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VOLUME XV1I1
COLUMBIA, ADAIR COUNTY, KENTUCKYWEDNESDAY, JUNE, 23, 1915.
NUMBER 34
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GttdRtads and How to Get Them.
It is universally admitted that we
need good roads in Adair county, and,
as for that, throughout the State; but
there is diversity or opinion as to how
best to get them. There is one prop
osition that no one will deny, and
that is, if we get good roads they must
be paiifor. The county is now en
gaged in an experiment in the matter
of roadbuilding. A tax of 25cts. on
the one hundred dollars worth of prop
erty has been levied, and with the as
sistance df local and state aid one
zoad is to be built. This is far better
than doing nothing, but it is also far
from being the best way as I think I
can prove to any thinking man.
In the first place, it will take a term
of years to build roads all over the
county by the above method, and it
will be very unfair to build one or two
or three roads and then to stop, which
is likely to occur at any time, as this
plan will furnish a hobby-horse for
every demagogue in the country "to
to try to ride into office on, and like
the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusa
lem the work is likely to be hindered
or stopped altogether. And further
more, there will be confusion and
hard feelings every year in the loca
tion of the piece of road to be built,
as long as the present method is pur
sued. Now for a better plan: Let the
county borrow $100,000.00 or any oth
er amount at 5 per cent, per annum
and use that together with the local
And state aid in piking all the princi
pal thoroughfares of the county with
in the next two or three years. Let a
tax of 26cts. per hundred (mark you
only 26cts. per hundred) be levied to
pay the interest and create a fund for
the final payment of the original loan.
The county is now paying tax on ?2,
694,985.00. A 26cts. levy on that basis
will produce in round numbers $7,000
per annum. Five thousand dollars of
this will pay the annual interest and
the remaining two thousand dollars
at 5 per cent, will create a fund that
will in thirty years pay the whole
debt.
What are some of the advantages of
this plan over the plan now being
tried? Well, the greatest advantage
is that every part of the county gets
a good road at once, and has the road
to help pay for itself. In the second
place one part of the county is not
taxed to build a road for another sec
tion while itself is still in the mud.
In the third place this better plan
costs us only one cent per hundred
more than a plan that is so full of ob
jections and so unsatisfactory; and in i
the fonrth place it will insure . the
county's getting eighty or onethun
died miles of good roads immediately
and every man, woman and child in
the county greatly benefitted and -no
one injured. Let us get out of. the
mud. Hurrah for good roads.
J. S. Chandler.
Henry Lee, who lives in Taylor
county, just over the Adair line, es
caped being badly hurt last Wednes
day. He had a binder on a wag
on and he was sitting in the
sear of the binder. In moving along
he was thrown to the ground, the
wagon "passing over his body. Dr.
Hancock was called and he reports
the accident slight and that Mr. Lee
will soon be up and able to work.
Notice.
The collectors are requested to call
at The News Office and get the notes
given them for the improvement of
the Columbia and Liberty road. The
Bondsmen are obligated to pay the
Fiscal Court $3,400 on ttie first day of
July. We must be ready to settle.
Call and get the notes you are expec
ted to collect and be ready to report
th the cash July 1st.
Prof. Ivan E. McDougle, who has
been in Clark University, Worcester,
Mass., has returned to Richmond, Ky.,
to spend his vacation. In September
he will resume his work in the .Unij
versity for a few months, when he
will receive his degree of Master of
Arts. He will then go to New York
and study in Columbia University for
a Ph. D. degree. . Mr. McDougle, once
teacher in the Columbia Graded
School, has the rood will and hAsh
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wiauBHior nis success, oi cms entire
community. He reports the weather
as being extremely hot through all the
northeastern States.
STATE AID ROAD
LAW IS VALID.
Frankfort, Ky., June 18. The Court
of Appeals this morning held the
State aid law valid, and said a county
issuing bonds may appropriate the
money received from the State for its
proportion of the road expense to any
county purpose.
This was decided in an opinion by
Chief Justice Miller reversing the
Knox Circuit Court in the case of F.
J Mitchell against the Fiscal-Court."
Mitchell was refused an injunction re
straining the Fiscal Court from sell
ing the road bonds and making a spe
cial levy of thirty cents for sinking
fund purposes.
