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THE COURIER-JOURNAi; LOUISVILLB, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 8, 1927. I GENERAL NEWS FROM ALL SECTIONS OF KENTUCKY State Women to bank Accuses dress the Ripley. Ohio, Men's Club at the monthly banquet tomorrow night. He will speak on "Community Consciousness." have Dr. Clara Ch as sell Cooper, expert in the measurement of instruction, come to Maysville for three days and work with the teachers four hour each day, two hours to be given to lectures and two hours to Oil Tank Blast Is Fatal to Man At Elizabethtown BISHOP TO SPEAK DURING CRUSADE Episcopal Head At Lexington to Preach In Maysville Twice Sunday.

ville and Jeft here about thirty year aw to live In the West. He Is nur-vlved by his widow; two brothers, Kennan Toup, Connornvjlle, and Robert A. Toup, Baltimore, and one sister, Mrs, Jlary Marsh, alno of liuiial was In a Los Angeles cemetery today. B. L.

AnderpofT has been appointed by the County Court to appraliw (ha estate of Mia Kowlne Zwelgart for inheritance taxes. 25- Gallon Still Found In Field Special to Tba Courier-Journal. Grayson, Jan. 7. -A small still, with an eatlmated capacity of twenty-five gallons, seized In a field near Soldier, where it had been abandoned by Its operators, was brought here late Tuesday.

The ait 11 1 recently had been In operation and the mash was hot when found. "Sowing and Reaping" Is the subject of the special sermon which will be given Sunday nlpht by Lonnie Pever. Chrlntlnn Normal Institute ministerial student, at the Graynort Church of Christ. The church has been without a regular minister since the resignation of The Rev. Arth'ir JarvM.

Richard Williams. 80 years old. died at his home on the Stone Lick like Wednesday afternoon after a long illness. For many years he had been a leading farmer of his section of this county and was one of the largest land-owners In the eastern section of Mason County. He is survived by two sons, Howard and Frank William and two sisters.

Funeral services were held today at the grave In the Maysville Cemetery. Mrs. Belle Adams, GS years old. Cincinnati, who had been missing from her home for several days, wait found here Wednesday. The woman became afflicted with amnesia and wandered away from her home, but Just tvha route she took to reach here she does not know.

On her arrival here sh-was taken in at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Hall, in the east end of the city. In here wanderings her, ahe entered rhe R. J.

Reynolds tobacco factory and got work. She returned to Cincinnati yesterday. A message to relatives here yester day announced the death of John Toup, 66 years old. at his home in Los Angeles. Wednesday morning.

He was a native of Mays SERVICES TO OPEN TODAY Special to rbs CourierVTournal. Maysville. Jan. 7. Bishop Lewis W.

Burton, Lexington, will nreach at both morning and night services Sunday as part of the week's services at the Church of the Nativity here. The services will be part of the Episcopal Church's Bishop's Crusade, a world-wide movement. The Rev. Charles S. Hale.

Ashland, will open the services here tomorrow night. The Rev. John L. Oldham and The Rev. Samuel H.

Seymour, designated by the bishop of the church as crusaders for Kentucky, will hold services in the church every night until next Friday. Superintendent J. Howard Payne has accepted an invitation to ad Funeral services for Charles E. Smith, who died at the Eastern Kentucky Hospital at Lexington Tuesday, were held at the home of his brother, Dr. Thomas H.

N. Smith, East Second Street, yesterday morning, the Rev. Robert Von Thurn. pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, officiating. Burial was in the Maysville Cemetery.

The pallbearers were Charles D. Newell, Clarence Mathews, P. Gordon Smoot, James B. Wood, William N. Stockton and M.

T. McClanahan. Dr. J. C.

Hutchlngs, Mason County-Health Officer, yesterday stated that according to the records kept in his office there were 283 births and 217 deaths in Mason County during the past year. Germantown and Mays lick do not report to the Health Of fice In Maysville. Miss Anna Belle Humphries. 21 yearn old, Hillsboro, was married here yes terday morning to Loyd Royse. 23.

Grange City, County Judge Purnell officiated. Members of the faculty of the schools 'here voted to identify them selves with the Kentucky Educational Association as an educational unit. At the regular monthly meeting of the City Board of Education last night the teachers were granted permission to With New new Featuring for Today New Spring FROCKS HARRISON SHEEP KILLED BY DOGS Cynthiana Man Says "Speed Trap" Exists In Shelby County. RITES FOR MISS STONE Special to The Courier-Journal. Cynthiana, Jan.

