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i r w in V lle Kentuckian H W r l VOL xxxn HOPKINSV3LLE KENTUCKY TUESDAY FEBRUARY 22 1910 No 23 r LETTER FROM t MISS STARLING Tells Many Interesting Thine About Siam as She Sees It STRANGE BIRDS SEEN Making a Reputation in Asia With Her Kentucky Biscuits j Prae N Siam Dec 14 1909 > Jurist Monday morning we left Bangkok and traveled all day through a very interesting country f most of it low and marshy with an occasional glimpse of mountains in 1 the distance InsteaOMhe birds we see at home there were stork cranes herons aigrets Joche r water fowl The rive along whos- bank the railroad lieRig full of fis and all along the Way we saw natives carryingothsome of them per- fectly eno o s I can tests I that BFithem make verye e o I was surprised to see what jf ° od train service they have The co hes are built English style and wod ijjj k BucFandt selves and we spent a mo ea ant day We reached Pits p e at sundown and spent t t there for the trains in Siam ot run at I Rht The two missy Caries there e v Shellman and Mr Jones mot us and took us up the river 4o their homes where we sent the night They had a new gasr me launch and has been having u good deal of trouble with a r Every now and then W r ould fail and the launch c It W g around and run j another boat Finally it refwsla to g < f at all and we had to cl mb up the bank and walk the rest of the way Next m ruing we were up early and starred again We reached Tait > + atllqjXjfock and found the place elab rat ely decorated in honor of pcfa prince who had come up to cel ¬ ebrate the opening of the railroad We have no missionary here only a Siamese Christian doctor who has charge of the dispensary there who took us to his home for the night So we had the loft and a comfortable bed to sleep in making tworooms by putting up a curtain Next morn- ing we were up early again to catch the train As we were nearly a mile from the station and the carriage was late Miss Buck and I started to walk leaving the Whites to follow We reached the station time for train to start and no Whites Final ly when we had about decided we would have to stay there another day the carriage came dashing around the corner with baskets and bags on top behind and hanging out at both sides and broke down just in our sight After a long delay they made the last sprint with Mr White running by the aide of the horses holding the harness together Just as they stopped one of the lamps broke off in his hands WellI fl firililly boarded the train with l no greater loss thin that of Mr Ws l spectacles a rather serious state of 1 affairs for him when it may be months beforQ he can get another pair but he lost something every time we d In fa he was a- lwayhitntinoromehing and ar ¬ at After spending several hours in transfer ¬ ring supplies from boxes to baskets that the coolies could handle Mrs i t K GEORGE WASHINGTON 1 The first president was born Feb 11 1732 but the correction of the birthdayh y > in 1799 Gen Washington owned 51395 acresof land besides much other I property and was the richest man in America ROY GARNETT DIED SATURDAY jfir f Jft toI h 1 v > I v t1 A Popular Young Man Passed i Away After 7 t a Lung Illness of Complication < thJl of Diseases > J t T i Roy Garnett youngest son of Mr and Mrs Joe F Garnett diecTat at 630 oclock Saturday evening at the parental home in the country He had been ill for several weeks with a complication of diseases that mnde his recovery hopeless from the beginning The young man was twenty six years old and WES uhmar ¬ ried He was a young man of a jovial lighthearted disposition and was very popular with all who knew him W toll me to get in my chair and start on and that they would follow on the ponies right away So I start ed off and never saw anything more of the crowd that afternoon Mr W is the slowest most easily mixed up man I ever saw and they didnt start for two hours after 1 did Then they stopped for afternoon tea a universal custom out here and didI not get into camp until about dark But I had one of the most delightful afternoons of my whole trip The way was through mountains and I walked a good part of the way be- tween walls caverns wite gorgeous palms and ferns and tall trees with slender white trunks and no branch- es ¬ except at the top A lovely stream followed us most of the way In the middle of the afternoon we stopped to rest and I slept half an hour in my chair and then got out myvio ¬ lin and played for an hour This was my first night of sleeping in the jungle We had a tent and cct and I slept as well as if I had been In my own bed The next day the scenery was not so pretty as we passed through the rice plains and the road was hot and dusty I was surprised to see what good roads they have here This nigjitwe slept in a salla a thatch covered raised platform which Buddhists build all over the country toIImake merit a very good feature of their religion This brought us within two hours ride of Pre and we went in the next morning T J C J lfrlsoN D F SMITHSON Dibic EVERETT Undertakers and Embalmers Johnson Smithson Everett ninth Street Wear L b V Depot PROMPT SERVICE DAY OR NIGHT CUMBERLAND PHONE nlghtl61Dick w u I t At one time he was engaged in busi ¬ ness in this city but of late years had assisted his father in his large