The court held the last named ac
tion was unconstitutional, but said
the Fiscal Court could make a levy of
20 cents and appropriate 10 cents more
out of the general levy.
MULES WANTED.
I will be at W. H. Wilson's Liv
ery Barn, in Columbia, on Friday,
June 25, to buy mules from 4 to
10 years old, weight, 1,000 pounds
and over. J. W. Phillips,
Lebanon, Ky.
Sudden Death.
Mrs. J. T. Burton, of near Neats
burg, wasvfound dead in bed Saturday
morning. When she retired Friday
night she seemed well, at least did
not complain. She was a daughter of
Wm. Grant, deceased.
For Sale.
100 Pure-bred S.iC. White Leghorn
Hens, one and two' years old. Price
60c. each. Am overstocked. First
come gets first choice.
34-2t, J. 0. Russell.
Every where the spirit for building
good roads is manifesting itself.
If we fail to improve our roads, if
we fail to build oar part of, the Dixie
Highway it will be a costly mistake.
Notice.
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Having sold out my interest in the
grocery of Flowers & Walker, .our, bus
iness most be settled op. Therefore ail
parties owing this firm wilf please call
at the store and settle at once, '
Nat Walker.
Twelve years ago a young man left
this community for the inviting fields
of the West. Soon thereafter his
father and estimable family did like
wise, locating in Kansas, where their
efforts and energies are being spent
in the development of that resource
ful State. Last Sunday it was the
pleasure of many to listen to a logical
sermon from that young man who re
cently graduated in the Theological
School in Louisville. It is discour
aging to have so many of our best and
most enterprising people stake their
efforts in other sections but it is grat
ifying to know that their living is in
the best direction: that the young
man, educated in the west, is now en
tering the ministry with commenda
ble zeal and talent to make a most
useful man in his chosen field of work.
That young man is the Eev. Ad Hol
laday, son of Mr. Anderson Holladay.
Mr. Lewis Willis lost two mules
Monday morning by lightning. A
horse was also struck and is rendered
almost worthless. Mr. Willis is a
farmer and the loss of this stock at
this season of the year hit him hard.
On Monday morning this section
experienced another severe storm do
ing considerable damage to crops,
land and timber. The big Old Elm
just aBhort distance from the resi
dence of C. S. Harris, that has weath
ered many severe winds and comfort,
ed'manv a weary traveler undents
dense, shade, n. was practically de-
stroyed it being split and about half
of It put to the earth.
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Married in Mexico.
The young people of Columbia and vi
cinity very pleasantly remember Mr.
Ed Robertson son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
K. Robertson, who was a jovial young
man about Columbia for several years,
and who was popular with every body.
Possessing good judgment, Ed decided'
that it was best to take the admoni
tion laid down in the Bible "It is not
good for man to live alone." Accord
ingly, on May 1st, at Elida, N. M., he
led to the altar Miss Lillian Gilliam,
whose home was at Potales, same
state.
Here is hoping that Mexico and Ken
tucky will do well, and that should
any little troubles come to the sur
face, they will be settled without re
sorting to arms fire arms.
The road proposition is up and up
in earnest in this county. We have
been a long time in realizing the im
portance of good roads, have spent
considerable money on patching bad
roads only to find our money gone and
no better roads. Such conditions,
such a course do not appeal to those
who really desire good roads and" an
effort to leave the old system and to
adopt a better one is now being con
sidered. If we ever have good roads
we must build them. If we build We
must secure the money. So far as we
can see there is no better way to se
cure the money than to borrow it and
then return a- certain portion of it
each year from the road levy until the
amount has been paid. By taking
this course, with State aid applied,
we can build all of the main thorough
fares in two or three years and pay
for them without burdening any one.
The proposition to bond for $125,000
ought to appeal to all who really want
good roads. With that amount of
money we ought to build 75 miles of
fine roads and put our county on the
map of fine roads and development.
Certainly no one desires to made con
ditions worse than they are in this
county. No one can profit by such a
course. Individual borrow money for
their hnancial advancement, corpora
tions do it, the National government,
States, cities and towns do it- and by
so doing build and grow. If good for
all these, if necessary for their devel
opment why not for a county? Most
of men do what is necessary for- their
best interests and not what they real
ly desire to do in the battles of life.
