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Deat'EditorZand friends.
I am'taking this plan to write you,
hoping to hear from many of you. ,
Business lias begun to open up to
me again. 1 taught two terms of vo
cal music, ten nights each, at Oak
Grove church. I had taught three
' terms there when I was here before.
I am now teaching at Providence
church. This lathe fourth term at
this place. This is 32 terms I have
taught in Lewis county Tenn. This
is a live county in singing and will
come to the front by and by on many
things. It voted for bonds to build
roads. Corn Is $1 10 to-day. Hens
were 20 cents yesterday, eggs 25 cents.
This country needs developing. There
Is the greatest opportunity for truck
ing. Land is cheap and great iron
furnlces in full blast. Tomatoes last
year sold at $1.00 per bushel picked off
the vines. Everything else in propor
tion. There is the greatest cattle and
hog range here. Hundrers of cattle
run at large on the hills. Men are
busy cutting E. K. black oak stave
bolts and some spokes. Every old
chestnut is being cut and shipped to
Louisville to manufacture into dye
stuff. I am yours ever singing
I. M. Grimsley.
.R E. JWckebt purchased i torn J. W.
Posey, one hog, S12.00
Mrs. W. i1. Sfcults sold to Tilden
Wilcoxson, one hog, bringing 815.00.
Tilden Wilcoxson sold, to ' J. W.
Moore, at Greensburg, thirty-two
hogs, bringing him 8814.00.
Mr. W. O. Orr has been quite Blck.
Uncle as we call him is our oldest cit
izen, being seventy-three, is quite
able to do his own work around the
home.
Mr. and Mrs. W. "F. Stults- spent"
Saturday nigbt and Sunday with the
Tatter's . grandmother, Mrs. Alfred
Parson, Portland. 9
Miss Fannie Pickett is spending
this week with her sister, Mrs. Limon
Wilcoxson, Miami.
Dent.
who has been
in Campbells-
Milltown.
Miss Mollle Caldwell, of Columbia,
Is visiting relatives here this week.
Mr. J". W- Townsend, who has been
down with Bheumatism for several
weeks, does not seem to improve any.
Mrs. Lena Townsend has a very bad
case of lagrippe.
Miss Clara Stotts, of Bliss, visited
at Mr. J. E. Tutt's Saturday' night
and Sunday.
Mr. Julie Hatfield, who is teaching
school at Cane Valley, visited at Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Hancock's Saturday night
and Sunday.
Mr. and'Mrs. Jim Shirley visited at
Mr. Bill Gaither Pickett's last Satur
day and Sunday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas has a severe
attack of lagrippe.
Mr. and Mrs Jim Garrison, of the
Cane Valley neighSorhood, visited at
Mr. Creed Pollard's several days of
last week.
Mr. Cassius Cheatham went to Co
lumbia last week to see after the stock
he has -at that place.
Mr. George Shirley, who has been at
the bedside of his father for the past
two weeks, left for his home in Indi
ana last Tuesday. -
Mrs. Saliie Leach,
visiting her daughter,
ville, has returned.
Howard Leach and family visited,
his father and mother last Sunday.
Mrs. Saliie Leach and Mrs. Dell
Price visited Mr. and Mrs. Willis Gri
der, of Montpeller, Monday. "Mr. Gri
der is slowly improving.
Mrs. Tom Hadley is very low, not
expected to live.
John Coffey, who lhas been sick, is
recovering.
George Easthatn, of Esto, is very ill
at this writing.
Mrs. Emma Marcum Is on the sick
list.,
Miss Zepha Hayes spent last week
at Beldon Helm's, at Denmark.
Wilie Blair has erected him "a new
kitchen, which improves his home
very much.
Mrs. Mamie Holt visited her moth
er and father last Saturday and Sun
day.' Mr. and Mrs. Lucian Leach visited
his mother Saturday night.
Woodson Lewis
GREENSBURG, KENTUCKY,
Will Bggin , His Great Popularity
Sale Contest
April Fifteenth
CAPITAL PRIZE
$500.00
Will be presented to the Most Popular Young Lady in
Green, Taylor, Metcalfe, Hart and Adair Counties.
iThe second prize will be presented to the Most Pop
ular Mother.
The third prize will be presented to the Most Pop
ular Minister.
The fourth prize to the Most Popular Old Maid.
Voting Ballots will be presented with every CASH sale.
The Popularity Clerk will take the votes before the customer leaves
the store, or customer can mail ballots in cases where they leave
without voting. The date of distribution of prizes will be an
nounced some time in June. Voting will begin April tenth.
Everyone is requested to send in the names of Candidates
not later than the Seventh. Of course candidates names will be
enrolled at any time during the contest,, but it is much better to
start with the opening sales.
These sales will be of the greatest interest and entertain
ment to everybody in the five counties. Interesting changes- will
be introduced in the plans frequently, and constant interest will
be kept up. till, the finish.
ARE YOU WITH US?
RED PEA VINE
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Registered Chestnut Sorrel Stallion,
Owned Jby R. H. Price, Recently
Brought to Adair.
