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THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 1939. TIIE PASSING SHOW SECTION 3 Summary of the Week's "News Throughout Kentacky STATE BIUEGRASS NORTII CENTRAL It's Back to the Earth for the Dirt Farmers Would-Be-Assassin Wounds Judge Sewage Plant Planned Louisville. A man who appeared at the front door of his St. Matthews 1 A. Democratic nomination for 'Lieutenant Governor.

Mr. Baker was once a candidate for Mayor of Louisville, withdrew at the eleventh hour. home with' a brief case in his hand shot and wounded Circuit Louisville Grants Civil Liberties Under comparative headings, the, American Civil. Liberties. Union fated '332 cities! on civil-rights enjoyed in each.

Louisville was rated "good." Henderson, and New Albany, were rated "very good. Ashland, was rated f'fair." Lexington. City Council unanimously approved application lor a grant of $171,271 from the Works Progress Administration to help build an adequate sewer system in The Danville Board of Coun-cilmen, at a called meeting, de Judge Churchill Humphrey in the left thigh. The man, apparently a disgruntled party to a suit in the judge's court, fired three times, twq of the bullets going wild. The judge, limping slightly, conducted the business of his court, aided police the morning cided on immediate action to ob tain a sewage disposal plant and Incinerator for the city.

A com mittce was named to work with the consulting engineer on the after in their search for his as sailant. project, H. W. Taylor, New York City. The proposed plant will co approximately $100,000, will be located in the southern part of Danville near Clark's Run Creek.

In the presence of his brother, Neville Miller, former Mayor of Louisville, Shackelford Miller, was sworn in as United States District Judge for the Western he appointed last October to study operations of the Municipal Bureau of Social Service. The report opened with the recommendation a new Director of be appointed. A short time later Director of Welfare Solon F. Russell issued a twenty-six-page answer. Delegates from eleven States attended the Southern Conference for Music Education in Louisville.

Taylor sville Death Attributed to Flood Flood waters from Salt River and Brashears Creek swent into District of Kentucky. The oath was administered by United States Circuit Judge-El wood Hamilton, Judge Miller's predecessor on the district bench. There died: David C. Caldwell, 57, consulting engineer, formerly of the faculty of du Pont Manual Training High School, at Topeka, Kan. Mrs.

Anna Marie Shaw, 52, mother 'of R. Logan Shaw, reporter for. The, Courier-Journal at Louisville S. Reigel, 59, former transportation executive here for the Southern Railway, at Terre Haute, Ind. George D.

Lee, 79, commercial artist and landscape painter, at Louisville Oscar Kleinberg, 63, vice president of Congregation Adath, Jeshurun, at, Louisville C. Scott Stratton, 68, pitcher for the Louisville baseball club when it won the -pennant in the old twelve-team National League, at What formerly was the Bourbon Business -Men's Club became the Paris Chamber of Commerce at the club's annual banquet Wednesday night. Herman R. San-ten, president of the old club, was elected president of the new organization. Lisle Baker, treasurer of The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times, was the principal speaker.

He was introduced by Prof. Lee Kirkpat-rick, Paris Superintendent of Schools. Taylorsville, climbed to within three and one-half feet of the Kenluckiana Day Draws Thousands Thousands of persons representative of practically every section of Kentucky and Southern Indiana were in Louisville Thursday to celebrate Kentuckiana Day, sponsored by The Courier-Journal and Times. Norman E. Fallot, president of the Louisville Retail Merchants' Association, announced on- Friday that the day had provided the best spring 1937 flood mark, following three inches of rain in twelve hours.

Falling under a truck while help ing to move furniture from a flooded home. Will Stonp No am Louisville Mrs. R. S. Ballard, 64, at Holy Cross William Irving Jennings, 48, at Cropper Charles Tinker Thurman, 72, in Larue County William Henry Parker, 81, from burns suffered while he was attending a brush fire, in Shelby County Barton Mattingly, 74, farmer and stockman, in Washington County.

Farmers throughout the State are again turning their hands to the plow. One of them is Jake Ferraut, pictured on his father's farm five miles from Maysville. Photo by Reister. Bloomfield, was crushed to death. Political announcements mad in this area included that of W.T.

