spot story bnck this will contain

I by ^cording to t <*n-'Wendell Be sur- | ^ The new

School Depa 'will include and office a:

NOTICE 2 pot cent penally on

Taxes January I. 6 per cant penalty on

February I. Arthur Payne. Sheriff.

MT. VEBNON

For Years of Appreciation

Electrical gifts keep on giving for months after Christmas, recalling the giver each time they're used. So choose a gift that's doubly appreciated —ap-preciated for what rt does as well as because you gave it.

There's an electrical gi f t within every budget, whether you're choosing some-thing for the home, for the whole fam-ily, or for an individual. Choose the gift that's always welcomed — give electri-cal -gifts.

DAILY * BETR&1T via CINCINNATI1

• N* Chang* of Coach** * • Ho Transfer of Bofgof* • Sam* Bn Coos All tfc* Way • Savoi Tim* —H* Mays DETROIT DEPARTURES 7:30 A. M. 2:15 P. M.

CINCINNATI DEPARTURES 7:30 10:4"5 A. M. 2:15 4:45 P. M. DETROIT (On* Way) $8.40 CINCINNATI (One Wav) J2.90 «% urmes on long riirs-o i r«, t-~, Foi frequent scheJ.ile< and low esc I ] fares EVERYWHERE - call y o u ,

local* Greyhound Agcm

Rockcastle Tavern Phdne 100 Mt. Vernon

G S i r:Yi i y C N f>

TUE.-WED. DEC. 12-13 Wall Disney's

iJCABOD AND MISTER TOAD

. Serial - Friday - Saturday

THU.-FRI. DEC. 14-1S WHERE THE SIDE

WALK ENDS With

Dana Andrew* and Gene Ti"-n»^

SATURDAY - DEC. 16 HARBOR OF

V S S I N G MEN With

Rlch*rd Denning and Barbara Fuller

- A L S O -SOUTH OF

DEATH VALLEY Charles Starrett and

Smiley Burnett

SUN.-MON. DEC. 17-18 See

Van Johnson and John Hodiak

Also Cartoon

Saturday continuous from l*4S p.m. - Other .nights 7:00. Box office closes at 8.30 p.m.

ROCKCASTLE FACTS and STORIES By RALPH GRIFFIN

* Having heard the evidence in lr.g. There the thing stood. It the case of The Commonwealth was rudely made (rom rough of Kentucky vs Johnathan timbers; ominous, grim and ef-Davidson, charged with the ficicnt looking, the first gal-murder of,, Henry I.angford. lows which most of the spec-the jury had found a verdict, talors had ever £een. An ex-It had taken them but a few !tended arm. with dangling

G* minutes to do so; now they rope, suspended over a plat-filed back into the little Rock- form with a trap door casue County courtroom. Word At eleven o'clock Davidson's was passed lo the waiting over- wife, his fourteen-year old son flow crowd outside "the jury and his i n f a ^ daughter had is out—the jury is out." It was been admitted to the little jail a tense moment, and breath- which had confined their hus-lessly quiet. Iband and father for many

Formalities were brief The 'weeks. There, no doubt a verdict was read. "We. the jury'heart-rending scene had en-fmd the defendant guilty of sued. At eleven-fifteen the murder m the first degree." J weeping wife and son were There was a ro^r of approval i tenderly ;arid sorrowfully led from the crowded room which outside ^ t t a hard-faced but was echoed by the hundreds'w'et-eyed -fflputy jailer. The outside. Furiously the Judge baby cooed and chorted from pounded the desk in a vain at- the unaccustomed noise and tempt to restore order. movement.

Each juror was interrogated. At eleven-thirty the prisoner "Your verdict?" Each answered, has^bjjen tKonaH ft'ri' <h*

• "Wiy vtmHrtT" Ghastly lAxfc, tne heavy ball and chain prisoner waS haled before the manacled to one of his ankles bar. His Honor intoned." . . . Placed in a cart he is seated and upon the 20th day of Octo- upon his coffin, and the pro-ber next. ,at high noon, you cession starts upon its doleful shall be hanged by the neck way to the gallows. Many of until you are dead. dead. dead, the crowd has come to the and may the Lord have mercy Ja ' l and follows at a respectful upon your soul! Amen." distance. There is no demon-

