Jackson, Kentucky - History (part 2 of 3)

Defy The Devil Himself

It is always an infinite delight to me to revisit Jackson City for there 1 meet men who in less than five minutes conversation upset the scheme of redemption and overthrow the plan of salvation. I meet the predatory bands, mulctors, the land pirates, the cannibals, and the criminologists all joy- ously enjoying living while they live a mighty good and wholesome doctrine : "Dum vivimus vivamus [ dum spsro spiro.'' Yes, there is the Hvest bunch at Jackson City heading for Dante's Seventeenth Hell I ever saw and I am always on the lookout for signs of health and vitality. I do not believe that there is a man among them who would let a trained nurse take his temperature or reckon his pulse if he were dying ; it would be considered effeminate and anti-Greek. That one of this tough and promising bunch would poke out his tongue to an amateur nurse would be rediculous.

After a conflagration there is an aftermath of good from the ill winds : At Jackson there were so many fire, smoke and sacrifice sales that one puzzles his locomotion in choosing between them.

ijackson is in the arid belt and in consequence of the water not being of the best it is a chase of the pop-shop and the dope-simp for tht headacy early riser and will it not in time mean a return to low license for the sale of beverage? There are sane people who are sick and tired of the intolerant rule of the Blue law bunch of bigots ; people see where the Plyffloth Rock and Rye Dance of Death would be preferable to the forty-'leven different kinds of Dopes now on sale; habit forming drugs.

Civil Engineering And Surveying

CIVIL ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING. Among the experts is civil engineering and survevmg, mav be found Messrs. Conley, Beuris and Kempt, all of whom maintain separate offices, and they have for years successfully done business on a large scale. Mr. Kempt has offices in the Crawford building and he is a brother of Mr. I. T. Kempt, the walnut stump expert who is connected with a Chicago veneering manufactory. Mr. Beuris has offices in the Harris

Jackson Plumbing & Machine Co

Mr. T. J. Turner of Harrodsburg, Ky., who was for several years the manager of the Cumberland Telephone Company and who recently resigned has embarked in the plumbing business with Mr. B. F. Hurst in the Jackson Plumbing and Machine Supply company and the firm has offices in the First National Bank building. Mr. Turner is the manager and that he will make good goes without saying. They will handle also American Radiators and Ideal Boilers. Steam and (iasoline engines, Sewer Pipe and Mill supplies and Burton's Domestic Supply Plants. This is now an important business and it will grow when a water system is put in. Mr. B. F. Hurst is of Richmond. This firm has now under contract a $15,000 job at the Wolf Valley Coal company near Jackson and they have the contract for eight cars of sewer pipe, heating and plumbing, etc. Several large brick buildings are now in process of construction, one by Mr. Porter Crain near the Hipp Theatre and Jackson is alive and moving at a lively gait.

The new firm has the best wishes of the entire business /community in its important undertaking and success awaits them sure for they deserve it.

Oscar A. Sears

One of the most active men in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky on foot, and intellectually, is Colonel Oscar A. Sears, a native of the Buckeye State, another "Ohio man" whose residence has been for the past nine years of the Great Development, at Jackson, Breathitt county - you've heard of it. Mr. Sears is a six footer, and is noted for his strides, as in Seven League Boots, and his feats of pedestrianism are remarka ,le over the mountain fastnesses, inspecting vast ereas of timber and coal lands, buying and leasing and dealing is thousands if rich acres for himself and his Eastern interests, a busv man ; here today, tomorrow in New York, or Boston, or Chicago. Everybody" knows Colonel Oscar Sears as the human motor, his pysical and mental energy being remarkable, and then, when Colonel Sears "knocks off," as it were, he is as bright and as charming and as playful as a sixteen-year-old ; the morning thereafter, astride a horse, booted and spurred, over the hills and far away. Some of his envious enemies, because he is a successful promoter, and a man of action who "does things" on a huge scale, are inclined to "knock" the Colonel, as a "wildcatter." in prodigious land deals and timber leases, but he is too busy, and too happy in his diligence in business, serving the Lord, to take notice of the envious crew who go snarling at his fast fyling heels. He is a type of men, taking the Emersonian aphorism, "Builded better than they knew," and his father was a product of Old Bay State, men who "Hitch their Wagon to a Star." and hence I felt immensely interested in the son ; out T had despaired of getting anything about him and his busy life in my poor little book, when Goddess of Chance smiled, and I "eaijght him on the fly," as they say in baseball parlance, making a dash out of the Phoenix Hotel (in Lexington ; which is redundant, for there is but one Phoenix); and holding him up at the point of a forty-eight caliber (metaphorically speaking), I forced him to disgorge the few and beggarly account of his life's chapters of which would be material for the fictionist and the romancist, no doubt.

Colonel Sears looks youthful and boyish in personal pulchritude, smooth shaven, florid in complexion, reddish flaxen hair, brown eyes not unlike the proud American eagle ; pleasing, vivacious in manner, quick and alert in speech, gallant and Chesterfieldian in meeting one and saying adieu, filled with nerve and pleasantries of speech, to meet him, one gets a revelation as to what men, heal men, can accomplish in the mountains, who say nothing about affairs that do not concern them, but saw wood while others loaf and invite their oversouls to loll, and take part, as it were, in small bier, and festering grudges and paralyzing feuds ; too momentous are affairs for him to indulge in such back number vagaries. More men of the type of Colonel Sears, with his wooden (?) nutmeg ances r "y so to speak, are needed in the vast and illimitable and undiscovered feilds of wealth, richer than the Klondike mines, are needed to wave the magic wand, and turn the barren places into gold, and make "sorry" vistas to blossom as the rose.

A brief biographical sketch and I will have done, leaving the photographer and the engraver to tell the reader at a glance, more than all of my weak efforts at. a pen picture of one among a hundred of powerful and influential "progressives" from the East, who are out-stripping our happy-go-lucky Kentucky financial plodders, who have not learned the lesson till too late, "Nothing venture, nothing have,'' in the battle of Big Business, and the Battle of life ; in the evolutionary struggle for existence, in which the timid and the weaker are inevitably forced to the wall. O, ye Kentucky Capitalists, "When found make a note on,"' and ye who procrastinate and temporize, "get a move on" before all the rich Eastern Kentucky prizes are preempted and nailed down by more enterprising "barbarians" of the effete (?) East, whose heralds, such men as Colonel Sears are. while you hoard your bags of gold and ruminate and suck your thumbs till too late, will be the dirge.

Oscar Sears is a superb specimen of physical and mental manhood (we are too busy to bother much as yet about -.e moral ethics of men ; but unfair and ungallant as it is, never too busy to put the test on the women) J a million dollar bachelor in his thirties, having first sailed his queer little craft into port without a stitch of riggin'. landing at Columbus, Ohio, June .4, 1874. Oscar attended "grammar schools" (such torture ought to be abolished) ; and later attended the I'niversity of Michigan. Oscar is a happy "cross" between Ohio and Massachusetts, nis mother who still lives being 'Tilda Clark of Ohio, his father E. Sears, deceased, an old Bay Stater, and Oscar was the fir -it born, there being two sisters, both married. Oscar A. Sears is the. John C. C. Mayo, the Second, of the glorious mountains ot far-famed and far-flung and far-fabled. Eastern Kentucky. Having traveled on foot, and on the hurricane deck of a mu-el. every bridle and porcine path, dear reader, if you want information at first hand from the Original Development Explorer, bearing the Torch of Progress aloft in his puissant hand, ask Oscar ; if you want to buy a thousand or tens of thousands of acres of "wealth," out-stripping the tales of the Argonauts, orthe '4<;ers or the wildest flights of fiction, see Oscar, for he does Protean feats in business, while others turn an hundred or ten acres and imagine they are real estaters. If you are fond of the Tales of the Arabian Nights, spend an evening wiUi Oscar, and if you've got a million "bucks'* in your jeans look sharp, or Oscar is the laddie to relieve you of it and then leave you rich beyond the boundaries of usury, or the troubled dreams of Dante's avaricious characters, who toil endlessly, to roll their bags of vulgar gold up the hills, to spill it all just before gaining the crest, never - never - n-e-v-e-r- - reaching a safe "landing.''

Mr. Sears has a suite of offices on the tenth floor of the Payette National Bank building, Lexington, Ky., and in his absence he is ably assisted by his stenographer. Miss Etta Thompson.

Green Haddin

the City Council. Mrs. Haddix was Mis Cora Landrum and they have two young daughters, Maurine and Eula, and one son Granville Howard. Mr. Haddix is one of the City School Trustees. Mr. Haddix was too successful as a staple and fancy grocer to remain long out of business. It was his stone and brick building on Main street that checked the fire up Main Street.

James H. Hammons

One of the best known and most popular men in the mountains » > f Eastern Kentucky is the subject of this sketch, rfe is an associate of Mayor Lewis Hays of the Jackson Real Estate and Insurance company. Jim Hammon as everybody calls him. was born in Lee county, near Proctor, October 6, ^8~2 and he says he was self taught. His father, John Hammons after being jailer of Lee county for eight years where he eventually mastered the culinary art of pleasing boarders. Had a southwestern experience in Oklahoma, soon to return and no longer to roam from his own fireside. He served Beattyville on the City Council and was chairman of the Republican county committee for ten years. Mrs. Hammons was Miss Alice Daniel of Proctor, Ky. They have two gifted daughters, Cleta, aged 15. and Eula, aged 13, both with highly trained musical education. Mr. Mammons is in the forefront of every public enterprise as a promoter and he is indentified with such secret orders as the Junior Order U. A. M., Masonic, and as side issues has been landlord of hotels at Jackson and Beattyville.

