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Kentucky Advocate from Danville, Kentucky • 1

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Kentucky Advocatei
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THE WEATHER Local thundershowers tonight and Wednesday somewhat cooler Wed nesday and in northwest por tonight KENTUCKY ADVOCATE DANVILLE'S LEADING NEWSPAPER OR YEARS OUR SERVICE Associated Press Wirt Service and Central Press News Pictures DANVILLE KY TUESDAY ATERNOON SEPT 15 1931 ESTABLISHED 1868 VOL LX No 317 1 Democrats Get 'f Deputies George Hogue and Claude Simms Have Most Thrilling Experience In Effort To Ar Aimee Elopes With Her Star Singer In Airplane He thought visit Danville and to show them all Clarence and Otto I a arniin1 TVwWlll points of interest around Danville ather Dies Central Press Telephoto Two Boys Shot at Moreland Claimed Department Centre College Will Advertise for Bids Allan McDowell Goodloc a could be paid this great college than to Some Big Tobacco Mr Pope the sterling Lan the Wants Increase Chamber of Commerce avors Limiting 1 Gar HABEAS tORPUS WRIT DENIED The number follows Walnut street from the railroad to Maple Avenue thence with Maple Avenue to Main and east on Main to Third and north cn Third to Lexington and thence to Camp Dick Robinson where the Junction with ederal Highway No Moreland Hustonville Liberty Dunn villc Russell Springs and JameMown latter place bieng as far south as the road is new completed was operated upon at the A Price Memorial Hospital in Harrods burg and at last reports was recover ing as satisfactorily as could be ex pected Then to add to the distress ar sorrow of this splendid family Virgil Elliott the little son of Mr and Mrs Price Elliott of Danville fell out of a tree and sustained very painful injuries These good folks have the sympathy of the Advocate In their hour of suffering and grief The registration as a whole will not be over for several days but the out look is much more encouraging than last year showing increased attendance phia applied by letter to the Dan ville Chamber of Commerce last night for information regarding the possi bility of his securing in Boyle county little farms for a settlement of one hundred Hungarian families Many This is reshman registration day at the Department of Cen tre College known to all Danvillians is the Kentucky College for Women ax IX Mr Price Elliott and family and Mr' Otto Elliott of Danville were called to Mercer county Saturday by the death of their father Mr Elliott one of the finest gentlemen to be found in that section of the state His daughter Mrs Leech of Sullivan Illinois was also at his bedside when the end came At the funeral Mrs Leech became violently 111 a Danville surgeon was hastily summoned and she was found to be a victim of appendicitis She A I By unanimous anproval the board of directors of the Chamber of Com merce last night complimented the City Council for its plan to limit the weight of trucks that roll the streets of Danville Last week a truck pass ed through from Lexington that car The Boyle County iscal Court met in regular session in its chamber in the court house this morning A full court was in attendance The court declined to ratify the action of the Board of Council in electing by unani mous vme ij nerron ror anomer ryville section riends of Squire Ban Minor a member of the court and as fine a gentleman as is to be found in Boyle county arc insisting that he put in a towns are limiting the weight of trucks to ten tons? The Chamber qt Commerce favors everything for tjie upbuilding of Danville and the pro 1 tection of her beautiful streets I afternoon Nine car loads of horses will be unloaded and fed near Danville depot uel McDowell wh3 was one of the sometime tne unamber oi uommerce founders of Presbyterianism in Ken should invite these fathers to Dan tucky and among the greatest pioneer ville and give them and their col leaders who ever trod the "wilder Icfio sons a great banquet empire of the west" has arrived Allan McDowell Goodloe is not only from St Louis to enter upon the a student of eminent standing but is prosecution of his studies as a mem one of the most artistic and compell ker of the Senior Class of 1932 He is ing entertainers to be found Alf I Taft Memorial Highway which runs I from Mackinac Michigan to Miami rus entire great mgnway is completed except two little gaps in Kentucky or ten solid years Mayor McIntyre has been I making a vigorous fight for the com 1 pletion of the gap in Russell and Clin i ton his ambitions with the UA great neip now ai nano is aooui iu be realized I Mr ant ond Mr McIntyre were named a committee to invite the I Ohio and Michigan visitors who at I tend the rankfort Road meeting to Young Mai Meets Horrible Death ST JOSEPH Mich Sept 15 (A Ch cult Judge Charles White to Mr armer: We have seed Rye Seed Wheat 9984 Purity Timothy ar mera Supply Co A The board of Governors of the sires that no double parking be