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T h e M t . V e r n o n Signal PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY

At No. 10 Church Street, Mt. Vernon, Ky.

AUVA F. HOFFMAN, Editor - Publisher

Virginia Bray Social News

Yearly Rates ID Rockcastle County $2.08 Outside of Rockcastle County $2.50

"Somerset now has a huge new tobacco warehouse, built by the people themselves," says Mr. Bement. "Farmers and

•IT 1—. . . . „ ——— —— business people furnished the entered at Mt Vernon, Ky. Post Office as Second Class Matter, capital. It is called the Farmers

Warehouse. C&vers four acres of ground and cost $200j00.00.

"It opened November 2S and on that day over a million pounds was unloaded. The new warehouse is serving many far-mers in adjacent counties.

Somerset is working on a playground and recreational project, under the auspices of the Junior Chamber of Com-merce. Of course, in addition to the Junior Chamber many other local clubs and organi-zations of Somerset are parti-cipating in this project. They are building a public play-ground and intend to hire a re-creational director to offer a comprehensive recreational pro-

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We have with us today the SPECIAL SERVICES town of Somerset, seat of There will be special services Pulask^County, a n d the story at the Roundstone Bap1 was turneff In 'by Maurice D. i Church Saturday night at Bement, Executive Director of i p.m. Sunday School at 10 a. the Committee for Kentucky. | Sunday Morning Services

THURSDAY, DEC. 16, 1 R I

Of B o o k s A n d C u l t u r e | jip. that part of the State. Its

Recently, a Miss Helen Har- hal ls , are used as meeting ris of Knoxville said the worst 'places for teen-agers and other library service in the Nation is i civic organizations. The people found in the southeast, and are well-read, and an American that of Mississippi and Ken- j culture, apart from an import-tucky are among the worst in ed European one, is growing up the group.

Miss HSrris' observations came from a two-year survey of library -services throughout the Nation.

In the number of books per capita, the Nation averaged .99. Miss Harris said. The southeast averaged .35. lowest in the Nation, and Mississippi was at the bottom, with .10, Kentucky rated .25 books per capita, which returns the old thought, paraphrased slightly for a substitute state: "Thank God for Mississippi."

A few travelling libraries and book-mobiles, with books into the mountains, have done much to relieve the situation.

11 a.m. Evening Services at 7 p.m.

Rev. J. R. Prince, World War I Baptist Pastor and Evangelist of Knoxville, Tenn., will be the guest speaker at these services. Rev. Prince will preach his World War I experiences at the II a.m. service.

All members and surround-ing communities are cordially invited to attend.

Rev. Prince has been in the active ministery for 20 years and has served several import-ant pastorates. He is character-ized as a courageous and un-compromising preacher of the old time gospel.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH NOTES, non Christian Church extend a (L.ams £., Kineman, Pastor) , most warm welcome to every-

i one to attend the special t Christmas Services of the

enter IntoathpWrhrlrtnfoo>lh-iV>I <xJ}urch- The Christmas Wor- . l m wm oe davs M we dr. m AI,» ^ p Service win be held Sun- children helping to celebrate

' . ? ? f j day morning, December 19, a t ' t he birthday of the Christ

CHURCH OF NAZARENE Christmas program of the

Nazarene Sunday School will include playlets, readings and special songs. -There will be 33

Jt search out our hearts n : 0 0 A.M. You will want to be rrallv mralw »«" i ^ n s V ? 1 a s I present for the Sunday School f s a . . m e | Hour also which begins at 10:00

S i f t e r On Wednesday Evening, gifts, or does it have a mudh December 22, several of the Christmas! Sunday School Classes, under

^ commercialized the direction of several of the and socialized until most of us have lost the real meaning of the term. When the angel appeared unto the Shepherds in the fields of Judea, they

ladies 6f the Church, will pre-sent a play entitled. "An House Built Unto David. Everyone is urged to bring gifts of can-

were fearful, but t K goods, potato**, etc-angel made the glorious an-nouncement they took courage and made haste to see the Christ-Child. Let us stop and listen to the words of the an

make up the white gift offer-ings which will be presented to the needy families of Mt Ver-non and vicinity. The play will be*'presented at 7 " ~ ""

Child. One oof the outstanding exercises will be "A Birthday Cake For Jesus." When—

Sunday 10:00 A. M. Where— Church of the Nazarene. Who— _ You, Come To The Program.

