PERSONAL MENTION

Mr Mont Feese is on the sick list

Mr M L Mitchell is on the sick listMrs HN Miller continues to im ¬

prove

Mr Fred Hancock was in Campbellsville Sunday

L W Bennett has been on the sicklist for a few days

Mr Bert Epperson Montpelier wasin Columbia Monday

Mr A C Loy Crcelsboro was hereon business Saturday

Mr J W Blair Glensfork was inColumbia last Saturday

Mr W R Lytn Campbellsville wasin Columbia last Friday

Mr J S Flowers of Russellville isvisiting relatives in Adair County

Mr W T Childers and wife wholive near Watson are quite sick

Mr Burr Gilpin traveliug salesmancalled to see Columbia merchants lastFridaylaMrs Sue Grissomher sister Mrs Lucy Follis Friday and

SaturdayMrRussell Jr Louisville is

spending a few days with relatives andfriends here

Mrs Woodson Lewis Greensburghas been in a lowstate of health forseveral weeks

Rev S A McKay and wife ofCampbellsville were visiting here thefirst of the week

Eld W K Azbill has beenquite sicksince returning from Lebanon threatened with pneumonia

Mr J D Lowe and Mr Henry Hud ¬

son returned from a trip to Pulaski andRockcastle last week

Mrs John A Murray of Glasgowvisited her sister Miss Alice Garnettthis place last week

Mr M J Murrell who has been infeeble health for some time was ableto be in town last Monday

Mr Jo Hurt son of Mr and Mrs LB Hurt is confined to his room withpneumonia He is improving

Mr Cameron Dunbar of Creelsborocame down to see his mother MrsMary B Dunbur last Saturday

Mr L V Hall and his sister MissNona Powell who spent a week inLouisville have returned home

Mrs Mary Price who has beendangerously ill is some better and hopesIare entertained of her recovery

Mr M L Mitchell who served twoweeks on the Federal grand jury Louisville returned home last Saturday

Dr R H Perryman has been calledto Franklin Ind to see his daughterMrs Swiggett who is dangerously ill

Mrs J G Eubank and Mrs GeoStaples returned from a pleasant visitto relatives in Frankfort last TuesdayI

Dr Harry Barg an optician of Cin¬

cinnati is spending a few days in Cclumbia stopping at the Hancock Hotel

Hon Geo Nell and wife have takenrooms at the residence of Mrs JoRosenfield who is a daughter of MrNelL

Mr W L Walker and one of hissalesmen Mr L L Eubank are inCincinnati and Louisville this weekpurchasing extensively for this market

Miss Birdie Powell of the firm Powell Staples returned from LouisvilleSaturday night Their friends are invited to call and examine their millinery

Miss Effie Bradshaw who has beenin the market several weeks returnedhome last Sunday and is now at herplace of business ready to show thelatest novelties

Mr John A Webb merchant atWebbs Cross Roads and Mr ShermanWade merchant at Decatur passedthrough Columbia last Friday on theirreturn from market

Mrs J W Butler this place whohas had a growth upon her neck forseveral years left for Louisville lastSunday accompanied by her daughterMrs W E Bradshaw The object ofthe visit is to consult Dr Reynolds Ifthe tumor can be removed Mrs Butlerwill remain in Louisville severalweeksafter the operation has been perform-ed It is very much hoped that she

andactivitybeing in a feeble condition could notaccompany herr

LOCALJOTTINGS

Born to the wife of E L Sinclairon the 26th a son

Born to the wife of Walker Bryanton the 28th a daughter

Massie Walker will sell here nextMonday twenty firstclass mules to thehighest bidders

The Louisville Times published lasSaturday splendid pictures of MissesLina Rosenfield and Mabel Atkins thisplace

A daughter of Mr Travis Miller diedin Taylor county last Saturday Theremains were interred at Cane Valleythis county

Mr Wm Grant whose home was onGreen river died last Sunday He wasabout 70 years old and was a Federalsoldier in the civil war

