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Muhlenberg Circuit Court January Term 1939

Walter Wilkins given 21 years; Aubrey Cox freed
Four charged with operating automobiles without license fined $25.00 and cost in each case.

Walter Wilkins, who was charged with murder in connection with the slaying of Clifton Corneal on Culbertson avenue in Central City last August, was arraigned in Muhlenberg Circuit Court Monday and was sentenced to 21 years in prison.

Aubrey Cox, 35 years old, was acquitted on a charge of murder when arraigned on a charge of slaying William H. Burch, 58 years old, Paradise farmer, at the I.C. railroad depot in Greenville last October.

Four fined for not having licenses.

Four were arraigned on charges of operating automobiles without operator's license, Urie Massey, Clay Middleton, Clifford Pointer and Hollis Vincent and each was assessed fines of $25 and cost, totaling $36 each.

Earl Cobb was fined $150.00 and cost on a charge of failing to render aid after an automobile accident.

Chick Hughes was sentenced to two and one-half years in prison on a charge of false swearing and J.T. Leslie received the same sentence when charged with the same offense as that of Hughes.

Marshall Burney was fined $50.00 for selling intoxicated liquors without a permit.

Other Welborn was fined $20.00 and cost for disturbing public worship and George McClellan, $25.00 and cost for the same offense.

Morton Harkins, charged with cutting and wounding with intent to kill, the altercation being with Charlie Farmer, of McNary, was fined $250.00 and cost.

Two were sentenced to 2 years in prison on charge of child desertion. They were, Stoger Homes and Olgie Johnson.

Civil cases will be heard, beginning on Monday morning and continuing throughout the week. On Monday, January 23, the criminal trials will be resumed for the remainder of the four-week January term.

Muhlenberg Circuit Court January Term 1939

Mid-Winter term of Circuit Court brought to close
83 felony indictments disposed of by Judge Clarence Bartlett during the term.

Sixteen prisoners, convicted during the January term of Muhlenberg Circuit Court, were sentenced by Judge Clarence Bartlett last wekk, and were transferred from the Greenville jail to the Eddyville penitentiary Monday by Sheriff Peck O'Neill, Deputy Sheriff Church Robinson and Special Deputies. A school bus was used to transport the prisoners.

During the January term 83 felony indictments were disposed of. Forty-two jury trials were held. 33 criminal and four civil cases.

The 16 transferred.

Those taken to Eddyville follow:

Marvin Brown, robbery, 5 years.

George (alias Tick) McDonald, rape, 18 years.

Cecil Jarvis, knowingly having stolen property in possession, 3 years.

Wilbur Embrey, knowingly having stolen property in possession, 3 years.

Jim Kirby, storehouse breaking, 2 years.

Homer Roll, chicken stealing, 2 years.

Albert Boatwright, grand larceny, 3 years.

Maynard Wilson, stealing from common carrier, 1 year.

Ned Hunt, incest, 10 years.

Charlie Beck, storehouse breaking, 5 years.

Marvin Kennedy, grand larceny, 3 years.

Roscoe Landrum, grand larceny, 3 years.

Carl (alias Chick) Hughes, false swearing, 2½ years.

J.T. Liles, false swearing, 2½ years.

Darrell Stewart, burning automobile, 1 year.

Probated sentences

Emmett Vincent, storehouse breaking, 4 years; Luther Bruce, arson, 2 years; Emmett Brown, knowingly having stolen property in possession, over $20, 3 years; Henry Rolley, stealing from common carrier, 1 year; Luther Knight, grand larceny, 3 years; Benny Walker, grand larceny, 3 years; Gilbert Dennison, grand larceny, 2 years; Cates Clements, cutting, wounding with intent to kill, 5 years; Jake Devine, child desertion, 2 years; Clarence Dennison, house breaking, 3 years; Olgie Johnson, child desertion, 2 years; Strather Jones, child desertion, 2 years; Charlie Geary, child desertion, 2 years; S.O. Phillips, conversion, 3 years; Emmitt Brown, knowingly having stolen property in possession, 3 years; Henry Dukes, charged with murder, found guilty of assault and battery, 9 months in county jail, probated.

Appealed.

Wig Elschide, life for murder, appealed to Court of Appeals. Sentence suspended pending appeal. Defendent in jail.

Walter Wilkins, life for murder. Sentence suspended pending appeal.

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Muhlenberg Criminal Court May Term 1939

8 draw penitentiary sentences at May term
Nine men, convicted during the May Term granted probated sentences.

The eight men who received penitentiary sentences during the May term of Muhlenberg Criminal Court were removed from the Muhlenberg County jail Monday to the Eddyville prison by Deputy Sheriffs Rhode Kennedy and Chuck Robinson, with Charles Jarvis and Boyd Lacefield as guards.

Nine men, convicted on minor charges, were probated by Judge Clarence Bartlett.

Those convicted, the charges and terms for each follow: Emmit Vincent, storehouse breaking, 2 years; Lawrence Skimmehorn, chicken stealing, 3 years; Benny Walker, grand larceny, 3 years; T.B. Tett, shooting and wounding with intent to kill, 21 years; Herbert Jackson, housebreaking, 2 years; Wilbur Reddish, willful murder, life; Lewis (alias Possum) Dwire, willful murder, 21 years; Henry Jenkins, willful murder, 8 years.

Probated sentences follow: Press Johnson, William McGinley, Harold Whitaker, Gerald Covington, Jimmie Vick, William Miller, Theodore Fox, Henry Lee Miller and Dewey Griffin.

