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Z L By CHARLES R. STAPLES [Now This is the first of a series of ar- be procured, establish a. news— 1788, this date line was changed to . and item:
._ Lexrngton, Kentucky artisan: Basra. strafzi: paper rn Kentucky.“ reed "Orr Merrr erred" Orr MM ” fr“
JOh B‘ df . deavor to run yduring 1937. As this year This offer was reported by the 11: 1789: the date line was Changed r Items suC
.i n . la gld’ commonly called marks the 150th anniversary of the Committee and was accepted by the to read “On Main and Cross riages an
:, Old Wisdom, the founder and for founding of the first Kentucky newspaper, Convention and the patronage streets.” on October 8 1791 an wore at
i many years owner'of the Kentucky gllgarzjsfoflée 522;:tvbeé?gL:;?§§L0%y £13013}? promised so far as they, from the other change caused this line t6 ‘ fil‘St GOV'
: , gazettte, $315130?“ 1n Pilnce Wilham fitting celebration of the event. Complete nature of the attempt, were autho— read “On Main steet." On April A; . then'.abse
.. “fun y, irginla on June 6, 1749, plans and dates will be announced in a rized. In consequence of the action 13) 1793' it again read “On 01'035 I one 111 1
'f . fofdsmfigfwgsarginang3113.132213]; late" lssue'). of the Convention, Mr. Bradford street,” and another change was; news. .
James of Fau . ‘ 18 ‘30 Vale —— went to Philadelphia where he se— made on December 27. 1794, when . Wf’r 03,“
- qulei oun y m 77L was a urchasfl of 100 acres from cured a small second hand Wash— the date line again read “On Main InteleSt u
,. by whom he hadfive sons and four p “ h' h . 1 ington press with some type and street." There were other changes ' the only
daughters. He dled at his home on John Coburn'cn W 10 IS now 0- hauling it overland to Pittsburgh during the succeeding years which 500 miles,
southwest corner of Mill and Sec- cated the 110115.11 eastern portion ~Of floated down the Ohio River to are too numerous to be detailed at ‘ source 0f
0nd streets in Lexington on March Lexington, besides numerous 10105 m Limestone and then over Smith’s this time but evidently the firs‘ neel' citil
3 20’ 1830 and was buried in the Lexmgton busmess dIStht‘ Road to Lexington where on Au— few years,of the life of the Gaze‘tdvr penings h
graveyard on West Main street, DOW During the early part Of 6755: he gust 11 1787 he presented to the were spent not far“ from the foul It was ca
. a part of the First Baptist ChUI‘Ch brought his fantflyfmfn 118ml? world the Kentucky Gazette with corners of what is now, Main and v by pOSt
1 property. His gravestone is six or and settled Deal Blyan.s station, 130 subscribers ’ Broadway Bradford
. eight feet below the level of the and thereaftetr made his home m Fielding Bradford a brother and Mr. Bradford had no sources of to carry 1
ground at a pOlnt fifteen feetl 1;: (gongfiliénlg: 0,11. xcel- partner of the Editor, was inter- information excepting such news: etltuting
' northwest Of the corner to the Main 0 W1 s-an mu ls many e Viewed many years afterwardd and papers as were brought to Lexin hSh a P0
1 street entrance to this church. The lent parts, It has become the custom lstated “that he went to Pittsburg ton by nvisitors or travelers frogni ‘ “For sev:
' burial lot Of John Bradford 0f historians to rest his fame upon in the SprinO‘ of 1787 and purchased the East From these he extracted maintains
‘ Was unknown until the construc- the successful establishment 0f the some type from John Scull—with desirable items which were re in I over the
tion 0f the foundation for the First fil‘St newspaper 11-1 Kentucky and whom he sta ed from March to duped upon his rude and unwellld: his Office’
Baptist Church was started. Then .1115 ablhty 1“ keeping 1t gomg duf- Julie 1st ,. y hand press “He daubed the ink bl, , letters or
