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January 6, 1922 - Bullitt County Public Library

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March 3, <strong>1922</strong><br />

School News<br />

Mr. T. C. Carroll, <strong>County</strong> Attorney,<br />

and <strong>County</strong> Clerk, Lindsay Ridgway<br />

spent Monday and Tuesday at<br />

Frankfort trying to get the tax<br />

lowered for <strong>Bullitt</strong> <strong>County</strong>. The<br />

State Tax Commission recently<br />

placed a raised (sic) on this county<br />

of nearly half a million dollars.<br />

Miss Ada Allison is arranging to<br />

teach a spring school at Hebron. The<br />

regular term closed last Friday.<br />

The fire here last week destroyed<br />

nearly $100,000.00 worth of<br />

property with insurance of less than<br />

half of this amount. The heaviest<br />

losers are: Boes, Hall, Ice, Patterson,<br />

Weatherford, Armstrong, Tuckers,<br />

Smith and Co., Lutes & Co., the Ice<br />

Cream Parlor directly across from<br />

Smith & Smith, belonging to Geo.<br />

W. Maraman & Sons being a brick<br />

structure was all that saved that side<br />

of Main Street from the Peoples<br />

Bank to the river from going up in<br />

flames.<br />

Miss Ruth Dodds Smith spent<br />

Sunday at her home here and will<br />

teach a spring school at Mt.<br />

Washington. She will be assisted by<br />

Miss Forrest and Miss Bishop.<br />

Mrs. Jno. King died at her home<br />

near Mt. Washington last week, aged<br />

74. She was the mother of W. A.<br />

King, former trustee at Mt.<br />

Washington and grandmother of<br />

Mrs. Roy Stalling of this place.<br />

Miss Lillian C. Smith will teach a<br />

spring school at Whitfield.<br />

Misses Mary C. Holsclaw and<br />

Carolyn Hackney were recent<br />

visitors at their homes in this county.<br />

Both are teaching in Jefferson<br />

The Pioneer News, <strong>1922</strong> - J. W. Barrall, Editor<br />

Extracted or Transcribed From Microfilm by Edith Blissett in the year 2004<br />

<strong>County</strong> and both are excellent young<br />

teachers.<br />

Misses Beulah Lee and Janice<br />

Harned were recent guests in our<br />

town.<br />

The Basketball tournament will be<br />

played here Friday and Saturday of<br />

this week with the following teams<br />

scheduled:<br />

Boys - Shepherdsville, Sonora,<br />

Horse Cave and Glendale.<br />

Girls - Shepherdsville,<br />

Elizabethtown, Glendale and<br />

Lebanon Junction.<br />

The two basketball games here last<br />

week resulted in a double victory for<br />

the locals, 25 to 35 and 7 to 8.<br />

The boys played Lebanon Junction<br />

and the girls’ opponents were the<br />

strong Roe O’Connor girls from the<br />

city.<br />

The following students played:<br />

Girls - Beulah Lee, Janice Harned,<br />

Mary B. Hill, Thelma Hatfield and<br />

Martha Hill.<br />

Boys - Simmons, Muir, Stansbury,<br />

Bradbury and Roby; Murray,<br />

Harned, Pipes, Masden and<br />

Hawkins.<br />

Mt. Eden<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. M. Martin and<br />

children, of Louisville, spent<br />

Saturday and Sunday with C. R.<br />

Samuels.<br />

Rev. Deacon preached at Mt. Eden<br />

Sunday to a fairly good congregation<br />

in spite of the bad day and worse<br />

roads.<br />

Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Barrall spent<br />

Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Myers.<br />

As a neighborhood, we have been<br />

most fortunate during the flu<br />

epidemic. There have been a number<br />

Page 428<br />

of cases, but no serious illness so<br />

far.<br />

Rev. Deacon spent Sunday with R.<br />

P. Sharp.<br />

C. L. Samuels spent Sunday with his<br />

sister, Mrs. L. M. Barrall.<br />

Miss Josie S. Barrall returned home<br />

last week after a visit with friends in<br />

Shepherdsville and a day or two with<br />

Miss Margaret Foster.<br />

Mrs. J. C. Shepherd spent Sunday<br />

with her daughter, Mrs. Myrtle<br />

Miller.<br />

Dr. Geo. M. Barrall writes that while<br />

at the automobile show in Kansas<br />

City, Missouri, he had the pleasant<br />

surprise of running <strong>Bullitt</strong> <strong>County</strong><br />

friends, Messrs Abram and Neal<br />

Brooks. They are representing the<br />

“Mercury” Body for Fords made by<br />

another <strong>Bullitt</strong> <strong>County</strong> boy,<br />

Ellsworth McCormick. It made quite<br />

a “fit” at the Kansas city show, Dr.<br />

Barrall writes. Ellsworth is one of<br />

<strong>Bullitt</strong>’s brightest and finest boys<br />

and we always expect him to<br />

succeed in whatever he undertakes.<br />

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Elzy and daughter<br />

spent a few days with his brother<br />

here last week.<br />

Mrs. C. H. Barrall spent the past two<br />

weeks with her daughter, Mrs. L. M.<br />

Barrall.<br />

R. P. Sharp was in Louisville<br />

Saturday and Robt. Hardesty Jr a<br />

day or two this week.<br />

Mr. Dave Thompson was seriously<br />

ill of acute indigestion, but is better<br />

now.<br />

J. M. Foster’s family, Will Foster’s,<br />

and Emmett Holsclaw were the only<br />

cases of the flu in the Mt. Eden<br />

neighborhood so far as we know.<br />

Mrs. R. C. Hardesty was on the sick<br />

list, but with rheumatism. All the

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