RUTH GRUBBS AND GRACE BOYD

JANUARY 28, 1932 -- GEORGE A. PULLEN, AGED 83, DIES AT HOME IN CLINTON

     GEORGE A. PULLEN DIED SUNDAY EVENING AT 9:30 O'CLOCK AT THE HOME OF HIS DAUGHER MRS. DECK PORTER ON NORTH JEFFERSON STREET, FOLLOWING A SERIOUS ILLNESS OF SEVERAL DAYS.

     MR. PULLEN WAS ONE OF CLINTON'S HIGHLY RESPECTED OLDER CITIZENS, HIS AGE BEING 83.  HE WAS BORN IN GRAVES COUNTY AND REMOVED TO CLINTON MANY YEARS AGO.  SOMETHING LIKE THIRTY YEARS AGO HE SERVED AS CITY MARSHALL OF CLINTON.  FOLLOWING THIS SERVICE HIS EYESIGHT BECAME IMPAIRED AND LATER HIS HEALTH BROKE.  FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS PAST, HE HAS BEEN UNABLE TO DO MORE THAN LIGHT WORK.  HE WAS A MAN FRIENDLY WITH EVERYBODY, AND BLESSED WITH A HAPPY DISPOSITION.

       HE WAS TWICE MARRIED AND IS SURVIVED BY HIS DAUGHTER, MRS. PORTER OF CLINTON AND A SON, MOSS PULLEN, OF CALIFORNIA.  ONE OTHER DAUGHTER, MRS. VERNA TATE, JACKSON, TN.  HE WAS A BROTHER TO DEE PULLEN AND MRS. W. R. MAGNESS OF MAYFIELD.  W. B. PULLEN, FORMERLY OF CLINTON, WAS A NEPHEW; CLAUDE AND JACK PORTER, SPRINGFIELD, ILL. ARE GRANDSONS.

     FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE PORTER HOME MONDAY AFTERNOON, AT 3:30 O'CLOCK, CONDUCTED BY REV. EUGENE MURRAY, PASTOR OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.  INTERMENT WAS IN CLINTON CEMETERY.

      Mr. Burus Rennick died at the home of his brother, Jim Rennick, in St. Louis at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning, February 3.  The body will arrive here Thursday morning on early train and burial will be some time Thursday in the family cemetery on the old Rennick farm west of Clinton.

     In a letter to the Gazette, information comes of the death in St. Louis, November 22, 1931, of Mrs. J. Eppes.  She was the daughter of the late Barnard Whithead, who conducted a butcher shop in Columbus, KY., for many years.  She was the wife of Jesse Eppes and the mother of Berneice and Barnard Eppes.  Pneumonia was the cause of her death.

     The following item, from a Dallas, Texas, paper refers to a former resident of Moscow.

     Mrs. Olive Lane Robinson, 38, wife of Dr. Wayne T. Robinson and resident of Dallas for eight years, died Saturday at a local hospital, following an extended illness.  Her home was at 5222 Homer.

      Besides her husband, Mrs. Robinson is survived by a son, Wayne T. Jr., and a daughter, Lucille, all of Dallas; her mother, Mrs. Mildred Lane of Amarillo; three brothers, Clifford Lane of Amarillo, Tex., P. Lane of Memphis and B. T. Lane of Los Angeles, and two sisters, Mrs. J. R. Watkins of Chicago and Mrs. Richard Brock of Long Beach

      Death came suddenly Monday night to Otis (Judge) Grogan, aged 56, who resides on the Other Vivrett place, northeast of Clinton.  He became ill early in the evening but seemed to get better.  Later in the night he experienced severe pains in his side and expired in a few moments.  HIs death was attributed to heart trouble.  

     He is survived by his wife and son.  He was the son of the late Sam Grogan, well known gunsmith, and a brother of Sam Grogan, living in the county.  Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon by Rev. W. A. Gardner.  Burial was in Oakwood Cemetery.

     Mrs. Elizabeth Scott Wilmurth died at her home, north of Moscow, Friday.  Funeral services and burial took place at Oakwood.

     Mrs. Wilmurth was born Nov. 9, 1873, making her age at death 58 years, 5 months and 13 days.  In 1888 she was married to W. H. Wilmurth, who survives her. To this union ten children were born, four of whom died in infancy.

     Early in young womanhood she professed faith in Christ and later united with the Baptist Church living a faithful Christian life. 

In the May 28, 1891, issue of the Clinton Democrat Paper, there were several grocery stores named as being in business at that time.  One was Beadles and Webb.  This business could be found on the north side of the square in the middle of the block.

Another store was with the name of Williams and Franklin.  They were also located on the north side of square.

John W. Griffin's grocery was one of the older businesses and at this time was on the northwest corner of the square.  Evidently, it had moved several times as it was reported "his business moved with the same adventure that his life does".