Mr. Frank Dalton, Stone contractor, ing the formative period Of our hls_ There is a tradition that the Con— hand witha dog skin ink ball art 1012"”
while excavating found the grave— tory, and, Whgn 0m scanty p-Opula_ vention seemed to think the paper managed to run off 50 to 60 copits :. The firs
SF‘m'e 0f M1" Bradford and some— tlon.weie actively engaged .m cle- was to be“ established in Danville printed on one side in the course a small
time lateninformed Mrs. W' 0- Bul— filial]? tfii‘efidififis and piopeity and it is evident the citizens of that of an hour.” The Printer’s devil "Subscripl
JOVk’ stating that the $0,116 had ”a. , ' . town were under this same impress- must have had a strenuous night's hum, adl
f SOmEthtng 01.1 1t about being the HIS. entlance as owner and 8d1' ion, but Mr. Bradford had already work. The editorial desk was eii— >1 length 3
' filSt printer m Kentucky. torshlp Of a newspaper grew out Of received substantial encouragement dently only a slab of wood suppori- m. the 0]
At request of Mrs. Bullock, Mr. the second convention Whmh met at from the citizens of Lexington as ed by cross legs and equipped with bemg use
'. Dalton visit-ed the spot in company Danville, in 1785’ to discuss separa- the Trustees of the Town at a an ink horn a Deckart rifle and ‘ Kentucky
With Mr. J. Winston Coleman and tion from Virginia. Amongst other meeting held July 28 1787 re’solved' possibly a pair of duelin pistols ended in
the writer, and marked the location actions by this Convention, “It was u ‘ Z ' His lights were only candlis or the changed t
. 0f the grave. Mr. Coleman has Resolved; to give publicity to its That a pait 0f lln 10? NO" 4315 burning “logs in the stone fire place years he
prepared a drawing of the location proceedings, it was deemed neces— containing two po es 1,11 flon For Dsome time vduring its early . Seal betv
' Of this grave and same has been sary to the interests of the country, on Main $91799? and 51X poles history the Gazette was printed on ‘ zette but
.> filed in the archives of the Brad- to have a printing press.” To ac- back, adjoming lot NO- '44: be paper made at the mill of Cralv This repri
ford Historical Society. complish this end James Wilkinson, granted is) Mr. John Braderd and Company located where Nortll ent from
Very little is known of his life Christopher Greenup and John Co— on condition that the printing Elkhorn passes under the Cinclll— ) of Kentu(
before his arrival in Kentucky. burn were appointed a committee to 131355 b? established 111 the town nati Pike at vGeor retown r ' tainly me
There is a tradition that Mr. Brad— use their best endeavors to induce 0f Le¥mgt0ne 1“ conSlderatlon In his first issuge Mr ' Bradford , Iii 0ne(
ford served in the Fauquier county a printer to settle in this district 0f Whmh M13 Bradford shall he says' ' torial pag
Militia during the years of 1775- and publish a weekly newspaper. entitled to the 5016 use Of 531d ‘J ~‘I‘My customers will excuse “Thor
. 1777 and to have received a com— Bradford’s story of his efforts were 18“ as long as the press 09n— this my first publication ‘35“1 ’ ers witr
mission as Ensign dated July 30' published in the Gazette dated Una??? 1n tfhe ‘said gown, ‘Wlllilh am ’much hurried to get anim- , executei
1781. His name, however, does not ‘March 2,3887 as a part of “Brad- :fimlogfhfivii pgggrélspi‘fmtlhfem 1:565: pression by the time appointed. ” Westernr
appeal as a Bevomtl‘mary War was No‘es’ NO' 24' should be reIlJnoved from tclgwn A great part of the types fell . type‘
pgllsmn'el‘: nor 1n the list of Vlr- “Wilkinson and Coburn ap— A f 'th , nd'tion sh 11 b into PI in the carriage of them t‘ takenf
glnla Land Bounty Wa-rrents. He plied by letter to John Dunlap th t :1; “ago th Br if de from Limestone to this office. Wheat,
did. seerce during the campaign of Philadelphia. to aid them in ha h ’re s 1d O. n 5115111101)” and my partner which is the * llnsey.
