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I a ftt bait unntp NtD 2 1 VOLUME 10 i COLUMBIA ADAIR COUNTY KENTUCKY WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 14 1906 NUMBER 1 JAMES HOLT RUS SELL COUNTY MAN I Arrested in Louisville Police Think Arrestedlie He is Implicated in Murder 11 James 0 Holt formerly of Russell 1 county has been arrested in Louisville and is being held as a suspect in onnection with the murder of Mrs irginia Etly last Thursday morning Thursday morning about one oclock Vs Virginia Etly wife of Mr Thom Etly a laborer was discovered with fr throat cut and skull caved in The sband and daughter were sleeping in an adjoining room and three children were in the same apartments with the murdered woman No trace of the person who committed the crime has I been found but the police strongly suspect Holt as the guilty party He bears a very unsavory reputation in that section of the city and has been arrested more than twenty times on various charges Wednesday after noon a 2 oclock Holt was released from the workhouse where he had been in arcerated for driving his wife and otherinlaw from home with threats murder them Immediately upon is release he made inquiries for his roily who had moved to get away rom him and stated that he intended kill his motherinlaw About 1130 oclock he was seen in the neighborhood of the Etly home in a half drunken condition a few minutes later a man was seen running from the direction of the murdered womans home hatless and as Holt cannot give an entirely clear account of himself he is held as a suspect During the evening he claimed to have lost his hat but cannot i remember where James 0 Holt is a native of Russell county and bore the reputation in that 1 section of a very dangerous man About twelve or fifteen years ago he murdered Milt Qoffey in a drinking house about two miles from Jamestown and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life During Gov Bradleys administration he was pardoned by Lieut Gov Worthington and we understand that he has since served a term in the State penitentiary 1 At one time Holt was a citizen of Columbia and he was generally regarded as a vicious gtii tempered and a man who knew no fear During his life in our town he was engaged in a number of quarrels and came very nei murdering one of our citizens VOTE IN ADAIR COUNTY 1 the Democratic Primary held Tues November 6th the following are the majorities received Beckham 575 Hager 669 Hendrick 532 Winfrey 133 Newman 386 iii Lie VV1 1GOJlJllCll 1Uh Gatliff the Democratic nominee carried Adair county by twentysix majority over his opponent Edwards Eld Tobias Huffaker the Prohibition nominee received 70 votes DEATH OF THOMAS THOMASSCOTT SCOTT A Native of Cumberland County but Died at Wade nd Ter Thos Scott was born in Scotts Bottom Cumberland county Ky March 4 1829 and until his removal in 1880 was one of the most successful farmers in that section He was twice married his first wife being Mrs Nancy Graves of Creelsboro and his second wife Miss Sarah Wilson of Adair county Twenty six years ago he moved with vjis family to Texas and settled on Leeds Prairie near Paris Last Winter ra sold his property there and spent the mmer and fall with his daughter Mrs Parkes of Denton Texas On Oct 18th accompanied hy his wife he started to Ky to spend the remainder of his days He stopped at Wade Ind Ter to visit another daughter Mrs Vaughan and 1V I while there contracted a severe cold which developed into pneumonia resulting in his death on the 28 of Oct Besides the daughters mentioned he leaves wife and one son McScott who is now city editor of the Pine Bluff Ark Daily Graphic He will return home with his mother as soon as he winds up his fathers business in the West BRICK WORK COMPLETED Mr Robt Casey the contractor has completed the brickwork on the new bank at Cane Valley and in a few days will put the finishing touches on the building When completed and the organization begins receiving deposits we will have four banks in Adair county The three institutions now in operation are doing a thriving business and we trust to hear a good report from the Bank of Cane Valley AZBlilSCHRAMM Wedding Will be Solemnized Thursday November 29th Invitations are out for the wedding of Miss Ethel Walcott Azbill and Mr Louis Edward Schramm Only relatives in town neighbors and a few friends are invited Dr and Mrs LaFayette Page Dr and Mrs I Blakeman of Indianapolis Miss Hermi na Schramm of Chicago Mr Henry Freese of Canton Ohio Mr and Mrs Frank Burr of Detroit Michigan and Mrs Mollie Williams and her daughter Miss Ruth Williams of Campbellsville are the house guests expected Miss Azbill was born in Columbia and although much of her life has been I spent elsewhere it may be said that I Columbia has always been her home She was educated at the University of Illinois where she specialized in Library science She afterwards became assistant librarian in the State Normal School of Wisconsin and later a member of the staff of the Cleveland Public LibrariesMr Mr Schramm was born and reared in Cleveland Ohio He is of German descent his father being a member of a family still influentialin the Provinz Hanover Germany The Elder Mr Schramm upon completing his course i in Heidelburg University came to i America and settled in Cleveland while it was yeta young city and there reared and