The Hazard Herald, 1911-08-10

Services Were Opened at Fresby Fresby-terian - terian Fresby-terian Church Thursday Night and Closed Tuesday' Night GOOD ATTENDANCE EACH MEETING On Wednesday ta&t the follow ing ministers'of ' West Lexington Presbytery reached this city for a week's evangelistic services in Iforry county: The Rev II L Cockerham- of the Troy church in Wooclford' county Rev W O Shewmaker of -the Pisgah church in Woodford county and the Rev I Cochrane Hunt of St Helens' Ky tiie last named being the'' newly -elected Superintend Superintendent - ent Superintendent of the Home Mission work of the Presbytery -V The service was opened on Tliursday night'1 in the Presbyte Presbyterian - rian Presbyterian church with a sermon by the Rev Mr Cockerham A large congregation' greeted him and enjoyed' a strong presenta presentation - tion presentation of simple gospel truth Es Especially - pecially Especially noticeable was the pres pres-senceof - senceof pres-senceof all thU ministers of all of the other churches - in the city whose prcscncc and sy in pathetic co-operation lias been highly ap appreciated - preciated appreciated and very serviceable -The services exmtinued ti trough Tuesday night with increasing attendance and deepening inter interest - est interest The preaching of all of these visiting brethren was simple di direct - rect direct and strong We believe that great good-will result On Sunday the Rev Mr Hunt went down to the Chavies church on Grapevine where the Sunday Sunday-school - school Sunday-school was re-organized 1 with about seventy-fire members pres present - ent present Mr Shew maker on the same day visited' the Avawam community and spoke to the Sunday-school on Brown's Fprk On Sunday night an opportun opportunity - ity opportunity was given for the congrega congregation - tion congregation to make a free-will offering to the Home Mission cause The response was generously made - sixty-five people contributing the sum of twenty-two dollars and we gladly note that this contribu contribution - tion contribution was not confined to the mem members - bers members of the- Presbyterian ceurcli thus illustrating the hearty good will and cordial cooperation of the pastors and people of all of the other churches in the rity May brytherly love continue Chi Wednesday Mr Cocker Cocker-ham - ham Cocker-ham and Mr Shcwmaker left for Jackson and for the next week they - will carry on evangelistic services ' in s Breathitt ! county Mr Hunt leaves on the same day for Wnitesburg where he will fora week or more inspect the work in Letcher county preach preaching - ing preaching at Whitesbnrg Tillie Mag Mag-gardund - gardund Mag-gardund Jenkins ' iThese gentlemen jdl expressed themselves as deeply apprecia appreciative - tive appreciative of the kindly courtesy and the open-hear ted hospitalitywhich has greeted -them on thb streets and in the homes and especially do they give their grateful thanks to the pastors of t h 'other churches 'whose generous co cooperation - operation cooperation made possible the suc success - cess success 'of the meeting ' 'The local church with Chavies and Avawam constitute tiie Pres Presbyterian - byterian Presbyterian work in this'eounty and' it is the earnest hope of Mr Hunt the Superintendent that he may soon be able to supply a resident pastor for this field-

Work on the construction of the L & E extension has shown wondelrful- advancement during the month of July' The Hazard division shows especially excel excel-lontrpregress - lontrpregress excel-lontrpregress and the fear hith hitherto - erto hitherto entertained that the work in Letcher county would be 'com 'completed - pleted 'completed well in advance of the con construction - struction construction between? Hazard and Jacksonseems likely to become groundless' Grading york is well covQrod with men almost all along the line though additional men are coming in and all who come are ' immediately put to work by the contractors 'Since the drought has wrought such havoc with crops in this section Qur people in every direction are fortunate in having plenty of good paying employment avail available - able available so tha£ they can earn money to provide amply- what - their farms fail to produce this season As is well understood the tun- 1 - ' 9 - uels aretiie actual index of prog prog-can - can prog-can be- spread all over grading and push it with all speed desired but only a lim limited - ited limited number of men cap work in a tunnel Division Engineer G II Justice expresses himself as wbil satisfied wit£r grading prog progress - ress progress all along the line Ho also - -1 with the tunnel-progress : Oh Stray tunnel at : the mouth of Quicksand the ' heading was driven 213 feet and- the bench 195 feet during the month of J uly At Line : tunnel near the county line between Breathitt and Ferry the heading was driv driven - en driven 189 feet and the bench 226 feet during the month of July Work has progressed from both ends of these tunnels -The work on the Hoskins' tunnels was taken up recently by Mason & Hurst foh lowing the failure of M Casey whence they-are hardly settled into a proper stride as yet On Yerkes tunnel the heading has been driven 38 feet and the bench 80 feet during July Onllqskins tunnel the heading has been driven 57 feet and tiie bench 49 feet during that time - Hazard tunnel has progressed splendidly Still working only from the east side the heading has been pushed' in 45 Tee t and the bench 180 feet during Jnly The very difficult approachon the west side has been cleared up to the pgint where the head heading - ing heading there has just been started Two months ago W R Richards general manager for Jones-Davis Co stated that he would start the heading on August 10- and as exactly fulfilled his prom- iseOn the Combs tunnel just above Hazard f the heading has been driven 51 feet and the bench during tiie month At all the tunnels should leted by the end of the d' thus throw the line contract time ridgQ Work is jirogress jirogress-ne - ne jirogress-ne style T W Smith Johnson who' have the work in this territory are great heading and -ex finish all their piers and ents saf ely ahpad of con-1 time'' Leighton & Co at a creek and Ifill & Weath Leatherwood are forging with their sections "of the k in thejsame energetic fash- wh ich they have become

