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Short takes from the Adair County News, June 12, 1923

By JIM

As the days wheeled toward the summer solstice of 1923, the Bank of Columbia opened its magnificent new quarters on the southwest octant of the square, its first permanent home since the Great Conflagration on the Square of September 1921 consumed its venerable quarters on the exit corner of Burkesville Street.

Just days afterward, renovation work started on the First National Bank building, located between Jamestown Street and the south corner, with the promise "The present building will be made practically new."

In the Purdy section of Adair County, two young family men lost their lives with the skiff from which they were fishing in the Green River hit a whirlpool and threw them overboard. The victims were Melvin Judd, 35, and Irvine Bennett, 27. Both gentlemen were married; Mr. Judd also had three children. Stated the paper, "The screams of the women in the neighborhood could have been heard for over a mile."

The Columbia Christian had just purchased a fine organ from Sanders & Hendrickson (of Campbellsville); Roy Rasner offered a "Special Surplus stock sale on Bicycles, Parts and Sundries"; and Police Judge M. Cravens sternly warned that a town ordinance "making it unlawful to keep any kind of business house, except Drug store[s] or eating houses" open on Sundays would "be enforced after this date."

Several "cards" (think classified ads) dotted the front page, including:

  • A.W. Tarter demanded payment for fertilizer he'd sold on note or account;

  • Dr. H.W. Depp, a dentist, flatly denied rumors he planned to not return to Columbia and stated he'd be there on Saturdays without fail (another card stated he would be in his Columbia office on Saturday, June 16th); and

  • Epperson & Keene (a store located in the Creel Building at the exit corner of the square and Campbellsville Street), offered "Fly Tox, the Best Fly and Insect Killer in town."

Three cards announcing lost/misplaced items:
  • Miss Mary Miller, of Columbia, had lost "An old fashioned bar pin in the town of Columbia"; she offered a reward for its return.

  • Pres Huddleston, of the Glensfork section had lost "Twenty-eight dollars, in United States bills, on Nelson's Ridge, last Sunday." Mr. Huddleston offered half the lost amount as a reward and noted "When lost, I was on company with Curt Duvall and John Goff;" and

  • One of the odder cards encountered in The News, placed by U.G. Anderson: "A headstone marked [i.e., addressed to] U.G. Anderson, was shipped to Columbia from Campbellsville about the 5th of May. It can not be found. I will pay for information. s/ U.G. Anderson, Russell Springs, Ky." Although slightly humorous on the surface, this was far from a laughing matter. Almost certainly, it was a military marker for Robert Peter Anderson, U.G.'s father. The elder Anderson, who had died just over a year earlier, served honorably and well in Company A, 3rd Kentucky Infantry Regiment, Union Army. Thankfully, either the missing marker turned up or U.G. was able to get a replacement, as an upright military marker has stood silent vigilance at Corp. Anderson's grave (Bethlehem Cemetery, near the Adair County line ) for nearly ten decades.



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The Mary Jane Blakeman lot (Patteson Building)

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