The Madisonian., September 09, 1913, Image 10

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Commissioners Give Mossu
Certificate
'-The Election Commissioners of
Jessamine County met last Sat-
urday week to pass upon all ques
tioned or rejected ballots, and
1 finding that the election officers
hi the various precinctsj with but
few exceptions, failed to comply
with the law in properly sealing
and labeling the envelopes in
.. which said ballots were placed,
decided they had no right to pass
on them nor count them for any
xandidate, therefore they give the
certificate to R. Z. Moss, one of
the Democratic candidates for
sheriff in the late primary. It is
-not known whether his opponent,
Mr. Jacobs, will contest the elec
tion or not.
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Sudden Death'
Mrs. Maggie Boulden, age about
sixty years, died suddenly Tues
day at her home in Nicholasville.
The deceased is survived by one
daughter, Miss Carrie Boulden.
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attention of the crowds on the . streets in the evening. On
the other ' hand many other concerns prosper because they
employ the after hours salesman Electric Light. -
" You can readily pick out these stores on the busiest thoroughfares
their show windows pouring a brilliant flood of light upward, outward
and downward, thereby adding an attraction to the goods displayed not
obtainable in any other way. Few people can resist a glance at the
beautiful effect most people stop and admire it.
The proprietors of these big shops are 'well versed in all modern
methods which make for success in "developing trade. ' They know that
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Mrs.' Kinnard Gaining Dis
n tinction as Expert Horse
Woman.
The Evening Tribune, of Des
Moines; Iowa, in a recent issue
presented a picture of a former
Madison county woman, Mrs. H.
B. Kinnard (nee Young) mounted
on Leo the prize saddle horse of
the Cameron, stables at the Iowa
State Fair.' The horse is owned
by D. C. Cameron lieutenant gov
ernor of Manitoba,
i Mrs. Kinnard is the 'daughter
of Eld. O. J. Young, of Baldwin,
and her many friends will be glad
to learn that she is gaining dis
tinction as the most expert horse
woman in the middle west.
Protracting Meeting
Rev. W. I. Peel, of Nicholas
ville, recently concluded a series
of meetings at Corinth Christian
Church on Silver Creek. A bas
ket dinner on the grounds last
Sunday brought out a big crowd.
There were five additions to the
church.
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Groceries
Pioneer Family
? The name of , Crooke is. one
well and favorably known in Ken
tucky with whose, history it has
been , identified since the year
179. "It was then that .Major
Jphn Crooke, one of the most
able and active men , of his day,
emigrated from Virginia to Ken
tucky and took up his residence
in Madison county. He was a
doughty pioneer; a citizen held in
high regard in the community in
which he made his home for !
many years; active in the many
sided life of the new settlement;
holder of the very important office
of county surveyor. It, came to
be almost an unwritten law that
some member of the Crooke. fam
ily should be county surveyor,-and
for the eighty-six years preceding
1900, some member of the family
held this office, namely: Major j
John Crooke, Kiah Crooke and
Benjamin F. Crooke, the latter I
one of Madison county's most mond was established -. as the
highly esteemed citizens. "It can- county seat he laid off the city
not be otherwise than appropriate j limits in rectangle and called it
that a man who had a part as im-; the town tract of fifty acres. The
portant in the developmentof the largest survey on his books was
state as Major Crooke and whose made for John Jones for 16,000
present descendants are held in acres about the Three Forks" of
as high regard as his, should have the Kentucky river. Kentucky at
some mention in a volume devot-' that time, of course, did not have
ed to - representative men and the perfect system of surveying
women of the Blue Grass State, now used in the West and it was
Although more than sixty years but natural that a great deal of
have elapsed since he was gather- litigation arose. Major John
ed to his fathers, there are still Crooke x was very gifted as a
remaining a very few of the most mathematician and he made ta
venerable members of the com- bles of numbers, such as the table
munity who retain some memory of Logaritmims and the Traverse
of that energetic, magnetic man. j table. He made more than thirty
The first of the Crookes to maps of the different states and
cross the Atlantic and to take up territories, of the United States,
their residence in the new land Mexico, and so forth, and laid off
which offered so much of freedom the counties in good colors, all
and independence, was one John with his pen. He was skilled as
Crooke, the grandfather of the a draughtsman and always used a
major. He was a native of Ire- quill pen. He made several maps
land and reared in England. In of Madison county with connect
1730, he and his son, Ozias, father ed plats of all the lands. He also
of Major John, crossed to America surveyed most of the lands in the
and took up their residence in the early litigations in Madison and
state of Maryland. They became other counties. When it is re
prominent in the locality and membered that during the time
there in due course of time, Ozias , that he was surveyor, Madison
married and the birth of the Ma- county extended to the Virginia
jor occurred February' 10, 1766, in line on the south side of the Ken
St. Mary's county. His early tucky river, it will be easy to be
youth was passed in the stormy Heve that he needed deputies and
days of the Revolution, and al- a partial list of them is as follows:
though he was very young; a- James Kincaid, Richard Smith,
while before its triumphant con- David Williams, Jones Hoy, Geo.
