several physicians called hut he was
pronounced dead on their arrival. The
little body was crushed. It said that
Mrs. Hill, who has two other children
was having her flat papered, and had
sent the boy to a furniture store
across the street for another roll of
wall paper.
Elliott, whom witnesses say made
every effort to avoid the accident, Is a
on of J. V. Elllott'of Harrcdsburg.
end resides on the NIcholasvllle-Har-
rodsburg pike three miles from the
Mercer capital.
WANTED
Beef Hides. Hides up to 45 pounds
will pay 7 cents per pound, over 45
pounds 6 cents per pound.
SIMch-tf SAM MIDDLEMAN.
RADIO COXCEUT FOR
THURSDAY EVEXIXG.
The musical concert to be broad
casted from thj Pittsburgh sending
station Thursday night follows:
'Praise Ye the Father" (Gounod)
Quartet.
"What God Made Mothers For'
(Wood) Miss Bessie B. Waltz, ac
companied by MIkb Mary F. Wals.
'Minute Waltz" (Shobln) John A.
Koenlg
'On the River's Brink" (Pressel)
Quartet.
"Young Fellow My Lad" (Service)
Miss Bessie B. Walz.
"Where Is My Wandering Boy To
night" (arr. by M. L. Lake) Quartet.
Turkish March" (Mozart) John
A. Koentg.
"Tribulations of Biddy Malone"
Miss Bessie B. Walz.
"Lost Chord" (Sullivan) William
Daunenhauer.
Pilgrim's Chorus" (Verdi) Quar
tet.
"Sweet and Low" (Barney) Quar.
tet.
$200,000 NEEDED
FOR WARMEMORIAL
AT KYJJNIVERSITY
Campaign To Bo Opened Next Monday
To Rnlse Funds for Proposed Me.
mortal Building In Honor of
Kentucky Soldiers.
The campus committee of the Unt
versity of Kentucky began work In the
Kentucky memorial building campaign
at a meeting held Tuesday afternoon
In the office of President Frank L. Ma
Vey The goal In the state is $200,000
necessary to complete the fund for the
building proposed two years ago in
honor of the 5.0E6 Kentucky war dead.
W. E. Freeman is chairman of the
campus committee and the other mem
bers are Enoch Grehan, W. D. Funk
houser, J. J. Downing, T. P. Cooper,
W. S. Hamilton, Miss Frances Jewell
and Miss Marguerite McLaughlin.
Charles Mahoney represents the stu
dent body.
The campaign will open ever the
state Monday and will continue
through Saturday, April 29. The state
has been divided into eastern and
western districts with J. A. Wilson, of
Louisville, chairman, and subchairmen
named for each three counties of each
district.
The amount pledged and subscribed
when the suggestion of a memorial
building was made is about $165,000
and the quality cf the building now de
pends upon, how much can be raised
by this socond campaign. It is hoped
by the committee that the Eubscrlp
lions will amount to $200,000 in add!'
tion to what has already bee nsub-
scrlbed.
All aldmnl end former students, cit
izens of the Commonwealth' who have
not already given all who have given
and desire to increase the amount of
the gift and students and factulty of
the university will have an opportun
ity to subscribe when the campaign
opens Monday.
W. S. Hamilton, J. J. Downing and
Miss McLaughlin will solicit the fac
ulty next week end W. E. Freeman,
W. D. Funkhotiscr, Miss Jewell and T.
P. Cooper will work with Charles Ma
lioncy and the Su-Ky Circle of the ml-
verslty body for soliciting in Lexing
ton, Fayette county and about ten ad
joining towns.
BAPTIST PRAYER SERVICE.
Regular mid-week prayer service
will be held Thursday evening at 7:30
o'clock at the church. Following this
service the regular weekly Bible
eachers' meeting will be held
BOYS BAND IS INVITED TO
ATTEND BLUEGRASS FAIR
Secretary Waller Extends Courtesies
to Manager Russell and All Mem.
berg of onr Cardinal Band.
The following letter has Just been
received by Colonel Russell f rem ken
Walker, Secretary of the Blue Grass
Fair:
My Dear Mr. Russell: Yours of the
17th, also the Maysvllle paper showing
the copy of the letter I had written
you I appreciate very much the fact
that you understood my position, and
I hope that another year I will have
the pleasure of being associated with
you and the Boys' Band at the Blue
Grass Fair. And simply because you
tire not to be here this year as an en
tertainment feature is no reason why
you and the boys should not be my
quests, and I will take great pleasure
in entertaining you at any time you
will come up, and this applies to every,
member of the organization."
