Adair County News, April 6, 1910
At a meeting of the City Council last Monday night the Board passed an
ordinance licensing poll
rooms, one hundred dollars for the first table and ten dollars for each
additional table... If license
should be issued to a pool-room keeper, minors are not to be allowed,
whiskey drunk on the
premises prohibited, and the business must close not later than 11
o'clock at night.
Adair County News, April 6, 1910
She Was a
Native of Adair County
Readers of the Courier-Journal will remember noticing in the issue of
March the 26th and account
of a double tragedy in Louisville--a woman stabbed to death by Andrew
Beinlin, followed by the
slayer cutting his own throat, dying in a few minutes. The woman's name
maiden name was
Meeky Ellen Bryant, a daughter of Peter Hawk Bryant, and she was born
and reared in Adair
county., a few miles from Columbia. Her parents now live in
Campbellsville. She had been three
times married and was a grass widow when murdered. She and her murderer
boarded in the same
house in Louisville, the man being desperately in love with the woman,
but his love was not
reciprocated, and he was very jealous of attentions paid her by another
man. He told his victim a
few days before the tragedy that he intended to kill her, but would not
say just when.
(Transcriber's notes: 1) A "grass widow" was an euphenism meaning, among
other things, a divorced woman. 2) Peter H. Bryant, age 37, appears in
1880 Adair County census, White Oak district, along with his wife,
Sarah, age 36, and seven children, including a daughter, Meeky E.
Bryant, age six.)
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