against the Indians at Chillicothe procuring a printer but as no fls, ff 5 ‘apb'tascsilggls 2.9 t8 only assistant thave throuoh flooring,
in 1779 as a member of the Ken— assurance of a competent salary .mev‘l P1011 1 e 10m 1 C " an indisposition of the body ., Only 01‘-
tucky Militia. could be driven by them no : mg any improvements so (:15 to h - ,_, d .~ ' the 63113
J t he M ‘. ‘. ‘ D . ‘ . _ injure the publick spring?» as been 117031331918 0f rcn 61mg Myers’ 3a
. us w n r. Bradford arrived plintei could be found in Phila l L N the smallest assistance for tell . l _
in Kentucky has always been a dis- delphia. Colonel Greenup then In 1823 the Trus.-ees of the Town days "8 Riverw _
puted point. He was not amongst, wrote M1.” Miles Hunter of of Lex1ngton filed suit'against M1. The 'early files show great dearth ,, torthougl
the original lot owners of Lexing— Richmond, Virginia, a young Bradford seeking to disposess him of local items but contain many condition
ton when the drawing for town lots printer of that place. From the from In L0t§ NO- _42 and 43: known weighty editorials and communica— . “Aftel
tookplace in 1780 and again in 1781. flattering prospects held out by as the PUth, spring lots, 191“" they Hogs from customers which in 131‘001
William Meredithl testified that, the Colonel of the future ad— filsmlSSEd,th15 action leaVlng 111m breathed death and destruction conveyil
“In 1775 he came to Kentucky in vantages to the printer who m possession}? These 10“ are now ' and assaulted political opponents [‘ phia, 13
company With John Bradford, who should first establish himself in 0001le In part by the Van Deren with the heavy artillery of words. printing
was then a deputy surveyor under Kentucky, Mr. Hunter at first Hdw. Co., the Gas Office and Pur- I]: LEXingti
Colonel William Preston.” Mr. consented to remove to Ken- .0911 Department Store. The an‘d— :::"":"_""i”iif'ff”:‘f“ K8ntu
Bradford’s answer in this same suit tucky, but afterwards informed lng .Of the resolution contain-ed agmlqggéargacfieélg V; .3311,“ Effigy these or
does not throw any light upon this of the difficulties likely to in— nothing that required Mr. Brad- (2, Sampled. RECOMSOBBOK {.G'P, gage i784 ' curing I
point. In another suit, Mr. Brad— tervene before Kentucky would ford to OCCQPY these 10155: they s1m— Fayette Circuit Court. - for my]
‘ ford": testified, “That in 1780 he become a separate state and the ply gave him the use. Of them as (3) SuPreme Court 91”?” BOOkflHarargdfn‘ 1118‘ 1’16(
‘ was appointed deputy surveyor un- uncertainty of a competent long as the 'Press was m Lexlngton. Sgigéusshoi‘23hesflfss 1:12??an oiulfrylnugusz. . Content
der George May and was assigned support from the printing busi- On a portion or these hrs was and September, 1785. the pro:
to the district north of the Ken— ness until that event should erected In 1792 the. Market HOUSE (4) Draper Mss. (Wise. Historical 50" consider
1 tucky River.” There are other rec— take place, declined altogether. the 2nd floor 0f Wthh was 11350125 figtdxtl‘io-m :1; igczolfliame board November- yet an
crds which indicate he was in this “The attempt of the Commit- a State House when the first :Leng- 1787, this sprigg is described as bring _ by the
county in 1779 and the tradition tee having failed entirely, John lature 0f the _New State Of .Kerr- “wall of stone thirty feet square and for” f _ haying
to that efiect is probably correct. Bradford called upon General tUCky had~lts innaugural 59551011 m and One—half high: He R... 13-91118“ d
May gave him a large number of Wilkinson and informed him June 1792” 33:1215$”..Gclfcgggec‘l’gtficompe 3’ present
entries to survey, some of which Mr. that—if the Convention would The actual spot upon which sfood l7) Eighty fe'et of this lot is Sun owllEg eastern
Bradford purchased for himself and give assurance that he should the cabin used by him as the print- by the City of Lexington and is 900“”; , eVEI‘, th.
for Daniel Bradford. These entries enjoy the public patronage ing office of the Gazette is not 3" J- 13- Puree“ under a nmeW'nme ’ great 11'
represented something over 6,000 when the printing business known. The first issue of the Ga— £3525. Gazette dated Aug, 13, 1787.0011' r favour
, acres, laying principally on North should become profitable as to zette has a date line reading, “pub- tains advertisement stating a 9‘31: me th
‘ Elkhorn, and Cane Run creeks in induce one or more printers to lished at Main and Cross streets,” journeyman printer who understgffnch” amongst
. , Fayette and Scott counties. settle in Kentucky, that he the last named street being now I fghfiglnfinguséfiglsoylgafit‘lgerigmng upon her to
Amongst his other land holdings would, as soon as an oflice could known as Broadway. On March 8, the Editor. ' 323111063.
