The Pioneer News, 1920 - Bullitt County Public Library

Tobacco market this week with
tobacco.
W. R. Greenwell and son, of
Leaches, were here Tuesday.
Clarence Dawson is in Ind. this
week buying stock.
Mrs. Lindsay Ridgway entertained at
a miscellaneous shower in honor of
Miss Ruth Banks who is one of the
February brides. A large crowd was
present and Miss Banks was the
recipient of many useful and
beautiful gifts. After a number of
interesting contests, a delightful
lunch was served. The invitations
were limited to the ladies of the
Baptist Sunday School.
***Wanted to Buy - A good work
horse. Stoney Weller,
Shepherdsville.
***For Sale - 45 acres near Hubers,
Dairy farm, good building, silo,
plenty good stock water, well
fenced, All in grass. Price $5,000.00
Roy Masden, Shepherdsville.
In Fond Memory
Poem in loving remembrance of my
dear Father who departed this life
Dec. 7, 1919. Mrs. G. B.
Underwood.
Ends with: From your loving
stepdaughter. M. J. - F. C.
February 20, 1920
School News
The boys midget basketball team of
the Shepherdsville High School
played the Midget team from St.
Xavier College of Louisville last
Thursday afternoon at the local gym,
which resulted in a victory for the
home boys by a score of 12 to 10.
This was one of the best games that
has ever been played here and the
The Pioneer News, 1920 - J. W. Barrall, Editor
Transcribed from Microfilm by Edith Blissett in the year 2004
result was in doubt until the last
second when the whistle blew and
the referee announced 10 to 12 in
favor of the “County Jakes”.
The following boys played for the
home team: Morton Weller, Robt.
Tyler, Chas. Lee Bradbury, Pat Pope
and Jas. Stallings.
The Belmont School, whose high
school course of study has recently
been approved b the State, began a
class of some 8 or 10 in the first
year’s high school work Monday.
Mrs. L. L. Daugherty died at her
home here Sunday.
She was an excellent lady and had
many friends at Stithton where she
had always lived. Her family had
only recently moved here.
The following article appeared in a
school paper last week and may be
of interest to our students who have
recently witnessed the burial of one
John Barleycorn.
It was 278 years ago that the
prohibitionists launched their first
drive on John in this country, when
Maryland, in 1642, passed an act
punishing drunkenness by a fine 100
pounds of tobacco. In 1544,
Pennsylvania legalized the selling of
liquor to both whites and Indians.
Connecticut and Rhode Island found
it necessary to prohibit selling it to
the Indians and other colonies later
took similar action.
In 1650, Connecticut forbade
“tippling for more than half an hour
at a time”. In 1654, Massachusetts
fined tavern keepers 20 shillings
who sold liquor to a man who was
already drunk. Maryland, in 1658,
decreed that any man found drunk
should be put in the stocks for six
hours. Virginia decided that a
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common drunkard was a person who
had been drunk three times. That
state had to legislate against the
clergy, who were specifically
forbidden by law to “give
themselves to drinking unlawful
games”.
New Jersey ordered, in 1668, that no
one should drink.
In 1685, the Quakers of
Pennsylvania and neighboring state
declared solemnly against
intemperance and in 1760 they
sough to forbid the use of liquor at
funerals. New Hampshire in 1700
forbade innkeepers to allow people
to drink in their inns Saturday night
or Sunday. Georgia, in 1757,
prohibited giving a liquor selling
license to any one who was “capable
of gaining a livelihood by honest
labor”.
It was in 1789 that the first
temperance society was started in
this county, (country), at Litchfield,
Conn. In 1794, the ‘Whiskey
Rebellion” broke out in
Pennsylvania against the taxation of
liquors. In 1802, Congress began to
pass general legislation on the
subject of liquor and made provision
for stopping the selling of it to the
Indians.
The first national temperance
convention was held at Philadelphia
in 1833. The movement gained
ground til Neal Dow, known as ‘the
father of prohibition” organized the
Maine Temperance Union in 1887.
Two years later, Connecticut
invented “local option” to allow
each community to decide the liquor
question for itself.
In 1842, Lincoln addressing a
temperance society at Springfield,
Ill. urged a “temperance revolution”.