So it is in this we should do what is
best for the public good whether it be
pleasant or 'other wise., No.onede
siresto borrow money andfpay' ft: back
with, interests still If is dphe-ancLdone
necause.it is nest to ao it. sowitn
bur county, Its interest wijl'bebest'
promoted by bbrr6wfng( anji 'uilding
roads and we ought to' do' it. '
Mrs. Fetna I. Eubank, widow of the
late John .Eubank, recently received
a notice from the pension commission
er at Washington granting her a pen
sion of $12 per month. Also the ac
crued pension. Mr. Eubank was a
Mexican war veteran. Her attorneys
were John D. Kinney & Co., of Wash
ington, D. C.
MrGordon Montgomery lost a very
valuable milch cow Sunday morning
from eating Paris Green. This is the
third or fourth cow Mr. Montgomery
has lost in the past few years.
Two interesting sermons were
preached in the Columbia Baptist
Church last Sunday. Eev. Ad Hol
laday preaching in the forenoon and
Eev. Mitchell, of Georgetown, in the
evening.
An article written by Mr. J. Cager
Yates andiiated Owensboro, has been
received at this office. Owing to the
crowded condition of our columns, we
can not publish it. Mr. Yates, states,
however, that his overall business has
gone beyond his expectations. He
further says that in Davis Icounty the
usual amount of tobacco will be set;
about a half a crop of wheat. His son,
George, is with him. They are both
in fine health, and will reach their
Marion county home the last of the
month.
Rev. W. D. Powell, a noted Baptist
minister of Louisville, preached to a
large congregation at .this place last
Tuesday night. It is our information
I that a little later he will' return to
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Columbia and dedicate the new church.
Statement of the Ownership, Man
agement, Circulation etc., Re-
quired by the Act of August
24, 1912.
Of The Adair. County News publish
ed weekly at Columbia, Ky., for Apr.
1, 1914.
NAME OF P. O. ADDRESS
Editor, C. S. Harris, Columbia, Ky.
Mgr. Ed., C. S. Harris " "
Bus. Mgr. C. S. Harris " . "
Pub. The Adair County News Co.
Columbia, Ky.
Owners: (If a corporation, give
its name and the names and addresses
of stockholders holding 1 per cent., or
more of total amount of stock. If not
a corporation, give names and ad
dresses of individual owners.)
The Adair County News Co.
C. S. Harris, Columbia, Ky.
Mrs. C. S. Harris, Columbia, Ky.
W. E. Harris, Columbia, Ky
Known bondholders, mortgagees,
and other security holders, holding 1
per cent., or more of total amount of
bonds, mortgages or other securities:
(If there are none so state.) None.
Average number of copies of each
issue of this publication sold or dis
tributed, through the mails or other
wise, to paid subscribers during the
six months preceding the date shown
above. (This information is required
from daily newspapers only.) 2,600
C. S. Harris, Editor and Mgr.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 19th day of June 1915.
seal:
J. O. Russell
Notary Public Adair County,
My commission expires Jan.
1918.
Ky
20th,
A sixteen year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jake Simmons, who live a few
miles South of Columbia, died a few
days ago. He was a very industrious
boy before he became afflicted and
was a favorite in the neighborhood.
His funeral was preached by Eld. F.
J. Barger. quite a number of sympa
thizing relatives and friends being
present. The interment was in the
Marshall grave-yard, neat Glenvule.
Will save you 40 per c6nt. on the
$1.00 on ""slippers, .and ' shoes, at the
Bee Hive ShoeStoro.
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comns, casKera, auu roDes. j. amo Keep
Metallic Caskets, and SteeV Boxes and
two liearses. prompt service night or
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Ad
, Mr. P. C. Jones, of East Fork, Met
calfe county, has sent a member of
The News force a dozen twists Of very
excellent chewing tobacco. The pres
ent was highly appreciated, and we
hope that something will turn up in
the future that will convince the do
nor that the one who received the to
bacco is not lacking in returning fa
vor for favor.
Timber for Sale.