Retail prices of milk deliver-ed to homes in 24 major cities-early in November averaged 21.8 cents per quart, the same as in September and October, but one and six-tenths cents-

in Nov-

structure and employs several hundred local pedple.

"Another item of interest is taking place in the Somerset high school. Superintendent Hopkins and Professor Meece of the City school system, have been working for the last year

city, London, on getting into production another assembly line. This time it's a bakery. Kern's bread has been flooding our stores for some time now,

but" thaT is "not" enough" We"ad- ^though it had been shipped mit the illiteracy rate ia high, but that is coming down. We have to go even farther.

A town in western Kentucky, not much larger than Mt. Ver-non, adds 5 cents to each $100 of property assessment, which is channelled into a library ser-vice.

People-owned a n d city-

among them We admit it's a long step for-

ward for our city, but one that is not at all impossible.

George Matthew Adams said: "And so it Is, that when human { p " " 1 0 t h e young people of association and companionship Somerset. seem temporarily to have fail- "Until about two years ago, ° n ® course of study on Ken-ed us, we may then hope to find Somerset had no manufactur-1 •"c ly• used in Somerset. in the reading of books, and in in6- b u t now has a Goodall P '8 h school. They are collect-1 delving into what others have P l a n t manufacturing men's [ lnf a n d compiling all available felt and lived, a counterpart of 'clothing. The manufacturing, information on the state, since our own thirst and hunger " I Process is housed in , a new w s d ° n o t h a v < an up-to-date

; — text that can be used in a study | parts. Comes at a good time, | of Kentucky. This is one of the

Congratulations to our sister i too. what with that Christmas 1 first cases I have learned about » • — . ..... jjjj getting longer all the time. ;that is concentrating on the

* * * * i development of a full course The State Police Department ifor highschool students on the

is taking over our school boy study of Kentucky. After this patrols around the State, and course is perfected, it should making them into Junior Police !attract considerable interest Forces, or something of that j and could be used to a great SW t. This town should have j advantage by all other high-one, and soon. We had one a I schools of the state of Ken-little while- back, but like all Itucky." good things, it didn't stay i What Mr. Bement says about around very long. Statistics ! the work of Hopkins and Meece show 8250 children are killed makes me wonder why there is every year in accidents, while -only 4250 die from polio, pneu-monia and tuberculosis com-bined.

nunciation and seek Him who Jpwed by a reception for is the King of Kings. Lord of | "Santa" in the Church base-Lords, and Price of Peace. | ment. The Young People's "Fear not; for, behold, I bring I Christian Endeavor will add you good tidings of great joy, : Joy to the season by singing which shall be to all people.: Christmas Carols throughout For unto you Is born this day | the town on Christmas Eve. in the city of David a Saviour,, Let us worship the King of

D »« » , i *** q u * r t Wgher than f . M. tol- ember a year ago. Retail de-

livered milk prices rose l a about one In every 20 markets.

which is Christ the Lord The people

• Kings and sing praises unto His the Mt. Ver-' Holy Name.

from Knoxville. Now, all the work is dtMe in London, Lon-don is one of the fastest grow-ing little cities in Southeastern Kentucky, along with our other neighbor, Somerset.

There's a lot of tobacco money floating around now, which should give business another shot in the arm in these

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There will be a FREE SHOW for the Children Christmas at 10 o'cloak. (Several Comedies and Cartoons). WISHING ALL OF YOU A VERY MERRY XMA8'

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