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?l J 41 . "y -r f t? r k L- , i v-" r THE BOURBON NEWS .PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIT Y IN THE, YEAR. - ; XF ' S; jr ,.,t i W - VOLUME XXXVIII .- 3, PARIS, BOURBON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1919 ""5 , 1. i $0 THE. DEMOCRATS OF BOUR BON COUNTY. Ihe contest for political suprem acy in Kentucky is coming to an end. The election is but a few days off. The questions to be decided are: Shall A. T. Hert, Indiana mil jUciaire political boss, Thruston Bal lard, billionaire flour manufacturer, tLd is charging Kentuckians $1.10 mere per barrel for his flour than he charges people of other States, and j3d. Morrow, professional office-seeker, and the chatterbox of cheap pol itics, rule Kentucky? Shall the diny flag of the Searcy-Chilton Re puoiican bosses of Louisville wave from the Capitol at Frankfort? Shall the 75,000 negro Republican voters of this State elect their ticket and "bring back the dark days of Taylor, Bradley and Augustus E. "Wilson rule in Kentucky? Do not be deceived. "We have a SgM on our hands. The Republicans jiave been organizing in every pre cinct in Kentucky for months. They iare an immense corruption fund wita which they hope to debauch Kentucky manhood. They are active slid every one of them will be at the polls November 4th. They are spending sleepless nights contriving every sort of scheme in the hope of encompassing Democratic defeat. Are you as active and untiring for the success of Democracy and the triumph of a white man's govern enwnent in old Kentucky? Our last word is one of good cheer s.nd hope. Kentucky is Democratic. Kentucky manhood can not be bought. A united Democratic party has never been and cannot be beaten in this State. "We are united and confident. But we must get out our full vote. Take off your coat. Roll up your sleeves, get busy and -we'll win. United We Stand; Divided We Pall. LOOK OUT MB, HALLOWE'EN PBANKERS TO-NIGHT To-night will be Hallowe'en, one of the principal festive occasions of the season, when ghosts, goblins and evil spirits are supposed to be out on parade. The mischevious youth will be on hand, and it would be well for every one to take inside everything of a portable nature, or it may oe missing tne following morn ing, several Hollowe'en parties have been arranged to take place to night, and the great event will be appropriately celebrated in many ways. The celebration of Hallowe'en in this city to-night will be conducted on the "honor system." There is no law here against the wearing of masks or the clothing of opposite sexes, and in the past few years this b.as been an excuse for rowdyism on the part of many celebrators. This year's plans are for a sane and or derly celebration of the event. The police have received instruc tions to take cognizance of any acts of rowdyism under the guise of Hal- lowe en celebrations, and any such conduct will be promptly and effici ently dealt with. The police have have been also instructed that the rights of women and girl pedestri ans on the streets must be respected. Any reports of property damage through the overt acts of would-be-celebrators will be investigated, and the guilty parties, if apperhended, will be made to suffer the penalty in the court of Judge Martin. o REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS "THE SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS" THE ELYING SQUADRON. Only a small audience greeted "The Flying Squadron" at the court house in this city Wednesdty morn- me. wnen .Lynn w imams, "Tne All the good things in Harold Bell Wright's novel are concentrat ed in the' filmanization of "The Shepherd of the Hills." This is one of the few stories that has not been spoiled in the retelling for the pict- ! ures. It remained for the ex-Kansas City clergyman to find romance in the 'Ozarks long before that country had become a national vacation land as it is now. The story of Mr. Wright's transition from a wander ing landscape painter to a clergy man and later an author who has Flying Parson" of Chicago, address- since become famous in all lands is interestingly toia Dy tne aramauo critic of the Kansas City Times. Grand Opera House, Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 3 and 4, matinee and night. ed them in the interest of the State wide prohibition movement. The speaking was held in the County Court room, on account of the weather. 0 CRAFTS TO SPEAK HERE TO--NIGHT. - One of the most noted orators in' the country, Dr. Wilbur R. Crafts, of Washington, D. C, will speak at the court house in this city to-night (Friday) at eight o'clock, in the in terest of the State-wide prohibition amendment, which is to be voted on at the regular November elcetion next Tuesday, November 4. There will be no admission charged and the public is extended a cordial in vitation to attend. Fire, Wind and Lightning Insurance. ' Thomas, Woodford & Bryan LAW VIOLATOR FINED. In the County Court Tuesday, Elmer Linville, of the Ruddles Mills vicinity, who was arrested by County Game Warden Douglass Thomas, on a warrant charging him with vio lating the game laws, plead guilty to the charge. He was assessed a fine of $23.50 by County Judge Geo. Batterton. 