7. Farmers In the Sycamore section have suffered from the depredations of a sheep- kiUinz dor the past week. E- B. lri-M. lojit three sheen.

D. EJ- Mc- Cauley. who owns a farm near Mr. Fields en the Salem Pike, had two sheep killed and one Injured so badly it died; John McCauley. with a farm on the opposite side of the road, lost four, and one sheep was killed on the Daizelle farm.

It is thought the dog must have been alone or the losses I would have been greater. Farmers I in me section nave ortrn on wicn aii but have not caught sight of the dog, although sheep have been killed short distances from where the party was stationed. H. B. Bastin.

manager of the Har rison County Lumber Company, Cyn-j a "speed trap" exists in Shelby County and that he was caught i In the mesh Sunday on his way to Louisville. Mr. Bastin said his speedometer was registering twenty-five miles when Officer Will iam Husband ran alongside of him and told him he was under arrest for speeding, that he had been trailed and the officer's speedometer was register- ing forty-four miles. When Mr. Bastin was taken before Magistrate "vVritrht he was released with a fine of SI 5.25 and told that he had been "so nice about it" that he was being let off with half the usual penalty.

Funeral services for Miss Edith Stone. 32 years old. will be held at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at the residence of her brother-in-law. Veach C. Redd, on Walnut Street, the Rev.

Clyde Darsie. pastor of the Cynthiana Christian Church, officiating- Pall bearers will be H. W. Berry. Dr.

L. N. Todd. Dr. G.

H. Ross, Dille Craij E. O. Billitter and Milton Caldwell. Burial will be In the Pythian Grove Cemetery at Berry.

Miss Stone is the youngest daughter of Mrs. Margaret Stone. Cynthiana. Besides her mother, she Is survived by two sisters. Mrs.

Veach Redd. Cynthiana. and Miss Isabel Stone. Lexington, and a brother, A. H.

Stone- Wood L. Taylor, one of the guaran tors of the Rednath Chautauqua for Cynthiana for this ye--w. has received notice from that organization that the programme will open here July 7. un less a change of date Is desired by Cynthiana." Th open session of the Harrison County Woman's Club scheduled for tomorrow aXtemoon. has been post- poned indefinitely, as has the meeting of the literary department of the club.

J. A. Payne, superintendent of Har rison County schools, and T. M. Hob day.

William Maddox, P. T. Crosth- wait and J. M. Brock, members of the Harrison County School Board, were in Mason County Tuesday, mak ing an inspection and gathering information in regard to the consoli dated school system in that county.

They were accompanied by the Ma son County superintendent and members of the Mason County Board of Education. Every school in Mason County was visited. Dr. Charles M. Roberts.

41 years old. former husband of Mrs. Pearl Gossett Roberts. Cynthiana, was burned to death at Deland. Friday night, when his automobile over- turned at a sharp curve in the road and he was pinned underneath it.

Dr. Roberts was a native of Russellville. He was well known here, where he had visited a number of times. BLUE LICK BODY NAMED. The Courier-Journal Frankfort Bureau.

Frankfort. Jan- 7. Gov. William J. Fields appointed three members of the Blue Lick Monumental Commission authorized under a reso lution of the 1926 General Assembly.

The commissioners are Samuel Wilson. Lexington; I. B. Ross, Carlisle, and William Curtis. Mt.

Olivet. of 1. Hear Club Head Mrs. Sherman, National Executive, On Programme of State Federation for May. Lexington.

Jan. 7 OW Mrs John I). Sherman of Washington, na tional president of Woman Club of America, has accepted an invitation to address the Kentucky Federation meeting at Paducah in May. it was announced today by Mrs. AlUe 8.

Dick son or North Midaletown, president of the Kentucky Federation, at the mid-winter meeting of the executive committee and directors of the State Federation. Mrs. Dickson, accompanied by Mrs. H. G.

Reynolds of Paducah, national treasurer, and Mrs. Benjamin W. Bay- less of Louisville, General Federation airecior, pian to leave ounaay lor wasmngron to aitena tne uenerai Federation meeting. Discussion of plans for the State meeting, dates for which will be announced following the trip to Washington, featured the ex ecutive committee meeting this afternoon. WW M.

xiJfOl ijCOUlS Plan Own Rooms 4- R. E. Glenn, Kirkmansville, Is Out for State Senate In Ninth. Special to The Courier-Journal. Elkton, Jan.

7. The Elkton Boy Scouts are to have a new' Scout room. The troop has been meeting in the Masonic Hall, but has made arrangements to meet in the future in the sample room of the Elkton Ho tel. This room wjll be fitted up to meet their requirements. The Scouts held their regular meeting last night.