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Cane Valley.
Born to the wife of Guy Breeding,
a son. April 4th, mother and son doing
well.
D. H. Beard has moved to his fa
ther's old home he bought of Jack Ei
all, at Kellyville.
Jno. Riall is well pleased with his
home he bought of Jtuell Hutchison.
Mr. Biall is a fine gentleman. He
lived here when he was a small boy.
Jule Hatfield closed his school here
last Friday. He is certainly a fine
gentleman. The children regret to
give him up.
.Will Van Hoy that was hurt by his
horse falling with him on the pike
near the creek bridgs. is able to walk
out a little.
Guy O. Breeding, of Gainesville,
Texas, is here for a few day's visit.
B. T. Dudgeon and Dr. E. B. Atkin
son have purchased new Ford cars
Eurett, second son of Mr. Waller
Smith, arrived home last week a crip
ple for life. His left leg was crushed
below the knee in an auto wreck, and
had to be amputated.
Onions sold on our "market last week
at 15 cents a pound, wheat $2 per
bushel, potatoes $2.40 per bushel, corn
$1.10 per bushel, hogs 15 cents per
pound all broken records.
Kemp.
Plant beds are now being burned by
the farmers, who are planning for a
tobacco crop. 1
. There are no more new cases of
measles around here now.
Mrs. Lee Pickett has been qaite sick
for the ast week.
Mrs. B. 3. Howard is on the sick
list. ff
B. G. Pickett is in Greensburg on
business this week.
Last Saturday, friends.and relatives
gathered at the home of Mr. C. T.
J'Btulta to celebrate his fifty-first birth
's. -. day.
-"" Horn, to the wife of Fred Rogers,
on the fifteenth, a girl.
AlvinBosson, Bugby, was in our
midst last week.
George- Whltlock, Campbellsville,
our grocery drummer, .was here last
jrek. . r
Giorge Rogers is very sick. ' '
3HjVillieStulU on'thsick 1Ist
Pickett.
There has been scarcely any
plowing done in this part of the
county, owing to the bad weath
er, Several at this place have en
gaged"tHeir hogs to G. B. Cheat
ham and Frank Dohoney, of
Milltown, at a fancy price.
The roads in this part of the
county are very bad at this writ
ing. J. W. Posey was in Columbia
last Monday.
W. H. Kemp sold one two
year old mule to W. G. Pickett
for $115.
Rev. W. C, Christie filled his
regular appointment here last
Sunday with, a very interesting
discourse.
Wjlliam Lowe had a good work
mule to drop dead a few days
ago.
G. M. Rodgers was on the sick
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list a few days of last week.
Sunday school opened here last
Sunday with a very good attendance.
T. A. Chastian and Ike Dick
erson are doing some sawing at
this place.
Titus Rodgers left one day last
week, for Illinois.
William Lowe bought one mule
recently from a Mr. Jeff, of
Green county.
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xnis ceieoratea stallion will mate the season
at Mr. R. H. Price's barn, near Columbia. - -There
is not a better bred animal in Kentucky.
He was sired by Rex Peavine, a horse with a -record,
known to all stock men. Red Raven
is a perfect beauty, the image of his sire. He
will serve for $10.00. He is 16 hands high,
and his disposition is perfect.
At the same place Mr. Price will have a fine
Jack, perfect in form, and will stand for 6.00. ..
In both cases Mr. Price insures living colts.
R. H. PRICE.
Then Send In The Names Of YourCandi-
dates At Once.
Will want not less than Twenty-five Candidates for the Cap
ital prize, to the county. More if they wish to enter the contest.
Dry Goods. Shoes, Clothing, Hats,' Groceries, Hardware
Farm implements and Machinery, Salt, Lime, Cement, Plaster,
Fertilizers, Buggies, Wagons, Wire and Wire Fence, Gates, Gaso
line Engines, Gasoline and Oils, Salvet, Bee Dee.
AUTOMOBILES
Willjbe sold, giving a wide field and a good chance
for every Candidate.
EVERYTHING IN '
ROOFING
Asphalt, Gravel, Rubber, Galvanized
and Painted.
- Also Elhvood and American Fence.
Steel Fence Posts
DEHLEP BROS. CO.
Incorporated
1 16 Eaal Mattel Mreer Between First and Brook
- Louisville, Ky.
Crop and live Stock Report.
Don't Let Your Cough Hang On.
A cough that racks and weakens is
dangerous, it undermines your health
and thrives on-ueglect Believe it at
once with Dr. King's New Discovery;
This soothing balsam remedy heals
tiuTthroat, loosen the phlegm, its an
tiseptic properties kill the germ and
the cold is. quickly broken up. Chil
dren and grown-ups alike find Dr.
King's New Discovery pleasant to
take as well as effective. Have a bot
tle handy in your medicine chest for
grippe, croup and all bronchial affec
tions At Paull Drug Co., 50c.
" Adv
A-bill was introduced in the
Kentucky Senate to reduce the
fees of sheriffs for collecting
taxes.