October the 20th. 1841. stration. M.any have seen the eleven-thrity a m. All morn- weeping wife and the children ing people have been streaming They have responded with [he into Mt. Vertton. They came quick and impulsive sympathy.. on horseback. in .rude wagons of the mountaineer The sheriff i and carts and upon foot. Many a n d two deputies accompany women and children are among the cart on horseback, the throng, for this is a g;ila The procession is forced to, day. Slaves haVe been given move very slowly, for the road the day off and a number of 15 a succession of rocks, ruts, blacks'are to be seen trudging and gulleys. The cart arrives' along in the dust beside their al its destination with but little mourned mastrt-s t'njie to spare before the stroke

Ttoe crowd is not vindictive, d ' twelve: With a few Jow-for the feeling against David- voiced instructions the sheriff s<yn has naturally subsided helps the trembling prisoner since his conviction Numer- from [he tumbril, then assists eus people, in fact, express him lo his posit on upon the their sympathy for the doomed gallows. It is high noon man and the majority feel -pity 1 1

for his wife and two children. BAPTIST CHURCH PLANS < Rockcastle ;s about lo have its EDUCATIONAL BUILDING

l e 6 a l h?nging ;bowqver Pbns are being made bv the It is open to the pub1.e an3*no- M t Vernon Baptist Church for body is going to misf the spec- the eret-iinn of a Aew edu-acle who can possibly at- cational building, with work on'

4 „ _ n „ , . . , ,!*he project to start in thc" A gallows had been erected spring

a half mile west Of the court-) The building will be of two-' -0S.I~4the e x ? c t SP°' story bnck construction, and

could be pointed out, but this will contain 30 class rooms »c-, n , o t b e appreciated by ;cording to tfce minister, Rev.

present day .owners; This cen- Wend eH Belew leJ °JjniereSt hid b r n s u r " i The new buildin? wi'i ,c-rounded by an awetf rrw*>ct>moteic t h f f r full Sunday"

" " and also n " ' "'vIUUC a pastor's study and office as well as a library

Know Your County By GEORGIA CLARK

Rockcastle Still Has 56 One-Room Schools

Rockcastle .County still has 56 one-room schools. A total of 12 of the county's schools are two-room institutions, andS 3 of the schools have the service of three teachers.

In the one-room school, the teacher has students of all grades.. Her time must be divided between students of all ages. " The county's 125 teach-ers j r e scattered out in 73 dif-

I ferent schools. , Of the 125 teachers. 56 of them teach in the one-room schools. 24 man th^two-room

.schools, and 9 share the three room schools. The remainder leach at Brodhead and Livings-ton. schools which were con-solidated only last year.

To reach some of the schools.

mote of the county's one-room schools aren't even accessible by jtep.

The county »has made pro-gress No} so long ago, school busses were unheard of in many sections. . When a bdy or girl completed the Eighth Reader, his education was over, Unless

| he could afford to go to town lock, Josephine Dickerson.' Are- The one-room .schools ana and board out while attending via Gentry. Lee Gentry, Etfiel their teachers are: Ida Abney, high school. |"he school'busses Owfcns, Pauline Mullins. L^la Buckeye School; Keith Arnold,

| do reach back; now. Every day Say lor, Jane Smith, and James Buffalo; Yvonne Black. Red students are brought in to Liv- Baker, principal. Ethel Owens Hill; Oneida Burdelte. Free-

i mgston arid ' Brodhead. T h e is the school's librarian and dom; Elnora Burke, Gum Sul-i Brjtdhead school now has an en- I.ee Gentry is coach. phur; Ruth Coffey. Sinks; Fan-rollment of 68£, and a total of Three-Teacher Schools nie Coldiron, Owens; Barbara 374 students attend the Living- The three-room schools are Croley, Gum Grove; James Cro-sttii school. Of these totals, located at Pine Hill, New Chest- ley. Pleasant View; Frances 394 are high school students, nut Ridge and Ottawa. Dickerson, Piney Branch; Fern The latest figure gives Brod-1 Teachers at the Pine Hill Dooley, Brushy Ridge: Mae head" 253 high school students. School a le Ruth Lambert. Ber- Dooley. Hickory Valley; Mar-while thq_ Livingston High lie Rice and, Lloyd Shutts. garet Fish, Rocky Bend; Cascus School now cSres for 139 stu- I The Ottawa teachers are Flesher, Anglin Falls; Geral- ' dents. (Jean A. Gentry. Delia Scog- dine French, Durham; Hilda

Total Enrollment 3.340 gins and Willie Taylor. Gabbard. Disputanta. The total enrollment in the ! At the New Chestnut Ridge R. H, Gentry, Level Green;

county schools is 3.340. Nine School, the teachers are Myrtle Elmer Hale. Hurricane; Betty school busses transport students,Bullock. Ann Smith and James Hiatt, Boiling Springs, Luther to and from Livingston and O- Smith. Hill. Walnut Grove; Martha-Brodhead schools. | The two-room schools and Hill, Davis Branch; Ruby Hil-