Miss Fanne Garnett has charge ofthe Latin Department in the LindseyWilson She is a valuable acquisitionto the institution

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The Casey circuit court wil commencenext Monday

Born to the wife of Joel Tupmantee 23d inst a daughter

If you need a cooking stove call on LW Bennett and get prices before buy-

ing

Correspondents will please mail lettersso that they will reach us Friday eve-

ning

The work on the bridge at Greensburg is progressing slowly on accountof high water

Advertise your horse in the News ifhe has merit and you will get patronagefrom other parts of the country

We presume the teachers in the county understand that the common schoolterm from now on will be six months

The Fiscal court of Adair county willbe in session >next week Several veryimportant measures will come beforethe court

Columbia Chapter will meet in regu¬

convocation next Fii ay eveningAll Companions are requested to bepresent

The wife of Dr Alexander ShivelyBurdick Taylor county died last Sat-urday and was bnried Sunday Shewas a very estjmable Christian lady

Next Monday will be county courtA great many people are expected toattend and those who are indebted tothis office are requested to call andmake payment

I have the full stock Barred PlymothRock eggs to sell at 50c per 15 Theyare the Iowa fine strain

Mrs A E CabellJoppa Ky

Mr Armbell Canada who was acitizen of Russell county was drowned-at the mouth of Greasy Creek Cumber-land river last Sunday night He wasrafting logs His body was recovered

Russeell Murrell have said so muchin their address to the trade throughthe News there is bnt little left for usto say Read carefully the inducementsthey offer then call and see them

Mr Keene late sheriff of Cumberland county who was in the barn atBurksville which was wrecked by thestorm last week and who was fatallyhurt died a few days ago

The meeting at the Methodist churchcontinues Rev Davis is preachinggood sermons and a great deal of interest is being manifested There havebeen several professions The meetingwillcontinue through this week

The following gentleman have beenmade Entered Apprentice Masons RevJ P Scruggs Dr Jas Menzie HonM Rey Yarberry Messrs Al MyersJo CofFey Jr and G P Smythe To-night Mr Walker Bryant will be raisedand Mr S N Hancock advanced

The high wind Tuesday afternoon oflast week caused the flooding of a bargeloadedwith staves at Creelsboro andseveral thousand were washed down theriver They were the property of Page

Stults this place and Mr GeoStults writes that their loss amounts toseveral hundred dollars

We have received a copy of the firstissue of the Casey County News aweekly paper started at Liberty MrHenry Thomas is the editor The newpublication has our best wishes Thepaper is Republican but its space willbe devoted in the main to the building-up of Liberty and Casey county

The good people living in the neigh-borhood

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of Garlan this county aremaking an effort to put up a churchbuilding They are anxious to raisesufficient funds to start the work asquickly as possible Persons who arewilling to contribute should see Mrs LT Neat or Mrs Simeon Murrell

On account of rains but little farmwork has been done in this countyOnly a few acres have been broken forcorn and a less number for oats Ourfarmers however are industrious andare making no complaint against Himwho governs the elementsresting con-tented with a determination to makehay when the sun is permitted to shine

There will be no morning nor eveningservices at the Baptist church nextSunday due to theseries of meetings-in fprogress at the Methodist churchIn the afternoon from 4 to 5 oclock asong service will be held in the Baptistchurch to which all the singers in townare cordially invited to attend and par-ticipate

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If you do not sing come andencourage others thereby making ithour of spiritual benefit

With but one or two exceptions everymember of the Baptist church of thistown who were seen last Saturdaycontributed without a murmur to thecommittee who has charge of improve-ments so badly needed on the churchmemtyet been seen It is encouraging tothe committee helpful to the giveran indication of true religion The im-

provements¬

will be made

It is said that the act of shooting MrJoshua Murrell in Green county lastweekwas a great outrage and thatthe guilty party when caught will bseverely punished It is reliably re-ported here that the man who did theshooting was on the hunt of some oneand when he met Mr Murrell he level-ed