Mayor Joseph D. Scholtz released the report of a committee Baker of Shelby Ville for the The Commonwealth Passes In Review PURCHASE The Central Kentucky District of the Kentucky Association of Chiropractors met at Lexington, elected officers and paid tribute to Dr. David Daniel Palmer, founder of the science of chiro-practics. Dr. Paul Grainger, Be-rea, was elected governor of the district to succeed Dr.

E. C. Combs, also of Berea. The 27-year-old mother of eight children and wife of an unemployed laborer at Lexington paused from her other duties to heat a dishpan of water in order to bathe her baby. She placed the pan on the floor for the water to cool, and the baby fell into it while her back was turned.

The child, Kenneth Riley Stone, 21 months old, was. taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, where it died of burns. Move Made foy City Power Plant 1940 of a city-owned light and power plant; that the city's vot ers would defeat the ordinance with an eye on cheap T.V.A. J.

Lyter Donaldson of Carrollton, former member of the Kentucky Highway Commission and a leader in the movement to give Lieut. Gov. Keen Johnson the Democratic nomination for Governor, told the Associated Press in Washington that the Johnson forces "are for Barkley for President" in 1940. Hope that arrangements may be made for retaining C.C.C. camps in Kentucky was expressed in Washington by Conrad L.

Wirth, superintendent of recreation and land planning in the National Park Service. The Department of the Interior had ordered abandonment of camps in Henderson and Hopkins Counties. Kentucky's income for February was reported to be $2,062,136.37 for the general fund and $2,092,961.61 for the State Highway Department. Receipts for tne current fiscal year to date were said to be 6.6 per cent less than for the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. Judge Johnst Northcutt asserted he vainly had appealed to Governor Chandler for State aid to suppress gambling in Kenton County.

Chandler accused Northcutt of "squawking to get some political advertising." A group of Louisville merchants who protested a proposed forty-four-hour week would prove damaging to their businesses received from Industrial Relations Commissioner W. C. Burrow at Frankfort a promise he would "co-operate in every way possible." The Kentucky Unemployment Commission announced unemployment insurance benefit payments are flowing into the pockets of Kentucky workers at the rate of $10,000 a day, including Sundays. power. Paoucah.

Municipal power plant ownership advocates at Paducah forced a referendum for the coming November election on an ordinance calling for sale to the Kentucky Utilities Company of a twenty-year franchise, by presenting to the Board of City Commissioners a petition bearing names of 2,803 voters. The municipal ownership Marshall Countians were re ported all "het up" over, the pros Uncle Charley, 112, In Boxing Exhibition Startled were boxing fans at Fulton when the town's white-haired Negro character, "Uncle Charley," the only name he ha known for the last half century, climbed into the ring and put on a brisk three-minute shadow boxing exhibition. "Uncle Charley" is 112 years old. claims he has ample proof of his age. pect of catching up with their big city cousins through the installation of dial telephones.

Benton, Marshall County seat, would group maintained the vote would pave the way for establishment by Skunk Attacks Playing Boy A skunk can be dangerous In more ways than one. That was proven in 'Fleming County, and Dennie Ray Story, 2xk -year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Story, Grange City, was the victim. Little Dennie was playing In the yard of his home when a skunk ran up to him buried its teeth in the boy's leg.

There died: SOUTHEASTERN GREEN RIVER Dust Used to Quench Mine Blaze Paducah In its effort to acqulrn land for a $5,000,000 flood wall and levee system to protect the town from Ohio River floods, awarded four property owners Drive to Raise $250,000 Is Opened By Union College only $14,500 for the 49.3 acres in be the first Jackson Purchase town with a dial telephone system and would be one-up on Paducah. Standing in the way of the installation was a rate increase with the dial telephones. Chair Takes 105th, 106th Bonnie Griffin and Arnold Powell, Estill County, became the 105th and 106th -men respectively to die in Kentucky's electric chair, established in 1911 in State Penitentiary. They were electrocuted for the murder of Martha iShort and her-hus-band, late in 1937, at the couple's home near the Madison County line. the north section of the levee system which they had valued at $94,000.

by. 1 pellet was inches inches. Somerset. A drive for $250,000 was in Starts 49th Year As School Superintendent Charles Dudley has been re-elected, superintendent of the Henderson city schools for the nineteenth time. Previously he' served as superintendent thirty years at Corydon, Pembroke and Earlington, ten years at each town, a total of forty-eight years as school OWENSBORO.

