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For Sale: A five-room cottage on Fifth Street A 9-room dwelling and store-room, warehouse and repair shop, located at Newby. Apply to 143 2nd St. A. D. ESTES CARRIAGE -SHOP First-class Repair Work for all kinds of Vehicles. PAINTING : ARTISTICALLY DONE Buggy and Automabile Tops Made and Repaired We do a General Blacksmithing Jas A. Moores Third St. near Irvine Livery, Feed and Sale STABLE I am Prepared to Furnish First-class Rigs, Buggies and Carriages. Nothing but Gen tle, Safe Horses furnished. Give me a trial Hlci ta. Bcuolas Irvine Street - - - Richmond, Ky. Boot and Shoe Shop I do all kinds of Re pair Work and So licit your Business. J. T. Adams Irvine St. Douglas Livery Stable. J. C. TODD & SON Contractors and Builders Estimates furnished IRVINE ST. RICHMOND.KY. A. D. ESTES Keeps a Fine Line of Fresh Groceries and Gen eral Supplies YOUR TRADE IS SOLICITED We Pay the Highest Cash Price for Country Produce, Wool, Wool 1 will biiy your wool at the highest dash price A. L. Gott GRANT E. LILLY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW OFFICE 138 Second St, RICHMOND, KY. Filled Vacant THE Boulgers were about to start on an automobile ride, when a friend who , was to have gone telephoned that she was too ill to make the trip. Who would j have the vacant seat? A telephone call to 1 another friend found her ready and eager to accept the short notice invitation. When it is necessary to change plans, the Telephone is invaluable in making last-moment arrangements. , GUMBERL AND TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY ! INCORPORATED ' STATE SEIZES RECORDS. Louisville, Ky. Representatives of the state insurance department, at Frankfort, officially seized the records, maps, schedules and charts of the Kentucky Actuarial Bureau . for the purpose of conducting an investigation of the private affairs of that organiza tion. - T. M. Goodloe, representing the state board, accompanied by three deputies, walked into the actuarial bureau's office, took possession of the private riling room and began copying surveys and records and all important documents on rates made by the bureau on real and personal properties made on various risks in cities and towns throughout the commonwealth. This action was taken over the protest of 'Clem E. -Wheeler, manager of the bureau, and the companies support ing it. UNCLE SAM OBJECTS TO COST. Bowling Green, Ky. If the depart ment of justice at Washington ap proves arrangements made by Federal Inspector of Prisons J. F. Fishman with the jailer at Russellville, all Fed eral prisoners now confined in the Warren county jail may be transferred to Russellville. Mr. Fishman was in Bowling Green recently and made an effort to have Jailer Austin B. Clay pool reduce the "price of 75 cents a day for the keep of the prisoners. Jailer Claj'pool believes he is entitled to this amount as the law provides that jailers shall receive for federal prisoners the rate provided by the state law, which is 75 cents a day. PASS RIGID CURFEW LAW. Elkton, Ky. Trustees of the town of Fairview have passed a curfew or dinance, making it unlawful for youths under 17 years of age to be on the streets after 9 o'clock at night from February 1 to November 1, and after 7 o'clock from November 1 to Feb ruary 1, the penalty for violation of same to be a fine of $1 or a whipping to be administered in the presence of the police judge or marshal by the parent or guardian. It also passed an ordinance impos ing a fine of from $10 to $20 on any person trespassing upon the property of the Jefferson Davis Home Associa tion. CLOSING AUCTION SALE DAY. Lexington, Ky. At a meeting of the Lexington tobacco warehousemen it was unanimously decided to close the auction sales for the season oh Tues day, March 31. As practically all of the crop raised in this section seems to have been sold it was decided that what was left could easily be cleaned hp by that date, ... The sales aggregated 125,050 pounds, With $19.50 a hundred the top price. While most of the offerings were of poor , quality, there were a few fair lots sold and on the whole the grades were better than for seyeral days. NO DEMAND FOR MULES. Elkton, Ky. Although hundreds of mules were offered for sale here Coun ty Court day, there were remarkably few buyers, not more than half a dozen, so far as reported, changing hands. Owners held out for good prices, as they have practically car ried their stock through the winter, and a notable feature was the fact that foreign dealers, usually heavy buyers, were on the market as sellers. The highest price paid reached $200 a head. Favorite Quotations (Send us your favorite quotation.) "Count that day lost Whose low descending sun, Views from thy hand No worthy action done." Mrs. G. D. Simmons. -oo- Contributors will please bear in mind that single spaced copy will not be accepted. "00 " - Having handled nothing but Silver Laced Wyandotte thiekefts for the past fifteen years, we feei (we are) entirely within bounds when We 'claim for them first place for all purpose fdwi&. Stock and eggs for sale at reasonable prices. J, L. GRIGGS, 50-3m