The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1895-01-23
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Miss Myra Hanks entertained few
young folks last Monday evening.
Carlt Richardson, Of Union Star, was
in town Wednesday looking fat and
fine.
Dick Wade was in town Wednesday
with fine line Of spring styles in ladies'
shoes.
Estell Wedding came home Saturday
from the Medical College to remain
few days.
The boys have been busy at this point
catching logs and drifts and have caught
some nice logs.
Mrs. NJ. Blaine reached st. Augustine,
Fla. Wednesday and expects to spend
several days there.
Uncle Bivin fuckers is the only place
in town to get fresh oysters, so remem-
Der the place please.
Mr. NJ. Blain is wide awake on the to-
bacco market and is paying full market
prices, so fetch in your samples, boys.
Did you know that Ed Crawford was
the only Irish "Commedian" that trav-
els over the Texas Road Well, he is.
Mr.. +. II. Miller was appointed deputy
County Clerk at this point Friday ami
can always he found at his post of duty.
Mr., j. Owen Cunningham moved
from this point last Friday and from
now on can be found at his post of duty
at Hardinsburg.
L~w. II. Sargent, Postal Clerk on the
| Fordsyille branch, and f. NJ. Lambert,
Express Messenger on the same, were
in town Thursday.
w. II. Morgan and family returned
last week from delightful visit to the
country, and Hew. Gays he fairly lived
on back bones and sausage.
Mr.. Chas. Nook, the popular travel
ing salesman for Carter Dry Goods Co.,
was in town this week for a couple Of
days and sold several large bills.
There are people in town who say
they had rather hear Clint Lewis laugh
than to eat, but for my part prefer the
eat, although like to hear Clint laugh.
If you want to find everything that's
new, good and true, you must take the
BREcKENRIDGE News and you can't pos
sibly make any mistake.-[Now you are
saying something.-Ed.
They say James II. Lay, formerly o
our town, but now a resident of Gas
City, has boy which is only month
old, but Jim says he will be talking in
six months, the baby we mean.
Chas. P. Vititoe, one of our enterpris-
ing merchants, in order TO give his Gus
toners low prices, is now raising warts
on the back of his neck to use for collar
buttons. How's this for practical ecor-
omyP
The fruit men all say from pres, mt in
dications that we have fine chance for
large fruit crop in the apple and peach
belts and if winter doesn't break too
soon the chances are we will be in it on
fruit the coming year.
Scott Cart, OF Union Star, was in tow n
Saturday and is slowly winding up his
list OF back tax payers and says in a
couple of weeks he is going after them
right. so look out tax payers, you had
better get hustle on you,
We. Walter Moseley is now Special
Agent for the Washington Building &
Loan Association, of Providence, r.
and his headquarters are New Haven,
Conn. Walter is doing well and we
trust is on the road to prosperity.
The chances are in the near future
that Stephensport will have large To
bacco stemmery started here and we
hope and trust that it won't he long
starting for there are good many boys
who want work and want it badly.
There was a dance given at the resi-.
dence OF the Widow Floods last Wed.
nesday night aud a good many OF ouI
town boys went out and say they had a
| ucliBhIiul hihV' ihcy udnCcu uuIll
after o'clock in the morning and "Old
Frank" sang Run niger run and then
all left for their respective places OF
abode.
The river the first part OF last week
made the residents along Water Street
feel like it would only be a short time
before they would have to find higher
quarters so as to be high and dry, but
thanks to an All-wise Providence that
the waters have receded and our town is
the same hustler it has always been.
Catch on Brandenburg?
The large and elegant Electric Steam.
er, "The State Of Missouri" New Or
leans packet, while enroute to New Or
leans struck rock as she was turning
the bend at Wolf Creek and knocked
the whole end of her stern out, and the
report although mea2re is some twenty
or thirty lives have persisted beneath
the dark waters of the Ohio. The oc-
curence happened about IL o'clock Sat
urday night. Mr.. Cass Whitehead re.
ports TO us that it only seemed few
minutes until all was over and the wa.
tiers rushed madly on as II nothing had
happened. God, have mercy ON the
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