Brodhead has a teaching staff their teachers are as follows: ton. Hickory Grove; Sue Hil-of 21. and Livingston school Old Chesnut Ridge.- Cleda ton, Maple Grove; John Hol-has 13 teachers. Southard and Wanda VanHook; brook, Jr., Johnetta; Hubert

The Brodhead teachers are: Blue Springs. Edward Hunt and Hunt, Maratburtf Corrmne Burdette Adams. 4ean - Allen, Juanita Stanley; . Climax, Mil- Hurt, Quail; Anns Ingles, Cove: Fern Godby, Richard Harris, dred Azbifl and Lois Reynolds: Gene Martin. Cooksburg: Byrda Ruth Hendrickson, Bentley Hil- COnway. Ida Hysinger and McCall, T. R. Mullins School; ton, John Holbrook, Charles Daisy Peters: ^airview, Bonnie Larry McClure. Macedl lia; Hurt. Cicil McKinnSy, Inez Parsons and Charles Parsons; Cletis Mlullins, Sowder, Euia McKinney, Elizabeth Mullins. Gum Springs. Irvin BuUlock Mullins. long Branch:

Lucille PowUl.'Vivian'Sobbins; 'Sad Liify BtiWook, Ltlt& rta'cR.mwe. Rocky Springs, Cucute John L. Saylor, Virginia Say ' Aslee Bray and Sallie Hale: Owens. Hayes Grove: Lucille lor. Worth Sowder, Hobart Negro Creek, Lucy Harris and Parkerson. Oak Hill. Thompson, W. P. Wright. Nancy Patricia Hendrickson; Orl?ndo. J e w e l Parsons, Medical • Williams. librarian, Millard .Verla Scott and Lou .Payne; .Springs; Virginia Peters. Well Robbins, coach and D. A. Rob- Pleasant Run, Orean French Hope: Rairhel Co*. Owen Allen bins, principal. land Elsie Gilliam: Sand Springs, School: Ruby Phillips, Thad

The I.ivingston teaching staff , Virginia Jones and Catherine Drew School; Alma Pike. Nor-includes: Annette Anderson. |Grav<>s: Victory, Olive Mink ton, Dan Pohd*r, Whitaker; Beulah Black. Estele Bullock, and Willard Whitaker Florence Ponder. White Oak: Leonard Bullock, Pearl Bui- i One-Teacher Schools Wenona Ponder, Cave sRidgc.

Nina Purcell. New Hope: D. W. Rice. Cruise Ridge; Ethel Sams, Poplar Gap; Jean A. Saylor, Scaffold Cane: Beulah Stewart, Wildie; Daisy Swinford,. Ham-mond. Beulah Thacker, Ceitz; ' Mary Thomas, Gabbard; James W. Thompson, Poplar Grove; Fannie Riddle, Beech Grove; Thelma Whitaker. Sand Hill, Cola Wilson. Green Hill.

Excepiional Children Exceptional children a r e

taught by Elizabeth Mink, who-lives in Mt. Vemon. MrS. Mink has about 12 students scattered throughout the county ' and visits each student every week.

The program for exceptional children is sponsored by the state and waj" put in operation in Rockcastle County for the first lime this year.*4 The -chil-dren are either crippled or un-able to attend regular classes due to other handicaps. Mrs. Mink visits them in their homes and leaves enough school work each visit to enable the students

o t l liaving to leave their homes. The Rockcastle school system

is supervised by County Super-intendent Neureul Miracle, with, the aid of a six-member Board ' of Education.

The members of the school board arc Mrs. Ertna Mullins, Dr. R. G Webb. Carlo Saylor. .John Harris. Nathan Clark and John Sowder. ,

b^en vetr

since nine o'clock in the morn-

A . E . R U S S E L L

O p t o m e t r i s t S t a n f o r d . K y .

-and conference room.

PAGE FOUR MT. VERNON SIGNAL. MT. VERNON. KY. Thursday. December 7. 1S50.

SIGNAL A. F Hoffman, Editor

Published every Thursday At No. 10 Church Street,

Mt. Temp*.- Kjr. •t Mt. TwiJiw Xv

as and elajs matter

GRAY THEATRE

'THROUGH' BUSES

The Theatre You Lor* T«

SUN.-MON. DEC. 10-11 BLACK ROSE Also Cartoon