4? FRANK & CO. LADIES' OUTFITTERS SPECIAL SALE OF j WAISTS $1.10 FRANK & CO. LADIES' OUTFITTERS Automobile Delivery Frank Collier purchased at private sale Tuesday from George Reynolds, his farm of 125 acres, located on the Cane Ridge pike, eight miles from Paris, for $47,000. Through the real estate firm of Harris & Speakes, T. J. Marders, ad ministrator of the estate of the late George W. Morrow, sold at public sale on the premises Tuesday after noon, tne nome place, located on the North Middletown and Austerlitz pike containing fifty-five acres. The purchaser was Thomas Crawford, of Bourbon county, who secured the farm at $353.25 an acre, a total of ?19,430. The C. U. Bramlette real estate agency, of Carlisle, reports the sale of the R. A. Berry farm of .sixty acres, near East Union, in Nicholas county, to Nathan Buckler, of Bour- Don county, ior a private price. David Clark and G. W. Bramblette, of Millersburg, sold Wednesday to Mattox & Son, 125 acres of land, known as the Murray farm, near Millersburg, for $285 . an acre. Messrs. Clark and Bramblette had owned the farm, but two days, and in making the sale cleared $4,000. Harris & Speakes sold at public sale on the premises, Tuesday, for 'Geo. C. Thompson, Sr., his farm of 420 acres, located on the Ruddles Mills pike, for a total of $88,000. The farm was sold in two tracts. Tract No. 1, containing 246 ;acres, was purchased by Clifton Dalzell, of Paris, for $216 an acre. Tract No. 2, containing 173 acres, was secured by Wm. Brannock and J. W. Con nell, of near Paris, at $205 an acre. In this sale Mr. Thompson realized more than double the price he paid for the farm four years ago, when he bought it from Wm. H. Whaley, Jr., for $105 an acre. The sale Tuesday averaged $211 an acre. Mr. Connell on Wednesday resold his purchase to J. B. Caywood at an ad vance of $10 per acre. Dr. W. B. Robinson, of Mt. Ster ling, sold tract one of his Bourbon county farm, containing twelve acres, to Will Rash, of Bourbon county, for $275 an acre. Tract No. 2 was unsold. The third tract, con taining 145 acres, was sold to C. B. Curtis, of North Middletown, for $180.25 an acre. Owing to the inclement weather and other reasons, the sale of thef Oder farm, near Hutchison, schedul; ed for yesterday, was pustponed, and will be held at another date. HOSPITAL REPORT READ SPECIAL MEETING. AT EXPERTS FIGURING ON PUBLIC UTILITIES. Several experts representing some of the largest concerns in the Unit ed States have been in Paris for several days, in consultation with Mayor January and members of the Council Committees on Improve ments, etc. For some time the matter of muni cipal ownership of public service utilities of this city have been un der consideration, but the matter has been held in abeyance until estimates of cost could be procured. The first of these will be the installation of a complete electric light plant. The experts have secured complete data as to the number of high power electric lights, as well as those of lesser capacity, necessary to furnish the city with light, and to take care of private consumers. The re port will be completed soon and sub mitted at a meeting of the Council. AT THE PARIS GRAND AND THE ALAMO. To-day, Friday, October 31 Mad eline Traverse, in "The Rose of The West;" Anne Luther and Chas. Hutchison, in "The Great Gamble." To-morrow, Saturday, November 1 Tom Moore, in "Heartsease;" Jas. J. Corbitt, in "The Midnight Man." Monday, November 3 All-Star Cast, in "The Other Half;" Bill Par sons Comedy, "Close To Nature." MONDAY COUNTY COURT DAY. Next Monday will' be County Court day, when a large attendance of farmers and traders is expected to be in the city. There will be public speaking at the court house by Hon. Harry V. McChesney and Mr. Maury Kemper, in the interest of the Dem ocratic State ticket. Being the day before the regular election, there will be a great deal doing among the politicians, who will take ad vantage of the presence in the city of large numbers of voters to fix up their fences for the contest to follow the next day. o HORTENSE NEILSEN AT HIGH SCHOOL THURSDAY. Everyone who can possibly do so should hear Miss Neilsen at the High School n ext Thursday, Nov. 6th. Miss Nielsen is one of the fore most impersonators on 'the American stage to-day. This week, she ap peared on Monday, Kentucky Col lege, Lexington; Wednesday, Tran sylvania College, and Sayre College, Lexington; Thursday at Center Col lege, Danville; Friday, Georgetown College, Georgetown; Saturday, Wesleyan College, Winchester. Miss Neilsen is a sister of Alice Neilsen, the grand opera -singer. Every student and 'lovers of art and literature should not miss this op portunity. - At a special meeting of tse .Paris City Council, Tuesday night, called for the purpose, the report of the special committee appointed by the Council to investigate the manage ment and condition of the Massie MemoriaL Hospital, was read. The testimony given before the special committee covered about lulce uuuurea typewritten pages, and included sixteen physicians; representatives