educated his family Mr Louis Edward Schrammis a member of the firm of Landesman Hersheimer wholesale cloak manufacturers in Cleveland Ohio CHAPMAN WILBORN Miss Lillie Chapman and Mr Robt Wilborn of the Glenville neighborhood were married at the residence of the officiating minister Eld Williams in this city last afternoon Miss Chapman is a daughter of the late Uapt Chapman and a sister of Messrs John and Basil Chapman She is a very popular young lady Mr Wilborn is an industrious and energetic young man and has many friends throughout the county The News extends congratulations REMOVED TO TEXAS SamR Wheat and wife left Monday evening for their new home at Irving Dallas county Texas Mr Wheat was one of the best known of the younger farmers in Adair county He and stimable wife nee Miss Dunbar have a large circle of friends who regret their departure Mr Wheat will engage in stock raising in Texas FAITH AND BE JASUS A Scotchman named McLean was boasting of his family and said that the McLeans had lived before the flood Well said one of his audience I never heard of the name of McLean having been in the ark Noahs Ark7 returned McLean in contempt Whoever heard of a McLean that did not have a boat of his own and paddle it to his own notion The farmers Institute for Jamestown Russell county is in session todayWed nesday and Thursday 4 i ADAIR COUNTY FARMERS INSTITUTE Organized Monday and Tuesday November 12th and 13th About fifty or sixty of Adair county farmers met in the courthouse Monday November 12th in pursuance to a call from Commissioner of Agriculture Vreeland and organized the Adair county Farmers Institute with the following named gentleman as officers for the coming year President HB Garnett of Columbia Vice Presidents Walkup of Glensfork A Feese of Cane Va ley and Dononey Jr Columbia Secretary Robt Todd Columbia Treasurer Flowers of Bliss The lecturers senthere by the Commissioner of Agriculture were Messrs Walker of Hopkinsville and Lowell Roudebush of New Richmond Ohio After the organization was perfected Monday Mr Roundebush made a very instructive and interesting talk on Why Farmers Should Raise Sheep and Feeding Stock for Profit Following this lecture Mr Walker was the next speaker with Maintaining and Increasing Fertility of Soil for his subject Many questions were asked which showed that farmers of Adair are unusually interested in these subjects At the evening session Mr Walker gave a lecture on How to Build and Maintain Good Roads and from the interest manifested it is pain to be seen that Adair county is at last awakening to the incalculable value of good roads Mr Roudebush lectured on The Clouds In and Above Them which was so well received that he was forced to give another lecture Uncle Sams Land of the Midnight Sun Both of these talks were from a scientific view and were pleasing in tertaining and very instructtive Tuesday morning the Institute was i called to order by Vice President Walkup and a committee appointed to arrange the time place and program for the next meeting Up to the time of going to press the committee had notre ported After the business had been transacted Mr Roundebush lectured on Alfalfa and was followed by Mr Walker with the subject of The Selection of Seed CornCorn its Care and Management We think the organization of the Farmers Institute one of the best steps for the advancement of the agricultural interests in Adair county and we hope that at its next meeting many new names will enrolled GRINSTEAD CO Poultry and Commission Merchants Open Branch House in Columbia The Grinstead Co doing a Poultry and Commission business who conducted a house here last Winter have reopened their heardquarters and are ready for the trade They have secured the Hutchinson house and Messrs Perry Hutchinson and Richard Durham of Saloma Taylor county are in charge both these gentlemen have had experience and are well up in their business Wagons will be kept continually on the road and a large share of the trade in confidently expected Mr Durham has secured rooms in the Columbia Christian College building and he and his mother are now citizens of our town STRAYED A dark jersey cow with a bell on Anyone finding her and putting her up will get paid for their trouble by addressing ARTHUR TAYLOR CAMP KNOX Ky 12t STRAYED A listed barrow weighs about 60 pounds crop off right ear and hole Under bit in the left ear short tail Has been gone about a week Anyone finding it will please put it up and let me 1T I know at Columbia and I will pay them I for their trouble JOHN MURRELL coli Burkesville pike mile from courthouse 12t Reports from the various sections of Adair and adjoining counties show that valuable improvments in dwellings barns etc are being made and that I many new and handsome homes are being i erected erectedMr Mr Cravens recently bought one lot of oak timber from Absher one lot of same from Drewry Moore mixed lot ofoakand popular from Robt Montgomery and a bunch of oak and popular from Wilson Johnson Ac I ELIDA NEW MEXICO An Interesting letter From Mr Edward Robertson Hoping you have loom in your paper to publish a few lines I will attempt to let my friends know how I am liking New Mexico We are always glad when Saturday comes each one being anxious to rgad the News It is always a welcomed letter as it has a warm place in my heart I am glad to hear your schools are