Taken from "Hardin County, Kentucky Newspaper Abstracts 1902 to 1904" compiled by Carolyn Wimp. Rufus Holbert in the presence of Bro. Freeman, told the following story: He said Rev. Freeman and his brother, Sylvester Holbert, were great tobacco chewers. That Bro. Freeman was conducting a meeting at Howevalley and Syl was a regular attendant. One day when their spiritual natures were at a very high pitch, Bro. Freeman went home to dinner with Mr. Holbert. Before dinner, they got to talk- ing about themselves and one proposed to the other that they quit chewing tobacco, that they had no right to chew. The other agreed. They shook hands on it, then and there, threw the quids out of their mouths and the tobacco in the pockets was emptied into the fire. After a big dinner, Bro. Freeman complained that he was suffering terribly from the loss of it. Mr. Holbert sympathized with him and said he would give him anything himself for a good chew. Well, said Bro. Freeman, let's have one. They shook hands upon the idea and they have been chewing ever since. They stayed quit from just before dinner to a few minutes after dinner. Dump Gardner stood by and heard the story and he thought he could go that one better. He said he used to be a great chewer. That immediately after the race between Hardin and Bradley for Governor, he was very much exercised about the returns as the election was in doubt. One day he got word from town that Bradley was certainly elected. He was so mad that he threw the chew of tobacco out of his mouth and declared he would never take a chew as long as a Republican was Governor of Ky. He didn't and has never taken a chew since. Major C. W. Quiggins while tearing down a protion of the old Quiggins re- sidence on Main Cross Street made a remarkable discovery. He found a brick upon which was written his full name. What is unusual about the in- cident is the fact that the building was erected over a half century ago when he was but 8 years old, and he has no recollection whatever of the chiro- grapher of his signature. Friday, April 1, 1904 Mrs. Hannah Elizabeth King of West Point owns a ring that is more than 100 years old. It was made from a nugget of gold, given to Mrs. King's mother by her brother, Wm Withers. It is set with a beautiful ruby and was the wedding ring of Mrs. King's mother, who was Miss Delia Withers who married Hiram Withers. When Mrs. Withers died, the ring was given to Mrs. King who also was her wedding ring upon 2 occasions as she was married twice and widowed. The ring is a darker shade of gold than is seen now days. Mrs. King removed the ruby several years ago and replaced it with a gold dollar and had it set in a ring given to her daughter, the late Mrs. McHugh. Friday, April 15, 1904 Mr. Rufus "Daddy" Holbert, told the following story: When the cyclone did such damage in Louisville a number of years ago, that it was very severe in this section of Hardin Co. The wind, he said, blew so strong that it blew every drop of water out of a large stock pond and picked up the penny nails and drove them up to the head on the trees. This was the same storm when a fence rail was blown through a tree and half of it ex- tended out on each side. At the cyclone at Cecilian, ordinary shingles were driven into the weather boarding of Ambrose Cecil's house. Sam Glasscock tells the following good story on Eli Dorsey, the local reporter of the NEWS: Sam says when Eli was teaching school in his neighborhood, they worked him up to go snipe hunting one night. They gave him a bag and a tallow candle and stationed him in a dark ravine, while they went off to drive the snipe in. They went on home and left Eli standing there. It was not long until 3 o'clock in the morning when Dorsey came in. They asked him what was the matter, when the unsuspecting youth remarked, "I came to get another candle as the one you gave me burnt out."