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per ~ Mr. Bradford publlshed details 0f 117111.136 glven to perfect under- crude wood cuts, no doubt made1be desired in the wilderness of ‘ 1‘
Foreign Wars, NEIDOI'BODS Career taking. . with the jack knives of the news— Kentucky. It was distinctly un— = 1 1‘ -
nged to . and items from Europeadh EaDIItaI-Sv thIt 15 ImDOSSIble t0 “300111113 all paper" staff. Advertisements are derstood by the pioneers who sup- 1 ‘ h 1 '
)n July . e all Six weeks 01 111018 01 , ut ocal 'el advantages that the public conspicuous by their absence for ported his paper for many years , 1 l. *
lhanged 1 items such as biiths, dfeaths'mm- W11 18081V€ from the publloa— several years as our pioneer mer- after he had severed all connections ;‘ 1= 1 :1
Cross riages and what the hall. VISitors [31911 of a Gazette in this dis- chants seem not to have learned with the Pioneer Press. He was '1 1‘? ‘1 “
=91, an—i wore at the inauguiatioii Of 0111 ”fillet. . _ ‘ . the value of advertising until the extravagantly fond of Mr. Henry ‘ 1‘ 1
line to 3 first Governor a‘ie COIISplCUOUS by ' FIRST—it you .give quick and Gazette had reached its fifth birth— Clay with whom he spent conside— ‘ 1 1 '
,1 April], their absence. Ev1dently. what eveiy general meImation concerning day. After that we find mentioned rable time when that statesman . 5 ‘1 ,
1 Cross ‘, 'one in Lexnigton knew was not the intentions and behaVior of flintsh knee buckles, hair powder, was in Lexington. “Mr. Bradford E 1 ‘ I"
go was1 news. , . 1, a 1 our llelghbolho‘od‘en-emies and spinning wheels, buckskins and sad— believed the newspapers would 1 1‘ 11
1, When We can easlly imagine the. 0133-1 DUt. ‘US on 0111 guard against dle bag locks, garteringiand hard— never reach perfection, but he con- 1 ‘1‘ 1
n Main interest in this newspahel as It_ Was then future Violence. SECQND— ware. Several issues contain no— sidered its office was to publish the ‘3: 1‘,‘ 1
changes - the only neWSpapel 131111th W1_~h111 mgr—1'5 W111 communicate tlmEIY tices by the editor condemning the news and educate the reading pub— ‘ ‘1 r
, Which 500 miles, and was the (”fly Pimple Information or the proceedmgs practice of “tameing bears" and he by familiarizing them with the 1 ‘1“9‘1‘,‘ '
ailed at‘ source of information to oui 1010— of the legislature .and prevent “lighting fires by shooting rifles." doings of the World east of the , 11“
he first. neer Citizens regardmg‘ the 11313-1 US‘undBrgomg various BVIIS by He often mentions stealing. mur— mountains." He knew ten people 1 ‘3‘ 1‘“
Gazette . penings in the balance of the world. 1 bsmg‘ acquainted Wlth the laWS dering and kidnapping by the would read the news of a battle or L ‘ “1“" 1
he four It was carried to other settlements 0. our country, some of which Indians especially whenever they punitive expedition against the 4' 11‘1
rim and . by post riders, employed by M1 have been m force sometime made a raid near Frankfort, after Indians, where one would read the ‘ "‘13!“ ‘
Bradford and they were permitted before they reach this district. ‘the Capitol had been removed from news of a whist party or basket 1 “ i1: 1
trees of to carry letters and packages, con— THIRDLY—it Will call our at- Lexington. picnic. 1 11.1111
. news. ‘ stituting the first efforts to estab- tention to the transactions of One of his enterprises was 101 It is unfortunate that we _ “"1 ;.111
Lexing— lish a Postal Service in Kentucky. Congress and show us the poli— publish the Kentucky Almanac in customed to associatin JOhnaizg‘ag- 1 [111
‘s from “For several years M11. Bradford CY whlch predominates in our 1788, probably the first pamphlet ford’s name. only as tge o n .135 -11: 1111
(tracted maintained pigeon holes in a frame great American Confederacy. It published in the west. It was is— printer of the first Kentuc‘l: ellw an 1.1 m111
