Licking Valley Courier, 1911-11-23

Indiana, recently, and was as astounded - tounded astounded at the tax the people of that county willingly paid for good roads. In Clinton town township - ship township the road tax alone is $1.10 on the hundred dollars more than our State and county , taxes but they get good roads. They are condemning and abandoning gravel roads that we would call ideal, on account of slight grades, and rebuilding with .limestone macadam, and after plans equal railroad grading in the engineer engineering. - ing. engineering. As a matter of topograph topographical - ical topographical necessity we can not elimi elimi-the - the elimi-the hills, but scientific engineer engineering - ing engineering would so overcome them that good grades could be obtained. It will . cost money to build good roads, but they are worth

.. V DINGUS. ' Born, to the wife : of Elbert Nickell. a girl Casey May. Mrs. Susan Bailey has return returned - ed returned home after in extended visit to Caney and West Liberty. Dolph Day, of Lenox, and Miss Elf ra Osborn were quietly married at the home of the writ writer - er writer on the 18th, by RevFerguson. Also, on the 19th, . Tony Osborn and Miss Hoyt Williams were united by Rev. C. W. Patrick. , H.'C. Ferguson is suffering from an attack of la grippe, 'Squire Blevins spent a few days last week at Frankfort. Manford Baily is at Lexington this week on business. B. F, Gillum has moved on U. S. Fraley's farm. ' - One of the largest coal veins in Eastern Kentucky was recent recently - ly recently discovered on the lands of E. D. and A. L. Gillum, and a tract

' received. . . 8. Votes once Issued to one co.itest co.itest-y - y co.itest-y aijt-t'annot' be transfered to another. 8'i Contestants ae Requested to give " lare'calpt for all collections received. v i . ,7.1 .,AII collections mu8t.be in Mil of-; ;. fli'e one week from the 'date they 'are' secured or votes wHl no.t.,be allpwed-. ', 9. 'Cdtitest manager's signature must, be attached to votes before they are of any value la the contest, 78. Any question arising lu regard to the contest will he nettled by the con con-- - - con-- test manager' uud bis decision will he

would have left out a lot of the troublesome, things, and quite likely overlooked making most of the good things. We ace waiting for some house household - hold household economic sharp to tell us how to keep the baby from kick kicking - ing kicking all the bedclothes off in the middle of the night. We are mighty happy to relate that the Little Woman has never yet made the Architect a Christ Christmas - mas Christmas present manufactured after the directions Jfor a "Beautiful

Sam Lykins, deputy warden of the penitentiary at Frankfort, is here attending court here .:: J. T. Hanks, a urbane "Knight of the Grip" of Camptori,' was at the Commercial Inn Monday. , Jo M. Kendall returned Mon Monday - day Monday from a visit to relatives in Montgomery and Clark counties. Dr H. V. Nickell has ( recently removed to the Cecil property on the S. E. corner of Main' and Prestonsburg. , , . Messeis. W. F. and Gl .V. Ly. kins, of Grassv creek, i were in!

it. Good roads bring the mar market - ket market for your products to your door, saves you from isolation and gives you many of the ad advantages - vantages advantages of city life without any of its disadvantages. They great greatly - ly greatly enhance the value of your property. In the Indiana county above named when the work of build building - ing building good roads began, land was selling at from twenty to forty dollars per acre, now it rates at

the pupils of the High School was a success in every way and largely attended. Some of the -pupils showed a remarkable his histrionic - trionic histrionic talent and all who attend-, td were well pleased. Miss Scott is to be congratulated . on the manner in which she trained the pupils. We haven't space to deaj individually with those who participated, much as we would like to give the pupils the indi individual - vidual individual credit they deserve.

was had by the boys. . They were lined up a hundred yards from the trees and the one who ran to his tree and returned first was to receive a nice book. Clayton Callahan was first and Green Wade Vance second. John Harvey was in a fight on Cow creek Saturday and was se seriously - riously seriously cut in the back several times. I There are several houses in this district where the Licking Valley Courier is unknown. If you will only . send in a trial