1903
The Sunday School at this place was made happy by a heavily loaded Christmas tree. Everyone had a good time.
The Long Branch Sunday School also received a tree. We have good friends in the north to thank for this.
The weddings that have taken place in our neighborhood lately have been those of Mr.John Powell and Miss Lydia Williams and of Mr. David Hager and Miss Minnie Hays. Evidently single blessedness is becoming very unpopular.
Mr. and Mrs. James Click are thr proud parents of a new son who was born Dec. 27.
D. Click went to Panola last Friday.
Mr. John F. Dean is to begin a winter school at Long Branch today.
Mr. Elisha Hatfield of Morrill is sick.
Mr. J.A. McGuire has bought Mr. Luther Kimberlain's farm and rented it to Mr. D.C. Sparks of Drip Rock.
More to come : Welchburg - marriages, parties, a marriage proposal in the paper, other events..
Welchburg
Christmas is past and Santa Claus is gone.
Married on December 24 at the home of the bride Miss Mary a Chappell of this place, to Mr.
C.C. York if Pineville. The bride selected for their waiters, Mr. H.C. Valentine and Miss
Lily Begley, J.E. Sparkmon and Frances Hall. The couple will start on New Years Day for
the home of the Bridegroom. May they live happily is the wish of this correspondent.
Also married on Dec. 27 were Dr. James H. Morris of Egypt to Miss Susie Chestnut of Clay County and Mr. George Rader of Egypt to Miss Delia Wilson.
"Wanted, a girl 21 years old, who will make a good housewife. J.E. Sparkmon.
The County Clerk issued marriage licenses to 12 couples during Christmas week.
Miss Lily Begley of this place gave the boys and girls a nice party Saturday night.
Born to the wife of Mr. George Johnson a fine girl.
John Minter has moved to Devil's Den.
Bird hunting seems to engage the attention of most of the male citizens at present.
Jackson Morris of Moores Creek and Dr. Parker of Beuge have been visiting our town the past few days.
W.R. Sparkman, who has been teaching school in Leslie County is back again with his old friends.
Bob Holcomb, a well-to-do farmer, living one mile west of here passed away recently. He leaves a� wife and
seven children.
Kerby Knob
Ulysses Powell has returned from Ohio, bringing his family with him.
Dr. C.B. Daugherty accompanied his brother Robert back to Louisville to
college.
The doctor will probaly go on out West, where he has been practicing.
Miss Mary Parks went to Ohio with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Osa Tudor, who
has
been visiting relatives here during the holidays.
Miss Maggie Garland has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Mahaffey, in
Sturgeon.
Court convened at McKee last Monday. Several of our people have been summoned as
jurymen or witnesses in
cases to be tried.
Miss Viola Click is spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. I. Dean, of Clover Bottom.
Mr. Cassius Johnson has moved on to Mr. Aaron Powell's farm for the year.
Wm. Jones, D. Click and Frank Durham start for Hamilton, Ohio, on the 10th.
Welchburg
The very muddy condition of our roads is the whole topic of talk among our wagoners and merchants.
Prof. H.F. Minter left Friday for Buck Creek to take charge of his school there.
Messrs. Jacob Smith and Algen Oldham accompanied him and will be under his instruction this winter.
Mrs. Herndon has gone into the goose trade.
Mr. Henry Smith went to Madison County Tuesday to engage in sawmilling for Buckles & Co.
Misses Nora Lyttle of Manchester and Virginia Reed of Choice, Clay County, have been
visiting friends here.
Mr. Sherman Collier has gone to Knoxville,Tenn., this week on business.
Miss Lou Powell paid Welchburg a flying visit New Year's Day.
Dr. G.C. Goodman, our hustling physician, is kept busy attending to his increasing practice.
Mrs. G.C. Goodman and Mrs. R.W. Rader, who have been quite ill for the past
week,are
happily convalescent.
Hettie, the little daughter of Sherman Collier, has been suffering from
throat trouble for two
weeks, but at present is improving nicely.
Your correspondent was in Richmond on business Jan.5.
W.M. Creech has been in Richmond selling cattle.
R.E. Denham of Moore's Creek left Monday for Lexington, where he will take a course in the Commercial College.
Court convened in this country last Monday. So far there have been but two felony convictions.A young man by the name of Callahan was convicted of forging an order to Robert Benge,of Owsley Fork, to Powell Bros.' store. He received a three-year sentence.
The other was James Brummett for the burning of A.J. Smith's store. He received a five-year sentence. The jury which tried the latter case was selected from Rockcastle County. There were two felony cases continued, and two are to be tried this week.
The best way to eliminate the courts of so many crimes is through our public schools. When we have a better system of oublic schools, and that would necessarily mean longer terms and well-enforced compulsory school law, our young men will have something alse to do besides murder or burn store houses.
In fact, they will be educated above such atrocious crimes as now fill the criminal dockets.
There is a great deal of typhoid fever in this county. The following teachers have been compelled to dismiss their schools on account of being afflicted with this disease : Jon F.Dean, teacher in district 1. Miss Julia Dyche, teacher in district 31. Miss Martha Lake, teacher in district 13. J.J. Davis, teacher in district 67.
The teachers' association held at Longbranch school-house district 38,was a success. Next teacher's association will be held at Tyner.
McKEE -
Dr. G.C. Goodman, of Welchburg, who is in the hospital at Welchburg being treated, writes his friends that he is getting along very well. His doctors think his trouble is intestinal indigestion instead� of appendicitis, as it had been thought to be. He now thinks that an operation will not be necessary.
Steps are beingtaken to organize and build a bank at this place. It will be a great accomodation to the people of the entire county, and help to build up our little town.
An extension of our telephone line to Berea is greatly needed. Plans have been laid to build it,but it looks like they are a little slow to develop.
BEREA -
Mrs. Zerilda King and daughter Nina are visiting in McKee, Jackson County.
Mr. R.J. Engle, formerly of Gray Hawk, Jackson County, has opened a line of groceries,dry goods and notions at the Red, White and Blue Store, just west of Bicknell &Early's.
KERBY KNOB (1st week) -
We are having a great deal of sickness now. John Deane, who began teaching the town school at McKee, came home last week and immediately took down with typhoid fever.
Mrs. Cora A. Smith, of McKee, passed through here last week on her way to Berea,expecting to return the following Tuesday, but we are very sorry to hear that instead she was taken to the hospital with typhoid fever.
Mrs. P.S. Dearborn, of Butler, Ky., who joined her husband at that place a few days ago,returned home Saturday because of illness.
Still to come : More from Kerby Knob - Visitors and revivals. Clover Bottom : House burned,more typhoid fever, church revivals, man kicked by mule.