farming interests He was a mem ber of Hopkinsville Lodge No 545 B PO E and a member of Locust Grove Baptist church His funeral services were held at the family residence yesterday morning at 930 oclock by Rev E W Barnett and the interment took place in River ¬ side cemetery 01 You may be interested to hear something of this mission Though Pre is not a large place it is a strate ¬ gic center and one of our most sat ¬ isfying fields of labor The two best mission homes in Laos are here beautiful houses of teak which has become so precious it is now sold in Bangkok by the pound and the gov- ernment ¬ refuses to allow it to be sold in Laos at any price the house in which I am to live is of leak It is a beautiful brown wood and stands the weather without paint or any other preservative The two houses here are built on the river side a curious but all too frequent short- sightedness ¬ on the part of the mis- sionaries ¬ who had charge of buying the site for when the river rises itI washes away the banks and the houses will have to be moved at once to save them Last year for lack of forces the mission here had to beI abandoned and now these two houses are idle So we are all camping out in themWe having a good and rather full meeting Dr McGiluary 82 years old rode horseback from Chi ehg Mai an eighJdays JOurney and reached here in good condition I think I never met a lovelier lot of people than our Laos missionaries not only good people but most of them attractive socially and mental ¬ ly I wish you might know them all for it would take too long to write about them When I get to Chleng Mall will write you about the people there Miss Gilson is about broken down and will go home as soon nlI she can now that Miss Buck are Our h reI days We have a session from 9 to 12 every morning The English horn have two lovely tennis courts and we have been having a tennis tour ¬ nament that has taken up the after Continued on 8th pag- er tl 1 SCRAP IN LEGISLATURE j Question of Control of Telc 1 phones Comes Upin Gen I eral Assembly I THE COUNTY UNIT BILL- Y II And4ts Companion the Vice Bil Sidetracked Indef I ioitely Fij ijJtfort Ky Feb 18The Committee on Telephune and Tele gr plynade two reports in the Sen ate Newcomb bill which wouldjglace the telephone companies of a commission with reIport Senators T A Combs and G A Wyattjjjgned the minority report fa voringjthe passage of the bill Newcomb moved that the minority report be substituted for the majority report and this pro a parlientary brush between Senators Newcomb and Conn Linn President Cox ruled that the minori ¬ ty report could be substituted for i the adverse report if the Senate so elected Senator Linn spoke against the motion and insisted that the rules require a twothirds vote to advance the bill instead of a major ity report as President Cox ruled The minority report favoring the bill jivas substituted for the majority report by a vote of 18 to 16 The bill was then placed in the orders of the day The Watkins county unit bill and its twin brother the Vice bill were put to jeep for the rest of the ses ¬ sion The Vice bill was reported without expression by the Senate Committee on Religion and Morals Under the rules it is indefinitely postponed and cannot be taken up again A motion to advance the Watkins bill was defeated by a vote of 16 to 14THIS Is one of the time- sallhousekeepers are especially par iculap about their cakes Take no chance and use the hove W T Cooper Co Wholesale and Retail Grocers k A w Comb 59 Home Y l 1 h I SPRING GOODS New Ginghamst t New Percales New Linens < New Fancy Tokara Nevi Fancy Pongee New Hair Turban F and Large Hair Pins u i I tMJONES I j Main Street Hopkinsville Ky o rdslfasssossii 0 IIBBanking Facilities capital excep arrangements and a thoroughly organized office system this Sank has the ability and disposition to extend to its customers every facility warrantedby safe conservative banking Throe per cent Interest on Time Certificates of doooslt BANK OF HO KINS V ILL E CashierIi OJ 01 f 1 I FIRST NATIONAL BArJiI HOPKINSVILLE UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY Only National Bank in This Community Capital 0 7500000 Surplus 2500000 Stockholders Liability 0 7500000 i ISSUES TRAVELERS CHECKS GOOD IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD HAS REGULAR SAVINGS DEPARTMENT I Three er Cent Interest Paid on Savings and Time Deposits tR i I A HURRY CALL FOR COAL II even if it reaches us via phone will meet with response with a tc or more of fine free burning fuel But it will be better for your peace of mind to keep an eye on your coal bin and order as far ahead as may be for its likely that others like yourself are put- ting things off until the last minute vo it oYmUNDERWOOD WEST IIJ o c Phones Comb 70 Home 1544 INCORPORATED E B LONG President W T TANDY Collier JNO B TRICE CITY BANK TRUST CO CAPITAL STOCK 6000000 SURPLUS EARNED 8000000 This Bank is prepared to not as Executor Administrator Guardian Trustee and perform duties in all fiduciary capacities THREE PER CENT ON TIME DEPOSITS hChC r w- cBest Kentucky Coal Cost no more than the Common Slate laden Clinkerfilled Coal Quick Delivery and Full Weight DONT FORGET THE PLACE PHONES 1569 Fred Jackson COAL DEALER t + y- I immediate BUCKNER VicePresident YARDS J Cor 13th and > l Raikoadtrees f

