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MT VERNON SIGNAL, 1
Friday, une. 9. 1911
Published every Friday by
EDGAR S. ALBRIGHT.
SUBSCRIPTION ONtt YRAR $I.OO
MKMBKR OF
KENTUCKY PRESS ASSOCIATION
THINGS THAT WERE NOT;
AND WERE IN i87.
AND SOME THAT ARE
TO-DAY.
(By J. M.)
In thjyear 1877 when the writer
located in Mt. Vernon there were
three pianos in towu. There are
forty to-day. The town boasted
of two buggies and one carriage,
the latter was made in 1849 and
was originally the property of Dr.
J. Joplin a noted proctitioner, the
father of J L. Joplin. Not a
typewriter or telephone was here.
Safety razors were absent. Not a
foot of concrete sidewalk, and but
a few feet of brick sidewalk, some
plank and fiat stone pavements
an dirt. Only three brick houses
in town. The old horse mill, on
the lot where Tom Proctor now
lives, had only disappeared a few
years before. Not a traction
engine or separator (.thresher) in
the county. Ground hog machines
were in general use. The sewing
machine agent, calendar clock
men and lightening rod agents
were reaping a harvest. The
wrought iron range people soon
followed selling an ordinary range
at $64 which sells today at $20.
Some dwellings were equipped with
rods that cost the owner more than
the building was worth. No news-"paper
or printing pre&s wis Here.
It was ten years later when the
Mountain Signal was established,
the same paper you are now
reading, which has been published
continuously since with a few
changes in editors and managers.
Among its editots were the writer,
W. R. Cress, J. W. Brown, E. B.
