Allen County News
Local, Personals,
etc., From Different Sections of the County, and Especially Scottville
Col. W. A. Drane has
been on the sick list for several days.
Riley A. Read has an addition of a boy to his family, of the usual weight.
Mr. R. G. Elllis will take his departure from our midst this week or next.
Miss K. Barlow has taken charge of a school near Cedar Springs, this county.
Miss Mary Miller, sister of the Rev. Chrisley Miller, died last week of
heart disease.
Mr. P.T. Martin proposes to sell his nice little cottage residence on
the west side of town.
Geo. Cowden, formerly of the town, now of Liberty, Casey county, was here
last week.
Dr. C. H. Alexander, of Louisville, came down last Friday to see his nephew,
Geo. Brown.
Emmett Foust and Hubert Carter, two of Lafayette's nicest boys, were here
last week, on business.
Jailer Myers is still killing rats, he has got his number up to 63, and
says there are more to follow.
John W. Martin, of Simpson county, is with his brother-in-law Geo. L.
Brown, owing to Mr. B's low state of health.
Dr. Fess Spilman has directed his family to get in readiness to make the
Lone Star State their home. He is very much taken with Texas.
Mr. Isaac Read and wife, nee Miss Allie Brown, was here several days last
week. Mr. R. is one of Barren's clever citizens.
The Slate & Boyd saw mill moves off this week with Wm. Graham at the
engine, which will be very advantageous to the county.
Miss Georgia A. Foster, daughter of ex-Representative J.W. Foster, of
the county, was united in marriage last week to Mr. Tom M. Dalton.
Rev. D. F. Kerr, J.E. Dalton and J.L. Cole are in Florida looking after
the beauties of the South with a view to purchasing some of them.
There has been going on a series of meetings for some length of time at
the Methodist church of this place, conducted by Rev. J.S. Chandler.
Our dental surgeon W. C. Richards is afflicted with a rising on his right
hand, caused from sticking a pin in his finger, and is undergoing an intensly
severe ordeal.
Mrs. Fog Pope, of West Allen, is seriously afflicted with an abscess and
is undergoing treatment at the hands of Drs. Neele and McCormack, of Warren,
and Dr. Walker, of this place.
We made mention of Dr. Jerome M. Glaze locating in the county and stated
that it was at Halfway, since which publication he has changed his mind
and has gone to Halifax in N.W. Allen.
Our clever Bowling Green mail man, Mr. S.C. Johnson, seems to be quite
unfortunate. His horses ran off last week while he was out of the hack
picking up his whip, completely demolishing it. This is the second occurrence
of the kind.
Our P. M., Geo. L. Brown, is yet very low with but few chances of his
recovery. He made his will last week which was drawn up by Attorney Alexander,
and his brother Scott Brown, will defere his trip South owing to his low
condition, unless he should get much better.
Mr. W.C. Carpenter, of our town, who has been seriously afflicted for
a number of years with kidney disease, and for the past twelve months
with nervous prostration to that extent he could not sleep of nights,
all the time suffering intense pain in the back, says he has been nearly
entirely cured by wearing an Eletro-Galvanic Belt.
Mrs. Malissa Rutland, of Nashville, is with her sister. Miss S. I. Mulligan
who has been very low with a feaver, but who is now convalescent. She
is accompanied by her niece Miss Cora Mulligan, daughter of ex-attorney
General T.C. Mulligan, of Gallatin, and one of Sumner county's most beautiful
and accomplished young ladies.
Chas. Nicoll bought of King Nicoll a three year old colt for $175.
Farmers think that wheat is beginning to come out a little in this section.
Mrs. Able and niece, Miss Neely Wilkins, paid Woodburn a flying visit.
The stock market has been very brisk here lately, a great deal of stock
changing hands.
Will Woodward's family moved last Friday. Mrs Harvey and daughter accompanying
them.
The new Cumberland Presbyterian church is about completed; it has cost,
something near $3,000.
Mr. Murray, the assistant telegraph operator at this place, has been visiting
relatives in Metcalfe county.
Farmers are about done sowing oats and burning plant beds, and a great
many are through breaking corn ground.
Mrs. Goodnight received the sad tidings of the death of her venerable
father, which took place in Allen county on Thusday.
Miss Jennie Blackburn, last Friday, received a telegram that her sister
was very ill in Louisville, and she hastened to her bed-side.
Jas. Merritt went to Memphis with a car load of horses and mules for Nicoll
& Nicoll. They have ordered them shipped back, as the prices are much
better here now than in Memphis.
Mr. Baird, a stock man from Shelbyville has been here for several days,
buying mules and horses. He bought a car load of mules from McElwain &
Cobb which are to be shipped today.
Dr. W. D. Robb, a highly respected physician of Woodburn, had a remarkable
dream a short time since. The dream lasted for several weeks beginning
each night where he left off the preceding one.
Little Lillian Venable met with a narrow escape Saturday night, she found
a bottle of croton oil, gave some to a little negro, and took a moderate
sized dose herself. She was well blistered and quite sick all night.
About fifteen months ago, a young man presented an order to J.W. Robb
for $4.75 from a very respectable farmer, a Mr. Tuck, of Simpson county.
Mr. Robb expecting to see Tuck on the following Monday, let him has the
money and did not mention the {???} to Tuck until last Monday, thinking
it was as good as a bank check, when he found to his great surprise the
order had been forged and the young man gone, no one knows where. Mr.
Robb says if the order had called for $25.00 he would have let him had
it.
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