elusion he decided that he was of Walker, James McCormick, Dan
sufficient years to take up - arms iel Boone (young Daniel), Wil-
against British injustice. He had
the happiness to be in the army I
of the great Washington and " he
was present at the surrender of
Cornwallis at Yorktowh in 1782.
On the 5th of January, 1786,
Major John Crooke assumed the
dignity and responsibility ot a
married . man, Ann Reeves, a
young Maryland woman, becom
ing his . wife,
blessed by a
I heir union wasj
family' of typical I
pioneer proportions, thirteen sons
and daughters finding a" shelter
beneath their roof-tree. The
names of the family were as fol
lows: Lydia, Jabez,Sally, Polly,
Betsy, John R., OllyKiah, Ozias,
and Asa, twins, William, Frank-
lin and Eli. With the exception
oi two memoers me enure iamiry
removed to Indiana at an early
day. : Jabez, however settled ; in
Garrard - county, Kentucky, and
Kiah, father of B. F. Crooke,
chose Madison county as his per
manerit abiding place- ...
"Nearly, all vthe children, were
born in Kentucky, the emigration
having been made only a year , or
two after the marriage of the
major and his wife. At that time
many, surveyors were in the state
which was then a parf of . Vir
ginia, surveying out the claims of
the Revolutionary soldiers. They
were' allowed a pre-emption of
one thousand acres and a v home
stead of four hundred acres, gen
erally Jaid out together. Madison
was made a ; county while ;'the
state was still a part of Virginia
in 1785, and James French was
the first county surveyor," holding
the office eight years by appoint
ment ' Kentucky- was made a
state in 1792 and three years later
Major John Crooke was -elected
county surveyor and held the of
fice until the year 1847, a period
of fifty-two years,' resigning but
two years before Jhis death. ;
,Iajor John Crcoke was a man
of fine mind and for. his -day and
generation he had wide informa
tion. In those days it , was . the
case that almost all men of some
education were , oiled upon to
teach school and it is not strange
that he had some, experience in a
pedagogical capacity. He , also
taught numerous young men the
art of surveying, "which, by the
way, was one of the chief accom
plishments of GeneraL Washing
ton. One of the numerous quaint
anecdotes which have, been told
of him is, that whenever a young
man would ask him how far he
should be advanced in mathemat
ics in order to master surveying,
he would answer, '"Add two and
two and put down four,
but do
hot put down something else."
Which was his way of saying that
carefulness and accuracy were the
principal requisites. When Rich-
Ham O'Rear. Thomas Moselev.
Thomas Campbell. Wallace Estill.
Joseph Barnatt, James Anderson,
Irvine Anderson, John R. Crooke,
Kiah Crooke and others.
This versatile pioneer made an
arithmetic of his own; understood
navigation; could box" the com
pass; made almanacs and couldj
foretell the eclipses of the sun
and moon. Late in a certain
Mav on the margin, of one of his
almanacs he put down . "Frost"
opposite a certain date some time
in advance. The weather at that
time was already quite mild. At
the battalion muster on the day
before the date he had noted I he
was rallied about his prediction.
i for it was still warm and equitable.