flourishing and realestate still booming I hope Columbia will be fortunate enough to get a railroad in the near future I hope my mother is enjoying her visit but I beg to state that we will not visit there soon as the Spectator seems to think New Mexico is a good place having its advantages and disadvantages as all places do The climate is the finest I ever lived in but Iwill never get used to the Western wind The alti of New Mexico is about 3000 feet We have had a few heavy rains since my arrival here and wheat is looking fine most ready to pasture Crops are fairly good This place is like all others a hustling man can make some money here but the honey is just beyond This was election day but everything passed quietly and the Democrats elected every county officer It was quite different from our county election last Fall in Adair I mean The school facilities is a great drawback to the West not being so good as in the East We are blessed with good I neighbors such as Mr Robert Gris I som Mr McClister Mr Burbridge and sons Mr Nunn Mr Joe Taylor and sons Dr Murrell and family We are located in the Pecos Valley within eight miles of a thriving railroad town Dry Farming is proving to be a success in Roosevelt county but there is no water like Kentucky and Tennessee water We have fairly good water which I am proud of Have good health as usual which is a great blessing I hope my dear aunt will improve fast and soon regain her health As this is my first to the News I will ring off EDWARD ROBERTSON PAID 1ST The News Honor Roll Is Your Name Written ThereU May Wilmore Young Newby Conover Bell GH Henson Elias Wethington Peyton Bell Bu Wethington Bennett Ezekiel Wethington Boss Wethington Montgomery Goode Fair Lester Dr Hammonds Jones Rubarts Vaughan John Vaughan Kinnaird Mitchell JR England Neat Wheat George Page BERKSHIRES FOR SALE If you want a fine brood sow why not not buya berkshire Two of as fine gilts as you ever saw Price 900 each or 1000 with certificate of register Call on HARRIS As rapidly as the stone can be quarried and crushed it will be placed on one of the main thoroughfares of the town The council was a little slow in starting but they are making permanent roads I A 1 GIVE US RURAL ROUTES Adair County Should Not be Left Out on this Scoref Why content ourselves with the old order of things and do without the advantages the Government is willing to give just for the asking There ought to be six or eight free rural routes centering into Columbia The citizens of Adaircoun ty are as justly entitled to have daily mail at their doors as any people between the Oceans Free rural routes ought to be establishd throughout this section They would prove of great i worth to Columbia and the country and would bring to this section several thousand dollars annually to meet the expense of the service There is no need of futher waiting and the proper legal steps should be taken at once We are ready and willing to join the procession in fact if a move is not made at an early date we expect to stir a little on this line if it is even a game of going it alone Better mail facilities will bring us all closer together Our neighboring town of Russell Springs seems in a very thriving condition Many new residences are in course of construction the population materilly increasing and business generally in a very prosperous condition FOR SALE OR RENTA dwelling of 5 rooms and 5 acres of ground one mile West of Columbia Desirable home Call on or address 51tf11rs KRATZER Columbia Ky Our old friend Mr Horace Alexander has been elected City Judge at Burksville without opposition Glidewell defeated McCandless for City Marshal by 51 votes The Somerset Mountaineer paia our townsman Judge Jones a nice compliment in placing his name at the head of their columns to be voted for in the race for Appellate Judge The old sorrel horse belonging to Mr McCaffree died last Friday from botts Old Bob was at least 20 years old and filled many useful places in the service of his owner Dont you know that a graded Public Scnool would add more to the growth and prosperity of the town than any other investment of double the cost that Columbians could make Wilson left last Thursday for the Louisville stock yards with a carload of fat swine The porkers were loaded at Greensburg I will pay for old corn 50 cents per I bushel 40 cents for new and 70 cents for good wheat either at mill or Rasners Store in Columbia ColumbiaJ STAPP Rev vv mine oi voiutaun livered I a very fine discourse at the Presbyterian church Sunday morning last Green County Record With a clean folder and new tapes we present the News this week in clean and compact form brim full and running over The two rural routes in Taylor county are giving splendid satisfaction Isnt it about time something was coming to old Adair Mr Rasner will deliver meal flour or shipstuff in any quantity inside of Columbia Call on him 12t STAPP The Misses Eubank are having an excellent trade and wish to thank the public New hats are added every week Give them a callIIt If this issue proves that the News in its new form is worth one send us your subscription In Cumberland county the voters decided that cattle should run at large by the majority of 357 Our Holiday Goods will begin to arrive in a few days Watch our Win dowse522t RUSSELL Go A splendid jersey cow with young calf for sa REED 1lt I 1.