i'epro- ’ over the mantle to the fireplace in Will teach us when we are to sued yearly until 1807 and usually paper. He was a man of 31.111 ews-l 1111111
nwe‘ildy his office, where the post riders left prepare for foreign wars; when contained from 30 to 40 pages. In force of character and his infl usua 1 31 1 i=1
; ink hi 1 letters and packages to be called we are to admire the successful 1789 in conjunction with Thomas was felt in man - t uen‘ce 4 =1 ' 1“}
iall anti {01.329 here, the generous patriot and Johnson, he published the Ken— days of our segtlways m he eaily - 11 ‘ 1‘1
3 copies _,A The first issue of the Gazette was the Wise statesman; and to tucky Miscellany if we may judge abreast of the chgglgigt: Hz‘tl'iept ‘ 1,13 1‘ 1 1
course a small half sheet which stated‘ greet With abhorrence the be- by the advertisements in the Ga- and the rapid growth ogf $5311.] 1 ions 11 1 1
,5 devil "Subscriptions 18 shillings per 2113— trayor of his country. FOURTH— zette. No copy of it is known. It munity after Statehood wa IS I???“ ‘ 1 12‘ 11 ‘
night's iium. advertisements of moderate LY—it Will carry our attention was reissued in 1796, 1815, and 1821, ed. His name appears in 3 ac k},— , .11" 1; 1111
zas eii- k length 3 shillings. It was printed to the ancient world and grati— a copy of the last one named being fort for the public 00d dvhiy e — 1 1 1 ,1 i111.
iuppori- in. the old style—the German “f" fy our curiOSity with respect to the only copy known to the writer. himSelf the authoéi‘ of 8312”] e Was ‘ ‘- 1 11,1. 1
ed with _ being usedfor the letter s, and the different nations who flour— This beginning was only the first provcmeiits for the town Hy 1m" ‘ 1; 1‘11
fie and Kentucky in the title head was 1 ish in arts of arms or peace It of a long series of imprints many of one of the organizers of‘ th ELWas : 152:1. ‘= 31"
pistols ended ”1 a small “e," which was Will lay open all. the republic which are unlocated and we know ington Library one of the e" .ex— 3‘ 5115‘
; or the changed to ‘y. in 178$}. For several of letters to our View and furn— of them only through the adver— contributors to, the Lexin ft Ollgnal ‘ 1 3,1:
e place. years he carried faCSimile of State ish us With all necessary in— tisements in the Gazette. There pital now the Eastern Sgtain HOS' . 1113111
;s 6th 1 Seal between Kentucky. and Ga— structions to amid the danger, were over 100 books and pamphlets pital‘ which was the first e tos— ‘ 1 111,111
nted on zette but discontinud this 111.1794. or secure the blessings which printed by him before 1820. the Allegheny Mountain was hi): ‘ ,ll. it “1
f Craig This reproduction is entirely differ—1 may‘ wait on our rising .Com- No complete file of the Kentucky second of its kind in tsh 31% ‘t “ , 1‘ 11
e North ent from the seal used by the State munity. FIFTHLY—it Will af— Gazette is known to exist. The States. He was one of me 1,11 ed ‘ ”11‘11
Cinclii— ,7 of, Kentucky at this time, and cer- ford us an early method of un- Executors of Mr. Bradford’s es— who purchased what - 16 group ‘ ""11 1
= tainly more artistic. derstanding one another and tate advertised for sale a nearly Park ard ofi‘.ared 't Is now Giatz . ‘11‘1‘1
iradford ‘ In one of the early issues the edi— coming to a better agreement complete file, which is probably the merit fér thep rembvaals in ltlduce' , 1‘ 11“
torial page announces: on the execution of every design one The Lexington Library ac— vanja Colle 'e fro D on Tiansyl— 1 1 1 {‘1‘ 1
excuse . “The editor presents his read- which may be necessary for quired, but even this remarkable ington in Jg78811m Hing/$15830 fLem 1H1‘11“1‘
as I ers With the Kentucky Gazette, the common good. file lacks a copy of the first issue. 1790 to 1330 as a member of Itohn 1 "11,111 1‘
n im_ 9 executed on paper equal to any It will bringthe lat-entsparks The last known copy of the original Board of Trustees of that instit e 1 ‘11‘1‘ ” 1 ‘ .