Mayor Lewis Hays, Jr

This spunky little Mayor who came up smiling after the fire fiend had swept Jackson city - said "we'll build better and bigger." - was born in Knott county, Aug. 6, 1870 and attended Hindman (iraded school and taught school for several years .n Knott and Breathitt counties. His father was James Hays of Floyd county and his mother was Matilda McDaniel, of Perry county. His wife was Lena Peyton of Washington. Hempstead county, Arkansas. There are two boys, Elmer and James.

Mayor Hays is a member of the Jackson Real Estate and Insurance company, which does a great volume of business throughout the mountain counties.

The clothing merchant of Jackson City, is I. N. Friedman who was burned out on Main street, but like all of lus remarkable race, he was soon, literally, on his feet again. But he has a remarkable wife who didn't mean to give up on account of one disaster. She was born in St. Petersburg, the Capitol of Russia. Mr. Friedman was also Russian, born at Bialistok. The busines is now conducted on Court street and he is a live advertiser and gets the business. They have one son. Carl, who is railroading, and two daughters, Mrs. Corinne Smoot, and Rosa Lee, who is in school. After successfully conducting: the business for fifteen years at Winchester, Ky., the Friedmans located in Jackson City, in April ion. Both Mr. and Mrs. Friedman were well born and well bred, and hence they speak our language fluently. Their young daughter Rosa Lee is a radiant beauty, for a young miss hardly in her teens.

Jere Robert Blake

Who owns more land and town lots and brick and stone buildings than any other man in Jackson City was born in Nicholas county August 23, 1866. His father was Elias Blake, and his mother, Nancy Hamilton, both of Nicholas. Mr. Blake taught school for three years when he went to farming on Lost Creek in Breathitt county then he entered merchandising, and he was for many years a clerk for Hargis Bros.

The J. R. Blake general merchandise concern has been established for many years and a few years ago he saw everything destroyed by fire, but be had the site and he had the reputation and today he is richer than when disaster befell him.

The store keeps Mr. Blake and Mrs. Blake and two clerks on the run. Clifton Balck and W. B. Landrum, both of whom have been with Mr. Blake for many years. Mrs. Blake was Miss Laura Hagins, a sister of Judge J. Wise Hagins. They have two daughters. Ida May and Martha, and one son, William. Mrs. Blake, who is a woman of rare intelligence and a sense of humor told me of meeting a gentleman at the table in a Louisville Hotel who affected surprise when she said that she resided at Jackson, who saw it from an exaggerated and distorted angle of vision of yellow press fabrications, who wanted to know if people didn't barricade themselves at nightfall, fearing to light even a tallow dip.

One of the most popular and successful business men of the Mountains of the younger generation, is Burns Elam, the manager of the Singer Sewing Machine company, whose handsome offices are in the Blake building, and where he is assisted by Miss Rachael Everage, and his brother, Melva Elam,

Kurns Elam's father, B. F. Elam is a remarkable man, and he . was fourteen years old before he ever heard of a Santa Claus, or wore two new shoes simultaneously. Elam pere, soon learned to read a little, and then attended a writing school and so apt was he that he was made Assistant, and soon was the whole thing. All of his sons, he taught to write, and only one, Emin Elam, editor of the Salyersville Mountaineer, shows that he couldn't learn to write legibly, for he was in a hurry, and at 21 years of age was writing fiction for newspapers and magazines.

Burns Elam had an experience at merchandising for a while when he went to selling the machines which demon- . strated that for centuries we were putting the "eye" through the wrong end of the needle. While in Jackson City, I was his guest, and indeed it was a happy home and he had married Miss Millie Day of Morgan county, a happy couple, an ideal case of natural selection. There was also Melva Elam, better known as "Ding." who had learned something of the printing craft in the offic e of the Breathitt County News in 191 1 when I was one of the "push," and there was the young Miss Carrie, just in her teens,, which made up the household on the Heights, and a happy time we made of it.

Burns Elam was born at Bloomington, Magoffin county, July 25. 1884. Besides being "county" educated, he took several correspondence school courses, and finally attended Hazel Green Academy, where. he took the Teachers' course, and taught successfully at subscription schools. He was blessed with a fine mother who was Miss Lucinda Pugh, and who is still in robust health; her father being Rev. Pugh, who is about the biggest man in the Mountains, and still survives, the Republicans 'having recently nominated him for State Senator.

"1 have been employed in the sewing machine business for the past three years with the Singer company, as salesman and collector, and like the work immensely. 1 have a verv good business here, for there has been over one hundred miles of new railroad just completed in this - the eastern section of the state.

fift of civilization, and without them the world could not go round. The railroad extends through good thither forests and coal fields, therefore making plenty of money in circulation.

Business 'has heen great for me in the past, but I expect a more profitable success in the near future on account of 'he helping hand the railroad affords us in the transportation of machines. No more pulling up hills and over field trucks, and so no more delay. Just like bosom friends, the railroad and the sewing machine will work together, ever ready to help each other to the best of their ability. |

1 found a curiosity general store in Jackson Citv conducted by W. L. Eversole and most successfully, too. I wondered how he ever found any of the many articles of merchandise, as it was a jumbled general stock, and one would have surmised that such disorder was the result of a disordered nr alienated mind ; but not so, for Mr. Eversole has a level head, and he explained why he did it that way. He was in a firetrap building that no enterprising insurance agent would write : not at exhorbhant rates, so he said that every day he had to pile about one-third of his stock on the sidewalk in order to squeeze himself in for action. He will some day have a commodious building. The method of his "madness" attracts crowds daily, of all classes and conditions ; and a great many of his customers obligingly wait on themselves, and he says that it is very rare that an article is stolen, for the natives are singularly honest.

Mr. Eversole was born in Perry county, but he didn't say whether his family participated in the I-'rench-Eversole feuds at Hazard. Abner Eversole, his father, was once Assessor of Perry county. He was a member of the Legislature in 1876. Mr. Eversole had held other offices; was Police Judge of Jackson City, and was in the Internal Revenue service. He was a guard at the State penitentiary for two years, and he was Deputy Sheriff of Perry County, and has been interested in timber and logging.

Henry Price Sewell

Is a son of Hon. G. W. Sewell and he was born in Jackson, Ky.. March 9, 1874, and he received his educational finish at Lees Institute when he entered merchandising with Hergis Bros, and Day Bros, for the past fifteen years. Miss Sewell was Miss Margaret Kash and they have two hopeful young sons, Frank K. and H. P., Jr. Mr. Sewell is a member of the City Council and he is an expert accountant.

Hon. Geo. W. Sewell

One of the most representative men of Jackson, prominently identified with every step in the evolution of the development of Jackson and Breathitt county is Geo. W. Sewell, an ex-Confederate soldier who was a member of the Orphan's Brigade for three years and who sustained three wounds. Mr. Sewell is also the father of a large family of sons nr>d daughters, all the sons in business.

Mr. Sewell was licensed to practice law years ago. He was a member of the Legislature 1883-4. He served the people in different official capacities, and is at present President of the Commercial Club. Thirty years ago he entered the Real Estate business and Kentucky Union company is still in existence. He was born at Tazewell. Tenn., Feb. 22. 1841. His cences and I spent several hours with him most profitably. He Margaret Harmon of Lewisburg, Virginia.

Mr. Sewell married Miss Elizabeth Spencer of Breathitt, now deceased. Mr. Sewell is filled with interesting reminiscences and I spent several hours with him most profitably. He told me of an old grist and carding mill on the Pan Handle, e-c.

Kash C. Williams

Kash C. Williams had just retired from the office of County Superintendent of schools and he was in the act of swinging his shingle as a limb o' the law when I had several pleasant interviews with (him and he made his office most inviting to me besides lending me his typewriter- - I mean his typewriting machine. I talked with him about the booming and bounding southwest and be took a look at Oklahoma and New Mexico to return satisfied to fight it out in grand old Breathitt county. His brother was appointed to a deputy collelctorsbip of Internal Revenue for the Eighth District, and so the pair of popular young men are contented.

Kash C. Williams, the retired County School Commissioner was born on Quicksand Creek, December 7, 1882. His father was G. V. Williams and his mother was Elizabeth Kash, both of Breathitt county. Kash Williams attended the local college Lees Institute and taught five terms. He was eLcted Superintendent of Schools and made a faithful official. Me was licensed to practice law. For several years he conducted the Imperial hotel. Mr. Williams went on a Southwestern trip this fall. Mr. Williams is single.

W. S. Canning

Surveying and civil engineering- is the pioneer in all progress, and there are a number of civil engineers at Jackson City, among them Mr. W. S. Canning, who has offices in the court house and who resides in a beautiful home, but who recently bought the choice lot in the Height's Addition, where ihe, some day, expects to rebuild something stunning in architectual beauty.

Mr. Canning was born in Pennsylvania in 1868 and he was educated in Sharon Hill public schools and took a course in Philadelphia. Mr. Canning operates as resident-manager of the Leete-Maupin Engineering company of Huntington, W. Va., and he was recently made inspector of construction of the rebuilt Breathitt county court house. His record in brief is as follows : Formerly with the Philadelphia and Reading Railway company ; Winnifrede and Carbon Coal companies : the Dickinson and Laing companies of West Virginia. Later was with the Tennessee & North Carolina railroad, and the Cache County Tennessee Pike Commission.