BUILDING OPERATIONS Never Before In History of Hazard Has So Many: New Buildings Bwn Planned The city of Haaard hassa busy aspect and new buildings are go go-ing - ing go-ing up on every sideY v The Baptists have resumed work on their commodious brick Snd it is now well under Way be being - ing being nearly half completed ' Hays & Grigsby have moved into the new building on the corner of High and Fleet streets' and have by the way as pretty a grocery store as can be found in this sec section - tion section S -1 - ' fm 1 The new liviBry barn of Grigs Grigsby - by Grigsby & Branson is about done and in another week -these hustlers will be supplying the' trade with rigs f Fire lias been storied under ikhe kilns of tiie Perry County State Bank the basement dug out and actual building will soon begin 'Pearl Campbell's 'new -residence on Eversole street Cedar Heights is almost ready for ' oc occupancy - cupancy occupancy Richmond Combs will begin at once to build on hi s- lot on Eversole and Spring Streets Tlie large building of S'A D Jones next to the First National Bank is ready for the roof and the work vigorously1 progresses! The lower floor of" this building will be occupied for a court room for awhile and offices will be fit fitted - ted fitted up on the second floor It is 30x60 has a stqne basement- and will be brick veneered ' " The large ' church building of the Regular Baptists in the East End Addition is practically com completed - pleted completed and was dedicated last Sunday by the Grand Old-Man of that persuasion - Bro Ira Combs Judge RrF Fields is building some two or three living rooms at the back of his store building and is adding mor office' rooms to his office building Billy Baker has lumber on the yard for the building of an ice cream and 'confectionery on bis lot on Court street The six of office - fice office rooms over- the -Hazard Drug Co's' store : is about ready : for renting Williams & Ward have moved into new offices' recently finished in the Morgan building Grant Combs' building opposite the post office is being weather weather-boarded - boarded weather-boarded and painted this - week The lower story is being fitted np as a business : house the upper story being already occupied a grocery store - Elizabeth Woods' nowIuukj ock of - groceries in her nei bn High Street' And still we grow! f nev? HazardBap "V 'f tistlristitute The £all term of the Hazard Baptist Institute opened on'Mon on'Mon-day - day on'Mon-day moaning with a IfairlyVgood attendance The Irmtitute has at this session -a strong corps ' of teachers and the prospects are bright- for a larger attendance' of students than ever before Below we give s list of teachers in their different departments: V A' A Cohn princiiL- B' T Cornett academic vMrs Bryant intermediate Miss Viola Mc McCarty - Carty McCarty primary John D Oliver assistant inintermediate depart department - ment department Miss' Hsuicocl "music in-