Doylesville, Ky. Se&t ainadl EfenifiieiF Wife THE announcement of the engage ment of Miss Eleanor Wilstm. youngest daughter of President and Mrs. Wilson, has caused country wide attention. While gossips for some time had linked the name of the pair, the declaration that they were to be married created a big stir at the capital, and the news was quickly her aided to all parts of the couutry. On several occasions since the wed ding of Miss Jessie Wilson to Francis B. Sayre those who claimed to know considerable of the affairs of the ures idenfs family had it that .Miss Mar garet Wilson was engaged. As quick ly as these rumors assumed the pro- j portions of news items they were promptly and emphatically denied nt the White House. When, however, the final .declaration was made th.it tti youngest daughter of the president and the builder of the Hudson tubes and the present secretary of the treasury i -:r- ':: S '.' :. i 'A-'j'-g:::;;; 'i '. v;f: :;:-:i;j:::::;:i:::: :!;itf!::':;::::v:;v:: i M I'M'1 1- mMr P L A i i k ihMwih y Copyright by American Praia AMociatlon. S i :, -SECEETAEY WILLIAM G. M'ADOO, MISS ELEAN0E WILSON AND MISS WILSON IN THE BERD MASQUE "SANCTTJAKY." were betrothetl, friends of Miss Wilson and Mr. McAdoo declared that the en gagement had existed for several weeks. If Was said that Mr McAdoo virtually acknowledged the engagement at the dinner given by' him in Miss Wilson's tioiior soon after his returu to I Washington, on Feb VJ. from his long trip on the business of locating reserve banks. In default of statements to the eon trary. official Wnsuintrtoti took It for granted that another White House wedding would take place in June, following the adjournment of con gress. It- was known that Mr. Mc Adoo had been a frequent caller at the White House during the past ytjar and had been much Jn the company of Miss Wilson, so-that Washington so ciety was not taken completely by sur prise, at the report and only awaited the official acknowledgment of the par-" ents of Miss Wilson. . Mr. McAdoo' Career. , Mr. McAdof) is fifty ears old and Miss Wilson twenty-four. Mr. Mc Adoo became a grandfather recently, when a son was born to bis eldest daughter, who is the same age as Miss Wilson, at her home In Arizona. Miss Eleanor Wilson is tall and dark, unlike her sisters. Mrs. Francis B Sayre and Miss Margaret Wilson. - She Casus Belli. "Why do they hate each other so? "They are rivals." "Oh, both trying'to t marry .the same girl, eh? That Bort of thing certainly does arouse man's pri mal passion." "In this case it is worse than that. They are both try ing to marry the same fortune." Houston Post ' : I::, - .The Burglar's Daughter. Father to Suitor My daughter will not havo a dowry, but I will give her this set of keys, which no doubt you will find uBeful. , - we m lPirsSdlinitt9s Ynnrassft EMiinglhter is ' fond of society and has many friends in Washington outside of the administration circle. She is a good dancer. Mr. McAdoo has been her most frequent dancing partner at the informal dances of the Chevy Chase club. She has recently Joined the Rid ing and Hunt club and follows the bounds. Miss Wilson was educated In private schools at I'rim-eton and then spent two years 1n St. Mary's college nt Ra leigh. N. C of which the president was Dr. McXeely Dubose. whose wife was an intimnte friend of Mrs. Wilson. She had acquired a i taste for painting from her mother and spent two years, after leaving St Mary's. In studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Phila delphia Mr. McAdoo wars tun iit Marietta. Ga.. n Oct 3. 18(13. He attended the University of Tennessee, but left col lege in his junior year to become dep- I r-Vv uty clerk of the United States circuit court at Chattanooga. He was admit ted to the bar at the age of twenty one and practiced for awhile In Chat tanooga, ' He became interested in I railroad affairs wheu be held the post of division counsel for the Central Railroad and Banking company and the Richmond and Dauville railroad. He went toW'ew York in tS02'imd in 1898 formed a partnership with WH-j Ham McAdoo. afterward chief magis trate of New York city. In 1902 he organized the company which acquired the old tunnel under the Hudson that was begun in 1S?4 and proved a fail ure. In 1903 he was elected president of the Hudson and Manhattan railroad company, the $70,000,000 corporation which built and controls the Hudson river tubes. - Mr McAdoo's first wife was Sarah Houston Fleming, whom he married in 18S5. He has six children, the eldest daughter and eldest son. being married. The eldest son is Francis H. McAdoo. who married Miss Ethel McCormack of Baltimore last September. Miss Nona McAdoo is the present head of her father's home in Massachusetts avenue, : It has been stated by many that no one man had more to do with the suc cessful campaign of Wood row Wilson Use for Old Umbrella Rods. The steel rods from old umbrellas make fine plant supports. . Disconnect them where they Join the upper part and also where the ring slips the han dle and you have a double rod to slip into your flower pots, and if they are painted gray they are unnoticeable. v '''Wanted-nAn