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his but was repeatenly told notto shootas he was mistaken in thman Mr Murrell is not yet out ofdanger and the guilty has not to ourknowledge been arrestedA

WHO is sumSpecial Pension Commissioner Cut ¬

ler has been ordered to Columbia Kyto examine a claim filed by a youngwidow for a pension on account of herhusband who died two years ago hav-

ing¬

fought in the regular army in thewar against the Seminole Indians in

FloridaItrather a trite saying that pen-

sioners¬

never die remarked Mr Cut-

ler¬

at his office in the Federal buildingyesterday and even when they dodie they are rather more apt thanother men to leave widows and or ¬

phansNowthis war ended in 1838 or 39

but the soldier in question died only twoW three years ago leaving a youngwidow to the care of the GovernmentShould she remain a widow and live aslong as her husband did Uncle Samwill be providing for her along aboutthe year 1950 Louisville Herald

SERIOUS ACCIDENT

Last Friday night as Miss Ola Wilsonand Mrs Mary B Dunbar of Creels ¬

boro who is visiting here were ontheir way to church the latter metwith a very painful and serious acci ¬

dent which will keep Mrs Dunbar con-fined to her room for severalweeksJust as the two ladies passed throughMr Wilsons front gate Mrs Dunbarslipped and fell breaking her left legbelow the knee Drs J H Grady andW R Grissom were called andreducedthe fracture and at this writing thepatient is resting easy

In another column will be seen a truepicture of Red Lexington the fine combined stallion of Coffey Bros of thistown The people in this immediatesection are well acquainted with thechief feature of this valuable horsethey are not strangers to the fact thathe is one of the most promising indi ¬

viduals of that great family of horsesLexington that has so thoroughly im-

pressed¬

the entire country with superbqualities and worth They appreciateRed Lexington for what he is and forhis pure and unadulterated bloodaperfect type and the purest Lexingtonnow livinga true decendant of one ofthe greatest families of horses everknown in this State You must seethe horse and see him move to appre¬

ciate him but his pedigree bespeaks hisworth Coffey Bros have never boughtcommon stock they are advocates ofthe best blood coupled with superb individuality and their experience andknowledge is a safe guarantee whenthey say that Red Lexington is thegreatest horse and the purest bloodIthey ever owned It is useless for usto compliment these young men Theyare known to be competent reliablebusiness men trustworthy in everyparticular They have carefully soughtto find a great individual with the rich-est strains of blood for several yearsto place at the head of their stud andnot until Red Lexington was securedhave they been contented Read theiradvertisement and do your own figur-

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A young cyclone passed over Adaircounty about 5 oclock last Tuesdayafternoon Fencing was scattered inevery direction and many trees wereblown down but no one in the countywas hurt so far as we know In Taylorcounty a young man named Bridge-water was struck by lightning and instantly killed The Spectator office inColumbia was the greatest suffererhere The wind blew out one oftheback windows and the door leadingdown the front steps was closed andwhen the current got into the roomthere was but one escape through theskylight The glass was about onequarter of an inch thick and it wasbroken into hundreds of pdces letting-in the rain The money damage to theoffice was not great but the andtrouble to the proprietor and force wasnot a little The next day the officewas put in protection against rain anda new glass ordered

To the citizens of Adair county Theundersignedare in the tombstone business at Campbellsville Ky Campbellsville is your neighbor and as youhave no manufacturer of this work inColumbia would it not be to your interest to patronize us We guaranteesatisfaction both in quality of workand prices We solicit work from Adairand adjoining

countiesCOAKLEY

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The municipal board voted down thproposition to keep going four morlights on Burksville street theThebcost of keeping up the present lightsbefore undertaking more expenseLater if it is seen that the townwell afford more lamps they will b-

ordered

anMrs Tim Bradshaw and daugh ¬

ter Miss Effie are now receivingtheir Spring millinery They invite their friends to call and examine the latest designs in hatsbonnets etc satisfied that thecan be pleased

yearbrightenthe Public Schools Take the Normalcourse at the LindsayWilson School andfear not failure in the examination

pleasbringel

weather This is not directed to anyiagreee

I have a threeyear old mule for saleDr W T Grissom

Bliss Ky

SALEeTwentyone hogs from 50 to 150 dsDock Frnklin1

Glensfork Ky >

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Bigger Stocks Better ValuesIn Carpets Rugs Mattings and Linoleum