ATTRACTIVE CARDS FOR
K. T. CONCLAVE.
Mr. Nelson Breeze, local sign writer,
has painted a number of very attract
ive welcome enrds for the Knights
Templar conclave which he is selling
to local merchants at a very reason
able price. These cards should be or
dered from Mr. Breeze at once.
CITY COUXCIL MEETS TONIGHT.
Semi-monthly meeting of City Coun
cil will be held at the Council Cham
ber Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Tt is understood that there is much
Important business to come beforo the
city fathers at this meet.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Johnson, of
Ashland, are guests in the city. Mr.
Johnson is here in the interest of the
Equitable Life Insurance Company
of New York. ,v
Mr 3. Ben Middleman and son, Ben,
Jr., are visiting Miss Cecil Downey in
Price Hill, Cincinnati.
ACCIDENT PROVES
FATAL TO FLEM
' IMGSBURG MAN
Colored Painter, at Flemlngsbnrg, In
Jarcd When into Wrecks Ketnrn.
ing Front Maysrllle, Died
Wednesday Evening.
Claude Fox, colored, Flomingsburg
painter and paper hanger, who was
injured when hie automobile wrecked
Tuesday morning early when return
lug to his home from a big colored
dance In Maysvllle, died at his home
In Flemlngsburg Wednesday evening
from Internal injuries.
Fox with three other friends had at
tended tho Colored American Legion
dance given here at the Liberty ware
house and returning home, it is said
the men imbibed too freely in moon
shine liquor. After they had reached
Flemlngpburg they went on a Joy ride
and when going down a hill, the ma
chine, which was owned and driven by
Fox, became unmanageable and turned
completely over.
Fox suffered several broken ribs
and was internally injured but he was
not thought to be fatally injured at the
time of the accident.
COMMITTEE PREPARES
ORDINANCES FOR TONIGHT.
The Laws and Ordinance committee
of City Council held a meeting on
Wednesday evening and prepared a
number of ordinances to be offered be
fore the City Council at Thursday
night's : eetlng. Besides a revamping
of the police ordinance, several
changes were iuade in the license law
of the city.
TWO BIH WFS1ERN FEATURES
AT THE PASTIME FRIDAY.
"Law of the Woods," and "Beyond
the Trail," two big western features
will be shown st the Pastime Friday.
''Name the Pay" a screamingly fun
ny comedy w ill also be shown A big
double show ct the regular admission.
SOME MORE BARGAINS II
ADHESIVE TAPE, one inch, 10c jj
IRO QUINO TONIO, $1.00 size , , ,,50c jj
ALL EIGHT CENT CIOARS 3 for 20c
ALL TEN CENT CIOARS 9c 9
FOUNTAIN PEN INK, 15o size : . . 10c rl
M. F. Williams Drug Company g
THIRD STREET DRUG STORE.
103 Wart ItooDd Strut
Manager Trlebol, of the Pastime
Theater, Thursday completed arrange
ments for the presentation of the big
feature picture "Queen of Sheba" on
Saturday .of thl week. The big feature
,ni aim he shown Thursday ana
Thursday night
BANK ROBBERY REPORT
PROVES UNTRUE.
The report circulated about Mays
vllle Thursday morning that the Bank
of Germantown had been robbed Wed
nesday evening was found to be a false
rumor.
ARiriYAL CODING
HERE NEXT WEEK.
Veal Brothers' big carnival has been
bookod for all of next week at the bnl.
park in this city. Tho advance man In
now In the city making arrangements
for the engagement.
TOBACCO CASE OX TRIAL.
Tho case of the Bank of Dearborn,
Dearborn, Mo., vs. C. M. Jones, Is be
ing heard Thursday In the Mason Cir
cult Court.
REQUISITION TO BRING
MAN ACROSS THE RIYEK.
Frankfort. dovornor Morrow made
requisition on the governor of Ohio for
Ihe return to Covington of Robert M.
vlne, who Is wanted' on tho charge
of utttil passing and cashing a
ohack f JOO, He Is under arrest Ir
ClnolntfuTl,
Ledger aUrrUe Effloltney,
CRIMINAL DOCKET TO BE
CALLED ON FRIDAY.
The criminal docket for th spring
term of Circuit Court will be called on
Friday by Judgo Newell and it is un
derstood that several cases will be
ready for trial. It Is thought that it
will not take long to dispose of all of
Ihe criminal cases set down for hear
ing this term.
BABY McKEE.
Mr. and Mrs. Roland McKee, of West
Third street, are the proud parents of
a fine daughter born Wednesday evening.
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SPECIAL 2
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Saturday's prioes will be
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