Rock dust was used to extinguish a blaze in tlte North Diamond Mine of the West Kentucky Coal Company at Earling-ton before extensive damage was done. The blaze originated from a short-circuited electric wire. M. E. Burton was elected pres augurated by Union College of Barbourville, for, the erection of three new buildings a library, a ident of Somerset's Chamber of Commerce to succeed W.

H. Ramsey. Other officers elected were chapel and a new women's dor Keeling G. Pulliam, 77, former president of the Lexington Board of Aldermen, at Los Angeles Mrs. Mary Ireland Davis, Paris Patrolman James Magee, 54, Lexington Mrs.

Bertha Stevens Henry, 50, Lexington Emerson G. Barrow, 56, W.P.A. recreational supervisor, Danville Mrs. Ida Million Crosby, 69, Versailles William O'Hara, 74, Nicnolasville George Lear, 78, Bourbon County Mrs. F.

J. Hufnagle, Paris Mrs. May Young Carpenter, 50, Boyle County Hubert Wash, 29, Owenton Asher Hall, 65, Richmond Mrs. Mary E. Cochran.

93. Madison County Grant 51, Madison Alonzo Carter, vice president; E. Sears, treasurer; C. J. P.

Carver. Tom Tibbals. S. O. Newell mitory.

The program includes addition of $100,000. to the college's present endowment. Jerry, Infant son of Mr. and and W. H.

Ramsey, directors. 4 There died: Lauren Beckner Sigler, 68, Princeton John Underwood. 54, Calloway County Fiscal Court member, at Murray Dr. James M. Gillison, 68.

physiother- apist, Daviess County native, at Paducah William S. Cannon, 80, Murray Mrs. Lola Rives King, 41, Mayfield Mrs. Ina Adams. 73, Mayfield Mrs.

Pearl Payne Copeland, 52. Graves County Miss Evalya Curd, 24, Mayfield, at East St. Louis, 111. Mrs. James An Mrs.

William T. Rouse, fell from a second story window at the Frederica Apartment to a eoncrete The. Mayor and City Commis pavement in Owensboro, suffered sioners of Corbin passed an ordi bach. The son contended he was the only legal heir. Rodney Matthews, 30, Whitest ville, died in Owensboro of injuries suffered when the motorcycle he was riding crashed into a concrete wall on a bridge on Highway 60, east of Owensboro.

John C. Worsham resigned as city attorney, of Henderson and was succeeded by Leo A. King. James C. Buckman, 18, Union-town, enrollee in a C.C.C.

camo at Medford, was killed by a dynamite blast. Gap Mrs. Fanny Nebo Catherine Zent-mire, 90, Madisonville Arthur L. Hite, 65, formerly of Owensboro, at Louisville Clint Fitts, 87, Calhoun Edward R. Vanover, formerly of Owensboro, at Hollywood, Calif.

Mrs. Nina Cox Snook, 69, widow of J. F. Snook, Owensboro Mrs. Willie Tompkins, Owen-boro Dr.

W. B. Armendt, 84, pioneer de'ntisl, Owensboro Junius Bruner, 51, Owensboro G. P. Burgie, 58, Spotts-ville' Joseph C.

Brown, 67, only minor injuries. Broken Legs Run In Pairs Frank E. Groves, 69, of Columbus, Ohio, accidentally drove his car off an overhead bridge on U. S. 27 near Stearns, dropped fifty-seven feet to tracks of the Southern Railway in the path of an approaching train, but escaped without serious injury.

derson, 56, Wingo, Graves County nance prohibiting the weighing, stopping, measuring or delaying of trucks or passenger automobiles on the streets of Corbin by sheriffs, constables or policemen. Explanation was that the ordinance would protect the traveling motorists while they are within the city limits and will avoid con Miss Fannie Campbell, 61, Sturgis, recently went to the Kit Ballard, Fancy Farm. Graves County Mrs. Lula Maude Mathews, Paducah Sturgis hospital to visit a friend Mrs. Frances Orr, 84, Fredonia.