per flsamkar nf fniriniarra In £lnn Laxt i night praised the City Council of Danville for enforcing the double decisions punishing all violator! rfthe Baptist church Rev parking ordinance The board de the double parking law Rev Garriott of Danville Accepts Praiseworthy Responsibility Then any one asking the direction to Lexington and Lancaster is often A the case they may be directed to follow No 34 until they reach No 27 Last week a party of tourists asked somebody on east Lexington street how to reach the business district 1 of Danville They were told 34 begins at Brumfield passes go on out this They obeyed One man's life another man's rep utation and two tender love affairs are delicately balanced one against the other in thrilling I drama of a professional ma Secret" which come to thei Kentucky Theatre Wed Leonidas nesday one day ojiiy Acted by an all star cast including Mr Walter ant 'member of Ing will be held at rankfort to furth the Board cf Governors of the Dan cr cau ot lh william Howard ville Chamber of Commerce and the IznAiun arvJ i tAnnlnr rlietrih utur of the celebrated Gulf Gasoline I made a wonderful talk at the meeting of the dircctois last night The force cf his remarks carried great weight as was easily recognized In the ex piesdcns of the members He dwelt upon the great importance to Dan ville cf the great north and south highway which is now almost com the mast important unfinished gap being between Jamestown and Albany He tolf hav eat communities had been enriched by tourists travel He also called to th attention of the and on a motor trip ta Shelby City board the unusual importance ot Danville as a historical center He stated that next Tuesday evening September 22 a great highway mcet Mcre than three years ago the Ken tucky Highway Commissioners at rankfort gave a number to the Lex ington pike at' The request of the Danville Club The State No 34 shows on all the maps Assisted vig erously by the Danville Chamber of Commerce the Danville Club has been 27 will be formed seeking for months to have these umbers erected but notification has just arrived that the numbers are now ready and will be erected at cnce The Chamber of Commerce last night decided upon the routing thru Nn through Mitchellsburg and Parksville and landed in Smoky Row and it was Lebanon not an easy matter xor mem io gdi out'" 1 pt' Lexington Road To Be Numbered In a ew State Highway No 34 Begins Brumfield and Ends at Camp Dick Robinson I a More Than 2000 Head of Stock Sold Yesterday One Hundred Hungarian amilies Seek Location in Boyle County Misfortunes Do Not Come The Elliott amily Have Their Share I Hon Ben Hines the prohibition enforcement officer of Somerset came to Danville yesterday afternoon to sell at public outci in front of the federal building automobiles which had been seized and confiscat ed in raids on rum runners Mr Hines said that a horrible wreck oc curred on the Danvflle Stanford Somerset Highway just out from Som erset Sutherland Sharp a well known young man of Science Hill wan headed toward Somerset on a motorcycle when he crashed into the car driven by Thomas letcher com I 'ing toward Danville brains I were knocked out and a great hole gouged through his body by an iron bar of some kind that was ex posed as a rseult of the wreck It is not known here who was to blame but the machines must have come to gether with great force It would take an entire issue of this newspa per to record the fatalities that have occurred in Kentucky the past week as the result of automobile accidents Danville has a world record for her traffic safety but the greatest care and' flood judgment should be used by local drivers The time has ar ved when the General Assembly should place motorcycle patrolmen at I tne disposal way Commission This traffic dan ger cannot bt looked after 1 the small sheriffs forces now available I in Kenutcky The twelve presiding elders in the Kentucky and Louisville Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church South have accepted leadership in their respective districts for the $660 090 Kentucky Methodist Education und campaign it was announced to day by John Howe general cam paign chairman These presiding elders and the dis tricts of which they are campaign chairmen follow Covington Rev Rose ort Thomas Danville Rev riott Danville Lexington Rev Moore Lexington Maysville Rev A Tague Paris Shelbyville Madison Ccmbs La Grange Bowling Green Rev Weldon Bowling Green Columbia Rev an the development ot me uatne i 1 field ot Perryville is ana compliment i fore the Board of Directors of the ed Mr aicock in tne nignest tomia i KEENE New Hampshire ept 15 Chamberot Commerce last mghtand js me Large airplane flying high and sought the cooperation of that body headed toward York over this in the federal monument unveiling at city this morning Appeared to have Perryville on October 8th He said ty Pontoons but markings not visiable that Senators Barkley Logan German and Austrian citizens settles