The Pioneer News, 1920 - Bullitt County Public Library

Miss Nellie May Scott was married
last week at her home at Zoneton to
Mr. Roy Mothershead, a former well
known young farmer of Mt.
Washington.
The bride, for several years, has
been regarded as one of the county’s
best and most successful teachers
and is a young lady who has many
friends while Mr. Mothershead is
always spoken of as a splendid
young man.
They will make their home in
Louisville.
The Legislatures of New Jersey and
Idaho have ratified the Woman
Suffrage Amendment to the Federal
Constitution. In the Idaho Senate,
the vote was 29 to 6. In the lower
House, it was unanimous. Only six
more states are required to give
every woman in the United States to
right to vote at all elections, on the
same forms as men.
Mr. Chas. Newman, trustee at Zion,
who has been seriously ill with
pneumonia, is much better and will
soon be out again.
Mt. Eden
J. T. Martin, who is in Louisville for
treatment by Dr. J. J. Moore, nerve
specialist, is improving slowly.
Mr. and Mrs. Bates Samuels and
little daughter of Louisville spent the
week end with his parents.
T. J. Barrall, who has been on the
sick list for the past month is much
improved.
The family of Owen Shepherd near
here have the flu, also others not far
from us, but as a neighborhood, we
have fared remarkably well during
the flu epidemic. Surely all are
thankful.
The Pioneer News, 1920 - J. W. Barrall, Editor
Transcribed from Microfilm by Edith Blissett in the year 2004
R. P. Sharp and L. M. Barrall were
in Shepherdsville Saturday.
Miss Margaret Hardesty was the
guest of Miss Earl Armstrong
Saturday and Sunday.
Wm. Wm. Peace has returned home
after an extended visit with her
mother in Lawrenceburg.
Bradford Foster visited his aunt,
Mrs. Chambers the past week end.
Friends here of Dr. George M.
Barrall, of Kansas City, will be glad
to know he is improved after a
severe attack of the flu, followed by
relapse, which nearly resulted in
pneumonia.
Lester Kelly, of Louisville, will
move to his neighborhood.
Miss Margaret Hardesty is finishing
the term at the Nichols School.
Sam Foster spent Saturday and
Sunday with her brother, Will.
Mrs. R. C. Hardesty and daughter
were in Louisville several days
recently.
The following clipping from
Friday’s Courier Journal will be of
interest to a number of Bullitt
County people. Mrs. Genevieve
O’Hara Samuels, niece of Theodore
O’Hara, Kentucky’s soldier poet,
and author of the “Bivouac of the
Dead”, died yesterday morning at
the home of a son, Theodore O’Hara
Samuels, 1803 S. Street. Mrs.
Samuels, who was 64 years old was
the widow of W. T. Samuels. Mrs.
Samuels was an aunt by marriage of
Mrs. L. M. and T. J. Barrall and C.L.
Samuels of this place, the late W. T.
Samuel having been an older brother
of their father, Chas. R. Samuels, of
Shepherdsville.
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Moves to Louisville
Mr. W. P. Salmon, of Lebanon
Junction, has moved to the city. Mr.
Salmon was one of our best citizens.
We are sorry to see him leave the
county and hope he will decide to
return soon.
In Memory
In sad memory of little John Chris
Atcher, our dear baby and brother,
who departed this life February 25,
1919, being one year, two months
and five days old. Poem - signed,
Father, mother and sisters.
Samuel Ridgway
Lexington - Samuel H. Ridgway,
Shepherdsville, who is a freshman in
the University of Kentucky this year
is making a reputation on the basketball
floor. He got a chance to play in
the third game of the season and
“made good”. Since then, he has
played in four games, and has
proved himself a very capable man.
His usual place on the team is guard,
but in the second half of the game
with Georgetown, he played center.
Young Ridgway came to the
University from Shepherdsville High
School, where he was an active
student, taking a prominent part in
athletics and other school
organizations. As a freshman, he has
made excellent grades in the College
of Engineering in which he is
matriculated.
Notice
At the next regular meeting of Star
of Hope Chapter there will be
initiation of candidates. All members
are urged to be present. Carletta
Buckman, WM, Clara Joyce, Sec.