Caldwell County Alfred County Call, 62, Carlisle Andrew J. Mefford, 68, Stamping Ground Harry R. Butler. 55, Danville James Hudson, 73. Frankfort Wade Hampton Smith, 61, Lexington Mrs.

Margaret Coleman Bruner, P0. Scott County Mrs. Mary Sayre Williams, Lexington, at fea George W. Brown, Lexington Mrs. Melissa Oldham Veal, 83, Lexington.

who had a broken leg. Leaving the hospital, Miss Campbell fell gestion. Ireland. 70, Wickliffe, at Abcr down a stairway, broke a leg. Golf-Ball Hail Pellets City Hail the size of golf balls fell at Williamsburg Sunday night, according to Wade West, Government weather observer.

By Mrs. The Silver Beaver award, con Dock Evitts, Graham, have been TCount Elizabeth deen. Wash. Travis Jeffer son Byrd, 83, Mayfield Rob Jones, 64, Dixon ferred annually by Boy Scouts for With the $12,300,000 appropriation for start of work on the T.V.A. dam at Gilbertsville voted by Congress, workmen were put to work clearing timber from the right-of-way tot the permanent, all-weather road1 from U.

S. Highway 62, to the barrier. Come spring and warm weather, the dam force of 300 is to be swelled to nearly 450 to speed preliminary construction work. Paducahans joined their rural neighbors in celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the inauguration of a McCracken County farm extension program under which the county developed into the leading strawberry producing enter in the United States. Kentucky College of Agriculture Dean Thomas P.

Cooper and McCrack-en's first farm agent, E. J. Kil-patrick, joined the celebration. Elated were the parents of Solon Hale, 18, Murray, when they received word their son had been given an appointment to the United States Military Academy, West Point, through Kentucky's Congressman Noble J. Gregory, Mayfield.

McCracken Circuit Court juries, seeing the plight of the City of Joseph Ora Wedding, 25, ended designated committeemen to at rt E. Alexander, 45. Paducah his life at his farm near Owens outstanding service to boyhood, was presented to J. H. Bailey of actual measurement, he said, one boro by jumping into a well, according to a verdict by Henry tend the policy meeting of the United Mine Workers of America and a scale conference of the Appalachian Region in New York March 14.

Holinde, Daviess County Coroner. SOUTH CENTRAL Pineville, at the tenth annual meeting of the Upper Cumberland Area Council in Middlesboro. Mr. Bailey has been a member of the executive board of the Upper Cumberland Area for seven years. Henderson City schools, closed The body of James T.

Pugh, for a week because of illness, reopened Wednesday with 500 pupils still absent. Mrs. Martion Von Lehnen, 28, formerly of Henderson, in New York Mrs. L. J.

Dickerson, 24, Henderson W. L. Hall, 80, Madisonville Ben Porter, 66, Henderson Count William H. Jones, 76, Depoy Mrs. Sue Farley, 69, Daviess County Mrs.

Blanche Stone Bain, formerly of Hawesville, in Louisville Cates, 72, Mrs. Ellen King. 73, formerly of Henderson, at Evans-ville William Love Harris, 82, Hopkins County M. F. Ashby.

81, Hopkins County Mrs. Ernest Payne, 45, Reorganization Reopening Of Closed Bank Announced Mrs. Sallie Robertson, 77, Bard-well Mrs. Hele Carr Dye, 29. Paducah.

at Evansville P. K. Cooksey, 86, Kuttawa, Lyon County John Williams. 78, Murray N. G.

Pace, 18, Hardin, Marshall County, of influenza Willie Norsworthy, 50, Marshall County Mrs. Linn Hurt, 77, Marshall County 1 John F. McNabb, 80, Hardin Mrs. )livia Elliott, 39, Calloway County Mrs. Martha O.

Hughes. 93, Calloway County Jesse Shelton. 57, Calloway County Bud Haneline, 81, Calloway County. By a unanimous verdict of a 77, Henderson farmer, was found hanging in an outbuilding at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Roy Benson, near Robards.