vanja Hailroad defended proposed in at New Austria south west of June crease jn address today before Ohio lion City in Boyle county and many Valley shippers advisory board I or ineirz ivw there or have moved to Danvilleot) elsewhere They represent industri ous frugal citizens i Afee Columbia Elizabethtown Rev A Litchfield Louisville Henderson Rev Summer? Brinson Henderson Hopkinsville Rev Nicholson Hppkinsville Louisville Rev Kasey Louisville Owensboro Rev Robinson Owensboro These district chairmen will work Clive Brook Richard Arlen Charles with the grouo chairmen in their dis Rogers' ay Wray and Jean Arthur tricts in the 'building up of the or vivid story comes to life on the ganizatjon for the conduct of the fin screen "The Lawyers Secret is an ancial' program to raise $660000 for emotionally tense picturization of a Kentucky Wesleyan College at Win situation that might confront anyone Chester and Lindsey Wilson College in these days of complicated living at Columbia I who are striving to render the best possible service Mr Herron will to doubtless offer his candidacv before at i tne court as well as Mr Thomas De laney a fine gentleman of the Per 4 il 7 ryville section A Klllgiing BrOtnCS Will Stop and eed In Danville ant Makes Most Inspiring Talk Before Chamber of Commerce George Hogue Deputy Sheriff un coin County Hospital der Sheriff James Woods of Lin the man who fired the shot was coin County Manager of the Boyle Benedict and as soon as Hogue was Ccunty Stock Yards of Danville was cared for a posse was organized to mistaken for a highwayman at More return to Moreland and have it out land this morning and is in the Lin 'with Benedict About this time Mr' coin County Hospital with thirty A Sewell a high class Moreland buckshot in his abdomen citizen notified the office It all happened in this way: Edgar that two highwaymen had attacked Benedict is wanted on the charge of him while he was hunting squirrels having shot Elmer Rothwell and Er in his woodland The officers must a a a a 1 1 nest Jenkins at Moreland last oaiur day Sheriff James Woods dispatched' hi'i deputies George Hogue and Claude Simms to Moreland to place Benedict under arrest No serious trouble was feared The officers were informed that Bered'ct was hunting squirrels in a woodland near Moreland They went after him and called upon him to halt DRAMATIC ACTION AND STAR' ACTORS MAKE GREAT ILM Brilliant Young Man of the West Returns to Centre College i day denied the petition of August i Eirvlelnw iT riisrsfinfi A total of 2176 head of livestock i was sold at the Boyle County Stock Each year is yards Monday ollowing is the sale report: Receipts 479 top steers 50 top heifers fat cows Receipts 614 170 to 220 pounds $5 95 120 to 150 pounds 80 to 120 pounds $580 $650 250 to 300 pounds $575 Veal Receipts 283 tops $875 neconife 8750 A report comes frem Stanford that were returning home in their car a warrant has been issued by Judge When treated by Dr Pipes A Rice for the arrest of Edgar the well known Moreland surgeon I Benedict at Moreland charged with Rothwell was found to be suffering ihoctinr Elmer Rothwell and Ema' from snot wmen enwreu By unanimous vote last mght the rf Moreland Ehculder and side Jenkins dd not Chamber ot Commerce directed its had argument an4 get the full force of the charge but a secretary Judge Jay Harlan to Mr few shots eBtered his side and shoul write the Louisville and Nashville a 'fa emptied his shotgun at them they der and Southern Rallunvc remiActino delivery of all freight This re quest is in accord with the movement launched by the Bourbon Business Men's Association of Paris It is said to have met with favor by the and suppress undesirable railway compe off mals This is a movement tion uneral services were held yester day for Elliott 72 who died at his home Saturday in Mercer coun rm a I ty ne was tne son oi uiwi Chamber of Commerce raises City Betty carrier Einott of Washington 'county He is survived by his wife Council for Prohibiting Double Parking a Otto Elliott of Danville Mrs Leach of SuUivan Ind MU tSnahm VHItMi nt Mfrw roim I cilvL ijtttb iiu urtsuro paiisiiig grasac mltted in Danville and men chosen ty and Mrs rame of Bayard i jurymen to try violators In policy Kan uneral services were conduct court were appealed to render just ed at the home 'with the pastor of Knight officiating Burial was in Spring Hill cemetery at Harrodsburg It is not known what the attitude of the Board1 of Council will be but th eCoart and Council have always gotten along in the most amicable manner I Both the Council and the Court are term as joint work house keeper for high toned gentlemen the town and county On the other hands it was voted advertise for bids to be submitted the regular meeting in October the first Tuesday in that month It is not known whether the court proposes to award the position to the highest bidder or to accept the best bid offered by the man best fitted for the place The council in recent years has not