In the Opera House block was a new establishment, the G. W. Marting Grocery.  He had been doing his share of business even though new and was also agent for the Walter A. Wood machines.

In north Clinton, one could find the J. D. Hays and Company Grocery.  Judge Hays was the owner and operator of this store that sat near the Depot.  Its specialty was buying and shipping country produce of all kinds.

The Columbus Enterprise was the first newspaper published in Hickman County.  It was started about 1852 by W. D. Lannom.  It was a limited publication and ran its course in four years, and was succeeded by the Columbus Crescent, a weekly paper published by Bullock and Elliott, a short time before the breaking of the war.  It was issued but a short while, the Civil War proving its deathblow.  The next paper was started in 1866 by Robert Summers and was known as the Columbus Messenger.  This was a seven-column folio sheet and was regularly issued until 1876.

The Columbus Sentinel was established in 1877 by C. R. Cravens, Andersen, Indiana, who published it for about one year.  It was then published by a Mr. Gray and a Mr. Walker, who changed the name to the Columbus Times.  These two gentlemen operated the paper for about six months when it was purchased by E. B. Walker and Luther S. Taylor, who ran it for a year and a half.  Mr. Walker later established the Columbus Beacon, a small paper which enjoyed an existence of nine months.  In December 1882, Luther S. Taylor established the Columbus Herald, which he published at Columbus until May 1883.  In 1883, F. H. Thurman moved the Wickliffe Tribune from Wickliffe to Columbus and operated it there for a portion of a year.

JUDGE BOLIN DENIES WRAY PERMIT TO OPERATE                     COUNTY ROADHOUSE

       Vester Wray was denied a permit to conduct a roadhouse, tourist camp and place of public entertainment where intoxicating and non-intoxicating drinks were to be sold, by County Judge, R. L. Bolin, in county court here on Monday.  Wray had made application for the permit three weeks ago.

        Judge Bolin, in his judgement, refused to grant the permit on the basis that the place had been previously declared a public nuisance;  that it was so situated in Hickman County, near Graves and Fulton Counties lines, that it was impossible for local authorities to properly enforce the law;  that it was not the court that the management could open the business under the laws of the Commonwealth and further that numerous complaints of reliable and trustworthy citizens had been presented to the court.

       Council for Wray appealed the decision of the county court to circuit court and asked for a hearing here Saturday before Circuit Judge L. L. Hindman which was granted.  Under the 193 Kentucky law relating to the sale of alcoholic beverages and operation of roadhouses, appeal can be carried to the circuit court from county court.  The decision of the circuit court is final.

NEWSPAPER EXTRACTIONS   HICKMAN COUNTY

1883-1918                                    JUNE 1900

   We now have 43 white schools and 10 colored schools in the county, including a graded free school at Columbus and another at Oakton, both of which are in a flourishing condition and doing splendid work.  The school census just taken shows that there are 3,706 white children of school age and 828 colored.  Teachers were paid out of the public-school fund last year about $12, 300, besides the supplemental tax paid to the graded school districts.

     Our present county school superintendent, Prof. James W. Henry, a more particular reference to whom, together with a good picture of him, appears elsewhere in this paper, is

pushing the schools forward with a steady hand, and every day they are reaching nearer perfection.  In nearly every district he has succeeded in getting trustees who are wide awake to the importance of the office they hold, and in selecting teachers the greatest care is exercised to secure the best available.

      We have, besides our public schools, two colleges representing two great denominations in their inspiration and backing, but nonsectarian in their teachings--in fact, supported indiscriminately by Methodists and Baptists themselves, as well as by all other denominations.  Of these colleges more extended notices are given under special headings, on another page.

Found in Newspaper Extractions Hickman County 1883-1918                       January 1886

     JOEL RINGO SUICIDE BY SHOOTING HIMSELF

    Last Friday morning, the town of Clinton was startled by the announcement that Joel Ringo, a highly respected young man of this place had shot himself and was thought to be dying.  The Democrat reporter hastened at once to the hardware store of Mr. Ed W. Avey where he found the young man seemingly in the agonies of death with a bullet hole just above the left nipple, in the region of the heart.  Drs Beeler and Jordan were soon upon the spot and made examination of the wound.  The bullet was found to be lodged in the muscles of the back just below the left shoulder blade.  The physicians were unable to determine then whether the bullet had gone through the lungs or had struck one of his ribs and glanced around to the back.  Doctors B & J attempted to cut the bullet out but were unable to do so as the wounded man was delirious and could not be kept sufficiently quiet.  By this time a large crowd and assembled in the store and a stretcher was procured, the young man placed thereon, and carried to the residence of his uncle, Mr. James M. Ringo, of the firm of Watson and Ringo.