Originally Published in the Estill Herald
Republished in the ECHGS newsletter - Used with their permission
01/13/1933
The Estill Motor Co. is offering a half-ton pickup for $440.00.
M.T. Bach's store in Ravenna is advertising mens and boys suits for $17.50 to $20.00, with 2 pairs of pants.
Kroger is advertising chuck roasts 10 cents a pound, potatoes 100 lbs. $1.19, and two packs of cigarettes 25 cents
01/27/1933
The Irvine-Winchester road from Harg to Trapp will be ready for travel by May 1st. The road from Harg to Irvine has been paved with macadam.
Rural schools in Estill County are practicing short sessions. Students attended only 7 months of the year, and those passing examinations are granted diplomas entitling them to enter any high school in the state.
02/10/1933
L.L. Smith of Monticello, Kentucky, perfected a radio set which permits two way conversation and has had it tested by the army at Fort Knox.
02/17/1933
Charles S. and Earl Rice purchased a 256 acre farm in Madison County. The farm, located on Muddy Creek, was known as the N.B. Deatherage farm. The price paid was not made public. C.S. Rice is a member of the Estill Motor Company and is also associated with his brother Earl in the mercantile business at Rice Station.
03/03/1933
The Union Bank & Trust Company of Irvine opened its doors as usual, after gaining permission from Gov. Laffoon. In order to protect the banks of Kentucky, the govenor had ordered a three day holiday for all banks in the state. While business was chaotic in banking circles in many states the local bank is in fine condition and has continued to serve the community to the best of its ability.
04/07/1933
The Estill Fiscal Court cut salaries of county officers 50% and ordered removal of telephones from all court house offices except the sheriff and discussed abolishing the county health unit in an economy step.
04/14/1933
Breweries were unable to meet demand for beer here the first day sale was allowed in Kentucky. The beverage knows as 3.2 has not proved intoxicating officials state, as no arrests were made for drunkenness that day.
04/28/1933
Hugh Rawlins of Sweet Lick was shot in the face and chest with a shotgun by Turner Rawlins, a kinsman.Leading citizens of Lee County met in Beattyville to discuss possibility of harnessing the Kentucky River to furnish power to this part of eastern Kentucky.
05/19/1933
The May term of the Estill County Court approved a change of magisterial districts of the county. It took Willow Tree precinct from the Irvine-Ravenna District and added it to the Millers Creek district. The effect of this is to make Millers Creek district more solidly Republican and the Irvine-Ravenna district more solidly Democratic.
06/30/1933
The city has found it necessary to seek Federal funds to construct a street connecting Irvine and Ravenna wide enough to handle the expected increase intraffic when the Pan American Highway is completed
07/14/1933
Senator Barkley is seeking to have historic Boonesboro established as a national park.A large delegation of Estill County citizens drove to McKee to discuss plans to secure construction of a road from Irvine to McKee.
07/28/1933
Mr. John M. Hamilton of Ravenna, was appointed head of relief in Estill County. He succeeds Mrs. Hallie Johnstone.The retail and wholesale grocers of Irvine and Ravenna, West Irvine, South Irvine, and the territory adjacent met to adopt a resolution supporting the National Recovery Act and agreed to comply with the code laid down by the Federal Government.
08/04/1933
James Stepp, 28, was shot twice on the court house steps by Jesse Lee Crouse, 24, in a dispute, over some women. Crouse immediately turned himself over to the Jailer, Andrew Tipton.
08/18/1933
Elihu Tipton and Ed Farwell were killed instantly and Millard Tipton badly bruised in the accident on the Beattyville Road 4 miles east of Irvine
08/25/1933
The Carhartt Overall Factory in Irvine is running full time with 183 on the payroll. The weekly payroll amounts to 1300 dollars. The eight hour, 5 day week went into effect three weeks ago with a 10 per cent raise in wages for all employees.
09/22/1933
The Irvine High School opened for the 1933-34 session with an assembly in the auditorium. It was the first time in five years that all the high school pupils could assemble together. Three hundred and sixty-five students have enrolled, seventy-seven their residence as Ravenna, 126 were from the county, and 160 from the city of Irvine.
09/29/1933
Cordo Smith, father of Arch Smith, who died last August from a bullet wound in the head, and whose death was adjudged by a coroners jury to be a suicide, filed an affidavit before County Judge Harry B. Wilson alleging that his son was murdered and asked that the body be exhumed and the bullet be taken from his head for ballistics examination. Judge Wilson made the order to exhume the body and appointed Drs. Tracy Wallace and S.T. Scrivner to examine the body. The father claims to have evidence that the death was not suicide.
10/06/1933
T.E. Lewis, A.W. Benning and C.A. Smithers making up a committee from the Irvine-Ravenna Kiwanis Club met with a committee from the Winchester Chamber of Commerce and other civic bodies at the Red River bridge on the Irvine-Winchester Road, and arranged the program for the official dedication of the bridge and the formal opening of the road to take place October 18. Speeches, music, and "burg" are to be the features of the opening. An idea of what burgoo is can be had when you find that to make it will be required: one 800 pound beef, fifty fat hens, twenty bushel trip tomatoes, ten bushels onions, 100 dozen cars of corn, several strings of red pepper.Music for the occasion will be furnished by the Winchester Band and the Ravenna School Band.
11/17/1933
Estill County is to receive about 17,500 pounds of dry salt pork which is to be distributed to needy families on the relief rolls.
11/24/1933
Judge J.W. Tuttle died at age 65, of blood poisoning from a carbuncle on his neck. Judge Tuttle was a native of Estill County and had been prominent in its affairs for many years.
12/01/1933
A disastrous fire originating in the Presbyterian Church of Beattyville spread to destroy seven other buildings when the water tank of the community ran low. The buildings destroyed were the church, loss $5,000; home dwelling of J.P. Thomas, loss $2,000; restaurant of Gentry Dunaway, loss $1,000; restaurant and residence of James Steele, loss $3,000; concrete garage of Tipton & Co., loss $1,000; the old armory building, loss $5,000; the John McGuire residence, loss $1,500; the grocery of Charley Evans; residence of Barlow Corbin and shoe shop of Johnny Lyons.
12/29/1933
Shelby Martin, 34, was shot at his home near Evelyn, and instantly killed. He was shot through a window and took the charge from a shot gun in his chest. No cause was given for the killing and a coroners inquest found him killed by person or persons unknown.
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