been advertising for a keep bid for the position Squire Minor rho Ringling Brothers Circus is er was seen today but declined ta com to arrive at the Danville Many people think that all public ment on the situation from any angle gtatjon on de trip north at 3:40 this offices ought to be let out to the nis reputation as a oquire or uie highest and best bidder This would Court has been spotless and his con do away with disagreeable elections stituems are proud of his record for and save the taxpayers vast sums of what he has done for his district' money i( sm xen rdofet from ground Came from Northeas would be among the speakers The tern Coast rest Edgar Benedict Who Was Nowhere To Be A Sewell Mistakes Officers for Highwaymen and ires Charge of Buckshot at Them I The man thought the officers were highwaymen and wheeled around I quickly and when he saw drawn guns fired abuckshot which hit Hogue Simms carried Hogue from the field posse disbanded In the registration qf yesterday the Democrats seems to have gotten large majority of the registrants or 1 instance only one Republican! regis tered in the Court House precinct while only 12 registered in Precinct 22 which is the banner Republican District of the county There were rbout 200 registered all told Officers Return To Stanford and Organize a Posse While Sewell Calls Up and Says He Had Shot An Unknown Highwayman Comolete service four your car We now have a timing Gauge to correctly time portation of the 40 piece school band in connection with charges of parti vour motor Shewmaker boost Driesler Phone 146 VUVJ WA AUUW vq yv awwA A a son of Mr and Mrs Ward Goodloe those who attended the crowning of case Pke farmer brought a stalk St Lcuis His father was reared the queen on ield last June of tobacco just cut from his patch to in Danville and Is a graduate of Old will long remember Miss Loughridge the Advocate office yesterday The Centre Many of the are nnd his artistic demonstrations which slatk measures eght feet in height rens cf no greater tribute held the great audience spell bound an( carried thirty five big fine leaves Mr Hope leeis sure mat nis tobacco will weigh 2000 pounds to an acre descendant of the great Judge I for a'father to send his son here OAA A 4K Srmrtimp thn rhamhor nf Lambs Receip 800 tops 17201 750 medium common 5 Ci50 Most Sensational Episode On Record At Citizen Mistakes Of ficers or Highwaymen and ires On Them LOUISVflXE Ky Sept 15 (IP) Declaring fifteen percent increase in land enters Danville va railroad freight rates would merely pike crossing Inxrxil nf VAora Qtn AA Dr Shoewakter of Philadel I years ago a settlement of splendid Elisha Lee vice president of Pennsyl Great Event at Perryville October Ai nifreanc ctoHlfvf n11 1 I 1 National Cemetery Will Be Opened Al 1 AC 4VZ 4k taw naonla rAallT! kflUI imruM I non zUCwCn imilllzlUI I tltc ilia Iv yvjpiu AX IJIaa VLLaJ aa nr1 4 Via lav oi nnmani na Ha til Aw fjargft riallc IglllvU Battlertold of enyvine appeared oe It was written by a talented young newspaperman James Hilary inn Complete Service for your 0 '7 ier and acters from life Louis Gasnier and car We now nave Exide HX Marcnt the directorial geniuses1 Batteries Shewmaker who made of the put Me Driesler Phone 146 the story on the screen not have known either Sewell or Benedict and it was a case of mis taken identity So when the whole ep'sade was ex plained it came to light the officers tlA aiewAnruH nt nflP nac uruexeu use auuvu Sewell instead of Benedict Sewell like everybody else lias heard so much about bandits and holdup men that he thought he was the victim of desperate robbres when the officers thought they were arresting a viola tor Of course Mr Sewell knew he had committed no offense and was 'not dreaming of officers being pres tnti When the facts came to light the cf battle and rushed him to the Lin I Benedict is still at large 9 War Department has also been in vited to send Secretary Wilbur The Chamber ot commerce oy unaiiunuus acclaim decided to back the move ment to the limit provide free trans Winkler for a writ ot habeas corpus in uuimtxuoii wiui vnugv vi ptuvi the proposition from every an cipation in two and half million doL Mayor McIntyre stated Jar bank robbery In Lincoln Neb lt I OOlVJl ft Empties His Shotgun at Them Splendid Registration at Electrifying her closest friends opera in a cere bride and bridegroom are shown and associates Aimee Semple Me mony as dramatic as it was unex in the plane in the background Pherson the noted evangelist be pected They were married in a are Rolf McPherson son came the bride of David Hut cabin plane at Yuma Ariz by and hia bride of a few weeks ton Pasadena musician and more Miss Harriet Jordan minister and Mrs McPherson gave her age as recently leadine baritone in Mrs director ofAncelus temnleThe 38 the bridegroom cave his as30 iscal Court ails to Ratify Council's Will Ask Door Election of Work House Keeper Delivery 1 I.

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