Severe damage' to the "winter
Wh"efVina -r a Anna A fVm'mnr riivflE
t n wvw wu fcvuuwwu kuw vr.w jvne ,
I pecti to 430,000,000 -bushels.
Washington, D. C, April 7,
1917. A summary of the April
crop and live stock report for the
State of Kentucky and for the
United States, as compiled by
the Bureau of Crop Estimates,
and transmitted through the
Weather Bureau, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, is as fol
lows: Wheat: State. Condition A.pr.
1 this year 65 per cent of nor
mal; ten-year average condition
figures for April 1 , 87 per cent.
United States: Condition April
1 this year, 63.1l per cent; ten
year average April 1 condition,
86.2 per cent. - ,
Rye State: Condition April 1
this year, 80 per cent of normal;
ten-year average April 1 condi
tion, 87 per cent. -
United States: Condition April
1 this year, 86.0 per cent; ten
year average April 1 condition,
89.6 per cent.
Hogs State: Losses from
disease past year, 6.0 per cent;
ten-year average 6.6 per cent.
United States: Losses from dis
ease past year, 4.87 per cent;
ten-year average, 6.78 per cent.
Cattle:1- State: Losses from
disease past year, 2.7 per cent;.
ten-year average, 2.2. per cent.
Losses from exposure past year
1.0 per cent; ten-year ayerage
l,3percentr-
United States: Losses from dis
ease past year, 1.94 per cent;
ten-year-average, 2.00 per- cent
Losses from diaeaaepast lyear,
1.45per cent; ten-year average,
1.44 per cent.
Sheep State: Losses from
disease past year, 5.5 per cent;
ten-year average, 3.6 per cent.
Losses from exposure past year,
2.0 per cent; ten-year average,
average, 2.2 per cent.
United States: Losses from
disease past year, 2.17 per cent;
tenyear average 2,45 per cent.
Losses from exposure past yar,
3.28 per cent; ten-year average
3.06 per cent.
Horses and Mules State:
Losses from disease past year,
1.7 per cent: ten-year average,
2.1 per cent.
United States: Losses fromdis
ease past year, 1.69 per cent;
ten-year average 1.94 per cent.
Prices The first price given
below is the average on April 1
this year, and the second the av
erage on April 1 last year.
States: Wheat, 196 and 112
cents per bushel. Corn, 115 and
77. Oats, 77 and-60. Potatoes,
248 and 98. Hay, $15.30 and
$13.50 per ton. Eggs, 23 and 16
cents per dozen.
United States: Wheat $1.80
and 98.6 cents per3bushel. Corn,
113and70.3 cents. Oats, 62.0
ariU 42.0 cents. Potatoes, $2.35
and 97.6 cents. Hay. $13.01 and
$11.78 per ton Cotton, 18.0 and
1145 cents per pound. Eggs,
26.0 and 17.9 cents per dozen.
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PUTTING IT OFF
Has been the ruin oi as many Eyes as any one thing.
There may be the feeling of a slight inconvenience at
first. You may think, O' they will be alright in a few
days. Don't be deceived, if there is ever an eye defect
at all, you should not rest until a COMPETENT OP
TOMETRIST has been consulted. You may save
yourself a life of displeasure by coming to us in time;
BRYANT & SHIVELY,
Jewelers and Optometrists
Campbellsville, Ky.
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The price of postage stamps
may be doubled as a means of
raising revenue to carry on the-
war.
Notice Stock Men
EEIST JAMIN DARE
BENJAMIN DARE is 3 years old, a natural saddle
fhorse, 15-hands high and will measure full 16 hands
when he comes to maturity, is a chestnut sorrel of
fine form and action the type that commands the
highest price everywhere a horse of substance and
beauty. His pedigree shows him as richly bred in the
line of usefulness and fancy as any horse in southern
Kentucky, and hissize, form, action and manners are
in full keeping with his royal breeding. Accepting
the fact that like begets like, he is bound to prove a
great sire of thekirid that is always in demand at
fancy prices.
PEDIGREE: Benjamin Dare sired by Jesse Dare, he by Highland
Dare 1534, he by Chester Dare 10 he by Black Squirrel 58. Dam,
May No. K. 1068, she by Well's Red Squirrel, son df Owsley's
Red Squirrel.
This horse will serve a limited number of mares at $25.00 to insure
a living colt. Also my two-black Jacks will serve at S&OO and $7.00
to insure living colt. This stock-will be attended by Mr. B.F.Pol
ston, a careful man, and will be found at my barn 1 miles east of
Creelsboro.
Mares pastured at $2.00 per month while breeding to stallion.
Money due when colt Is foaled,mare traded or removedVfrom neigh
borhood without my consent. "
All care will be taken to. avoid accldentsjbut will not be responsible
should, any occur.
' W. A. ARMSTRONG,
Creelsboro, Ky.
Dr. P. Richard .Taylor killed
himself inT.hte-bffice ih-Loniivilltg
He was a noted physician.
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