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in V lle KentuckianH

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l VOL xxxn HOPKINSV3LLE KENTUCKY TUESDAY FEBRUARY 22 1910 No 23rLETTER FROM

t MISS STARLING

Tells Many Interesting Thine

About Siam as She

Sees It

STRANGE BIRDS SEEN

Making a Reputation in Asia

With Her Kentucky

Biscuitsj

Prae N Siam Dec 14 1909 >

Jurist Monday morning we leftBangkok and traveled all daythrough a very interesting country

f most of it low and marshy with anoccasional glimpse of mountains in

1 the distance InsteaOMhe birdswe see at home there were storkcranes herons aigrets Joche rwater fowl The rive along whos-

bank the railroad lieRig full of fis

and all along the Way we saw nativescarryingothsome of them per-fectly eno o s I can tests I

that BFithem make veryee o

I was surprised to see what jf°od

train service they have The co hesare built English style and wod ijjj

k BucFandtselves and we spent a mo ea antday We reached Pits p e atsundown and spent t t therefor the trains in Siam ot run at

I Rht The two missy Caries theree

v Shellman and Mr Jones mot usand took us up the river 4o theirhomes where we sent the nightThey had a new gasr me launch andhas been having u good deal oftrouble with a r Everynow and then W r ould failand the launch c It W g aroundand run j another boatFinally it refwsla to g<f at all andwe had to cl mb up the bank andwalk the rest of the way

Next m ruing we were up earlyand starred again We reached Tait

>+ atllqjXjfock and found the place

elab rat ely decorated in honor ofpcfa prince who had come up to cel ¬

ebrate the opening of the railroadWe have no missionary here only aSiamese Christian doctor who hascharge of the dispensary there whotook us to his home for the nightSo we had the loft and a comfortablebed to sleep in making tworoomsby putting up a curtain Next morn-

ing we were up early again to catchthe train As we were nearly a milefrom the station and the carriagewas late Miss Buck and I started towalk leaving the Whites to followWe reached the station time fortrain to start and no Whites Finally when we had about decided wewould have to stay there anotherday the carriage came dashingaround the corner with baskets andbags on top behind and hanging outat both sides and broke down justin our sight After a long delaythey made the last sprint with MrWhite running by the aide of thehorses holding the harness togetherJust as they stopped one of thelamps broke off in his hands WellIfl firililly boarded the train with