At i special meeting of the Fis Fiscal - cal Fiscal Court last - vzek plans and specifictftitfns for rebuilding the Court House here as submitted by architects from various points werq considered with a view to 'the Adoption of the most practi practical - cal practical and economical proposition of of-After - After of-After careful 3onsidera 3onsidera-'?tion - '?tion 3onsidera-'?tion alongthis line the Court fJukopted the plans submitted ' by 'MrBF Smith of the Smith FlYeproof Construction ' Co of Vashingtoh' D C -v Jjlhfe plans play be seen in the CoujutyCourt Clerk's officeatany ' thnis V- r' r'-- - - r'-- Mri Smith is an architect and - builder of 'wide experience and has' constructed mar court court-houssin - houssin court-houssin different States' in a manner that has met with theen theen-tiro - tiro theen-tiro approval of the respective f counties involved and onr' cohn- ty is - probably fortunate in ob ob-fcg - fcg ob-fcg tt -j tatainga' man oOfuch lafrgeprac- tical experience to direct the v - building of our new Court House ' Everyone' wants a building put up Which will be both a credit to our county iiu the comfng pros-pewasryearsi- and economical as The factor of economy in construction appears jo be well assured in the plans submitted by Mr Smith' and a far better building is promised therefrom and at a less cost than was offer offered - ed offered from any other source 'Mr' Smith's plans call for a building 65-ft front by 80-ft deepand a court room 4kft square- The court room is to have a gallery that will seat 160 'people and the total capacity of - the entire room will be over 800 people Both the Circuit Court and County Court Clerks' offices 'are lib be built -entirely fireproof and in addition tberewill be offio es for the - Sheriff the County Superintendent three j d r y - roAns a rest room for the Cir Cir-" - " Cir-" cuit Judge and a large- office for the 'County Judge and -Fiscal Court which will be - ample for all their 'meetings aind purposes generally - T: V' Tlie entire building is to be constructed ' of fireproof brick -and thus cannot be started until !' after the railroad is ' finished other contractors do not bid low as $25000 for putting upthe building the" Smith hlreprool i- Construction Company is oblii - gated to take up tne ersfction oi - - - r mTbo

Eight farms for sale all of them located near good towns In Lin Lincoln - coln Lincoln and Pottawatomie counties Well-improved and in good state of cultivation good orchards and weil-watered plenty of timber on most of the farms for fuelaud one farm has about $1000 worth of merchantable timber on it- principally walnut These farms will produce from 40 to 60 bushels of corn per acre and! are fine for wheat alfafa cotton and vegetables - ' Time has proven that where these farms are located is less susceptible to drought than any other portion of the State Judge Boyd bought these - farms eight and-ten years ago and he has had tenants bn them all the time and got good crops everyyear They werg then bought at rea reasonable - sonable reasonable prices and will now be sold same"' wqy The titles to these lands are first-class - ' x - Also 4500 acres -of good coal timber and farming lands' in Laurel and Whitley counties Ky 2500 acres of tlfis near Coriiin Kyatown of 3000 population Theie lands have about 500000 feet good poplar and several mil million - lion million feet of fine yellow pine and several thousand good white oak! The timber and coal is worth what the whole can be bought ' ' - for v Also $2000 capital stock in the National Bank of ' Middles boro Ky and $1000 capital stock in the East Bernstadt Banking Go Laurel county Ky If you are interested in the above property wifite or call on me at LpndonKy until Septem September - ber September 10 1911 after which time T will beat Prague Lincoln county Okla near said farms: ' ROBERT BOYQ J E&ecntorgf the will-of Judge R 4 ! I -I' -yi'f - 'v - ' -r- ' p - & k--y

"Mr Wentz ''r - Cros are looking fine since the rain - School was closed down for two wedos while the Institute was In session - - - Last Friday afternoon a small cyclone passed through here but no material damage resulted While returning from church on Turkey Creek 'some boys found a large rattlesnake on the top of Turkey mountain Somcof the Little Leatherwood boys have found a ' stream of mountain dewflowirig somewhere in this neighborhood and are vis visiting - iting visiting it verj often ' Airs Eli Griffith who has been ill for' quite a while is improving Miss Vada Ison the daughter of Anderson'Ison is very ill' ' Church services will be held at the mouth of Little Leatherwood the fourth Saturday and Sunday in this month by Rev Louis Lyt- tic of Slcmp Ky f Miss Bertha Logan lias return returned - ed returned from Hazard Mrs Paul Pratt who has been ill for months is improving Mr Bunion Cornett and daugh: ter are on the sick list ' - ' m sawla mmA a Eight Farms jForSale '" In Oklahoma

Ary - - " 4' " ' ' - The good rains during the past week has made all of the farmers cheerful They now think the prospects arc good ' : Air Rose from 'Wolfe 'county passed through here Saturday with some horses for sale Joshua Smith returned fronj Hazard last Friday evening where he hay been 'attending the Institute-for the past two weeks He stayed at homo until Sunday then left for Stacy where he will begin school again Monday' morn morn-ing - ing morn-ing ' Postmaster Thomas Smith has ' had a line room byiltfor the post office 1 Tom Owens' of Dwarf came ' last Saturday tdTth Alagistrato to get a warrant for some violat- ors Stick it to 'em Mr Owens ' Albert Engle sub-district No ' 5 was elected to succeed hiq son '

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