Civil Engineer Canning works mines, tipples, plant construction, washeries, coke ovens. He also furnishes analyses of coal and surveys coal and timber lands.

Mr. Canning was married to Miss Lula Boyd of West Virginia and *heir children are Lula D. and Winifrede. Mr. Canning is drawing 1 for much of the work for the burnt district and for a perfect system of water works for the Citv.

This dry goods firm is located in the First National Bank building and the firm is composed of Will Jett and Sam Je^t, Jr., and both are natives of Madison county. They are both efficient and urbane salesmen and do a large volume of business. W ill S. Jett married Miss Delia Mann of Breathitt county, and tihere are three sons and three daughters. June Jett is another brother, and he has a separate sketch. The father of tihe Jetts was Hiram Jett and their mother, Sarah E. Sewell, both of Breathitt county. Mrs. Sam Jett was Miss Evelyn Buech of Grand Rapids, Mich., who was formerly a teacher in Jackson. They have two young sons, Otis and Ivin. Mrs. Jett contributed the sketch in this book on the Social Side of lackson City.

June Jett

June Jett was horn near Richmond, Ky., and his mother Sarah J. Sewell was a half sister of Senator Alex Hargis, June attended high school and he taught school at Bowman school house. For years he has been with Hargis Bros, am- Day Bros. He was married to Miss Carrie Day, daughter of Wm. Day. June is secretary of the graded school and a Democratic committeeman. His great grand father, Tom Sewell, Sr.. built the first brick house east of Winchester and the Sewells and the Jetts were merchants on both sides. The lefts was connected with the history of the building of the City of Washington, it being John Jett. Sr., who was associated with the celebrated Frenchman L'Fnfant. who so admirablv laid off the Capitol City of the United States and to whose memory we were so tardy in giving a memorial recognition in the shape of a statue.

Their grand father's father, Stephen Jett. fought with Texas against Mexico when that state gained her independence ; his father. John Jett. Jr., was an officer in die navy durisg the Revolution and served as an officer on Mie "Manly Galley." June Jett's wife's mother, Mrs. Day, was formerly Miss Marion.of Virginia and a descendant of Francis Marion, and is a member-at-large of the D. A. R. A short sketch of the Jett Genealogy can be found in January Register "State Historical Society" printed at Frankfort, Ky.

Tilden Back

Tilden Hack is the champion "footer" of the mountains as a Singer Sewing Machine agent. He is broad of back, wilfl a chest like an athlete ; strong of wind, loin and limb ; and he is one of the livest wires in all the mountain country. It is no trouble, but play for Til to shoulder a machine weighing 150 pounds and carry a valise sometimes containing breakable "goods" where any mountain buck can meander and it's fun to hear his experiences. 1

He was born in Breathitt county. Dec. 7, 1876, at the mouth of Meat Scaffold, on Quicksand Creek, and formerly engaged in farming and saw milling. He got to Lees Institute and '\ven t through" in a jiffy. His father was Lewis C. Back ; his mother Samantha Cope, of the well known Cope family. Til married Miss Lydia Pugh of Magoffin county, and they have two sons and one daughter at last report. Thurman, Lewis and Viola. T regret that 1 couldn't bribe Til to give me his "tin-type" to decorate this imperfect sketch.

J! Frank Kash is one of the liveliest representatives of the spreading- chestnut tree family ; lively as a merchant and as a citizen, husband and father. One is not long in Jackson City before he sees or hears Frank Kash. for be it known that when it gets dull within the Blue Front, the busiest "corner" in the city, why Frank comes out and gives a Comanche veil, like the one that Mark Twain gave vent to while strolling down a crowded thoroughfare in London, when Twain said to his companion :

When Jackson City gets a little dull and Old Sorrel Top emerges some one possessed of the imp of the perverse says, "Frank, wake up." He not only does instanter, but he wakes the natives also. Frank Kash is a son of the late Dr. J. M. Kash and lie was born in Rowan county, July 26, 1874, and got his "manners" at Hazel Green Academy. His busy little wife was Miss Belle Salvers and they have two dutiful daughters. Elva aged 14, and Thelma aged 8 years.

Frank says Jackson City is getting to be too civilized md refined and "buttermilkish" and he says after another year he is going to some place where there is something doing to thrill a fellow's sluggish blood ; possibly Jessamine county, which held the record in 1013-4 for homicides according to Lecturer Louis Goforth the "booze" fighter.

Frank H. Riffle

Frank H. Riffle, pharmacist, is one man not unlike Mark Tapley, who comes up smiling under tlhe greatest difficulties, and T saw him a few days after the fire fiend had run him out. in cramped quarters, but the great and ample smile was there, as well as the merry twinkle in his dark < )riental wide-apart eyes. I though that here dwells anofher Polk Miller in obscuirty, but not by a graduate full, wasting his fragrance on the desert air. Frank told me some new jokes, and among them, that he was the son of a preacher, and that as he was slow and stupid, his father, who was an Ohio man - Frank having been born in Manchester, Ohio, Dec. 25, 1872, another Christmas gift - decided after moving to Mt. Olivet, Ky., to "farm" Frank out for a session at The Wilmore Holiness College, and so Frank went and saw, but uid not conquer Rev. Red Head John W. Hughes, the President at that time. Frank entered, but neither the santification vaccine, nor the baptism '"took." His matrimony did, however, and he married Miss Nora Owens of Nicholas county, and he has been in subjection ever since, there being four other Riffles on the waves to keep him in captivity.

His apothecary shop is the rendevous for all the roystering blades and wits of the town. Here's looking at him and his and when he gets awearying of selling salt rising bread pills, and pellets and potions, all he's got to do is to take the reconteur platform. He and his interesting family reside in a hansdome residence on Lincoln Avenue, contented and prosperous.

Captain Henry Collins

CAPTAIN HENRY COLLINS. Captain Henry Collins was born in Wythe county, Virginia, September 25, 1854, and came to Kentucky in 1880 and located in Madison county. He settled in Jackson, January 1, 1893. For many years he had been a section foreman on railroads. Since 1902 he has been a widower. He has one daughter. Margaret Collins, the wife of J. T. Flegle, of Omaha, Nebraska. Mr. Collins is spending his retirement in a m>st interesting manner. He has a chicken ranch, on College Ave., and in connection with it he deals in junk, hides, wool, feathers, beeswax, tallow, gingseng, furs, etc., but his chickens attract attention. He has flhe Rhode Island Reds, and he sells eggs by the settings and is kept busy. He has an office conveniently arranged, besides all the wire netting for (thickens. "Cap's'' thrift and industry keeps him free from the common complaint of middle aged and old people.

South Strong

South Strong, County Attorney, is strong by name and by nature, both physically and mentally, and he is as well and favorably known in Lexingtoon as in Jackson City, where he is now discharging the arduous duties of the office, and I hear, still "batching W though he was always exceedingly gay and debonaire and gallant with the ladies, t

South won the race with ease and aplomb, and just before the last election he was seriously injured as a fire fighter, and for days his life was despaired of ; but he, like all the Strnogs, is as tough as Joey Bagstock, and soon came out of the Valley of the Shadow, smiling.

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South was born on Lost Creek, April i, (no jest) 1879, and is the son of Green T. Strong and Evora Cardwell, daughter of John W. Cardwell. Both branches of the family were popular officials holding county offices. South went through the county schools and then the popular educator Pi of. Dickey took him in charge, and soon he is a cadet at Annapolis Naval Academy. Then he attended State College at Lexington, and in 1910 he graduated at law at Kentucky University. He taught in schools and colleges for twelve years. He has 'held all sorts of political honors, such as delegate to recent Baltimore Convention and has been Democratic Campaign Chairman; and it is believed that he may some day "roost" in the Halls of Congress. He is a gallant and fighting Democrat of course; everything in Breathitt county is strong on Jefferson Democracy.

County Attorney Strong is the great grandson of Jerry South, the Pioneer War Horse, who once was warden of the State Penitentiary and one of the oldest settlers and loyal Democrats of Eastern Kentucky. Mr. Strong is now waging a heavv campaign against lawlessness and for Good Roads and

Thomas Jefferson Turner

The former manager of the Telephone company was born is Washington county, April 15, 1864, and he has been in the telephone work for fifteen years, and during the recent fires he suffered several fractured "slats" and sustained internal injuries. He is a real (character, and was once a hero and saved a drowning girl and boy, at Chaplain, in Mercer county.

It was he, in collusion with Editor John Pulliam, of the Harrodsburg Herald, who kept the "Wild Man" story going through the daily newspapers for weeks. We have lost our voluminous notes, and what we write is from a defaulting memory. He is exceedingly popular and every bodv likes the lively jester and busisess hustler and they wouldn't hear of his resigning after his accident, and so he is on the job again.

Chester A. Bach

The subject of this sketch is a native son of Breathitt county and was born on Quicksand Creek on the 3rd day of October. 1878. Entering the public schools at an early age he soon acquired a thorough common school education and following his natural bent and fixed determination to prepare himself for greater usefulness and for broader fields of service he came to Jackson and matriculated as a student in Lees Collegiate Institute from which Institution he was later graduated with high honors.

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The call for volunteers upon the breaking out of the Spanish-American War changed his plans of pursuing his literary education in some leading university and so laying his books aside and putting aside his ambition to prosecute his studies further he went boldly to the front and like a true Kcntuckian and patriot followed the flag with that same zealous spirit that marks his daily acts in the peaceful paths of life.