rinted. \lESt-el‘l'l newspaper, and a new of Genius to light and give the issue was destroyed by fire when tion and was frequentl e1 tug ‘ -“1' 1
is fell , type. The following Will be World a. respectable opinion of the office of H. H. Cratz burned Chairman. He was elect-e11 T‘ezte ‘ 1‘ "1‘1
them :‘ taken, for subscriptions: Corn, the people who have come many years ago. This copy had been of the Town of Lexjn ‘ton lu ee 1 11 1 ‘ 1‘
office. Wheat, Country made linen, across so many leagues to cul— discovered amongst some old papers times and often was cfiairmf‘an} ‘ 1‘ 1 1‘ ‘.
ls the . linsey, sugar. whiskey, Ash tivate a desert land. When in Mercer County by a descendant that body. He was filling thin 0 1 1‘ 1‘ "1
rough flooring, and cured bacon.” others see what we have done of a member of one of the early sition at the time of the 1113,15,?“ : = 1
body. 1. Only one advertisment appears in and what we shall still be able conventions. A few issues of the tion of Isaac Shelby the first géléa_ 1 ,1-1 1‘ 1
iering the (early issues, that of Jacob i to do, they Will come and Gazette are to be found in the Con- ernor of Kentucky and also at h:— ‘ 1
)r ten Myeis paper mill located on Dick’s strengthen our hands and be gressional Library at Washington, time of the visit 6f Gener 1’ L e 4 .‘ 1
River“) In this same issue the edi— pleased to partake of our future a few in the Library of the Ameri— vette in 1325 While a a 3.133— 1 ‘=..‘ = f
,deartll ,, tor thought necessary to explain his blessings. Indeed is was upon can Antiquarian Society at Wor- the town trustees he comgflfigul. 9f 1 1‘» 1 = '= =
1 many condition in the following: a1 promise of patronage from cester, Mass, a few in the John ular and prompt attndance b 151g- 3 1151 ‘~
rnuiliCa- . . “After having expended much the convention of 1785 that in— Freer Library at Chicago, and a few members when he introducedi; r18 = w , 1
which in procuring the matefials and duced me to first attempt what in the Virginia State Library at solution requiring a member a; 1 .
irucfion. wavering- them from Philadel- I have now accomplished. I Richmond, Va. The files for the much as 15 minutes late to the ‘ l 1
iponefltS ,2 ph1a, I have ventured to open a shall therefore rest satisfied years 1829 and 1830 were borrowed meetings to buy a bottle of Wine: = ' ‘
:- words , printing- office in the town of that all my countrymen Will be many years ago and never returned The minutes of this Board 5110- . 13 ‘ l
’1 ' Lexington in the district of Sensible of my claim to their There are a number of missing is— there was a full attendance ate ‘w I“ ‘ 1
"':-i: Kentucke. Notwithstanding notice as the first adventurer in sues during the years 1843 to 1847. meetino' after this resolut‘ vgiy 1 1
123%?“ these expenses and that Of pro— a business which has been As a. result of his enterprise Mr. came effective. ion 6— 1: 1 1
gage 173, , curing further supplies of paper chiefly instrumental in bringing Bradford received 100 pounds sterl— His death brought many expres— 1 .1 1
._ = for my business and of support- mankind from a state of blind— ing a year from the Legislature of sions of grief. He was buried from ‘ ,1‘1 ‘1
£323?“ ing necessary hands, I shall ness and slavery to their pres- Kentucky as Public Printer. which his home at Second and M‘ll 1 1111
"YEW“, . content myself at present with ent advancement in knowledge amount was increased to 300 Streets. His Wife survived h' l ‘ it“ = "
‘. ‘ the prospect of small gains. I and freedom. pounds, but he failed to control this til October 12, 1333 From “11151113533; 1 1‘ , ‘
meal 50 _ Cons1d-er this country as being John Bradford." appomtment after some competi— house was buried John V Bradford 1 1 1
November. 1;“ an infant State, harassed This newspaper lived through the “011 had arisen 1“ his Chosen fiEId- a grandson, on August 20‘, 1824 and - ‘ 1
as bring _ hy fihe most savage enemies, most exciting periods of Kentucky’s Mr. Bradford was shrewd and iii— :L,5___ Mi ’ ‘. 1 » ‘ 1
and” f _ baylneno' profitable trade and history; the granting of Statehood; genious and is reported to have ,9, The Pihhér’hh” ""P "7" i = 1
ilete Ref. 1 9mg“ drained of money by its Spanish Conspiracy; Burr’s 0011— worked with Edward West on (10: Baker Ewing agfg‘tiesxeldmlie was dis- “- ‘ ‘
. present intercourse with the spiracy; repeal of the United States many inventions that never saw posing of the stock of Seniple, Wyiikoop 1? ‘ 1‘ 1‘.