Muhlenberg Community Hospital

First anniversary of opening Muhlenberg hospital observed

Sunday, February 12th, marked the first anniversary of the opening of the Muhlenberg Community Hospital. A review of the hospital records for the period ending December 31, 1938, discloses that during the ten and one-half months that the institution has been in operation, a total of 578 patients admitted, 408 underwent operations, 15 were admitted by birth, and 155 received general or curative treatment only. A number of emergencies were also taken care of, including X-ray and first aid. The total number of days spent in the hospital was 3830, which means that the avergae number of patients in hospital each day during the period was slightly under twelve.

There are, at present employed at the hospital, including superintendent, nursing and operating service, laboratory, office, kitchen and laundry, a total of fifteen people. The average number of persons employed per day during the period ending December 31 indicates that one person received a day's employment at the hospital for each day a patient was cared for.

The management wishes at this time to make grateful public acknowledgment, not only of various cash contributions which have been made toward the maintenance of the hospital during the year just ended, but also of donations of provisions, supplies and equipment which have been given by many church organizations, homemakers clubs, other organizations and individuals. All of these gifts have not only been of material assistance in reducing the difference between the hospital's receipts and its operating expenses, but indicate that the people of the community feel that the hospital is their enterprise, and worthy of their interest and support.

Muhlenberg County Prolific Families

No Race Suicide in Muhlenberg County.

Muhlenberg county claims the “most fatherly” man in the State, Mr. William Allen, father of twenty-four children, four by his first wife, and twenty by the last. Others are Meredith Walker, father of twenty-one children, all of whom had the same mother; William Greenwood, with twenty children and only one wife; and Elijah Dukes, with eighteen children, all having the same mother. There are many families in the county with sixteen children. These fathers would be highly elated if their efforts to place their native town in a higher class by increasing the population should secure for them an autograph letter from President Roosevelt.

When it comes to big families Muhlenberg county is in a class by itself, as the following from Central City will show: “William Allen had 24 children, four by his first wife and 20 by the last. Meredith Walker had 21 children, all of whom had the same mother; William Greenwood had 20 children and only one wife, and Elijah Dukes had 18 children, all having the same mother, and there are 100 families in the county with 16 children.” It might be helpful for the heads of some of Lincoln county's “childrenless” households to sojourn for a while among the prolific families of the county of Muhlenberg.

Muhlenberg County Rural Library

The Rural Library Project

The library is located in the basement of the Post Office and is opened to the public Wednesday and Saturday afternoons from 1 to 4 p.m.

There are 13 carriers in the county, women and men who are conscientiously doing their work. They work 82 hours per month.

The supply of magazines is running low and the demand for books cannot be met. There are many books and magazines in Central City that are being destroyed. They would be appreciated by the workers, who repair, mend and rebind them.

A summary of the work from February 15 to March 1 follows: Individuals benefitted, 2,015; families benefitted, 794; centers established, 12; number of schools visited and received books and magazines, 8; number of books received to date, 500; number of magazines received to date, 4,150; number of scrap books made from damaged magazines, 20.

Rural library project.
The Muhlenberg County Rural Library is steadily progressing under the supervision of Miss Elizabeth Cates, with a corps of enthusiastic workers. Permanent distribution centers are being established throughout the county. Centers at Moorman, Depoy and South Carrollton are open to visitors on Mondays, Wednesday and Saturdays.

Source: Times-Argus [Central City, KY], 2 Sept 1938.

Muhlenbergers at the University of Kentucky

Surpassing the registration figure for the second term of the 1936-'37 school year at the University of Kentucky by a margin of 203, the current semester's enrollment of the State institution closed officially February 14, with a total of 3,470 students entered for classwork, the largest second semester's enrollment in the history of the University.

The figure missed reaching the first semester's all-time record of 3,535 by only 65 registrants. In the past the second semester count has always fallen approximately 150 short of that of the first regular students, those entering the University for independent work will be allowed extra time for signing up.

Among those registering from Muhlenberg county are:

William Durham, son of Mr. and Mrs. O.W. Durham, Central City; Carl Edwards, son of Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Edwards, Central City; Jo Ferguson, son of Dr. and Mrs. J.M. Ferguson, South Carrollton; Mary Ferguson, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J.M. Ferguson, South Carrollton; Charles Gatton, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Gatton, Bremen; Iris Givens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F.E. Givens, Browder; Damon Hart, son of Mr. and Mrs. L.G. Hart, Central City; Charles Lacefield, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Lacefield, Central City; Samuel Lurnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lurnson, Greenville; Sylvia Levinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Levinson, Greenville.

Jerry Mercer, son of Mrs. A.J. Mercer, Central City; Raymond Moore, son of Mrs. M.A. Moore, Greenville; Estil Noffsinger, son of Mr. and Mrs. S.O. Noffsinger; Terrell Noffsinger, son of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Noffsinger, Greenville; William Noffsinger, son of Mr. and Mrs. S.O. Noffsinger, Graham; Eddie Pasco, son of Mr. and Mrs. P.C. Pasco, Central City.

Ted Pascos, son of Mr. and Mrs. P.C. Pasco, Central City; Gilbert Reynolds, son of Mr. and Mrs. G.A. Reynolds, Martwick; Clayton Rice, son of Mr. and Mrs. C.J. Rice, Greenville; Irvine Solzman, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Solzman, Greenville; Edwin Shaver, son of Mr. and Mrs. R.B. Shaver, Greenville; Aaron Steele, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Steele, Powderly; Thomas Withers, son of Mr. and Mrs. T.B. Withers, Powderly; James Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Young, Central City.

Updated July 30, 2024.

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