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The Citizen=times, 1928-12-27

The front page of 1928-12-27. 2,837 words, read by machine from the Library of Congress scan and reproduced without correction.

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Mayo Trad will be opened to traf- fle about January 1st Kentucky's total production of to tobacco - bacco tobacco of all types In 1928 estimated at 299577000 pounds Louisville - Improved conditions at Home for aged and Infirm being considered Danville - Highway leading from here to Cumberland River formally opened to traffic Danville - Local Chamber of Com- merce sponsors proposed new Cen- tral Highway through Lebanon ani Marion County Wickliffe - Flegle Lumber Co of Bardwell establishes branch here Bardwell - Central States Power & Light Corporation will extend four-inch water main from north end of present pipe line to school building Greenville - Oil activity in Muh Muhlenberg - lenberg Muhlenberg County continues Frankfort - State Highway Com Commission - mission Commission plans construction Mam- j moth Cave National Highway Danville - Celebration held here on opening of Daniel Boone Trail from Louisville to Middlesboro Harrodsburg - $180000 appropri appropriated - ated appropriated for construction of new Fed Federal - eral Federal Building and Postoffice here Louisville - New 11-story Commo Commodore - dore Commodore Apartments completed at cost of approximately $1000000 Paris - Bourbon County members of Burley Cooperative Marketing Association recently met to discuss opening of loose leaf tobacco floors here Raceland - New 12-room school building dedicated Hickman - Construction of levees in river project near here progres progressing - sing progressing rapidly Lawrenceburg - Improvements made in Interior of McAfee Hard Hardware - ware Hardware Co's store Earlington - New mortuary open opened - ed opened In remodeled postoffice building Glasgow - New community hos hospital - pital hospital nears completion Frankfort - Bids will be opened by State Highway Commission for construction of Beaver Dam-Caney-ville road for distance of 102 miles Kentucky com crop this season estimated at 74313000 bushels Glasgow - New overall factory here will be completed and In op operation - eration operation by December 20th Louiville - Louisville Se Nashville Railroad Co will expend over $10 $10-500000 - 500000 $10-500000 for new equipment and rails this coming year Danville - Four large tobacco warehouses In this city receiving to tobacco - bacco tobacco Elizabethtown - New Kroger gro grocery - cery grocery and meat market formally op opened - ened opened Lexington - Consolidated Coach Corporation Inaugurates sleeper bus service from here through Dan Danville - ville Danville to Chattanooga Tenn Wilmore - Asbury College pur purchases - chases purchases Bethel Church and plans to repair building Loglick - Clark-Powell Bridge un under - der under construction here will be com completed - pleted completed early in January Danville - Rightj-of-way secured for construction of Perryville road Not Hit Houmo Several attorneys were seated In District court recently when the screeching of fire department sirens announced to the world that the serv services - ices services of firemen were required some somewhere - where somewhere In the business district One member of the bar waiting for a case In which he appeared as coun counsel - sel counsel was called to the telephone a few minutes later that's on fire" he was advised The person calling then hung up the re receiver - ceiver receiver The one colled scratched hls Head then hurried back to hls office and looked at hls Insurance policy to make certain that it was still in force He does not yet understand the ob object - ject object of a message advising him that his house was not on fire - Springfield Union

for 11 because this last year over 100000 young people knocked at the door for admission and were turned sway because there was no room on the Inside for them Consult your banker or address the National Better Business Bureau New York City for Information or advice regarding any enterprise that seeks to gain posses sion of your mony They will give disinterested counsel before it is too kite Also let every investor approached by either Mr Slick or Mr Smooth with a proposition yielding big divi dividends - dends dividends remember that such assurances always spell financial danger ahead To every Investor who is inexperl enced in making investments in other words perhaps just a little green and perhaps a little too easy any offer coming from this source should be like a red flag warning to come to a complete stop Such investments as Mr Slick or Mr Smooth offer are too good to bo true and therefore they are not true true-Slick - Slick true-Slick Smooth and Company are not miracle workers although from their sales talk you would infer that they'' could make you rich as if by magic No they are not miracle workers - just slick and smooth The Estate Gag Twenty-four "estates'' representing 6 billioys of dollars have been used as bait to Interest a lot of savers and finally bleed them of their savings The scheme is built arouud a sup supposed - posed supposed search for the heirs to certain phantom estates At all costs these heirs must be found Every person who can by any hook or crook figure it out that he is in anyway related to the deceased are urged by some shy shyster - ster shyster lawyer or genealogist to send in their names and their life history v Soon they receive glad tidings tell lng them that their family tree can be traced back to the deceased In fact they are a direct descendant and an heir at law Like fake raffles everybody who re sponds to the search Is fouud to be a winner - in other words an "heir" Here is where the rainbow chaser gets trimmed Before his claim to the mythical thousands can be pressed so as to insure success a demand is made on him to advance attorney's fees and pay the expense of tracing through hli genealogy Big Springs Hello how is everybody? Health is pretty godo here except Mr Jim McGuffey who has had an attack of pneumonia but is bet better - ter better at this writing The daily occupation is stripping and hauling off tobacco Mrs Eliza Kidman and little granddaughter Froua Cnarl'on were the guests of Mrs n a Pha-is Saturday night j Messrs Maxey Crouch and Willi Kirkman took dinner with Mr Dav 1 Rinpy one day last week Mr Dave Rippy and family speif - Sunday evening with Mr Jim Me Guffey and family Mrs Lillian Duke of Nashville is spendnig a few weeks with her par parents - ents parents Mr and Mrs Jim McGuffey Mr and Mrs C L Sullivan went to town Monday to attend the to tobacco - bacco tobacco sale Luck to the editor and son LOUISE Elkin - Cook