Occupation, i" . There are two reasons why some people don't mind their own business. One is that they haven't any mind, the other that they haven'tj any busi ness. Harvard Lampoon. - Ellllffi for the presidency than William 6. McAdoo. When early in the race for the presi dency illness forced William F. Mc Ccmbs, chairman of the Democratic national committee and Governor Wil son's campaign manager, to lay down the duties of his position they were taken up by Mr. McAdoo. Completed Hudson Tubes. It was McAdoo. a commuter be tween New York and New Jersey, who took up the old scheme of tunneling the North river and rtwled the plan to completion. He was a southern lawyer who had obeyed the impulse that carries so many' of Dixie's legal luminarjes north to illumine the dark places of New York's law. He had had long and careful training, despite his comparatively young age. in rail road law, and lie conveyed the knowl edge into the solution of the nudson tunnel problem when- he tackled it Ct kw ;ir As division counsel in Tennessee for the Richmond and Danville railroad company he bad bad to learn ell about rights of way, maintenance and opera tJon and damage suits and other com plex branches of railway law. It is recorded that be learned them with an exceedingly high degree of thorough nets. What he learned stood him in good stead when the time came for the planning of the tunnels. Miss Eleanor Wilson, known as Nell in the family circle and among her in timate friends. Inherited her mother's artistic ability and has made quite a reputation for herself by her produc tions and acting. Miss Wilson made a big hit when, in the presence of President and Mrs Wilson and 40ft summer visitors from Cornish. N. H and the surrounding country, she took the leading role in "Sanctuary A Bird Masque," which was put on at Meriden. N. H. In the audience were many artists, play wrights and literary folk. Miss Eleanor Wilson's acting was the subject of much favorable com ment She spoke her lines with great clearness and with simple charm, but with a ' distinct musical quality that carried Its effect home.' The perform ance was repeated recently at the Ho tel Astor, New York. A New Ford The Madison Garage sold and delivered to John Muncy, of Be rea, a handsome Ford touring car. . -.Mr. Turley's Class vs The Lad ies' Aid, Thursday, March 19th at the Christian Church. Flooring, Ceiling, Siding, Lath. Blan ton Lumber Co. Phone 425. 16-tf "I ' I 'I ! Annoilncemeiit ! ! SPRING AND SUMMER TAILOR-MADk SUITS now have on display one of the Best Lines of Samples to Jbe found in the city. On each suit we offer a saving from $3 to $6," and an equal saving is offered on Spring Overcoats. All suits bought from me this week I will keep Pressed and Shaped FREE. This alone will mean a big saving to you in the course of a year's time. OUR CLEANING DEPARTMENT. I have installed a Benzole French Dry Cleaning Plant The only one in Richmond. All work gees out of our shop under a guar antee to give satisfaction, or no charge will be made for the same. LADIES WORK A SPECIALTY Such as Ball Gowns, Praty Dresses, Plumes, Etc. WORK CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED ..Charles Jacobs.. Phone 752 Second 1 W. L. LEEDS 1 1 PAINTER - DECORATOR! j AM prepared to furnish you 1914 styles in Wall Paper and do your & Painting and Decorating on short no- U tice. Can show you all the noveltiesin wall paper at your home, will thank you for a share of your patronage. Phone 685 county and city service. Residences 352 Woodland Avenue. Richmond. Kv. S 0 n c-a c- r-3 0 m Plumbing and Contracting WILL INSTALL 0 Heating and W ater Plants and do all Kinas oi numDing q Your business is Solicited. ' . . ' 5 : I ) oocxxxx?ooooooocco MERCHANTS ! We have at present very attractive offerings in the following seasonable goods: Yellow Onion Sets, White Onion Sets, Seed Potatoes. We will be pleased to have your orders or inquiries through our representa tive or by mail. KELLOGG & CO., i Incorporated Wholesale Grocers Richmond, Ky. ococoocococoooo HOT WATER. HEATING "AjTE ARE headquarters for steam, hot water and warm air heating plants. They are suitable for either old or new buildings. Let us estimate your requirements; plans and specifica tions furnished on application without charge. 1 A postal will bring our Representative. We install complete equipments, sewerage disposal, and lighting plants. Prices reasonable. Richmond Heating & Plumbing Co; . Long Distance Phones 270 and 658 RICHMOND, KY. Announcement. The Kentucky Utilities Company wish to announce that in accordance with their customary broad policy of , "Customers First" that the usual low price on all things electrical will prevail during the year 1914. For your in formation they wish to state that this includes Electric , Irons, Grills, Coffee Percolators, Toasters, Vacuum Clean ers, Lamps, (Mazda and others) Fans, Motors, Etc. The Company's District Manager invites criticism of service rendered, all such complaints receiving careful and ' prompt consideration at air The IVladisonian, Street Richmond, Ky. 7 7 tJ - n 0 oooooooooooooo times. - r - ; ; 52-tf $1 .00 Per Year