till 0111:: eEllSt'ern part of America. How— Bank Charter; War of 1812; The the patent office. He was a fiafi?{él,:lt.Dal“'ille ““01““? diSSOIUUOH 0f 1 11
311013118“, ,1. S'¥:1tthe excretions mad-e by a Texas Movement for Independence; fine mathematician and ama- 1111 0011:3916 Record 1300ka page 1‘ ‘1
fa a number of gentlemen in The Mexican War and the Gold teur astronomer, and was so uii— 96=——Fayette circuit Court shows John 1 1‘ 1
1787- 93;“; 1' mgouf 0f the press convinces Rush of 1849. The purchase of the commonly well inform-ed he was gidffig 5‘5”?” Bar“ and SteDhens 001- ‘ 1‘
stiodgtlie arm that a spirit prevails Louisiana Territory was not men- often called upon to settle disputed sheet. Thi‘S“255:0]Ogrnggtlgpti‘iagfSgyéitle; 1 11
branches riO-ngSt my countrymen supe- tioned until months after it was pomts, and it was from this—he 11305 and was probably the school meii- ‘ 5.?
ling uDD“ st 1 to their present circum- known by gossip. was so frequently called “Old Wis- “(med by Robert McAfee- 51.1 . 1
evinces I. am satisfied that After the first year we find the dom." He was a strong, clear 1 3.7:;T:v___wi .YI_A_ 1 1 ,
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' _——_—_ rate set by an act of congress of MALCOLM BAYLEY JOINS . Maria E
Feb. 26, 1853, and asked the court CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR on April
; kg? to set the rate. ~———— Bradford
‘ i Judge Ford ruled that an ade- Malcolm Bayley, a member of m temb-el‘ 4
' A. .. _. .. ’ ‘. m, quate and reasonable rate more The Courier-Journal staff forfow. “The I
' fin i; §a§§§§ than 80 years ago might fall far teen years, has resrgned to 30111 the ' ducted b
i A“ \' short of that mark today and that staff of the Christian Science Moni. when he
' if it were applied, newspaper, as tor at Boston. . _; Bradford
' ——————————~———~——— private enterprises, might exclude A newsptapefrtrfiran for Ehrr'tyigne; thrf‘ie'hfi
' ' ' ' ' ' ' - ‘ ' h advertisements from their years, mos o em spen in u- * w m 2
:7 Officml Pllbllcatlo“ Of The Ixentucl‘y P1055 Association iglumns. Since no agreement as to isville, Mr. Bayley began his career I, ington'jr
: - costs was made and since the feder- on the old Evening Post in 1906. f This arr:
' 1 VICTOR R'PORTMANN”"""HN'HHEduor a1 law does not set a fair rate, Six months later, he went with the years wl
’ W_ Judge Ford ordered the Kentucky old Louisville Herald, of which he» trol of “1
Printed On The Kernel Press, Department Of Jourmhsm' rate“ of 50 cents a lineal inch effec- was sports editor when he resigned 1809 to
I University Of Kentucky, Lexington tive. This amounted to $453 and three years later. , afterwar
—“——‘“W that cost was ordered. After working for short periods Reporter
PRESS ASSOCIATION OFFICERS * in Indianapolis and Toronto,‘Can-, againpa
: Jodie P Gozder c President News—Journal, Campbellsvillc TENNESSEE GAG BILL IS ada, he returned .ln.1911 to Join the Bradimc
J. LaMarr Bradley Vice-President Enterprise. Prowdence KILLED IN COMMITTEE staff of The Louisvrlle Times. Dur- ' ,n.) app(
' J. Curtis Alcock __ Secretary Messenger. Danvnle _ mg. his twelve years on that paper, time alc
: EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The judiciary committe of the he worked as reporter, telegraph Norvell.
