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From: geneva mckinney <>
Subject: [KYBREATH-L] [Fwd: THE JACKSON HUSTLER APRIL 17,1891 EXCERPTS #9]
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 14:17:36 -0500


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> NO.16 THE JACKSON HUSTLER
>
> APRIL 17,1891
> JOHN J. DICKEY
> EXCERPTS ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
>
> > Jackson's growth is natural. The price of real estate is such that a man
> > who wants a home or a business house, can buy it and have money left to
> > start in business. We do not expect a large town until there is business to
> > make it. As the railroad is extended and our resources are developed our
> > town will grow. We want the business to make the town. A modirn boon
> > undertakes to reverse this natural order, and a collapse must inevitable
> > follow. We do not want it.
> > >
> > Dr. J. K. Nell died the 11th inst. at St. Helens of heart trouble, about
> > 55 years of age. His body was taken to Columbia, Adair county, for burial.
> > His second wife was a Miss Thompson, sister of Mrs. J.M. Snowden.
> > >
> > We are informed by a special correspondent of R.G. Dunn & Co.'s Merchants
> > Agency, that the merchants of Breathitt county are more accurately reported
> > than any other county in the seventeen through which he travels.
> > >
> > Jailer Senters has plowed up the Court-house yard and sowed it in grass.
> > Since the grading for the New Court-house was done and the old sod was cut
> > away the yard has been naked. The part in front of the house he will sod.
> > >
> > W.P. Schooler has taken the agency for the Lexington Steam Laundry, and
> > will send on Monday of each week. If you want your work done in first-class
> > shape give the laundry a trial. The only luxury a poor man enjoys is clean
> > clothes.
> > >
> > Two miners left the Elkatawa Mines the 12th and went down the river in a
> > skiff. They were ignorant of the dam at Beattyville, and went over it in the
> > night. One of them, Dehune, was drowned. He came here from Central City. his
> > body has not been recovered.
> > >
> > Jackson has a solid set of merchants. The lawyers get no fees for
> > collections from any of them. They not only pay promptly, but they stand on
> > a basis of capital, which gives them a high rate in merchantile agencies,
> > and an unlimited credit in the markets if they wish it. Jackson is
> > financially, a solid town.
> >
> > Henry C. Hurst, who has been clerking for the firm of A.H. & J. Hargis & Co.,
> > for the past two years, has resigned his position and accepted a place with
> > Day Bros. & Co. Mr. Hurst has so deported himself during his stay here as to
> > gain the confidence of the entire community, and has made a business
> > reputation of which any young man may be proud.
> > >
> > J.B. Jones, who will be remembered as spending last fall in Jackson,
> > alternating between painting houses and drinking whisky, has managed to get
> > himself into short harness, could the harness be
> > gotten on to him. It seems that he forged the names of various parties to
> > a draft of $1,400, traded $1,000 of the draft for a piece of land in Knott
> county and got $400 in cash out of the Pikeville bank.
>
> > page #9

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