Said he, "Wait and see." - That
evening a - cloud rolled up from
the North and there was a brisk
shower and it cleared off cold.
Next morning behold! there was
a white frost over everything. To
quote from one of his biographers
"He was thenceforth put down as
an umwiidt maKer . ana a sure
prophet." '
Major,, Crooke, Captain John
White, and Sir John Patrick were
a trio of men who went about
much together in the various
mountain settlements. They call
ed themselves, somewhat irrever
ently it is trueY"Thj Holy Trini
ty," but the people substituted
for the. ' term, another word not
used in polite society, tut als be-,
ginning, with "h". They had , a
jovial time as they went about
their ' business together in the
mountains with something to
drink and the "weed" to chew.
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tales oi adventure wi,th bears and
Indians, and afterwards - would
sleep .on their bufftilo robes on
the floor. T
Despife the fact that he could
enjoy himself when occasion pre
sented, Major Crooke was a re
ligious man, a Methodist in. faith
and a great admirer of John.Wes
ley and Lorenzo Dowrand in ad
dition to his many- other accom
plishments he could preach a
good sermon. He lived to " the
ripe old age of eighty-three years,
his demise occurring' March 17,
1849. His remains were interred
on the small hill overlooking the
Muddy Creek valley, near
Crookesville.
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Off for the Mountains
Morgan Taylor, Democratic can
didate for Jailer, and S. R. Ballard
left Monday for a ten days busi
ness trip through Perry, Letcher,
Breathitt and other eastern Ken
tucky counties. They will make
the trip on horseback and will
buy livestock, especially cattle.
They have been making the trips
for several seasons and find them
pleasant and profitable.
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Get on The Map
The Danville Messenger,, says:
"Richmond had two circuses
within one week. They're lucky
people. Danville has had none
this summer, with no prospects
for one."
Circus managers are generally
credited with much business fore
sight and know every, town on
the map. Danville should get on
the map.
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Diptheria
Several cases of diptheria are
reported around Bere a. The pub
lie school has closed on account
of the disease. The Madison
County Board of Health has been
called on to look after the matter.
The public school at Valley
View was closed a few weeks ago
on occount of a similiar trouble,
but has resumed.
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L. & N. Time Table
South Bound
No. 31 Cincinnati to Atlanta, arrives and
. - . . , dejarts (midnight), 12:10 a. m.
No. 71 Richmond to Stanford, departs
6:45 a. pi. -
No" I Louisville to Beattyville, arrives
; . . 12:10 p. m, departs 12:15 p. m.
No. 37 CindnnaU to Knoxville. arrives
" 11:42 a-m., departs. 12:12 p. m.
No. 33 Cincinnati to Jacksonville, arrives
v and departs 11:31 a. m.
No. 27 Richmond to Louisville via. Row
. land, departs 1:00 p. m.
No.
3 Louisville to Beattyville. arrives
6:45 p. m., departs 7:35 p. m.
9 Cincinnati and Maysville to Stan
ford, arrives 7:31, departs 7:35 p. m.
No.
--. North Bound
No. 34 Atlanta to Cincinnati, arrives and
departs 4:11 a. m.
No. 10 Stanford to Cincinnati and Mays
, ' ' ville, arrives 620 a. m., departs
625 a. m.
No. 2 Beattyville to Louisville, arrives
7:15 a. nx, departs 7:20 a. m.
No. 28 Louisville to Richmond via. Row
land, arrives 12:05 p. m.
No. 38 Knortville to Cincinnati, arrives
135 p. m.f departs 2:00 p. m.
No. 70 Stanford to Richmond, arrives
2:30 p. m.
No. 4 Beattyville to Louisville, arrives
1-35 p. m., departs 1:40 p. m.
No. 32 Jacksonville to Cincinnati, arrives
and departs 5:07.
Nos. 31, 37. 33, 27, 34, 28, 38, 32 are
daily trains.
Nos. 71. 1, 3 9, 10, 2. 70, 4. daily ex-
cept Sunday. "' ,
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