l no greater loss thin that of Mr Wsl spectacles a rather serious state of1 affairs for him when it may be

months beforQ he can get anotherpair but he lost something every

time we d In fa he was a-

lwayhitntinoromehing and ar ¬

at Afterspending several hours in transfer ¬

ring supplies from boxes to basketsthat the coolies could handle Mrs

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K GEORGE WASHINGTON1 The first president was born Feb 11 1732 but the correction of thebirthdayhy >

in 1799 Gen Washington owned 51395 acresof land besides much otherI

property and was the richest man in America

ROY GARNETTDIED SATURDAY

jfir f Jft toI h1 v >

I vt1

A Popular Young Man Passed i Away After7

t a Lung Illness of Complication< thJlof Diseases >

J

t T i

Roy Garnett youngest son of Mrand Mrs Joe F Garnett diecTatat 630 oclock Saturday evening atthe parental home in the countryHe had been ill for several weekswith a complication of diseases thatmnde his recovery hopeless from thebeginning The young man wastwenty six years old and WES uhmar ¬

riedHe was a young man of a jovial

lighthearted disposition and wasvery popular with all who knew him

W toll me to get in my chair and

start on and that they would followon the ponies right away So I started off and never saw anything moreof the crowd that afternoon MrW is the slowest most easily mixedup man I ever saw and they didntstart for two hours after 1 did Thenthey stopped for afternoon tea auniversal custom out here and didInot get into camp until about darkBut I had one of the most delightfulafternoons of my whole trip Theway was through mountains and Iwalked a good part of the way be-

tween walls caverns wite gorgeouspalms and ferns and tall trees withslender white trunks and no branch-es

¬

except at the top A lovely streamfollowed us most of the way In themiddle of the afternoon we stoppedto rest and I slept half an hour inmy chair and then got out myvio ¬

lin and played for an hour Thiswas my first night of sleeping in thejungle We had a tent and cct andI slept as well as if I had been In myown bed The next day the scenerywas not so pretty as we passedthrough the rice plains and the roadwas hot and dusty I was surprised tosee what good roads they havehere This nigjitwe slept in a sallaa thatch covered raised platformwhich Buddhists build all over thecountry toIImake merit a verygood feature of their religion Thisbrought us within two hours rideof Pre and we went in the nextmorning

T J C J lfrlsoN D F SMITHSON Dibic EVERETT

Undertakers and EmbalmersJohnson Smithson Everett

ninth Street Wear L b V Depot

PROMPT SERVICE DAY OR NIGHTCUMBERLAND PHONEnlghtl61Dick

w u

I

t

At one time he was engaged in busi ¬

ness in this city but of late yearshad assisted his father in his largefarming interests He was a member of Hopkinsville Lodge No 545B PO E and a member of LocustGrove Baptist church His funeralservices were held at the familyresidence yesterday morning at 930oclock by Rev E W Barnett andthe interment took place in River¬

side cemetery01

You may be interested to hearsomething of this mission ThoughPre is not a large place it is a strate ¬

gic center and one of our most sat¬

isfying fields of labor The two bestmission homes in Laos are herebeautiful houses of teak which hasbecome so precious it is now sold inBangkok by the pound and the gov-

ernment¬

refuses to allow it to besold in Laos at any price the housein which I am to live is of leak Itis a beautiful brown wood and standsthe weather without paint or anyother preservative The two houseshere are built on the river side acurious but all too frequent short-sightedness

¬

on the part of the mis-

sionaries¬

who had charge of buyingthe site for when the river rises itIwashes away the banks and thehouses will have to be moved at onceto save them Last year for lackof forces the mission here had to beIabandoned and now these two housesare idle So we are all camping outin

themWehaving a good and rather

full meeting Dr McGiluary 82years old rode horseback from Chiehg Mai an eighJdays JOurney andreached here in good condition Ithink I never met a lovelier lot ofpeople than our Laos missionariesnot only good people but most ofthem attractive socially and mental ¬

ly I wish you might know them allfor it would take too long to writeabout them When I get to ChlengMall will write you about the peoplethere Miss Gilson is about brokendown and will go home as soon nlIshe can now that Miss Buckare