Upon return from foreign service in the Philippine Islands he entered the Law school of Central Univeristy where he -Jistinguished himself in forensics and was an enthusiastic member of the Athletic Association. After finishing his Law course he returned to his native county and has since been engaged in the active practice of his chosen profession. Towering like a ijiant above his fellows he is a natural leader of men ; and his distinguished bearing and genial manners make him a great social favorite.

Chester Arthur Bach was born in Breathitt county, Oc'ober 3, 1882 and he entered Lees Institute and attended the law school of Central LTniversity at Danville in 1907. Mr. Bach taught common schools for several terms. He is chairman of the Democratic Campaign Committee and he has his law office- in the Hargis Bank building.

His mother was Martha Hagins. His father was once county judge. Mr. Bach saw some Philippine service. He was --non-commissioned sergeant, hospital corps, for three years. He was active in the reform of the Civic League of which lie was president. Chester Bach towers above six feet in stature and he is a social favorite, but skirts dangerously near the old "bach" zone.

This is a personal tribute to a friend : an appreciation : no advertisement ; but I am sure that anybody that knows me in the center of the Universe - Lexington - knows that I am a stickler for the ethics of the medical profession, and that I am, furthermore, a member of the broader Ethical Society of New York, over which Felix Adeler presides, and his understudy is Miss Eva Ingersoll, the gifted daughter of the late, noble Robert Gournsey Ingersoll, she being secretary ind treasurer and she sees that this mental vagrant's dues are paid up. for her brother-in-law, Pat Farrell - same name of our 1 Lexington Pat Farrell - who married her only sister, is a personal friend, and it was he who was present when the great philanthropist and noble philosopher drew his last breath, and forestalled cowled monk and priest from telling lies on Bob, the great Pagan and he said Bob's last words were : "It is better now."

Dr. Kiser is an eye and ear and nose and throat specialist and it is impossible for me to get a half-hour uninterrupted with him. for a tete-a-tete, on account of his patients.

Dr. Kiser is a man of deep sentiment : he is a child of Nature ; he is a poet. But he loves his profession and recently wrote a treatise oon adenoids, which ranks high in the profession. T put his name and picture in my poor book, as the beggarly tribute to his worth, as a man and a citizen and a surgeon despite the criticisms of the small fry for be it known that at Jackson City we now have one of the fines 1 ' of hoospitals, and as Trachoma is epidemic, and as he has been successful in its treatment following the treatment of the Government at Washington, not yielding one scintilla of his experience. I want him to set up a clinic for the treatment of the poor little boys and girls who are being led half-blind through the grand and noble mountains, and also through tne low lands of Ohio.

Dr. Kiser until recently occupied cloud-compelling offices in my late friend's offices,Byron McClelland's building - formerly a poor despised printer in Paris, Ky., - but he is now on the third floor of the building and in a suite of rooms therein.

He is first a scientific surgeon and author ; he was for four years a safe and conscientious coroner, and he would be coroner now but for the weak-kneed "fusionists" who put up ten when he said put up one hundred, and hence he is left to his patients while some one else will look after the cadavers.

As an elocutionist he is premier, and when I want surcease from the weary burdens and the lengthening chain which T draw, I sneak off to hear him "Recite Riley's poems better'ti

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A man who said he was from Hazard, "Pearl of the Mountains," went into the Phoenix Hotel bar and laying down ten cents on the counter, called for a drink of whiskey.

Riley ever could," as for instance, "That Old Sweetheart of Aline" and "Leonaine" which strangely, is not in any of the artistic volumes of the "Burns of America" which is a poor trihute to the matchless Hoosier Poet.

Dr. Kiser was born in Greenup county, Ky., August 27, 1868. He graduated in the Greenup high school 1891. He finisher his classical and medical education in Philadelphia. I Graduated from Kentucky School of Medicine in 1894. H« begun practice at Haverhill. Ohio. Established in Lexington 1901. Married Miss Jennie Butterfield, Ohio, 1902. There is one daughter, Mildred Genevieve Kiser, aged 7. Mother's maiden name was Mary A. Anglin : grand parents came from Virginia.

Nominated for the lower branch of the General Assembly by the Republicans of Fayette county in 1905 and made an admirable race. Dr. Kiser is prominently mentioned as a safe man for the Republican nomination for Governor, and should he be nominated and make an active canvass over the state his magnetic influence would smash many a slate in the back districts.

Dr. Kiser seeks no office ; he is contented in his dome .tic and professional life, but many men have honors thrust upon them and the only thing that stands as a retarding and insurmountable barrier to my support is that lie stands for a different party. I'm for Herbert Spencer's "Coming Slavery."

Isaac M. Broffit

Isaac M. Broffit was born in Bayrouth. Syria, in 1890 and immigrated to the I'nited States in 1901, landing at New York City on the M. D. Mr. Broffit is educated in the English language and has visited almost all the United States. He has been in business at Jellico. Tenn., Middlesboro. Ky., and several other places. He is now located at Jackson City. Ky., and in connectioon with the Jackson Real Estate and Insurance Agency. They write all kinds of insurance.

Chester Gourley

Chester Gourlev, prominent lawyer, son of Judge G. W. Gourley, was born at Beattyville, February 12, 1881. He enjoyed plenty of college training and took the LL. B. degree 1 at the University of Virginia and was admitted to practice it Mt. Sterling. His wife was Lydia Miller of Irvine, who is a social favorite. Mr. Gourley is one of the best known Eastern Kentucky attorneys and has a general practice over the twenty-third Judicial District. He represented all the Democrats in the election contest last November, 1913 in both county and district and won in every case, except one, which has not been finally decided.

Mr. Gourley will be a candidate for Commonwealth's Attorney, some of his friends say, and if he enters the lists he will doubtless be a winner.

Alfred M. Russell

This picture of Alfred Russell the popular and unbeaten County Clerk of Breathitt County is used by courtesy of Editor Mustek's Kentuckian, and it is a fair likeness of the urbane and efficient official, who has a proud lineage, which nas been traced by Eleanor Lexington. Mr. Russell has been a student of schools, business, and law colleges, he having at tended the Louisville Law sdhool. Me was born in Breathitt county, August 17, 1880. He is. of course, a Democrat, and he carries every precinct in the big county. Recently re-elected by the endorsement of both political parties, an unusual honor.

Virginia and is alive at the age of 72 years which he is spending farming and merchandising on Howard's Creek, Breathitt county ; his mother also still survives. She was Orlena Richie. Mrs. Russell's maiden name was Jane Deaton, and there are two daughters to bless their contented home, Alberta and Lillian. Mr. Russell has an interesting history, and the family has remarkably able men and women, some of them of the male line were killed in the Civil War, on the Confederate side of the great conflict. One of his ancestors fought at the Battle of Kings Mountain, and picked up an old Bible on the field which his uncle Abner Russell, has in his possession. The latter often assists the nephew as deputy, and he is also assisted by an expert stenographer, Miss Mollie Stidham. Should Mr. Russell tire of being County Clerk he would doubtless receive higher honors, winch he is fttlly qualified to protect, even in the Halls of Congress.

Wilgus Back

Wilgus Back, M. D., was born at Stevenson, Ky., Jan. 19, 1887. His father Hiram I). Back, a merchant tried to instil into his sons' mind that a country store would afford a better means of support than any other occupation or prof ;ssion which was within his reach.

Dr. Back received his preliminary education at Jackson and Berea. and was a teacher in Breathitt for five years. He entered a medical college Jan.* 1, 1906 and graduated with honors in 1910. and accepted his appointment as interne at the Good Samaritan Hospital at Lexington, Ky., for the years 1910-11.

Dr. Back came to Jackson three years ago, entering upon his duties as a physician and surgeon and from t)he very first proved himself capable of caring for all who came his way He has probably performed more surgical operations than any oth.?r surgeon in Eastern Kentucky, and in the near future expects to establish a hospital for his own private use. He is the surgeon for the Ohio & Kentucky and Louisville & Nashville railroads and medical examiner for at least a dozen insurance companies.

While he is an active member of the County, State and American Association, he is also enthusiastic over his Masonic and K. of P. lodge work.

Dr. Back was assistant teacher in operative anatomy and surgery in the University of Louisville during his college days and while he devotes his entire time to his profession, he is quite a progressive member of the City Council and favors the city's public improvements. To attest the popularity of Dr. Wilgus Back is the number of infants who bear his name.

Albert Sidney Johnson was born November to, 1872 in Breathitt county and graduated at Lees Collegiate Institute. He has had a varied and successful career. He was a -successful merchant for many years. His father, James John n, Sr., was a magistrate for five successive terms. "Sid" as everybody calls him is a prominent Republican politician, and is now engaged in the brokerage business. He is a stubborn fighter, but a game loser, and he did some plunging on the last November election, 191 3, in which he lost out. He has a handsome and mobile face, and no expert physiognomist could ever tell from his face or his movements or demeanor whether "Sid' had won or lost, for he makes it his philosophy to forget it. His mother was Mary Reynolds of Owsley county and his father and mother are both living in good health. I tried hard to get a photograph of the interesti-ig subject of this brief sketch but failed.