As agent for the heirs of W. E. San
ders deceased, J. F. Montgomery will
on Tuesday, August 17, 1915, sell at
public auction at the court house door
in Columbia, Ky., all merchantable
timber on 207i acres of land near the
town of Eoley on Casey's creek in
Adair county. Persons who want
timber are invited to inspect it. Nev
er been cut over. Fine' grade of tim
ber. 8-11-15
The Lexington people who are go
ing to run a truck line between this
place and Campbellsville, landed a
large machine here last Wednesday.
It has a capacity of 15,000 pounds. Its
wheels are cast, very wide, and in ap
pearance, it looks like a road builder.
Hauling between the two points will
start at once, and the trips will be
made much quicker than the road
wagon. t
The wheat isin the shock, but not
half as good as last year, and without
dry weather, at once, a large part of
it will be ruined.
Death of John A. Chapman.
Mr. John A. Chapman, who was a
prominent merchant of Glenville, this
county, died last Thursday afternoon.
A few days before the end he met
with a stroke of paralysis and rapidly
grew worse until death came. He
was about fifty-five years old and was
a native of Tennessee, having been
brought to Adair county by his par
ents when he was a small boy. Soon
after reaching his majority he en
gaged in the mercantile business
which pursuit he followed until the
final dissolution. He also carried on
farming and was reosonably successful
in life. He was twice married, his
last wife surviving him and also sever
al children by his first companion.
He will be greatly missed in the
Glenville country where he had re
sided for many years.
MissCallie McFarJand entertained
Saturday evening in honor of her cous
in, Miss Alma McFarland. A large
crowd was present and the evening
was most enjoyably spent. An ex
ceptionally pleasant boat trip was en
joyed by five McFarland girls last
week. The trip extended from this
place to Burnside, on board the steam
er Bowena. Names of the fiye are as
follows: Misses Callie, Alma, Lucy, Do
ra and Myrtle McFarland. Kowena
Correspondent in Russell Springs Ad
vance. Circuit Court opened at Jamestown
Monday morning. Judge Carter came
in. on time and before the noon hour
he had effected an organization, the
grand jury going to work immediately
after dinner. The afternoon was ta
ken up by candidates who presented
their claims to the voters. It is like
ly that one of the first things that
will engage the attention of the grand
jury will be the raid made on Squire
Antle, at which time several marau
ders got shot.
The bond issue is now before the
people of Eussell county. Only 840,
000 is asked. This is exclusively to
aid the Dixie Highway. Piking the
county generally is not considered.
In voting bonds for good roads
Adair county has the chance of her
existence. Pike Adair and she will
be classed as one of the best counties
in the State.
'The man who is opposed to the hond
issue for" good
own interest.
roads is against his
A The storm lastFriday night did con
siderable damage about 'the home of
Mr, C. S. Harris. A number of trees
were uprooted, one tree falling upon
the dwelling, knocking off cornice and
shingles, and doing some other dam
age The -storm was the fiercest that
has visited this locality for along
time, and perhaps damage was done
in other parts of the county.
Internal improvements not only
helps the towns in a county, but they
enhance the value of all farm lands.
Look at Taylor county, She voted a
railroad tax some years ago, but on
account of a misunderstanding the
tax has not been paid, but the county
secured the railroad. How Taylcr has
improved in the way of population,
and how laud has enhanced everybody
in this locality knows. Before the
road reached Campbellsville, a great
deal of the land between Columbia
and that place could have been bought
for a mere song it was turned out
and known as "old fields." To-day
you can not buy that land for less than
seventy-five dollars per acre. Penn
sylvanians came in good farmers,
bought che land and in a few years
valuable farms were known instead
of "old fields."
There has never been a wetter June
in this part of the country and we
doubt whether the corn crop ever was
in worse condition. The fields are
matted with grass and weeds and un-'
less they can be cultivated inside of a
few days, but little corn can be made.
The Temperance Rally will be held
at the Lindsey-Wilson Grounds in
stead of the Fair Grounds, oh July.
3rd. The program will appear next
week. G.. W. Perryman and J. Q,"
Montgomery will be twoof the speak- J
era. Let every body come' and; bring ,
their dinner, and we will i have atoi al
day'meetlna. We expected to'1 hold"4
this meeting at the Fair Grounds, but '
at the last moment was refused.
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