January 6, 1922 - Bullitt County Public Library
January 6, 1922 - Bullitt County Public Library
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 />
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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