' Sid" is now in business at Jackson, buying and selling real estate, owns a pool and billiard hall and is a plunger in politics, a genial loser and free hearted winner. He was known as "General Albert Sidney" in the famous "Hogf-Back" election that so overwhelmingly defeated Judge Hargis in 1905, and it is said he won considerable money betting on the election - >he has always been known as a "plunger."

Robert Anderson Collier

As one "foots" it across the bridge, the first store always has a group in it and on the sidewalk, and it is a fancy grocery, fruit and soft drink stand presided over b\- Mr. Collier who is himself affable in manner and therefore very popular with men, women and children. Mr. Collier was born in Jackson county, December 15. 1875. Mr. Collier, who had had a former experience in merchandising settled in Jackson City in 1894 and there he married Miss Ida Jett. His father is Millard Fillmore Collier and his mother was Miss Mollie Rader of Jackson county and both reside in Kansas City.

The above named gentleman, it was our pleasure to meet several years ago, and he had sailed in every port, on a U. S. Government transport, to retire with honor and settle for "keeps" in Jackson City. Since we first saw him he has lost his wife by death, but his good mother survives, and looks after the promising progeny.

We found the gay widower installing a fine Seth Thomas clock in the square tower of the' court house, which was gratifying to me, for I advocated a clock among my other "reforms" as a Breathitt county editor, three years ago. It was the late lamented Benjamin Franklin, who amoiif so many wise saying that he wearier us said ; That time is the stuff that life is made of, and how better to mark its flight than bv a great public timepiece? We are glad to hear of friend Maupin's continued success, and you will find him down on Broadway, if he is not skylarking in that feverish quest of another member of the firm, a better /-8ths, as the old Hazel Green editor. Spencer Cooper used it in his own case ; he too, n >w being widowed with onlv a fraction of 7-8ths to offer to some "wise" one.

Thos. B. Talbot

Mr. T. B. Talbot who is now located in Jackson City is a Sunday school missionary for the West Lexington Presbytery and he is a busy little man too, for he has a big undertaking on his hands, in this day when boys read all the great dailies and the wonderful magazines of every class to be found in Jackson City and sold from 10 cents to 35 cents.

"The better the church is informed in the Bible, and the more attention it gives to the illumination of the unchurched multitudes, the more it ranks as a winner and does the real work of the Master. In the Sunday School is confessedly the greatest field for the Church to do this work. State authorities tell us that there are almost no inmates in the prisons who were systematic attendants upon the Sunday school during their youth. On the otfier hand some of our greatest citizens and statesmen point to the Sunday school as the plaice where they received their best impressions and noblest training."

Captain M. Testamon Back

As a striking contrast to "the man behind six notches on his gun" I desire to present Captain M. Testamon Back, expert marksman and dealer in general merchandise, whose marksmanship is at dumb instead of human targets. Captain Back is a modest, retiring, reticent gentleman and it was not until 1 left his stor e and came to Wilmore, Jessamine count)'. Kentucky to complete my '"copy" for my book that I learned he was Captain Back, by a sort of mental telephathv and so strong was the "manifestation" that I wrote him to tell me something more of the "Testamon" branch of the family.

He is not only the best shot in "Shootin' Breathitt" but he is the champion of Kentucky - holds the belt. The Kentucky Governor's match awarded to Captain Back represents the state's championship for 1913 in the rifle competition, held at Earlington. Ky., in which the clear-eyed, cool-headed highlander won over Tom Peyton, "the little jewel" of the Third Infantry. The match was won by only two points.

Captain Back is in the Ordnance Department as inspector of small arms practice and he is assigned to the Second Infantry Rifle team. Captain Back is engaged in general merchandising at Jackson and he is a successful merchant. The Jackson Armory was built before Jackson ever ha 1 a school house or a church and the first school was taught in this big building.

In reference to Captain Back the Henderson Daily Journal, over the signature of Lieutenant Clyde Grady says: "Captain Back is a quiet, unassuming man of ahout thirty-five years. I was with and near bim for three days before I learned his name. After getting acquainted I found this soldierly, modest, brother officer, to have a charming personality and he was a delightful conversationalist devoted to his woik in the Guard."

Colonel Duff

One of the cleverest and most knowledgeous citizens of Jackson City is Colonel Potter Duff who is sure to meet every stranger who has business at a livery stable or a hot-^I and he is thus a useful and a valuable man, for he is a bureau of information, and an interesting and witty person. If one wishes to traverse the mountains on horsebaick or mule back here is the "sign post" to consult as to best routes and best paths and safest way of reaching one's destination. Make it a point to form the acquaintance of Colonel Potter Duff who is a representative of the prominent and influential Duff family. Colonel Duff wont hurt you but he might skin you in a trade and then laugh at you.

Mitchell S. Crain

One of the most popular men in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky is Mitchell S. Grain, the big merchant of Jackson City whose mammoth store is by far greater in length and breadth and dimensions than any rival at the alleged "Gate City'' Winchester, and it compares favorably with the avvrage general store at Lexington.

"Mitch" Crain, as he is familiarly called, is a big fellow, a handsome fellow, not merely avoirdupoisely speaking, but big in brain and heart and big in general bigness without it adding to his grossness, and when it comes to popularity, he would be the most popular man in Jaickson City today but for one obstacle ; he is a Republican, but with no bitterness, and a hearty laugh in the arena of debate, wherein he excclls by apt illustrations and telling anecdotes.

"Mitch" Crain was born in Wolfe county, February 23, 1870, the son of Wm. C. Crain, a business man of integrity, and soon after he was in merchandising on his own hook. Like nearly all progressive and successful mountain men, Mitch Crain served his apprenticeship as a teacher of common sichools, and it was said that he was a good one. He soon saw the vast opportunities in "logging," so dense was forestry at that time, and he has never fully got weaned from that form of coining money. He once clerked at Campion in 1902 and he soon married Emily, the daughter of Thos. H. Combs, of one of the most prominent families of Kentucky. Today he he is again a widower at 43 years of age, but they do sav - let it pass.

The history of amusements in Jackson City, is the history of Joseph Ernest Stivers, the manager of the Hipp theatre, which gives the same class of movies and vaudeville as are seen at Lexington. Mr. Stivers was with the first shows given in Jackson and he organized the Hipp incorporated company.

Mr.' Stivers had been the agent here of the L. & E. railway for years and watched the evolution and transformation of fackson into a model little city.

J. E. Stivers was born near White Hall, the historic home of Cassius Marcellus Clay, in Madison county. September 27, 1869. when later he attended the Lexington public schools and later still was in general merchandising at Athens, Fayette county, then took a business course in a Lexington college and entered railroading witih the L. & N., and then the L. &

Mr. Stivers was married January 15, 1895, to Miss Lucille Beasley of Brown county, Ohio, who was a niece of the late Squire Beasley, the noted "marrying squire." Mrs. Stivers is educated and scholarly and they reside with their three children on Main street, the children being Katie May, aged S; Elijah P.. aged 6; and Virginia Mildred, aged 4 years respectively.

Stivers & Williams conducted the old People's theatre on Court street, when later the Hipp Company was organized, J. J. Crawford, president : T. M. Davidson, treasurer ; J. E. Stivers, secretary and manager.

The building is commodious with parquet and dress circle, and ample seating and stage capacity, and shows are given from 5 to to p. m. daily and Sunday.

Emory Cain

The manager of the Reliance Manufacturing company, is Mr. Emory Cain, and his able first assistant is Mr. G. B. Dulaney. a pair which forms a business copartnership on f he Damon and Pythias order for both men were originally from West Virginia and they were inseparable associates from boyhood ; both coming to Jackson City at the same time and both marrying and settling here for "keeps" as it were, for both have prospered pari passu.

The former was born near Parkersburg, Richie county, West Virginia. April 7, 1876, and he attended common schools, normal schools, and a school of telegraphy at Hicksville. Ohio, and for two years was an operator. Mr. Cain then taught in different schools for nearly ten years, when he became a graduate of a business college at Parksville. and later took a literary course. His father was James A. Cain, and his mother Mary Bond Doddridge, both of whom survive. His real business career in timber now began, and he mastered the business from the standing tree to the finished product, for he worked in every department winter and summer, and today the immense band saw mills of .the Reliance Manufacturing company are easily supervised and mastered in every detail. He, however, had a brief lull as a railroad clerk in the B. & O. railroad and eight years ago Ihe settled at Jackson City where he Mairried Miss Sewell. Recently a planing mill was added and today the business never stops

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R. E. Gillum is a prosperous furniture and carpet dealer and is the proprietor of the Jackson Bargain House, where Mrs. Gillum is constantly in attendance. Mr. Gillum may be related to the celebrated cartoonist Gillum, but he professes no talent of that sort. He does, however, know how to artistically design his own advertisements and I am glad to pay tribute to such talent for it is so rare. He was born on Troublesome Creek (more properly called Perilous), December 18, 1879 and he attended Lees Institute and thereafter taught four years when he went into merchandising at Jackson City. His establishment is on the corner of Court street and College avenue. Mrs. Gillum was Miss Georgia Robinon, and she is a native of Breathitt county, having been born near Quicksand. Tftie happy pair are blessed with three children, Grace. Fred and May.

N. J. Moore

N. J. Moore was born in Crittenden county and resided in Marion county before settling in Breathitt county at Jackson City. He is engaged in merchandising and has an interest in the stave industry. He was an ideal deputy sheriff for three years, and nobody ever gave him any trouble, and of course, he had no excuse for returning evil for good. Mrs. Moore was Miss Julia Calahan, and she is to the manor born. There is one bright daughter, Miss Florence Moore, who is a pupil in the city chool.