He had been in declining health for several months. The body was discovered shortly after he had left the home. jury in the Breckinridge Circuit Court at Hardinsburg, the entire $18,000 estate of the late John Bowr.iNC Green Faber, Clovcrport, goes to his son, Add Evans Faber, Derba, 21-Year Sentence Given for Murder Ray Foley, 21, was found guilty of the murder of Tom Tinsley, 20, and was given a prisorl sentence of twenty-one years by a jury in Knox Circuit Court at Barbourville. Tinsley was slain in a knife fight last fall. Penn.

In his will Faber left the There died: Gaither Lovan, 43, Morton's estate to a nephew, J. P. Ditzen- Mrs. T. J.

Jones, was the winner. In Logan, Wilda Whitescarver, 12, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W-H. Whitescarver, and a pupil in the eighth grade at Lewisburg, captured the honors.

Playing his banjo all the while, Jerry Bullock, 57, resident of the Coal's Chapel section of Christian County, near the Hopkins County line, denied charges of NORTHEASTERN Closed pending investigation by State Banking Department officials, the Bank of Rocky Hill, in Edmonson County, was scheduled for reorganization and reopening, bank officers said. Porter B. Spillman, cashier for fourteen years, reported an illeged shortage of $21,000 over a period of three years. The loss was fully protected by insurance, the bank having only one depositor- with more than the $5,000 protected by the F.D.I.C. $65,000 Towboat Destroyed By Fire Near Maysville Parking meters as a possible solution of traffic problems in the business section of Harlan were considered by the Harlan City Council, but action was deferred, until later.

A few meters may be installed for a 90-day free trial period, the council was told. Ashland. arson on which he was arrested in the destruction by fire of a dwelling house in which he once lived. Bullock's accusers said he was angered because he was the agreement would be arrested for violation of the law. The James Nelson, a towboat owned by 6.

F. Shearer Sons, forced to move. Winchester, was destroyed by fire on the Ohio Rivor near Maysville There died: John Marshall Brunson, 45, Al len County Margie Lee Jack son, 23, Mannington, at Hopkins- Led by the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Pike-ville Ministerial 'Association, th drys of Pikeville petitioned the County Judge to call a local option election for May 4. The petition bore, the required 703 signatures. Damage was estimated at $65,000.

James Shearer, one of the owners, escaped to barges the boat was Barren County Farmer Wins Tobacco Prise Enriched by $75 was Jasper Cornelius of Coral Hill, Barren County, as a result of having had the best seasonal average for a crop of tobacco under 3,000 pounds on the floor of the 7th St. Warehouse, Louisville, during the 1938- ville, of burns Sam Terry, 72, For the third time in two years, John Houston, Middlesboro Negro, was sentenced to die in the' electric chair for the knife slaying of Lucy Williams. A Bell County jury reached its verdiot after deliberating only fifteen minutes. Twice before he has been given the maximum penalty, but the Court of Appeals each time set it aside. Hiseville Dave Walker, 89, Kelly, Christian County Mrs Martha A.

White, Hopkinsville towing. 3 Safely Pins Removed From Baby Leslie Hall, 8-month-old son ef Walter Hall, Globe, Carter County, Charles Cherry, 75, Warren County Ed Hite, 57, Christian County, at Hopkinsville C. F. Saunders, native of Simpson Coun 29 season. Burley growers from Kentucky, Southern Indiana and Illinois won $700 in prizes offered to develop the Louisville loose-leaf market.

was taken to Cincinnati where doctors removed three open safety Employes of the Ferguson Shops at Somerset were Work on a new Federal build- ing at Pikeville will begin within sixty days, according to announcement by George Pinson, postmaster. Cost of the building, which will be joined by an arch to the postoffice, has been estimated at $150,000. There died: Mrs. Harriet Clark, 64, at Ash ty, at Sebring, Fla. John W.

85, former Mayor, mm nirirr x-iw s.s i at Hopkinsville Richard Fowler, 37, Franklin policeman, in motorcycle automobile collision awarded a safety trophy at a dinner meeting Thursday by Southern Railway oficials. Their record for 1938 was the best of all Class A shops of the South near White House, Tenn. Jeff ern System. land. Mrs.

Green Ball, 56, at Ashland. W. Hutchinson, 70, Skaggs, Lawrence County. Mrs. Coonie Burchett Owens, 46, Ash There died: Mrs.

