The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1898-11-23
UNDERGOES
OPERATION.
Clerk Cunningham at a
Louisville Hospital.
0rher News Notes From the
County Capital.
ALL OF THE LOCAL GOSSIP.
Claude Mercer Is Quite Sick at Lex
lngtOn.

Miss FloraGpith was visiting at Gar :
field last Sundxg,
Jessie Whitworth's mother was here
last week, from Eizabethtown, visiting
him
Mrs. g w. Beard went to Louisville
last Saturday to visit her daughter, Mrs.
Reed,
T. G. Lewis, the jeweler, has an at
tractive display of Christmas goods in his
show window
The party OF hunters who went from
here to Jolly last week killed about three
hundred quail.
Scott Morton came over from Webster
lest. SATURDAY. to close up his trade for the
Earman farm.
~ Mrs Ann Hook has been i'll for a
couple OF weeks aud her condition is not
yet much improved.
James Hook, who has been sick for
about three months, ia thought to be
gradually growing weaker.
Several new pupils entered the B, n.
College last week, It being the begin
ming of another rem weeks term.
Rev. !. w. Bigham will preach the
Thanksgiving sermon Thursday at II
o'clock at the NJ E. church South.
Dent Brown has closed out his meat
shop here to O l. Pate, and will g0 to
the Falls Of Rough t. oversee Col. Green's
farm
Rev. Felix Roberts filed Brother Big
hams appointment here last SUNDAY.
Mr. Bigham is engaged in n protracted
meeting at Webster.
Herman Baker, of Hawpsville, a mem.
Der of the firm Of Baker Bros stopped
over here fw day s last week on his re
turn from Louisville.
Send me- 4Oc silver and your picture
(any kind and | will make YOU two
Hawesville, Ky.
The following parties were here last
week from Long Lick attending services
at the Catholic church: Misses Mary,
Nellie and Matte Mattingly, Miss
Maggie Wheatley, Late Cannon and Will
Mattingly.
A great many persons have been drop.
ping into the sherif's Office the past
week and paying up their taxes in order
to avoid the penalty OF six per cent
which will be aided after the thirteeth
of this month
Claude Mercer, while on his return
home from the army, was taken sick and
had to stop at Lexington. His father
went up to See him last week and says
he thinks he will be able to reach home
in few weeks.
County Clerk Owen Cunningham, who
has been stuff ring for sometime with a
bad throat, went to Louisville last week,
where he consulted DIR. Cheatbam, and
had an opera ion performed 10 remove
the trouble. His wife, who accompanied
him, returned Saturday night and re-
port,d him DOH g we'll.
The Catholic church has been made
quate to hold the Gorge CATIONS attend
ing there the past week Tue foundation
OF the new church has be. n laid, but this
is as far as they have gone with the
work The new structure is TO he built
of brick aud will necessarily he quite
costly o wing to a lack o. funds it may
be sometime before it is completed.
VIM. Lamb aud wife, OF Blair, Nebras-
ka, arrived here a short time ago to visit
their old frirn Is and they think they
will spend the winter here. Mr Lamb
and his wife both look we'll for their
years, he being 81 Jeuty.two aud his wife
only few years you Z r. They both
married aud left this county in 1869 AMI
went west to seek th ir forum, Mr.
Lamb settled in Nebraska where Ia has
resided for the last thirty y'ars H has
been reasonably pro porous in his afi ,irs
and has the appearance of a man who
takes the world tasy Last Monday Il"
was on the streets here shaking hands
with old men, who we're quite Young
when he saw 'them ia1', Mr. L'mh
takes the News AMI saws 1t is one
of the best county papArs h gets for the
money,