R. W. Edwards, more familiarly known as "Squire," I first met in 191 1, when he was the genial landlord of the old Thompson Hotel, which was destroyed by fire in October 7913, rvid in which I lost some valuable photographs and notes on biographies, as 1 had gone to Chicago temporarily, and didn't return until after the fire, and so, if any of the biographies are missing this loss accounts for them.

"Squire" Edwards had removed to Perry county, but T found instead Landlord Snovvden now confidential bookkeeper for Mitchell S. Crain. I wanted to see Edwards as I owed him a small board bill, for three days, I finally ran upon his smiling face and I knew him at a distance, but while ha knew my "exposure," he couldn't recall my name. He was "logging" and he smilingly said that he was doing a little "bootlegging" on the side as a diversion, but "only with the boys in the neighborhood" as Roy Bruner told of a notorious femnle ; n Jessamine county, who had been converted at a Holiness meeting at Chalybeate Springs. Otherwise she was reformed and converted.

Squire Edwards was born in Estill county on Miller's Creek March 27, 1877. His father was Alexander Edwards, of Lee county, Va. ; and his motiher was Sallie Amburgey of Letcher county. He was a school teacher and deputy sheriff for eight years in Perry county during the French-Eversole fuedal spectacle. His wife was Louannie Wootton and they have four daughters and one son.

Dr. Henry Lincoln Rader

One of the best known practitioners in Jackson City, is Dr. Rader, for he has seen a long and active practice; twenty years in Clay county and twenty years in Breathitt county. He was born at McKee Jackson county, October 27, 1866, and he is a graduate of Louisville School of Medicine. Mrs. Rader was Miss Sarah Combs, and with one son and two daughters they reside on Broadway. They are Minta, Ben and Florence. The Misses Rader are both gifted musicians and social favorites, and types of brunette beauty. And as for Master Ben Rader, he doesn't "drag," you bet.

J. W. Ford

J. W. Ford is the President of the Ohio Valley Tie Company, of Louisville, with office at Winchester where Mr. Ford is local manager. Mr. Ford is a partner of the Sewell- Ford Merchandising Company of Jackson City and he is a member of the Reliance Manufacturing Company of Jackson City, (band saw mills), and he is exceedingly popular and enterprising. We cannot do better than to quote from his modest letter:

"Dear Sir: - We met Mr. Beckner on the street and he asked that we give you some facts about our history and connection with Jackson and Eastern Kentucky. Not being a writer and not knowing just what is wanted will just give you some notes and you can use them as desired. I was born in Ohio County, this State, Feb. 18, 1863. Reared on the farm and got what education could from the district school; was married Oct. 6, 1887 to Mattie C Bruner of Hancock county, Ky. Went to Jackson and began business for Ohio Valley Tie Co. of Louisville, Sept. I, 1902. This business has amounted to several million dollars and has been profitable ; the people are our friends ; we would not leave them to go anywhere for justice in court or personally. We have several mills in and around there and expect to do much business there in the future. We moved our family to Winchester several years since to put our children in school, but since the schools of Jackson have improved so much, we often wish they were back there.

"Trusting you can get from these little hints what you want and saying you have our permision to use them or us to suit the occasion, am yours truly, J. W. FORD.

Mr. Roy Day

Mr. Roy Day, who is one of the most efficient and popular conductor on the Kentucky Traction and Terminal Company, is a product of Jackson City, Breathitt county, and is a scion of the prominent and influential Day family. Mr. Roy, as he is familiarly called, resides in Frankfort. Recently he met with his first accident, a fractured rib, but he is now

The author of this book formed Mr. Day's acquaintance several years ago and several times he has received favors at the hands of Roy for which he is thankful. Mr. Roy has our best wishes and he is surely in line for promotion and certainly is deserving of it.

He is pleasing and affable in manner, always master of himself and his car, even under the most trying circumstances and difficulties, and such men cannot be prized or praised too highly by the public which they serve so faithfully and well.

Blair McLin, the present efficient and popular Postmaster of Jackson City, was for many years chief salesman for Day Bros, and Floyd Day Co., Mr. McLin is interested in several mining and mineral companies in Letcher county and is associated with E. Karr Kilburn, an interprising realty man of Whitesburg. Blain McLin will doubtless lose the post office, but he will find something perhaps more profitable and not so exacting.

His assistant postmaster is Henry Hurst, and frequently Mrs. McLin and Mrs. Marcum (Mr. Hurst's sister) are used in the post office, as Jackson postal business is astonishingly large.

Calloway Howard

The subject of this sketch was born in Breathitt county, Sept. 1 8th, 1861, a little after the fall of Ft. Sumpter, but he was born storming the "breast works" for he was a lusty youngster. He resided and got his early schooling in Magoffin county, and after teaching the young mountain idea how to hit the mark he was licensed to practice law at Paintsville, better known as John G. Calhoun Mayo's town. He early had a predilection for medicine as one observes looking over his library. There are also evidences that he had a bias toward being a veterinarian, but this is misleading, for in his miscellaneous books are to be found treatises on horticulture and farming and landscape gardening, all of which serves to illustrate the varied talents which he now brings to bear upon the practice of his profession.

His law partner is the celebrated criminal lawyer, A. Floyd Byrd of Lexington, Ky., and they have offices, a suite of rooms, in the First National Bank building, Jackson, Ky. He served one term as clerk of the Magoffin Circuit Court, at the expiration of which he had charge of the Sheriff's office two terms, and later served as Judge of the Salyersville Police court. Like most active men he also had a successful experience in merchandising in Campton, Magoffin county.

Mrs. Howard was an Arnett, and she is an expert stenographer. They have one bright son, Max who has a talent for mechanics and inventions ; an interesting youngster, thirteen years old. He told me he would like to take a shot at the Huerta "greasers.' Mr. Howard's mother was a Farmer. He was not a graduate of any law school, but his extensive office practice fits him admirably for his profession. He is a solid, stockily built man, and stands high for fidelity and integrity, and is a very pleasant man to meet. We regret th-it lack of space forbids a more entended notice.

President Frost of Berea College in the Quarterly issued by that useful institution makes some extremely interesting statements. They go far toward confirming the frequently

Old English Stock In America

President Frost declares that in th e thirty-five counties of Eastern Kentucky there are to be found but 2,000 foreigners and 13,000 negroes in a total population of 561,881. In six counties only are there more than one hundred foreigners, and in sixteen counties there are less than 10. In only 5 counties do the Negroes exceed 1,000, and in twelve counties there are less than one hundred.

These are extremely interesting figures. They relate t« a section of the country which President Frost, using a selfcoined phrase, calls a superrural district, meaning thereby that the inhabitants live in remote locations where communication is infrequent. Here the original English and Scotch settler have reproduced their kind, generation after generation. It is said by investigators that many of the ancient English ballads are still preserved in practically their original form in the Kentucky mountains.

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The superrural districts are now, thanks to the public, awakening to the needs of popular education for the mountaineers; rapidly coming into closer touch with the outside world. The experiments with night schools for adults have met with amazing success. The old feuds are dying out. Moonshine whiskey is disappearing. Better ideas in household sanitation is being spread abroad. The fierce clan spirit is being turned away from the passion for destruction to better things. Thus in "The Land of Do-Without," as Kehhart has called it, a silent revolution is going on.

It is greatly to be hoped that the purity of this old Kentucky stock, which is high-spirited and passionately loyal to its own kin, will always be preserved.

A Pipe Dream

All Pipeville was agog. One of its citizens had paid the penalty that time exacts from all. Today his body was to be laid away in the cemetery, where soundly slept all those who had preceded him there. A life-long friend and intimate companion was going to pay an estimate, an appreciation, to his memory, at the grave. Pipeville was curious; what could any one have to say pleasant or instructive about one whose life had run at such an obtuse angle across the ways of thinking, the habits and custom of staid old Pipeville. There were those who had known him as a curly-haired boy, playing in the streets, the happy games of childhood. They had seen his growth to youthful ambition, the advent of 'eccentricity, the advance of hideous dissipation. They had been enlivened by his merry jest, and stung by his gibes, had suffered in their moral and religious make-up by the doings and sayings of this man upon whom nature had at last laid its heavy hand and brought to an' end an ill-spent life. What wonder is it that Pipeville was curious? or that the tongue of ever-busy gossip was wagging this way and that way in antic- ipative conjecture? The sleek and well-fed elder of the little church round the corner, whose chief aim in life was to purify the congregation, even if there was only one man left in it, remarked to the pastor of the flock across the way, that "the devil had at last come into possession of his own." Henry, the jovial carpenter, across Whose brain no sceptic thought had ever plowed its way, was of the opinion that his soul had flown into hell so fast that it whizzed. Dear old sister Betty remarked that in that other world he would have to wear asbestos socks if he cut his "high didos" there as was "his wont" when wearing this "mortal coil."