James P. Ferguson at Woman Suffers Fate She Dealt Shot and fatally wounded in the same room in which she shot and killed her first husband, John D. Steele, four years ago was Mrs. Josephine Caldwell Blackburn, 38, Boldman. The fatal wounds, police said, were inflicted by her husband, Tracy Blackburn, 28, allegedly intoxicated at the time.

Awarded a trip to the Junior Week at the University of Kentucky in June was Elmer Mc-Bride, 16, Park City, as a result of his accomplishments in the 4-H Tree Program for 1938. Elmer put in a planting of black locusts to halt soil erosion on his father's farm and also planted the home yard with sugar and red maples, pines and poplars and the orchards with fruit and nut trees. He can identify fifty native Kentucky trees, winter or summer. land. Mrs.

Everett Damron, Another old covered bridge, one of the few remaining in the State, at Lewisburg, Mason County, is doomed. In a few weeks it will be torn down for replacement by a modern concrete Structure. Photo by Reister. This Old Bridge To Be Replaced Corbin Joplin Hahn, 29, of Somerset, from shotgun wounds alleged inflicted by Charles Prattler, 50 Dewey Ballard, 30, in a coal mine accident near Barbourville William Beavers, 59, at Browns Creek, Whitley County, from gunshot wounds Will P. Tabor, 70, Allen County.

J. B. Thomas, 31, Barren County Mrs. Juliette Williams. 69, Cave City Mrs.

Nancy Flowers Grubbs, 76, Logan County George Green Madison, 91, Smith's Grove Mrs. Huldah Harlow Neville, 27, Warren County Mrs. Renie Compton Hatler, 69, Edmonson County George Crofton, 79, formerly of Bowling Green, at Elkton Charles W. EIrod, 76, Warren County Lee Witty, 72, Hopkinsville Mrs. Laura Belle Stem Cassaday, 66, Bowling Green Martin Boyd, 78, Logan County, at Franklin Mrs.

Beatrice Mar-cum. 29, Allen County. Fred C. Key, 70, native of Auburn, at St. Louis B.

B. Burchfield, 81, native of Warren County, at TIT TirMJ lVffn An UUUS Y1U11U1U I'll i-iwici I 1 3 3 .1 at Catlettsburg. Coy Wallin, 45, at Catlettsburg. Floyd Whitt, 63, Phelps, Pike County, 4 Mrs. Elva Hodge Harleson, 77, Stone, Pike County.

Thomas C. Thompson, 78, Chloe- Creek, Pike County. Marion Chapman, 84. at Belfry. Mrs.

Carrie L. Hammond Stark, at Maysville. Jnmes Eill. 83, at Maysville. F.

Caines, 61, Laurel Creek, Boyd County. W. Tenney, 53, at Russell. Mrs. Vina Stapleton, 91, Nippa, Johnson, County.

Mrs. Charit Scutchfield Beavers, 81, at Tres-tonaburg. Trnntman 2R at wiucn "da juukcu in ie iuuc leading to the child's lungs. burg Henry Skidmore. 66, at Martin's Fork, Harlan County, from accidental gunshot wounds display of firearms publicly and prohibiting, the sale of firearms except with written permission from the chief of police.

Maysville retailers- who sell liquor and beer at their rentau-rants have agreed to close said restaurants on Sundays. Police Chief Harry Stewart announced any retailer who failed to keep the field of the packhorse libraries. Books and other material are betng assembled at Prestonsburg for branches at Martin, Lackey and Wheelwright. Ashland Law Bans Sale of Firearms The Ashland City Commission enacted an ordinance the Legion and applied for a charter. It is estimated the squadron will ultimately have forty members.

Packhorse Librarian To Broaden Service Mrs. Grace Moore Burchett, W.P.A. library project supervisor for Floyd County, has announced her purpose to extend Warren, Logan Name Champion Spellers Warren and Logan Counties spelling bee champions for participation in the State bee in April at Louisville. In Warren County, Marie Jones, 13, pupil In the seventh grade at Richards-vilJe, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Mary Lewis, 83, at Green wood, McCreary County Mrs. Sons of Legion Unit Formed W. O. Johnson Post No. 89.

American Legion, Louisa, completed plans for the organization of a squadron of Sons of the Jane Mason, 90, at Somerset James Haynes, 38, formerly of Somerset, at Covington. 1.