of the past and pres ent Fiscal Court; fourteen nurses who have been employed at the Mas sie Hospital and in twenty-nine cities. Only about one-third of the testimony was. read, owing" to the length of the statements. The Coun cil adjourned until Wednesday night when the remainder of the report was read. The Council took thbre port under advisement, and made it a special order to be acted upon at a meeting to be held in the future. The testimony of the various wit nesses was preceded by statements from the investigating committee. The report was signed by the mem bers of the committee, Misses Helen Hutchcraft and Mary K. Stone, and Mrs. Wm. Kenney. The following is a complete text of the statement of the committee in troducing the' report: "The Committee appointed by the City Council of Paris, Kentucky, to investigate the general management and conditions of the Massie Memo rial Hospital submits herewith all evidence of those who appeared in iilg the institution, as recorded by a stenographer and a notary public. "Sixteen physicians of the county have testified. One, as a member of the Hospital Board, asked to be ex cused. All persons at present em ployed, and as many as possible of those employed in the past, at the hospital, were asked to appear. The eyidence of those who addeared in response to our summons is given. "The president of the Hospital Board and all members of the Wo men's Board, were requested to be present, ut tnis number two ap peared, two stated over . the tele phone that they knew nothing of in terest, one was unable to come be cause of illness in the family, and one was out of town. The response of the chairman of the Women's Board came in the form of a note, which is attached to this report. "Evidence of several public offi cials who have had some connection rtvith the Hospital is 'included. IThe evidence also includes the testimony of a miscellaneous group of pebple who were summoned or who came voluntarily. "We realize that a limitless amount of testimony might have been col lected from the public-at-large, but inosmuch as full testimony is given by the persons having the most intimate knowledge of the af fairs of the hospital, viz. the physi cians and the nurses, the evidence collected is deemed adequate." DEED CASE ITLED IN CIRCUIT COURT. A suit has been filed in the office of Circuit Clerk Wm. H. Webb, by Miss Letitia Clay, of near Paris, through her attorneys, E. M. Dick son, of Paris, and Judge Ed. O'Rear of Frankfort, against Brooks Clay' of the county, in which Joseph H.' Clay, Henry B. 'Clay, Frank Clay and Mrs. Maggie Clay Howard are also mentioned as co-defendants. The suit asks to have certain deeds given by the plaintiff to the defendant set aside, and that she be adjudged owner of the property sub ject to certain condition expressed in a will of her father, Henry Clay. The land is in three tracts and ag gregates 42 u acres. The plaintiff's father, Henry Clay, died in 1898,. leaving his estate to his children, Letitia, Joseph N. and George Clay, decreeing that if either Letitia or George Clay should die without children their share would go to the other. George died in September, 1919. The plaintiff claims that before his death, by threats, duress and force, he made her sign deeds of the property to Brooks. Clay, the defendant, for which she never received any com pensation or consideration. DOCTOR ALEXANDER IS OUT FOR BLACK Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The Rev. Roger T. Nooe, of Frank fort, Ky., who has only recently re turned from service in France, will deliver an address at the Opera House, Sunday afternoon, Nov. 2, at 3 o'clock. The Rev. Noe is a force? ful speaker and thrills his audience with enthusiasm. The churches and other organizations of the county are requested to arrange their busi ness meetings so as to not conflict with this meeting, as it is the earn est desire of those having the mat ter in charge to give every person in the county an opportunity to hear Mr. Nooe. Among the musical at tractions will be a solo by Capt. Robert Harbeson, a returned soldier. Admission free. Rev. Roger Nooe will spsak at the Paris Opera House on Sunday after noon at 3 p. m. instead of Sunday evening, as originally stated. In ad dition to the address by Dr. Nooe a special musical program has been arranged.,. Mr. James Caldwell has secured the Boys' Band of Maysville, for the occasion. Capt. Harbison will sing. All the churches of Bour bon county are uniting in the meet ing and a crowded house is assured. Admission will be free. "Grandfather" Dailey has the honor of being the first subscriber to the "Y" campaign, which is just starting. "Grandfother" was at Camp Daniel Boone last summer and is es pecially interested in that phase of the State "Y" work. He has room ed at the Y. M. C. A. building for more than a year. AMERICAN WAR MOTHERS MEET IN LEXINGTON. Mrs. Harrison Garner Foster, of Lexington, was elected Kentucky War Mother to succeed Mrs. Reuben Hutchcraft, of Paris, at tne first an nual meeting of the Kentucky chap ters at the Parish House, in Lexing ington, Tuesday. Mrs. Hutchcraft was elected first vice mother; Mrs. A. B. Oldham, of Mt. Sterling, second vice war mother; Mrs. J. T. Knowl en, Winchester, recording secretary;, Mrs. Thomas C. McDowell, Lexing ton, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Walter Payne, Paris, treasurer; Mrs. B. M. Herndon, Georgetown, first auditor, and Mrs. Kate B. Taylor, Louisville, second auditor. The next State meeting will be held at Louis ville. The organization will support the StaJte Memorial building at the Uni versity of Kentucky, co-operate with the Kentucky Federation pi Women's uiuds in promoting conservation, op pose all forms of Bolshevispo, and work hand in hand with the Ameri can Legion to carry out the ideal? of the men who were in the service. At the close of the iop&)Un.