There are two patrols, the Panthers and the Tigers. Vernon Price is scoutmaster. R. E. Glenn, Kirkmansville.

has au thorized the announcement of his can didacy for State Senator in the Ninth Senatorial District, Mr. Glenn was a representative in the 1926 General As sembly. The Ninth District is com posed of the counties of Logan, Simp son and Todd. According to the ro tation system, it is Todd County's turn to present the candidate. The Elkton Rotary Club held its regular weekly luncheon yesterday.

The out-of-town visitors were Emmett Winters, Springfield, formerly a member or tne ciuo; tne tiev. l. i Chandler and Dr. Mutcher, Bowling Green. The record- of the clnb for 1926 disclosed the fact that Charley Rogers and Asbury Reese had not missed a meeting during the year.

and that Coleman Gill and Reuben Petrie had missed but one meeting each. Arthur Boone gave a review of Rotary for Reubens," an article taken from the January Rotarian. Eveett Penicfc has returned from Boston, where he attended the national meeting of college fraterni ties. The Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church was entertained by Mrs. Jim Weathers and Mrs.

J. T. Lashbrook at the home of Mrs. Weathers. Miss Corlnne Rogers and Mrs.

Robert Weathers assisted. Those present were Mesdames W. G. Davis, Jim Petrie, J. D.

Russell, Lee Duvalle, Morris Weathers. Ben Petrine, Kate Thompson, Robert Ogden, Lum Belae, Elizabeth Thompson, Walter Munday, Seymour Perkins, J. T. Cherry, An nette Koser, W. M.

Jim Weathers and J. T. Lashbrook and Miss Mary Standard. Louie Weathers and Reuben Petrie, Elkton, and Dr. E.

Glenn. Kirkmans ville, left yesterday for Frankfort to represent the countly before the Ken tucky Highway Commission in the in terest of the construction of the Jefferson Davis Highway. DANVILLE MAN NAMED. The Courier-Journal Frankfort Bureau Frankfort, Tan. 7.

Gov. Will iam J. Fields today re-appointed J. A. Robinson, Danville, to the board of trustees of the Kentucky School for the Deaf, Danville.

A. King, Danville, was selected to succeed Harry Giovannoli, Lexington, editor the Lexington Leader, and James Wood, Stanford, to succeed C. Cecil, Danville. The three ap pointees will hpld office until January 1932. GLASGOW MAN Argus Francis, Returned From Florida, Gives Bond On Embezzlement Count.

TRIAL SET FOR FEB. 14 Special to The Courier -Journal. Glasgow, Jan. 7. Argus Francis, 47 years old, resident of Glas gow and a former State bank exam iner.

Is charged with embezzlement of funds of a Brandentown, bank. where he was employed last falL Warrants were sent to officers here from the District Federal Court of Florida, charging Francis with taking funds from the First National Bank of Brandentown. Francis appeared before United States Commissioner W. S. Smith here, to answer the charges.

He gave bond of $3,000, but later the bond was reduced to 1 1,000. He is slated to ap pear at Tampa, for trial, February 14. Barren County is without a road engineer, due to a temporary injunc tion suit restraining W. T. Parrish from taking the office to which he claims he was elected.

Parrish' went to the office and de manded the keys to it January 1st, and was refused them by C. B. Atkin son, who claims parrish election was illegal on the grounds that at the time he was elected. C. H.

Hatchett. at torney here, Was acting Judge in the absence of the late Judge G. M. Bohannon and Atkinson claims Hatchett served as Judge contrary to law. A motion for a permanent injunc tion will be heard before a special Judge at the March term of Barren County Court.

Charles Harlin, Tompkinsville at torney, who recently came to Glasgow, is charged with issuing worthless checks in warrants issued here. Both checks, it is claimed, were given in Glasgow and were issued for $125 and $40 respectively, it is alleged. Miss Anna Louise Turner, Cave City, and Edgar G. Boyd, Memphis, and Miss Edna Ruth Turner and Harold Lafferty, Cave City were married in Scottsburg, recently. The ceremony was said in the par sonage of the First Methodist Church by the Rev.

J. Ogan. Mr. Boyd is a son of Albert Boyd, of the Kentucky Ltilities Company, Glasgow, and is studying dentistry under his uncle, Dr. James Shader, Memphis.

Mr. and Mrs. Lafferty will live in Cave City. Options have been obtained on lands in the outskirts of Glasgow for the establishment of an aviation field. The development will be under the direction of Lawrence Pedigo, Rock Island, 111., who will move to Glasgow to live in the spring.

