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NEWS NOTES The Sue Bennett Memorial School, of Louisville, is to have a new chapel, to cost about $25,000. Berea College is to have another dormitory, know as Kentucky Hall, which will cost $25,000. According to the report of C. J. Norwood, Chief Inspector of Mines, Kentucky's coal output in 1913 was 19,421,288 tons. The Deposit and People's Banks of Paris have been merged under the name of Deposit & People's Bank, with a capitalization of $150,000. President Wilson extended executive clemency to four men convicted in the dynamite conspiracy. Eighteen others must begin serving their prison terms. The Greenville Coal Co. secured the contract to furnish coal for the Eddyville penitentiary from the State Board of Prison Commissioners. The controct calls for about 9,000 tons run of mine coal at $1.67. Though the quality is superior and the quantity only slightly in excess of normal, the price of Kentucky bluegrass seed this year is said to be unusually low because of the large quantities of old seed on hand. A cannon, which was the gift of Senalor W. O. Bradley, has arrived in Lancaster and will be mounted and placed in the park there. It is a 12 pounder and was shipped from the U.S. arsenal at Rock Island, Ill. Gov. McCreary has given assent to the acceptance by the State University of $10,000 from the Federal government under the Levi act to use it in agricultural extensive work. The executive act is essential when the Legislature is not in session. The Citizens Bank & Trust Co., Ashland, was closed by Bank Examiner Jno. B. Chenault, representing the State Banking Commission. The bank is cap italized at $200,000. A shortage of funds brought about by real estate loans on which the institution has not realized is said to be responsible for the action of the examiner.