Mr and Mrs Wilson Wyatt of Bowling On n were here Tuesday Dr and Mrs Earl Bryant of Vino Qrove Ky were guests of Dr Bry: :it's parents Prof and Mrs N D Syant Sunday Mr and Mrs Roy Dye and Mr and Mrs W W Gardner are spend spending - ing spending the Holidays In Salem W Va Mr and Mrs Dewey Stlnon and children of Owensboro are guests of Mrs Stinson's parents Mr and Mrs Jim Hill Hon and Mrs T B Dixon and two daughters of Louisville are spending th " Holidays with Mr Dixon's parents Mr and Mrs J L Dixon Miss the g Naplf Key Napier of Louisville is st of ner mother Mrs Sarah Editor and Mrs R R Pitchford and children ipent Wednesday In Warren County the guets of Mr Pitchford's mother and sister Gus E Payne and Mrs Julia Pet Petty - ty Petty were visi : ing their sister Mrs Beard in Be 'ipage Tenn Sunday M53 Estlu is spending j sister Mrs 1 Shader of Glasgow ' e Holidays with her n Atwood Mr and V lahoma Cit Bruce Settle of Ok Ok-ikla - ikla Ok-ikla are the guests 1 of Miss Corh' ta Settle this week Harold Spencer of Akron O is the -uest of Earl Caruthers V B Morgan fo Cincinnati and Har:y Read f Nashville are guests of Ni and 1 W A Read Mr and Mrs Roger Parrish of Bow g Ore -n spent Tuesday with Mr id Mrs Ed Bradley Mr and Mrs Monahan of Frank Frankfort - fort Frankfort Mr and Mrs D A Slate and daughter Eloise of Gold City are guests of Mr and Mrs G H New Newman - man Newman Mr J H Hillberg and Miss Mary Hari o Jowling Green spent Tuef with Ruth and Willard Picl -vid John Meri dith of Memphis is the guest o his parents Dr and Mrs H M K eredith Mr and Mrs Chas Johnson of Kyrock spent Tuesday with Mrs Johnson's parents Mr and Mrs W P Brown Rev W E Lyons of Abilene Tex was visiting friends here last week Rev Lyons was a former teacher in the public schools here and will be r membered by many of hls pUpUs Rev M L Dyer or Franklin was here lat week Mr and Mrs J J Tucker of Memphis are the guests of Mrs Tucker's parents Mr and Mrs H H Huntsman Mr and Mrs W E Cliburn spent Wednesday with their daughter Mrs R B Pitchford Mr and Mrs Neal Hinton of Cleveland Ohio are the guests of relatives here' Berlin W Lrw of New Salem was a guest of Mr and Mrs John Shuffltt here first of week Mrs Johnnie Brown and two childr were the guests of her sister Mrs O L Stewart Tuesday Mrs Howard Elkin of Berea Ky is spending this week with her mother Mrs Cook Mr Guy F Williams of Louisville spent the holidays with hls par parents - ents parents Mr and Mrs C F Williams Hollis Newnn of Nashville and Laura Dodd of Harrodsburg are spending the 'lolidays with their parents here Mr and M 31on Brown of Cen Central - tral Central City are the guests of his par parents - ents parents Mr and Mrs W P Brown Miss Crowe of Owensboro was the i uest of Dr Herschel Smith this week Sparks of genius have nothing In common with ovemaking

