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From: "Gerri Sutton" <>
Subject: [KYLAUREL-L] Excerpts from The Mt. Echo 1904 (16)
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 10:39:38 -0400


Reprinted with permission of the Laurel Co Historical Soc.
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EAST BERNSTADT

J. L. Wells and wife have been to the city this week buying goods.

Sam Pennington passed through here Saturday on his way to Jellico.

Robert Johnson of London, has been visiting relatives at this place for a
week.

Mrs. J. A. Lucy is visiting her sister Mrs. Huston McFerron, at Pine Hill
this week.

Miss Sallie Pearl, "hello" girl at London, and Helen Mason and her beau
spent Sunday with Mrs. S. L. Bastin.

About 2 o'clock Monday evening Mrs.Julia Toby had her house and all its
contents burned. Any help from friends will be appreciated.

EAST PINEY WOODS

John Riley visited Wm. Harkleroad Sunday.

Miss Hattie McCarty is here going to school at Old Union. We are glad to
have her with us.

JANUARY 29, 1904

RACCOON

J. B. Johnson was in London last week.

Joe Chesnut left for San Francisco last week.

Henry Hensley was in London Monday.

Jonce Vaughn lost a very fine horse the other day.

Mrs. Caroline Goins, Benton, Ark., was visiting Mrs. Martha Johnson of this
place.

TUTTLE

John Hammons who has been seriously ill with pleurisy, is improving fast and
will be out again soon.

Charlie Gragg, who has been dangerously ill with pneumonia at the home of
his uncle Henry Gragg, near here is some better.

Mrs. Wyatt widow of the late Benjamin Wyatt has been confined to her bed
almost continually since last summer, and no hope for her ultimate recovery
is entertained.

Mrs. Margaret Tuttle widow of the late Samuel Tuttle died very suddenly at
the home of her son, Jeff Tuttle, Friday night. She had been in declining
health all winter but heart failure is thought to have been the cause of her
death. She was a good woman and leaves several children and a large circle
of friends and relatives to mourn her death. Interment was in the Tuttle
cemetery Sunday.


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