S - 1 - o - w - 1 - y t-o-l-I-e-d the bell from out the tower of that church which had sought to direct his footsteps in the way it would have him go - a sorrowful knell, as it were to one who had spurned its proffered salvation. As cortege wended its way through the streets, Skin, th e lawyer. Light Weight, the merchant, Hogs, the dispenses of liquids, and many other equally worthy citizens of Pipeville were "at attention." It seemed to be a day off, for all fell in and followed the remains to its soon-to-be last resting place beneath the green sod of Mother Earth. Silently the coffin was lowered into the open grave. That awful sound of falling clods had died away. Some one with a tender spot in his heart had laid a wreath of flowers upon the mound. Then the eyes of Pipeville turned to one who had stood bareheaded while these sad duties had been performing. His face was grave, his eyes moist from unshed tears. He lifted his hand as if imploring quiet and close attention, and with deliberation and clear enunciation he addressed them thus: "Friends. Brethren, - in that larger and broader sense that we are all members of a common humanity - as we stand here today beside this grave wherein we have covered up one who was a part and parcel of our community, it is well that we pause and reflect for a passing period of time, upon the birth, the life and that passing away which we call death. Standing here today, in this cemetery where we have laid away generation after generation, we are surrounded by one form of life, not any more familiar to us than another, but better understood because the grim necessities of our own life have caused us to study it more closely. Here the trees, the shrubs, the flowers and the weeds, each after its own particular way, sow their seed, that in aftertime may repeat in their individuality the same life that marked their ancestors. One of the peculiar characteristics of plant life is that the individual is rooted in the ground. Here it must gain or lose according to its circumstances and surroundings. It cannot go to another plant's aid, no plant can come to it. Single-handed and alon« the plant must work out its own salvation, even in deadly combat with its own brother. Heat and cold, drouth and moisture, sunshine and shade, work out their marvels, from this (here he stooped and picked up a flower from the grave) beautiful and fragrant rose, to yonder deadly night shade, with intervening shadings - from the useful and beautiful, to the ugly and noxious - all the helpless product of hide-bound circumstances. Some fifty years or more ago, another form of organic life, proceeding by that strange process of disconnection, placed one of its divisions in this community, he whose body lies there (pointing to grave). He came to follow, just as did the plant, the direction of inherited impetus, and to be moulded and shaped by circumstances and surroundings, even as was the plant. But, my friend, into what different set of circumstances was his individual advent! Away back yonder, in the dim and uncertain past, at the parting of the ways, his branch of the organic kingdom attained to, or fell hair to, freedom of movement. Intelligence, motion, are alige subject to the same general laws of nature, and here, as in plant life, inherent impulse and circumstances are the factors entering into the outcome of all that is. What shall we say con- cerning that inherent impetus, wrapped up in our friend when niature disconnected him from the parent stem and set him down an individual in Pipeville? Was the stock good or bad? Be that is it may, or just according as you may view it from your own peculiar standpoint,! pass it by as not being pertinent to my purpose. Th e shortest distance between two points is a straight line drawn from the one to the other ; as for instance, the road from Pipeville to the City of Sanity. If it had been convenient for the men who built that road, they would have run it upon the shortest line. But as you all know, some distance out there are a series of hills, and as a consequerice the road is one of many crooks and turns, up hill and down hill. So it was with our friend ; in traveling from birth to death he passed along the highways and byways of Pipeville, subject to its stress, its pull, its ambition good and bad, its ideals high and low. If there be anything in the theory of causation, and I think no one here will deny it, the life this friend of ours led from birth to death, with all its curious curves and eccentric capers, was the output, the outcome from the communal life her e in Pipeville. And you and I are component parts of that communal life. Stand, friends, and for a moment think for yourself and of yourselves. The most important thing in the background of individual existence is that in its early years its power of observation and reflection should be properly trained and given a moral perspective, so that in after years his judgment might be sound and his adjustment be more correctly made. Did Pipeville furnish the proper educational facilities to this intellectual crank? The answer to this question as given by the answer of that life, should bring the blush of shame to the cheek of every citizen of Pipeville. Did you object? Were you horrified at the drunken carousels that so sadly marked this career? Let that be answered by another question: Who licensed the oppurtunity? Who set the example? Was it the citizens of Pipeville or the man in the moon? Were you shocked at his moral turpitude? It has been said that crime is but the shadow of that still denser crime - poverty. Let not the man who enjoyed the fruits of his labor without giving him a just and adequate return for the same, 'throw the first stone.' Did his creed run contrary to thine own? Did his idea of the eternal fitness of things make the shivers run up and down your religious backbone? Thou knowest not what argument thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.' Many the times have I heard my friend repeat these lines : 'The world is full of good advice, Of prayer and praise and preaching" nice. But the generous souls that aid mankind Are scarce as hen teeth and as hard to find.' Life is a many-sided affair. The sweet is often mingled with the bitter. Behind the cloud the sun is shining. From the dark alleys and back streets of Pipeville, the electric light of progress may be seen, giving promise of a time when 'man's inhumanity to man' will cease, and each will become 'his brother's keeper.' This man and I, as you all know, were intimate friends, and I came to know him in all the fullness and roundnes of his life. I saw him as he was. Most of you no doubt saw the rough angles only. On many a pleasant evening, when life was in tune, and inherent impetus was pursuing the straight line, I have heard this man advance the highest ideals and give expression to the deepest and most intense longing for the good of humanity. 'That which a man longs for, THAT. HE IS, for one transcendent moment, before the present cold and bare can offer its sneering comment. Today I want to say to you that I feel profound sorrow for you, for myself, that this man's ideals were not lived in Pipeville . I bow my head out of respect, not for the man as you knew him, but for the man I am sure he would have been under other circumstances. If, in his daily walk, he fell short of his ideals,

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look not for the . the 'fault wholly in him,- rather contemplate yourselves as a factor in the great chain of circumstances that culminated in his tombment here."

Having finished, he turned and walked away by himself no doubt to enjoy himself by shaking hands with his vanity and to laugh at how he had "plugged the guys." Pipevillians returned to town with more or less haste. On the way back they discused the price of mules and "garden sass," the latest doings of Mary and John, the shape of "Mademoiselle High- Kick at the Vodville." The Rev. John Fourthly returned to his study to write a sermon on the goodness and mercy of "God." The sleek and well-fed elder of the church on the corner stopped on the way to inform Hogs, the dispensers of liquids, that his rent was past due. Skin, the lawyer, went to consult with a scoundrelly client how best they might relieve a widow and orphans the father and husband had left them. The scribe who so faithfully and truthfully( ?) recordeth these doings went up to the corner drug store and obtained some "hop" as food for another "Pipe Dream."

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Of heroines of fiction there is no end ; of heroines of fact there are many. Femininity is overflowing with romanticism where danger does not stare ; where hazard, the element of injury to limb or los jf life is to be faced, the woman's "weakness" laughs hysterically or feigns a faint, to shirk the impending danger, hidden or palpable.

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Hazard, Friday, February 7, 1913 which bids fair to shine amid the annals of heroic deeds of intrepid women to parallel the historic daring of the women led by Jemima Suggett at the siege of Bryan's Station, and yet the Ride of Pocahontas Morris from Hazard alone over twenty-four miles seems so commonplace here that it did not excite a ripple or provoke discussion.

Under ordinary conditions no one would comment on it till one is fully apprised of the real dangers that beset our fair towns-woman and horse-woman. Astride a horse of stamina ; of mettle of the pasture - her bifocal or bifurcated skirts tailored for the adventure, riding boots of dark tan, thonged nearly to the knees - the stirrups too short for graceful pose, but for the same protection short ones afford race riders - to hold on like grim death - Miss Pocahuntas waved adieu to the staff of the Hazard Herald and slowly disappeared - 'the mud in our streets accumulated by floods and from debris incident to excavating for so many new buildings in progress - started for Hyden, Leslie county, at 10 o'clock a. m., and at 7 p. m. came a telephone message that had arrived safe and sound.

The return trip, after a day spent in Hyden, was also made, and both the maiden and the horse - noble animal - seemed none the worse for the adventure - a mere business trip.

But hear the details of the story as it fell from the rosebud lips of Pocahuntas of the impending dangers, the thrills, the narrow margins of escapes, the obstacles, the vexations and the eternal feminine - the tears - the despair - the fear - the triumph.

"I stood the trip going remarkably well despite the cold ; for miles, when I began to chill, and my limbs to cramp in. torture from my stirrups being too short, and I watched despairingly, for a safe place to dismount and lengthen them, and be sure, perhaps, after a brisk walk to relieve my tremors and numbness, to remount: but I found no place to make me put my thoughts into effect. I put my horse into a brisk gallop to find new scenes on the zig-zagging road ; now steep, now declivitous ; slippery, where water had poured over the mountains to freeze ; forming cliffs above precipitous descents - narrow, washed-out places to overcome, for which my horse was "rough" shod - or despite my steady nerve and tight guiding hand, horse and rider would have been "goners" sure. At times the cliffs overhead hung so menacingly as to fill me with awe and fear - and more fright; then one danger

"Sometimes I would be lost in wonderment at the grandeur and magnificence of the lonely defiles, seldom meeting horse or genus homo ; now and then a stray cow claiming the lion's share of the road - long ascents and longer descents apparently; devious, circuitous, supertine in meanderings ;- built to conform to Nature, skirting narrow margins ; places that to pass in safety another person, one or both would have to dismount, or "back-back" as railroad men say in switching. Ever and anon there were evidences of avalanches from, it seemed, miles above, to the far, winding Cutchin Creek below ; tracks where millions of tons of rock and earth and rattling crags had crashed amid the thurder of the descent; places where I imagined it could occur and catch me and horse for swift destruction ; Grand Cumberland Mountains.

