NEWS.Mountain.Echo7-8.Laurel.11-1896

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                       EXCERPTS from the MOUNTAIN ECHO
                       Laurel County's First Newspaper

                                November 1896
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    Reprinted with permission of the Laurel County Historical Society
           First reprinted to the LaurelCoKY Mail List-KYGenWeb
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    This and other Excerpts from the Mountain Echo can be found on the
                      Laurel County KY KYGenWeb page at:
                     http://users.rootsweb.com/~kylaurel/
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Part 7

November 27, 1896 
MERSHON 

Mr. and Mrs. Wm. BROGAN and Miss Delia GODSEY, of Racoon, visited Mr. John 
W. BLACK last week. 

Messrs. Samuel and Henry BLACK visited Mr. Welcome MULLINS Tuesday and 
Wednesday.

George and Tilford CORNELIUS are engaged in logging in Jackson county. 

Miss Kate DIXON, of Racoon, visited Mt. Olive Sunday. 

A protracted meeting commenced at Mt. Pleasant Saturday of last week and 
continued for one week, which resulted in nine additions to the church. 
Revs. ESTES and McCRACKEN conducted the meeting. 

Miss Lillie BLACK visited Misses Nannie and Eva PATTON, of Racoon Saturday. 

Miss Emma HUFF visited Oak Grove Saturday and Sunday. 

Misses Judith LEWIS and Flora and Rosella HUFF, of Racoon, visited Mt. 
Olive Sunday. 

L.T. BLACK, Sr., is on the sick list at present. 

Felix LEWIS and Wm. BROWNING were in our midst Sunday. 

Revs. CLOYD and BLACKBURN preached at Mt. Olive Sunday. 

TOPTON 

Pleas STEELE is preparing to erect a new residence. 

Eld. J.A. KARR preached quite an interesting sermon Sunday at Locust Grove. 

M.J. CORN fell from a chimney he was building, receiving some slight 
bruises. 

David and Fred ASHER were in this vicinity during the past week. 

Mrs. Mary STORM, of Woodbine, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary MARTIN, of 
this place.

November 27, 1896 

Decker PERKENS killed John TUCKER Saturday, down in Pulaski county, with 
an ax. 

Geo. W. FERRIS, the inventor and builder of the great Ferris wheel, so 
familiar to all who attended the World's Fair, is dead. 

W. F. HART was sentenced to the penetentiary at Mayfield, Ky., for bigamy 
for a period of seven years. He had been married eight times and three of 
his wives were present at the trial and testified against him. 

Mrs. L.J. ROWLAND, the wife of a poor painter at Richmond, Ky., while 
assisting her father overhaul the room of his mother who died near 
Versailles last February, discovered concealed in a featherbed a bag 
containing $ 1,779 in cash and a note directing the finder to divide the 
money equally between her two granddaughters, one of whom was Mrs. ROWLAND.

November 27, 1896 

McWHORTER 

Born to the wife of Grant BAILEY, a girl. 

Mr. Emmet BAILEY, of Slemp, Lee County, Va., is visiting friends and 
relatives near here. 

Grant HUFF, who has been in Knox county attending a meeting has returned 
home. 

Messrs. Jackson MORRIS and Dave FARIS, the boys who were so badly burned, 
are recovering. JACKSON will soon begin his school again. 

LOCAL ITEMS 

Rev. J.A. SAWYER and Miss Sallie LOWERY, of Wilmore, Ky., are visiting in 
London. 

Rev. H.O. MOORE's wife and son, who have been ill of typhoid for quite a 
while, are convalescent. 

James MERET, the hustling editor of the Mt. Vernon Signal, was in London 
a few hours Monday morning. 

Jarvis JACKSON, who has been attending school at Middlesboro for a couple 
of months, is spending Thanksgiving at home. 

Jas. M. CHAMBERLAIN is erecting a handsome little residence on the lot he 
recently purchased, near the residence of Mr. Ed MELVIN. 

The furnace for the M.E. church has been put in and operates to perfec-
tion. No more services, we hope, will have to be postponed on account of 
too much cold and not enough coal. 

The cases of the Commonwealth against Sam TUTTLE and Robert TUTTLE and 
Robert JACKSON, the former sentenced to the penitentiary from this county
for three years and the latter for life, have been affirmed by the court 
of appeals. 

Dr. WEAVER's meeting at the Baptist church is still in progress. 

Mr. J.A. DYCHE, of Jackson county is visiting relatives in London. 

The court of appeals affirmed the judgment of the lower court in the John 
PACE case from Leslie county. 

Jule SPEVEY and Sol TIPTON engaged in a little pleasantry with their 
fists last Sunday over a few fruit trees. 

The Southern Minstrels, all home talent, will give an exhibition at 
the Jackson Opera Hall on the evening of December 4. It will certainly 
be a grand affair. Everybody should attend. 

STABBED-Last Friday evening a difficulty came up between Austin REED, Jr., 
and Hop STEELE in which the latter received a slight wound in the right 
breast, which might have been more dangerous had the knife not struck a 
rib, which to some extent impeded its progress. 


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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1997