Four Immense DisplayFloors Qualities and Prices RightWhen in Louisville be sure to call on us You are wel¬

come whether you buy or no-

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WHOLESALEHATS CAPS AND STRAW GOODS

FALL CITY BRANDSMerchants are respectfully invitedto oaii and see our stcok

LOUISVILLEKrYMILLINERY OPENING

We now havethe most beautiful andmost complete line of Spring and Summer Millinery and notions ever brought-to Columbia which will be on displayThursday All the ladies of Adair andadjoining counties are invited to comeand see our goods before buying else-

where AjMissMiss Myrt Staples

Do not fail to attend Massie Walk ¬

ers public sale in this town next Monday Twentyfive mules will be sold atpublic outcry

For SaleA 9 year old cow and young I

calf G G Morrison Gadberry j

GRAD YY1LLE

J R Shirley of Milltown was withus FridayJ

one of our best farImers is preparing to build a large barn

Mr Charles Yates has recently put a-

new appearance on his dwellingMrs Strong Hill is in Louisville buy-

ing new millineryRev Jas Debord attended the funer-

al¬

of Jas Salmon at East Fork Satur ¬

dayMissSallie Diddle spent last Thurs-

day¬

in ColumbiaMrs C Wilmore has been on the

sick list for severs daysDr L C Nell was called to see Mrs

Parson at Kemp WednesdayThe Masonic hall has a new appear-

ance¬

We tender our thanks to the la-

dies for their good taste and faithful

workMrE Keltner and wife who went to j

Indiana a few weeks ago have returned-to this place and are satisfied that Ken-

tucky¬

is the best place to liveMiss Irene Yates one of the students-

of Columbia spent Sunday at homeRev J P Scruggs failed to fill his c

appointment Saturday and Sunday onaccount of sickness

C Gowen of Basil was here a few s

days agoMr Thos Moss one of the best citi¬niaibia was here last week seeing after his

farmHA Walker of Columbia was here

Thursday shaking hands with his manyfriends

Mr Chas Maupin is confined to hisroom withmeasles

Mrs Pat Davis of Russellville visi ¬

ted her mother and brothers here last

weekWilmoreMoss have bought 35000

pounds of tobacco from 1 to 6 cwtMiss Kate a daughter of Mr and

Mrs J D Walker who has been inschool at Lebanon Tenn for8 monthswil return home in a few days MissWalker is one of our accomplishedyoung ladies and we are certainly gladshe will be with us again

Everybody must come and hear RevA L Mell on the second Sunday inApril as he will deliver a sermon of 12

years study His subject will be on theIdentification of the Resurrection

The storm Tuesday unroofed a barnfor W L Sharp and J H Smith andblew down quite a lot of timber andfencing We are very thankful thatwe did not receive any more damage

Mr and Mrs G T Flowers enter ¬

tained last Friday night Mr J S Flow-

ers¬

of Russellville ExGov J RWhie tdee ¬

Cumberlandeandeperwell bought 4 heifers of C L Keltnerfor 35hereeyourhe had finished stripping tobacco andjudges of the weed say his crop is thebest that has been raised in that sec-tion

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for many yearsMessrs John Sneed and Alexander

Bohanon will locate in Columbia andwill assist in building the railroadwellknowy n

a gospwagon made We have not learnedthe color of the horse he will drive butsuppose it will be a white one