ped and seeing only the big inherit ance which he Is led to believe he will soon receive be draws the amount necessary from his savings account and sends It on not knowlug be Is ac tually throwing it away But he is for like tbousanus aud thousands ol other rainbow chasers he parts with it 'or the last time g-j-cailed estate schemes which havs produced thousands of "heirs" and at The Pilgrimage to the Movlea heavy loes to them have been worked under the following names: Baker Chadwick Edwards Ingraham Hyde Jennings Hedges Kern Leak Shepherd Trotter Chase 1800000000 Townley 500000000 Webber 50000000 Weise 20000000 Again before parting with your money in any scheme you do not know all about consult your banker or a Better Business Bureau 250000000 37000000 90000000 500000000 360000000 400000000 250000000 200000000 100000000 175000000 200000000 College since last year Mr Elkin has been an employee of the Porter-Moore Drug Co of Berea for some years and is a very accomplished young man Mr and Mrs Elkin will make their home in Berea where Mrs Elkin wUJ c0ntlnue her work with the college Her friends here join in wishing them happiness jj Sudberry Leaves ' For (Colorado this Week - ftthe Washlngton Overral Co in XL X 111 1 4L1 C B 2fudberry former manager this city will leave this week for Colorado for his health Mr Sud Sud-berry - berry Sud-berry has been manager of the lo local - cal local factory for about two years and has made many friends during hls stay here It Is hoped that a change of climate will prove bene beneficial - ficial beneficial and that he may return here soon In the best of health Over 60 percent of exports from Our Country are manufactured or during Consumption of copper the past four years throughout the world has Increased at the rate of I eight percent per annum

farmers try to work out a program for more profitable agriculture The Inability of Allen County soils to grow clovers is shown by the last agricultural census in which less than 200 acres of red clover are listed in the county Community clubs in the county established last Spring were very instrumental in getting lime pulverizers in com communities - munities communities The efforts of the lime leaders in the communities increas increased - ed increased the amount of lime pulverized on farms to a very gratifying extent In all likelihood around 4000 tons of lime will be pulverized in Allen County next year Basketball Game Tonight The Allen County Teachers will engage the Westmoreland Tenn High School in a basketball contest at the Scottsville High School Gym Gymnasium - nasium Gymnasium tonight (Thursday Dec 27th) The Westmoreland boys are the champions of Sumner County Tenn having won over Portland and Gallatin in the county tourney at Gallatin this fall The Teachers have a fast team and have defeated Hillsdale High Haysville High and Dixon Business House Sold Last Saturday The business house on West side of public square owned by Thur Thurman - man Thurman B Dixon was sold last Satur Saturday - day Saturday by Col C M Carter auctioneer The property brought $462500 H C Huntsman being the purchaser Bring us your Job Printing

By W R MOREhObse Public Relations Commission American Banker Association THE fabulous salaries paid stars of the first magnitude and the publicity of the "movies" naturally create longing in the breasts of thousands of our young Americans to get into motion pictures Because so many are ready to leave home and risk everything on a fling at motion pictures unscrupulous per persons - sons persons have devised ways of fleecing these ambitious young people out of their sav savings - ings savings "Hokum-pokum" schemes of various kinds are used with great success Fake courses in the &rt of acting before the camera fake courses on how to make-up fake regi ation gags and screen tests are among the schemes used to separate these thousand of yorg people from their cash The pilgrir- 't to the motion pictures centers ands of novices usually ends disastro the pilgrims Naturally a few are ful but only a very very few the m oe i-d nine meeting with dis disappointment - appointment disappointment Phe truth is the number of persons who seA to "break into" the movies exceed th- inihur of available positions by one hundred to one while in the realm of popular stars it is thousands to one Don't be misled by the promises of promoters of hokum hokum-pokum - pokum hokum-pokum schemes that there la room Not surmising that he Is being trap

strikes and in West Virginia and Christmas tree Tuesday evening for Pennsylvania because of the bi- the poor children The tree was tuminous coal situation retail trade erected in front of the Court House durng the holidays and for the and beautifully decorated and light light-yea - yea light-yea was the largest on record" Dr ed the electric lights being donated Klein said by the Braswell Electric Co There "Business exceeded that of the were several hundred children who two previous records of 1926 and were recipients of the generosity 1927 Both the volume and dollar and their hearts made glad as prob prob-value - value prob-value of retail trade were greater ably never before Mayor H E and undoubtedly the year has been Dixon and Chief Morgan secured one of the most remarkable ever the tree for the occasion The chil chil-experienced - experienced chil-experienced by the business com- dren were treated to a liberal por por-munity - munity por-munity of the United States" tion of fruits candy toys and ar ar-Chain - Chain ar-Chain stores probably made the tides of clothing greatest increase over the 1927 bus- j The project was very successful iness volume although department and many little eyes looked upon

Detalled reports from 90 counties I in Kentucky that have countv i agents showed that 6882 farmers taU trade will not be available un- pressions on the faces of the un- useed 198629 tons of pulverized Ul so'ne in January' when ' fortunate little ones there lime and that 456 farmers used nthly statements are issued by 6906 tons of burnt lime This is the federal reserve board based up upon - on upon increase over the amounts used " "eports from the twelve reServe ! banks The heavy Chritmas buying is even more remarkable when it is considered that the United States is doing its holiday shopping early ! Many reports were received that ! shoppers particularly women took advantage of post-Christmas sales j last January and In the midsummer sales to lav In a supply of Christ- j Lime is usually the first project mas presents at unusually low mentioned In community program K

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