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...primitive Kentucky murderer, Curt Jett, 55, became a Baptist preacher at Union City, Ky. last week. The incident recalled the fast fading culture of mountainous Kentucky...
...accepted as a good Methodist. In 1918 he was pardoned. Feudist times were passed ; the law had tamed the wilful mountaineers. Berea College and Lincoln Memorial University were providing them with modern culture. Curt Jett became an itinerant Methodist evangelist. He married, and entered Asbury College at Wilmore, Ky. He and his wife had trouble. They separated; he quit college and Methodism. He remarried and began studying for the Baptist ministry. Last week as he received his ministerial license at Union City, he was a typical mountain minister: tall and sparse; steady, piercing eyes; a warm, friendly handclasp for everyone...
...pension boards disbursed $9,469,533 last year. Their new interdenominational president is Dr. Henry Hayes Sweets, 58, of Louisville, Ky., secretary the past 26 years of the Southern Presbyterians' Board of Education & Ministerial Relief...
Died. Brig.-General Thomas Coleman du Pont, 66, famed Delaware industrialist-financier; of a throat affliction; in Wilmington. Born in Louisville, Ky. of a branch of the family that had moved there from Delaware (his father, Antoine Bidermann, his uncle Alfred Victor du Pont left because "there wasn't room in the powder business at the time for all the family"), he went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was an able athlete (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ib. at the age of 19). Beginning as a miner in Kentucky, he rose to be president and manager of several...
...Protective measures'' caused six banks in Louisville to close their doors. Notable among these was ancient National Bank of Kentucky. A bank in Franklin, Ky. closed...