The Leitchfield Gazette  January 21, 1938

First Case Tried in New Building

Intial Pleading Delivered by Allen P. Cubbage, But Carrier Winner

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   Lonnie Litsey, Jess Lowe, Ernest Jackson, Lee, Powell, G. C. Earles, A. J. Downs, W. L. Downey, H. L. Burres, Raymond Goodwin, Mrs. Ross Cannon and Ollie Litsey composed the first jury to hear a case in the new Grayson County court house here on Wednesday. The trial, held before Judge George K. Holbert, was the case of Roy Stoess against Georgetown Construction Company, in which Stoess, represented by Chester O. Carrier, won the case.

   Mr. Coyle was represented by Allen P. Cubbage, who had the honor of being the first attorney to plead a case in the new court house. However, Mr. Carrier had the distinction of winning the first case in the new seat of justice. Both attorneys, in their opening remarks, referred to the new building and the hope that victory might be theirs.

   Mrs. Cannon was not only the county's first woman juror, but also the first woman to sit on a jury in the new court house.

The Leitchfield Gazette March 4, 1938
Arrest Follows Stabbing
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  Joe Blanton was arrested here Wednesday night of last week by Sheriff W.A. Smith on a charge of maliciously cutting and wounding with intent to kill. Blanton is accused of stabbing Alf Myers in the left side during an altercation between the two men at Myers' place of business in South Leitchfield the same night. Myers is reported to be recovering from the injury. Blanton was held to the grand jury under a bond of $500.

Heart Attack Fatal To Caneyville Woman -- Burial Here Tuesday
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    Mrs. Amanda Fentress, 68 years old, died last Saturday, at her home in Caneyville of a heart ailment from which she had suffered for several years.

    Funeral services were held Tuesday at the Caneyville Presbyterian Church by Rev. Lafe Layman.  Burial was at Fairview Cemetery, Leitchfield.

    Mrs. Fentress was first married to Will Pirtle who died a number of years ago.  Later she was married to John Fentress who died about fifteen years ago.  Survivors are a daughter, Miss Bertha Pirtle, Caneyville; a son, Hayward Pirtle, of West Virginia; a step-son, Guffy Fentress, Leitchfield; two half-sisters, Mrs. D. B. Green, Caneyville; and Mrs. W. L. Ozment, Leitchfield , and a half-brother, J. L. Henninger of Columbia, Tenn.

 

 

Issuing Motor Tags
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    Miss Mary Landis Cave had issued 697 passenger automobile licenses and 123 truck tags up to Wednesday of this week.

 

 

Man Wanted in Edmonson Arrested Here on Monday
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    Elmer Gentry, wanted at Brownsville for forgery and child desertion, was arrested in South Leitchfield Monday by Constable Jess Miller, assisted by Sheriff W. A. Smith, Preston Cannon and Floyd Gaither, deputy sheriffs.  A quart of moonshine whiskey was found on Gentry by Miller.  Gentry was turned over to authorities from Edmonson County.  He came here a few days ago from Indiana.

The Leitchfield Gazette April 15, 1938
Still Is Found
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    Floyd Gaither, Preston Cannon and Calvin Cash, deputy sheriffs, captured a 110-gallon still and 11 barrels of mash on the Ayer-Lloyd Tie Company land on Bear Creek Tuesday afternoon.  The still was located near the Decker School house.  The mash was poured out and the still brought to Leitchfield.  No arrests were made.

 

 

Barn Burns
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    Tuesday night the barn of Sam Clark, of near Decker school house, in the southern edge of Grayson County on Bear Creek, was destroyed by fire.  Bloodhounds were sent for Wednesday morning and officers and the dogs spent the day searching for the ones guilty of burning the barn.