— Beattyville
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Document date
Tuesday 4th of September 1917
Transcription Notes
After some shopping we catch 11.30 train and after the usual dirt & discomfort of a Day Coach we arrive at Beattyville at 3.10 and take very indifferent rooms at Hotel Roberts. The people who run the hotel, by name Jones, are highly respectable! They do nothing but sit & be waited on by negroes. Everything is slip shod, & slatternly and it is difficult to get water or towels or indeed anything done at all. Find Capt[ain] Beatty died some months ago. Met a Miss Kate Reid who interests herself in our mission so far as she — a missionary — is able to do so! Tells us of a Mrs Margaret Couch of St Helens (about 4 miles off) whom she says can sing. Decide to walk over there tomorrow. Weather still keeps uncomfortably hot but the nights are cool and that makes life possible.Location
USA : Kentucky : Lexington [38.0317136,-84.4951359]
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