Mr. Pedigo, who has made several visits here, has as serted he will erect modern hangars and will operate planes for commercial purposes and for pleasure. MEXICO CLAIMS BANDITS IN CHECK Mexico City, 7 W) The Mexi can Governments campaign against bandit gangs and rebellious elements. which were active several days ago in various parts of the country was declared by the War Department today to be meeting with success. It was announced that Federal soldiers killed five in an engagement with a bandit gang near Cerro Calleiones.

biate or uuanajuato, putting the re mainaer to rout. The War Department also reported tuai twenty-seven rebels were killed by Federal forces in two battles in the State of Jalisco. A few others escaped, but the Federals captured most or tneir horses, guns and am munition. fapecial dispatches from Duraneo which have liot been confirmed, report the arrest of fifty Catholic priests ror lnmnging the laws. RAILROAD' COP CHOSEN.

The Courier-Journal Krankfort Bureau franktort, Jan. 7.W. Wes Perkins, Williamsburg, today wj- pointed railway policeman for Ulfc Louisville Nashville pany by Gov. William J. Fields.

All The Color And Of The New Season Employe of State Highway Maintenance Department Is Victim. Elizabethtown, Jan. 7 Elzy Dale. 32 years old. an employe of the State Highway Maintenance Depart ment, was killed here this morning in an explosion of an oil tank.

The accident occurred at the State Highway Department storage tank on the L. N. Railroad, just north of the depot. The top of the victim's head was blown off. He is survived by his wife and four children.

Zach Warren, 45, in charge of road maintenance in Hardin County, suf fered a scalp wound. A piece of the exploded tank struck him. Three other employes at the scene escaped injury. The tank of an oil-sprinkling truck had been filled and the oil was be ing heated so that it would past through a valve from one ment to another for distribution or the roads. Gasses formed by tlu heating of the oil caused the explo sion.

which destroyed the tank. -Dale was the truck operator and was standing beside it when the ex plosion occurred. He was a son ol Mr. and Mrs. John Dale of this city Warren Reports $26, 000 Balance Mrs.

Rebecca Boyd, 74, Dies At Home On Proctor Road. Special to The Courier-Journal. Bowling Green, Jan. 1. Henry T.

Hagerman, Treasurer of Warren County, published his 1926 report to day, showing receipts amounting to $149,343.93 and disbursements $121 856.39, leaving a balance of $26,487.57 on January I. Max B. Nahm. vice president of the Citizens National Bank will be one of the speakers at the annual Board of Commerce banquet to be held at the Lafayette Hotel, Lexington, Tuesday night, January 18. Mr.

Nahm is an officer of the American Bankers Asso ciation and writer on banking sub jects. Mrs. Rebecea Boyd, 74 years old died today atr her home on the Porter Road. She is survived by four chii dren, Everett and Charles Boyd, Miss Cis Boyd and Mrs. Katie Lankser, all or this county.

Funeral services will be held at 11 o'clock tomorrow morn ing at Bethel Church Graveyard. Charles Southard, New York held Secretary of the Eye Sight Con servation Council of America, will ad dress the pupils of the city public schools January 19. This will be one of the series of addresses setting lortn tne losses which education and industry are said to suffer through neglect or the eyes of pupils and workers. Weatherly Edwards was arrested in Barren County by United States ueputy Marshal C. E.

Wade on a war rant issued by United States Com missioner B. S. Huntsman charging rum with having two half gallon kegs of intoxicating liquor. He gave a $300 bond and was released. Virgil Bishop, until recently a clerk at a Bowling Green hotel, was fined 100 and costs and sentenced to thirtv days in jail by City Judge V.

J. Pritchett this afternoon for having nquor in nis possession. witnesses against Ed and Willie Miller, charged with selling liquor, and Andrew Miller and wife, and Willie Miller, charged with obstructing justice, appeared Derore the January lirana jury. LaRue Farmer Is Found Dead Wife, Becoming Alarmed At Absence, Starts Hunt, Finds Body. Special to The Courier-Journal.

tioogensville, Jan. 7. William Fisher, 75 years old, was found dead at 9 clock this morning near his home nine miles north of here in LaRue County. He had been drag ging wood irom tne farm to his home. Hisl wife, becoming alarmed after he had been absent more than two hours, started a search for him and found him 300 yards from the house.

He was dead. Standing by him was the horse he had been using to haul wood. Besides his widow, he is survived bv two sons. Emmett Fisher, Lyons Sta tion, and Tom Fishery who lives at home, a uneral services will be held i faunday at the Rolling Fork Christian Church, the Rev. G.

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