OurhreIdays We have a session from 9 to

12 every morning The English hornhave two lovely tennis courts andwe have been having a tennis tour ¬

nament that has taken up the after

Continued on 8th pag-er

tl 1

SCRAP IN

LEGISLATUREj

Question of Control of Telc1

phones Comes Upin GenI

eral AssemblyI

THE COUNTY UNIT BILL-

Y

II

And4ts Companion the ViceBil Sidetracked Indef

I ioitely

Fij ijJtfort Ky Feb 18TheCommittee on Telephune and Telegr plynade two reports in the Senate Newcomb bill whichwouldjglace the telephone companies

of a commission withreIportSenators T A Combs and G AWyattjjjgned the minority report favoringjthe passage of the bill

Newcomb moved that theminority report be substituted forthe majority report and this pro

a parlientary brush betweenSenators Newcomb and Conn LinnPresident Cox ruled that the minori ¬

ty report could be substituted fori the adverse report if the Senate soelected Senator Linn spoke againstthe motion and insisted that therules require a twothirds vote toadvance the bill instead of a majority report as President Cox ruled

The minority report favoring thebill jivas substituted for the majorityreport by a vote of 18 to 16 Thebill was then placed in the orders ofthe day

The Watkins county unit bill andits twin brother the Vice bill wereput to jeep for the rest of the ses ¬

sion The Vice bill was reportedwithout expression by the SenateCommittee on Religion and MoralsUnder the rules it is indefinitelypostponed and cannot be taken upagain A motion to advance theWatkins bill was defeated by a voteof 16 to

14THIS

Is one of the time-sallhousekeepersare especially pariculap about their

cakes Take nochance and use thehoveW T Cooper CoWholesale and Retail Grocers

kA w

Comb 59Home

Yl

1

h

I

SPRING GOODS

New Ginghamst t

New PercalesNew Linens <

New Fancy TokaraNevi Fancy Pongee

New Hair TurbanF

and Large Hair Pinsu

i

I

tMJONESI

j

Main Street Hopkinsville Ky

o rdslfasssossii 0

IIBBanking Facilitiescapital excep

arrangements anda thoroughly organized office system this

Sank has the ability and disposition toextend to its customers every facilitywarrantedby safe conservative banking

Throe per cent Interest on Time Certificates of doooslt

BANK OF HO KINS V ILL ECashierIiOJ 01f1 I

FIRST NATIONAL BArJiIHOPKINSVILLE

UNITED STATES DEPOSITARYOnly National Bank in This Community

Capital 0 7500000Surplus 2500000Stockholders Liability 0 7500000

iISSUES TRAVELERS CHECKS GOOD IN ALL PARTS

OF THE WORLD

HAS REGULAR SAVINGS DEPARTMENTI Three er Cent Interest Paid on Savings and Time Deposits

tR i

I

A HURRY CALL FOR COALII

even if it reaches us via phone

will meet with response

with a tc or more of fine freeburning fuel But it will be betterfor your peace of mind to keep an

eye on your coal bin and order asfar ahead as may be for its likelythat others like yourself are put-

ting things off until the last minute

vo it oYmUNDERWOOD WESTIIJo c

Phones Comb 70 Home 1544 INCORPORATED

E B LONG President W T TANDY CollierJNO B TRICE

CITY BANK TRUST COCAPITAL STOCK 6000000SURPLUS EARNED 8000000

This Bank is prepared to not as Executor Administrator GuardianTrustee and perform duties in all fiduciary capacities

THREE PER CENT ON TIME DEPOSITS

hChC r w-

cBest Kentucky CoalCost no more than the Common Slate laden Clinkerfilled Coal

Quick Delivery and Full WeightDONT FORGET THE PLACE

PHONES

1569

Fred JacksonCOAL DEALER

t +y-

I

immediate

BUCKNER

VicePresident

YARDS JCor 13th and > l

Raikoadtrees

f