-jut-dress of Mrs. Hutchcraft, the State War Mother, the Bourbon county delegates presented her with a beau tiful bouquet of pink roses as a tribute. Those who attended from Bourbon county were $rs. Allie S. Dickson and Mrs. John T. Collins, of North Middletown; Mrs.' Cassius M. Clay, Mrs. James S. Douglass and Mrs. Edward Turner, of Paris. The next meeting of the State or ganization will be held in Louisville. A development of the greatest ia portance in the campaign for Gov ernor in Kentucky came when Dr. A. J. A Alexander, of Woodfori county, chairman of the Kentucky Forward League and the admitted leader of all the temperance force in Kentucky, came out in a stroma interview urging the people of Ken tucky to vote for Governor Jas. D. Black at the polls next Tuesday. The announcement of Dr. Alex ander will, it is believed, have influ ence in every part of the State, as few men who live In Kentucky are trusted by as many people or have a larger influence. It is known that Dr. Alexander did not decide to make a public announcement until he had carefully gone over t6e whole situation and considered every issue in the campaign. His decla ration will, it is believed, solidify the temperance vote of the State Ibr Governor Black. He strongly commended Gover nor Black's program for educational reform, and closed by stating: "I am for Governor Black because he is an upright, Christian gentle man who can be counted on to wotli ily govern this State." BEV. HAL E. SPEARS TRANSFER- " RED TO LOUISIANA. Rev. Hal E. Spears, a former Paris' boy, who has been rector of the Somerset, Maryland, parish, since January, 1914, sent his resignation to the vestrymen of the parish, and, has accepted the rectorship of Grace Church, Lake Providence, Louisiana. He will assume his new charge, November 15. Rev. Spears is a son of the late Mr. Henry Spears, and a brother of ' Ben Spears, of Paris. The Princess Anne (Md.) Mary-, lander and Herald, says: "Rev. Spears came here from the. Diocese of Arkansas, and about threes years ago he became rector of Grace church, Mt. Vernon, during which time he made a large increase in the; " membership of that church "Mrs. Spears died at St. Andrew's rectory about three years ago. Dur ing his almost six years stay among- us Mr. SDears has made a host or. friends who will regret his departure from our town as well as from the rectorship of-St. Andrew's church." HURRY! SAVE PENALTY! FAY CITY TAXES TO-DAY! Pay your city taxes on or fore October 31st, last day. avoid the penalty, which will be attached to all unpaid city taxes on November 1st. W. W. MITCHELL, City Collector. (24oct-4t) I WE KNOW HOW We Honestly Believe that We are Ren dering a Service to the Men of Paris in Recommending and Selling STEIN-BLOCi! SMART CLOTHES BOX SUPPER. A box supper will be given to night (Friday), October 31, at tne Purdy School house. The proceeds will be devoted to the fund being raised for the Kentucky Orphans' Home, at Louisville. The teacher and pupils of Purdy School extend a cordial invitation to the public to at tend. o MAYSVJLLE" BOYS' BAND AT OP ERA HOUSE SUNDAY AFTERNOON The Maysville Boys' Band, which will be an attraction at the Opera House, Sunday7 afternoon at 3 o'clock, is made up of boys and girls from the best? Maysville families, and has attracted widespread atten tion from music-lovers wherever they have appeared. The band will arrive by automobile Sunday morn ing. The band is in charge of Mayor Russell. Admission free. . , True economy does not consist of buying arti cles because they are low priced. Frequently the purchase of a low priced suit may prove to be the greatest extravagance. The measure ot economy . is to be found in the measure of value. There are are no clothes made where the meas ure of value is greater than in STEIN-BLOCH SMART CLOTHES where you will find such a complete and satisfying combination of tailoring, style, high quality of material, and all otherjjfactors that enter into genuine worth. We know, from our long experience in the clothing business, that we could offer you no better clothes at at any price. No better are made. And it is a great source of satisfaction to us to be able to offer such clothes at prices you would ordinarily ex pect to pay for clothes of inferior quality. Prices $25.00 to $60.00 MITCHELL & BLAKEMORE Stetson Hats Manhattan Shirts Ntttltton Shots Dr. Rood's Cushion Solo Shoos & -$ V