. Thomas R. Underwood. Lexington Herald, Chairman; Gracean M. Pedley, Herald, house of representatives, following editor and, finally, as City editor, . agam 1y
. Eddyville; Vance Armentrout,'Courierfllournal, Louisville; D-ol‘ph (greed;- Higgi- EL publlC hearing Feb. 11, tabled He was transferred to the EdItOI'l‘il malneqf
' EZlVEidHLogfieiilg‘tliire} J‘cigrgggtelitmsggrsggaf [gigfitiiléngfi 223112131; 1;. K‘irliégig, News: and killed a press gag bill that the staff of The Courier-Journal in years. it
‘ MiddleSboro; James T. Norris. Independent. Ashlancl; Victor R. Portmann, _Ken- senate had passed, 29 t0 1. 1923‘ ' Fieldlllg
tucky Press, Lexington;_ Martin Dyche, Echo. London; Joe Richardson, Times, It was sponsored by Senator Ml‘. Bayley was presrdent Of the .1 1y took
. Glasgow; Robert L. Elkin, Lancaster, Honorary. Fletcher R. Morgan, Chattanooga Kentucky Press Association in 1927' SOld_ it
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE attorney, who said editors were His many friends in the association i LOUISVIH‘
Thomas R. Underwood, Herald, Lexington. Chairman; Wag-ran EiSIigrnyerégiii': “unbridled” and that he had been wish him God speed and best _ inytlle 0
grilliixs‘gltifwslgiceisztg gigglc’isMnlrlsgligri’ré,figulltngil?’Eggielfeizvi‘iiteggulpg. ., forced to submit to “blackmailing wishes in this new responsrble posr- .t egalit- :tn
ADVERTISING COMMITTEE artslgiigstor Morgan forecast a few tion. but few
Robert L. Kincaid, News, Middlesboro, Chairman; Thomas T. Wilson. Log Cabling, da S aO‘O that the bill would fail in Prof. Victor R. Portmann , It was 1
323$“?3hi133}.Sighifiistsiznfii‘c‘fli‘i215321311Da“5°“‘Oldham E” mg hofise. Editor. The Kentucky Press .. with“;
. NEWSPAPER EXHIBIT COMMITTEE It provided that publicatiop on a M¥ liglearlngmradI::f 1 ‘f you could ex'lrs‘hince
' - - ~ ‘ - '- . . . nan, Cen- news aper editorial page 0 “any 5 ou e graeu 1 ‘ L
XEf°é£a$T£2féEét§f$113.1?ysiitif;tié‘s‘3g3’e‘t’rgcetiiéil‘.a“’ S B GOOdl untl‘lflh" about a person would sub- find space in your interesting“ paper nglf’sl’ali
ject the editor or publisher, or both, for this acknowledgment of the fine persona
—-————-————————— to a lifetime expulsion from Ten- and feeling expressions of interest all item
—-—————-——— nessee journalism, in addition to and concern for me as reflected by John Bl"
' . fines and damages. Such publica- both a telegram from the Kentucky .- mg any
Bureau, His findings were Of much tion also would have been deemed Press Association in its mid—Winter unless t
l 3“" interest and showed the need Of a to have been done “willfully.” meeting, and its generous message signed 1
' MEMBER film}? ‘ Bureau as we“ as indicating the “What is truth?” asked George in flowers. many e
w probable success 0f the undertaking. Fort Milton, editor and president I should like for my friends in the , successor
. The Press urgesevery newspaper of the Chattanooga News. who ap- association to know that I deem , were now
K TUCKY PRES m the state to 301“ the Bureau. peared in opposition to the bill. myself lucky beyond measure (if, establish
The united strength 0f every news— “This question has puzzled