"Reaching Cutchin Creek, which by flood was out of its banks, I knew to hesitate would be to be lost; so dismounting I led the horse to an inviting "ford' to get stuck in a marshy place over my ankles. So overcome was I that I c-r-i-e-d and I cried and i cried, all in an incredibly short time, which seemed ages. Then in my desperation I gave the horse, which seemed so troubled and helpless, the lines, and plunged forward to safety, the poor animal from brute instinct following me with deep breathing and snorts of relief.

"Middlefork of the Kentucky River was yet to come - yes, here its was, and in blind desperation I plunged in. the horse swimming from bank to bank in an air line - then though wet were my feet, I felt all dangers of real gravity were passed and I plucked up my courage mightily, covering the distance between the ford or river at high tide ; and now I was racing, racing, racing. Darkness enveloped me, I trusted to sureness of horse and my Maker!

"Now that it was done I realized that it was worth much to m e in strengthening my courage and faith to face other life battles in the struggle for existence".

The return trip of Pocahontas was without adventure, interposition or intervention - and yet an incident gives the impression of near-romance.

She had company - a man whose attentions to the most trifling incidents excited her merry peels of ringing laughter and permeated her mind and soul with mirth. Many observations were mentally noted, to which she was indifferent or blind, now left indelible photographs on her mind and daguerrotypes played fantastic tricks on her sportive fancies and unbridled imagination. Lover of flowers and birds, of shrubbery and forestry, of streams and .cascades, she would be lost to see a sunburst on mountain sides glittering with prismatic gems ; here dazzling lights, there shadows portentous - the whole kaleidoscopic and magnificent. Here, there, below, above, Nature's ponderous and massive grandeur of knoll and knob and hill.

Here the denuded laurel, the frosty paw-paw, the struggling red bud. Here again the hardy pleadings of the honeysuckle and the ubiquitous rhododendron. Too splendid all for description or faintest adumbration - in feeble attempted portrature of fine writing.

Mr. Blank was a perfect gentleman ; (and so he was), from Chicago, representing a big syndicate, leasing timber lands, oil, coal and natural gas lands. Single? Married? Forget it. Hii name? Mr. H - that meant what?

After crossing the Hazard bridge over the great North Fork of the Kentucky River - they separated and Pocahuntas climbed the "Hill Difficulty," leaped from the saddle and rushing into the Hazard Herald office surprised the manager by throwing on the editor's desk, (though the paper flagstaffs no editor by name) a long list of new cash ''subs" taken in a romance of one day (which feat caused the cautious, editor of the Hyden Banner to exclaim "Is it p-p-p-ossible !")

It is the desire of Pocahontas to learn the printing business - the art from the bottom up. her b-u-r-n-i-n-g consuming love having its goal at the Society Editor's desk "of a great big paper like I seen once printed way off at L n."

Where does the medal come in? Well, patient readei, know ye not that the late editor, George Angell of Dumb Animals. Boston, left his big estate, after giving his noble life, to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals? Well, doesn't this bold, intripid mountain maiden deserve a medal for guiding that blind horse over forty miles to safety?

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James Lawrence McCoy, the handsome gentleman whose physiognomy heads this sketch, was born in Greenup county, Ky., in a more or less indefinite year (except to his most intimate friends), and was at once christened for the fellow who "didn't give up the ship," and from that day to this he has never been indicted for giving up the ship or anything else that he ever got a good grip on. Speaking seriously, Mr. McCoy was educated in the common schools of that country and time, raised on a small farm, enjoying all its characterforming pleasures and duties ; taught school for four or five

In 1890 lie went to Bell county with Hon. E. C. O'Rear, who was counsel for Elder H. Patterson and others, American and English people interested in the development of lands in most all of the mountain counties of the State. Bell county took advantage of his administrative abilities and made him superintendent of schools which position he filled with credit.

He became closely connected with Hon. D. G. Colspn, Hon. Vincent Boreing and other Republican leaders, and m 1897, by the united efforts, of Col. Colson and the late lamented Sam J. Roberts, was made one of the appraisers of Indian Lands in Northern Minnesota where he remained three years, coming back to Kentucky in 1900, a memorable year in Kentucky political annals.

He was chairman of the convention at Louisa which nominated Judge O'Rear for Judge of the Court of Appeads ; and he was with Mr. Yerkes when the latter made his tour of the hill section of the state in his race for Governor. The assistance of these men and Judge Boreing caused him to be appointed a Division Deputy Collector in the Eighth Collection District with headquarters at Jackson where he remained

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fourteen years; his conduct of the office being- satisfactory to Judge Denton, Judge Cooper, Col. Wiseman and Hon. John W. Hughes, the latter of whom dispensed with his services April ist last, simply as the result of the fortunes of war.

In 1908 he was chosen by Hon. R. H. Winn, Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee with the acquiescence of the other members, as vice-chairman of the Campaign Committee, and as such performed services that were satisfactory after the bitterest primary in history, which resulted in the party polling 237,000 votes for Mr. Taft. After the campaign Mr. McCoy was reappointed to his old place and held it until the time named above, losing it only as the result of the political cyclone that passed over the country in 1912, and which cyclone was the natural and inevitable result of the internal dissension found within the Republican party; differences which perhaps existed in an embryonic state within the party previous to the election and which quickly crystalized following Mr. Taft's elevation to the Presidency.

Mr. McCoy was in the midst of the "feud country" and its abnormal condition from 1902, but never became in any way connected therewith. Being a "hill-man" himself, he knows the highlander and his ways and, thinks that there are no setter people in the world, though frankly telling them and all others that they have their faults, the most serious of which will pass away with time. He says it is ridiculous that people should be afraid to come to Jackson City because of conditions there, as it is one of the most hospitable towns to strangers anywhere to be found.

Mr. McCoy, while somewhat of a partisan in politics, is very charitable and considerate of the opinions of others and sees good in all parties as he does in all men. For instance in the Panama Tolls question he is with the President and those who favor repeal although it seems that the Republicans and Progressives along with many Democrats are lin~d up on the other side.

Mr. McCoy is a Republican who does now and always has believed in Mr. Roosevelt, and is always ready to lake part in Teddy's defense no matter where the attack comes from. Mr. McCoy some years ago went to Armageddon" and proposes to stand and battle for the Lord under whosoever and what ever banner he finds the righteous man.

H e wants the Republicans to nominate Mr. Roosevelt in 1916, and expects to do all that he can in a modest way to bring about this result, in which he sees the reuniting of both branches of the party for which , he has worked so many years, and both branches of which contain so many of his

Mr. McCoy married the daughter of Dr. H. H. Lewis of ' Bath county, and their union has been blessed with three interesting children - children no longer now - a daughter the wife of W. Logan Shearer, Esq., of Lexington; Lewis Ayres, still single; and Edward Malcolm, who is in the same sad ix that his elder brother is in. Mr. McCoy and his wife make their home in Lexington, Ky., where they keep open house to their friends at 325 South Limestone street; but he has a very soft spot in his heart for Jackson City of which he stilt considers himself a loyal son and whose people he will ever number amongst his very best friends.

Mr. McCoy has, since this sketch was written, connected himself with some safe and popular financial companies (see display advertisement elsewhere V and will do what he can to disprove the general belief that men who have put in the best years of their lives in the Government Service cannot succeed at anything else. McCoy thinks different and expects to show that he can "come back" and make good.

Judge J. Wise Hag1Ns

I had the pleasure of forming the acquaintance of Judge J. Wise Hagins about fifteen years ago when there was a meeting of the Kentucky Press Association held in the Court House in Lexington, and at that time he had just established the Breathitt County News, which paper had spoken some plain words with the bark on them and we were expecting to hear of the bold and intrepid editor "biting the dust" at any moment, and in consequence, he was an attractive figure of the convention. Fortunately, he never had any serious trouble with any body, and his paper carried out several reforms and wielded a powerful influence, not only in Breathitt, but in surrounding mountain counties and it was conducted successfully for a number of years until he sold it to a stock company.

He was born on Quicksand Creek, June 13, 1861, after the firing on Fort Sumpter. Judge Hagins was educated in the common schools and attended school at Mt. Sterling, Ky., and Rose Hill Virginia for seven years, when he attended Cumberland College, and took the A. B. degree. He taught one year in this college, when he returned and was elected County Clerk for three successive terms. He served two terms as County Judge. Judge Hagins was elected County Attorney in 1905 and served as Town Trustee for several terms..

- His father was Wm. B. Hagins, born in the same house, on Quicksand, and his mother was Minerva Back, native of Breathitt. She died in 191 1 aged 75 years; father still living aged 78 years.

Judge Hagins was licensed to practice law in 1897. His brother A. Lee Hagins was Circuit Clerk for two terms in 1892 to 1903 and he died in November 1912, Another brother D. F. Hagins was County Superintendent of schools in Breathitt county, all three having been elected in 1897 on the same ticket. Mrs. Hagins was Minerva L. Parrott, and she

Judge Hagins has now retired from the practice of law and office holding, to a farm of 300 acres, on the rich Pan Bowl and has become a horticulturist. He put out 1600 fruit trees several years ago, now ready to bear, apple, peach, pear, plum, and he also has a fine chestnut grove. He has spraying machines. Since then twenty other large orchards have been set out by G. W. "Bud" Sewell, Miles Back and others.

Judge Hagins built the Arlington Hotel and conducted it from 1893 to 1902 when he sold it to Judge S. S. Taulbee, and it was afterward destroyed by fire. Judge Hagins took a trip to California in 1906. Now that he is only a little the rise of fifty and in good health, will the good people let him stay retired ?