Mr Shelly Tarter who has been con-fined

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to his bed for seven years andpart of the time was unable to feedhimself is getting better and his friendsthink he will be about soon The oldsaying that everythingwill come aroundall right every seven years is going toprove true

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The wheat crop is looking betterCorn is selling at 250 per barrel and

wheat at 100 per bushelMr Walker Bryant expects to havefewdayss

y a 1

of damage

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UNNVILLEMr Wm Wilkinson came here last

week after a coffin for Mrs R J Mor ¬

ris who died near Liberty-N H W Aaron madea business trip

to Jamestown last weekEld Tobias Huffaker will lecture at

the Christian church the first Sunday in

Chester Collins who has been livingwith Mr Aaron this winter returned toColumbia last week-

S J Bell sold 30 hogs to Lincolncounty parties at 3J eta

We had mail last week only two dayson account of high water

Jerry Cravens sold a fine saddle horsefor 120

B Lee has just returned from Ten-nessee

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where he has been visiting his

motherJJones has been quite sick with

measles but is betterThe wife of Air T J Goode died last

week of consumption

LouisvillebuyinggoodsDr Hammond sold a cow and calf to

Will Rubarts for 25

Louisville tobacco market was veryactive last week for Burley prices

perhundredyisto work in the woods and at sawmill

competenthands

C S GRADYDENTIST

0SPECIAL attention given toGold Filling Crown and Bridge-work

00 F F I CE over RussellMurrells Store Columbia Ky

YETINERY SURGEON I

Fistulo Pollevil splints sptvnorany surgical work done at fair pricesr am fixed to take care of stock

Special attention to eyes

S D ORENSHAWX mile from Columbia on Disappointment

BELLS HOTELLebanon Kij

Frank Bell Pronrletor

0This hotel is located opposite the L

N Depot and Is a splendid place atwhich to stop Good meals excellent

attention and the rates very reasona¬

ble Trade of Adair and adjoiningties solicited

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Dealers In Diamonds and Precious Stones

Jeclal attention given to work and

elall ordersot goods In our line 132 WestMarket between 1st and 2nd

Opo UeMuilcH all

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Russsll Creek PoultryFarm

BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK FOWLSEXCLUSIVELY

EGGS FOR HATCHINGHaving care¬

fully mated our breeding yard for theseason of 1904 we are prepared to fillorders for eggs from fine strain of BP Rock Eggs 100 per 15 fifteen

Thanking my friends for put favorssoliciting your patronage in the future

JiM H JP4xxoxRollingburg Ky 2mor-

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One Setting 15 Eggs 100 Settings 250500 per Hundred Write for telling all about them Address

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Enquiries for prices invited Orders Promptly FilledV

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SPECIAL RATES TO REGULARBOARDERS

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Full line of Watches Clocks Diamonds and Jewelry

Spectacles Silverware Etc Fine Watch Repairing All Work W-arrantedPHBILD

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SURREYS

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BEST GOODS LOWEST PRICESSend for Catalogue

Corner Brook and Market Burghard Building

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A M EMLER PRESIDENT THEO RECTANUS VPRES-

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New Farmers Home Hotel400 422 EAST MARKET STREET

Above Freston Louisville Kyo X

3Bc0t Squlpt 5100 per Sag Dotcl in the TUnttcD States

STREETCAR FACILITIES TO ALL PARTS OF CITY

WOODSON LEWIS JAS 0 LEWIS

UoodSOI lewis 9 BroARE NOW RECEIVING

Four carloads of Buggies SurreysT

and other vehicles Four carloads ofWagons Two carloads of Plows OliverChilled Plows Hillside Plows DoubleShovel and Pony Plows Two carloads

Disc Harrows Corn Drills Two carloads of TwoHorseRidingY¬

ersr FERTILIZER

Ten car loads of Fertilizer We will sell you Fertil¬izer at prices that will surprise you Write us for pricesand information Mention Adair County Newsjwhen youwrite-

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