From: Sherri Hall [ldrbelties@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 8:54 AM To: KY-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: NEWS.HarrisonCountyCourier.18Aug-8Sep1888 >From a microfilm owned by Charles Feix, Cynthiana, KY 2002-3 Loaned to Col. Doug Harper, Biloxi, MS, for extraction of data of interest to him. Finished in Aug 2003 Guide to contents: Frequency: Weekly Published: Saturday Master Neg. # S/99-151 July: 21, 28 August: 4, 11, 18, 25 September: 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 October: 4, 13, 20, 27 November: 3, 17 December:22 Issues starting with October 13, has date and issue numbers out of sequence, with no issues number 4 & 5 Issue not published November 24 Issues missing: Nov 10, Dec 1, 8, 15. Subscription price $1.00 per annum Office on North Main Street Harrison County Courier Saturday 18 Aug 1888 Vol. 1 No. 49 E. D. Veach, Editor & Prop'r Pg. 1 Col. 2 Born To the wife of John Dickey, on the 13th inst. a daughter. To the wife of Frank Loyd, on the 11th, a daughter. Remember the Sunday ordinance goes into effect tomorrow. Nothing is allowed to be sold but actual necessaries of life. So if you want to wear a Sunday shave or drink a milk shake, get it on Saturday. Harrison County Courier Saturday 18 Aug 1888 Vol. 1 No. 49 E. D. Veach, Editor & Prop'r Pg. 1 Col. 3 Personals B. T. Riggs and Wm. Adams went to Lexington to attend the meeting of the State Miller's Convention. Harrison County Courier Saturday 18 Aug 1888 Vol. 1 No. 49 E. D. Veach, Editor & Prop'r Pg. 1 Col. 4 Matrominal Miss Ida Victor, of Millersburg, sister of J. W. Victor, of this city and a gentleman from Omaha, Neb. will be married on the 20th of October. The date of the reunion of the "Orphan Brigade" at Frankfort has been changed from September 20th to September 26th, agreeable to the wishes of Governor Buckner, who has an engagement to meet with the 22d Kentucky Regiment on the first date named. Lead Mine at Centerville A Georgetown special dispatch says: A lead mine was discovered on the farm of Patrick Ryan, near Centerville, on the line of Scott and Bourbon counties. Experts who have examined the ore say it is one of the finest qualities ever seen before. The vein is very large and inexhaustible. Harrison County Courier Saturday 18 Aug 1888 Vol. 1 No. 49 E. D. Veach, Editor & Prop'r Pg. 2 Col. 4 The Word's Marvelous Events Lightning rods are going out of fashion. Welding by electricity seems to have come to stay. Photographs have been taken by the light of a fire place. Calming the sea with oil is now regularly and systematically done. Executions by electricity will be compulsory in New York after January 1st next. Galvanized lemon squeezers poison the juice by zinc which it dissolves from them. The French propose to send pigeon messages from ship to ship upon the broad seas. A French laundryman cleans linen without soap by rubbing with boiled potatoes. Chaussier dried a man in a kiln and there resulted only twelve pounds of solid matter. Paper pipes have been used for a church organ at Milan and give great sweetness of tone. Modern fortifications seem likely to be great mushrooms of concrete or of steel casting. Natural gas has caused in Pennsylvania in three years seventy-three fires, costing $900,000. Transplanting teeth has been revived. It was done twenty-five or thirty years ago in very rare cases. It is proposed to build a three foot wide cinder path between New York and New Haven for bicycles. The wire gun recently designed weighs only twenty-two tons and drives 380 pound projectile twelve miles. Photographing in colors seems to be the object of considerable experimenting, but so far with little or no success. Florida is to grow opium. It is expected that sixteen plants will grow an ounce of the drug and that an acre will give $1,000 profit. The "one thousand foot tower" at the Paris Exposition will be only 984 feet high. It will take two and a half million rivets to put it up. "Emmensite" is the name of a non explosive by which it is claimed that with a gun forty feet long a projectile can be thrown 27 miles. Paris has thirty miles of pipe for carrying compressed air for power. The engines are three thousand horse power and the consumption fifty tons daily. Harrison County Courier Saturday 18 Aug 1888 Vol. 1 No. 49 E. D. Veach, Editor & Prop'r Pg. 4 Col. 3 Neighborhood News Connersbille Andy Scott, a well-known colored man of this vicinity died Tuesday morning. Harrison County Courier Saturday 25 Aug 1888 Vol. 1 No. 50 E. D. Veach, Editor & Prop'r Pg. 1 Col. 1 Major J. W. Robbins and others of the 18th Kentucky Infantry, request all the members that can, to come to Falmouth the first Monday in September to consider the advisability of having a reunion of all those who served in that regiment either as officers or privates. A great many of this county and counties adjoining Pendleton were members of the 18th anda good many are asking for something of the sort and as a preoiminary step you are asked to meet here on that day. Let all who can, come. Harrison County Courier Saturday 25 Aug 1888 Vol. 1 No. 50 E. D. Veach, Editor & Prop'r Pg. 1 Col. 2 Died Mrs. Bettie S. Musser, wife of R. W. Musser, died at Somerset on Tuesday last. Mrs. Musser was a daughter of C. A. Webster, of this city. Her remains were interred in Battle Grove Cemetery yesterday afternoon. Matrimonial Married, on Monday, at the residence of the bride; John Douglas and Mrs. B. E. Strowbridge. Married in Louisville, on Tuesday, Louis Frank, of Paris and Miss Lizzie Harvey, of the former place. Mr. Frank is well known here. Harrison County Courier Saturday 25 Aug 1888 Vol. 1 No. 50 E. D. Veach, Editor & Prop'r Pg. 1 Col. 3 P. Tillman, of this city, has been awarded the dining privileges of the Falmouth Fair. Pete has been the caterer of public hunger at this fair for several years, and has acquired a reputation for serving the best dinner in the State for the money - 35 cents. Our citizens should remember him when they visit this fair and give him a call. (Could this have been who Joesph Tillman Harper was named. DH) A strange dream George Downing, living near Havilandsville, a few week ago had a strange dream, in which he imagined that he would die sometime in August. A few days ago he was taken sick with typhoid fever, and is now at the point of death, though his physician states that his imagination is doing the greater harm. Downing is afraid he may live through the month to die next and constantly pleads for his existence to end now. Harrison County Courier Saturday 25 Aug 1888 Vol. 1 No. 50 E. D. Veach, Editor & Prop'r Pg. 1 Col. 4 Born To wife of Clarence T. Garnett, a son, on the 18th. To wife of Editor John Wesley Powling, of Carlisle, a daughter. To wife of Henry Metcalfe, postmaster at Carlisle, a daughter, her 5th born. Mr. Metcalfe is a son of the noted Federal officer, Col. Leonidas Metclafe, through himself an ex-Confederate. Harrison County Courier Saturday 25 Aug 1888 Vol. 1 No. 50 E. D. Veach, Editor & Prop'r Pg. 4 Col. 3 Neighborhood News Leesburg Died at Leeslick, Mrs. Eliza Vanhook, wife of Rolla Vanhook. She left a babe of six weeks old who is too young to know is mother's love. Harrison County Courier Saturday 1 Sep 1888 Vol. 1 No. 51 E. D. Veach, Editor & Prop'r Pg. 1 Col. 1 Died on Monday, Mrs. Sallie Farris, wife of R. F. Farris, of Ruddles Mill. Harrison County Courier Saturday 1 Sep 1888 Vol. 1 No. 51 E. D. Veach, Editor & Prop'r Pg. 1 Col. 3 Died On Sunday, August 26th at 8:30 p.m. Leslie Thompson, Cashier of Winchester National Bank, aged nearly 38 years. He was born in Estill county, and emigrated to Texas with his parents before the war. He was in a latter part of the war although but a boy. He was for four years Cashier of the Exchange Bank of Mt. Sterling, which position he resigned to accept Cashier ship of the Winchester Bank. He leaves a wife and two little daughters and aged mother dependent upon him. On Wednesday last, of heart disease, T. Wiglesworth, aged 60 years. Mr. Wiglesworth was one of the best known citizens of Harrison, and was universally liked. He leaves a wife and five children to mourn him. Harrison County Courier Saturday 1 Sep 1888 Vol. 1 No. 51 E. D. Veach, Editor & Prop'r Pg. 4 Col. 3 Neighborhood News Connersville Died on the 25th, at the residence of her son. Dr. A. Conner, of flux. Mrs. Rebecca Conner, wife of Lewis Conner, aged 72 years. She was a noble Christian lady, loved and respected by old and young. Shew as a sister of Esq. Thomas Furnish, of this vicinity, and also of Wm. Furnish, of Missouri. A very touching tribute of respect was paid her by her grand-son-in-law, Rev. C. T. Thompson, in the presence of a large concourse of relatives and friends, after which she was quietly laid to rest in the cold narrow grave, there to awaint the greaet resurrection morn. Leesburg Mrs. John P. Shropshire, who moved from this place to Illinois, died and was buried in Jacksonville on Sunday eve last. Her husband and son-in-law accompanied her remains. We unintentionally failed to note the death of Robbie, the little son of Everett Allen, some two weeks ago, being from home at the time). He death was from measles and he had been a great sufferer for several months. Ruddell's Mills Uncle Willis Collins has been guardian for twenty-three children; has settled with seventeen, and is now guardian of six. Died, Aug 27th, at the residence of her father, Garrett Whitson, Mrs. Sallie Farris, aged 34 years. Thought she had been a constant sufferer for over two years, she never grew tired but waited patiently for the final summons to come. Her husband, R. K. Farris, was at his home in Harrison, confined to his room with fever, and could not be with her in her last hours. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. C. T. Thompson, at the Christian church, it beint a request of her's for Rev. Thompson to preach her funeral, although she was a member of the Christian Church. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the community. Harrison County Courier Saturday 8 Sep 1888 Vol. 1 No. 52 E. D. Veach, Editor & Prop'r Pg. 1 Col. 2 Married On Wednesday evening at Lancaster, Miss Watson, of that place and Lev. Benton, of this city. The bride is one of the most popular and attractive ladies of Garrard county, and the groom is the son of Rev. W. T. Benton, Methodist divine, and one of the brightest barristers of Harrison. The happy couple returned home yesterday and will reside with the grooms' parents, on Clifoton. God Bless 'em and may happiness and prosperity ever be thine, is the wish of the Courier. The following, printed on a handsome embossed and satin decorated invitation, was issued from this office this week: Mr. & Mrs. F. G. Craig invite you to be present at the marriage of their daughter Nannie to Julian Vest Wednesday, September nineteenth 4 o'clock. p.m. Baptist Church Berry, KY 1888 The marriage of Wm. Hill, Jr. of Paris and Miss Ida Campbell, of Carlisle, is announced to take place at the Christian Church of Carlisle, on the 19th inst. at 2 p.m. ==== KY-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List ==== ==================================================================== KYF archives is moving to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kyf/ ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237