The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1898-03-30
Caught On The Run.

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Riding out from Hardinsburg last weel
by way Of Harmed and Garfield acros
the country to Custer. l tried to picl
up few points that would be interest.
ing to News readers. Visiting the far.
mers and talking with them, l find they
are friends Of the News. The reason il
simple. Out of it they get all the news
and value received for their money
And upon this basis is founded all trans
actions, and it goes when applied to q
newspaper as we'll as anything else
Value received for the thing exchanged
is what the people want at last. They
want it in newspaper and if it ISM
there it is no go.
found the farmers in this section in
pretty fair shape,getting ready to pitch a
big crop. If the present season will only
hold out favorable, Breckenridge county
will have more products in another year
than the people will know how to han.
die. Last years drouth like to set the
whole thing foot and there will be a
mighty effort this time to catch even.
Adjacent to Harmed there is some
good country and reliable farmers. A
mile from town on the south side is
Crawford Beauchamp. Mr.. Beauchamp
has tract of 100 acres, which he bought
in the woods in '92, and has it now about
all cleared. He moved there from the
Falls OF Rough and from his surround
ings yod might Judge that he had
dropped down to stay. He has twenty
acres of wheat which looks we'll.
Across the road from Mr.. Beauchamp
is the farm Of Mrs. Ethel Norman, the
widow of Henry Norman. Her farm
contains $50 acres Oicourse she doesn't
pretend to cultivate it all, or half of it.,
but good deal of it is valuable for tim
Der. She expects to make 20 acres of
corn. Her husband died a few years
since and now her sixteen year old son
manages the place Henry Norman
was one of the most substantial men in
many respects that l ever knew. He
was quiet man but very reliable one.
When he died at So the neighborhood Ct
Harmed lost valuable citizen. l am
glad to be permitted to speak thus of him
because he possessed many excellent
virtues.
Arch Goodman who bought the old
White Norman farm a year or so ago,
has made it worth three times what it
was by improving it in every way.
Something singular about this place. II
lay idle for many years and the Moore
man heirs tried every means to get rid
OF it. They finally offered it for 5000 and
Goodman seeing in it a good bargain
took it in. He began improving it at
once and today | expect he would refuse
$1,000 for it. He has in $50 acres of
wheat this year and it looks fine. He
has done good deal of hard work on
this old farm, but it will pay him in the
end. Everything around him shows an
eye to business.
Another old farm in this locality which
a few years ago was given over to the
broom sage and sassafrss, looks now like
1t would take money to buy it. This is
the farm where LATE Davis lives. Davis
is another man who recognizes that it
takes a heap OF hard work to bring order
out OF chaos. Horace SCOTS grandfather
am told owned this place at one time,
and then there was sb)ut 2,O00 acres in
it. Subsequently it was divided and
subdivided until now it has made farms
Tor half doz' or more. MIR. Davis
think ownes the old homestead, and he
has made so many improvements that it
Is now very desirable piece of property.
Peyton Scott, living near Mr. DAVIS,
is another good farmer. Ills success
along this line has been made by raising
tobacco. Last November Mr.. Scott sold
bis good tobacco at SIP 90 per hundred.
He prides himself somewhat on being a
success in handling the weed. He rare-
" ever fails to make a good crop and
generally gets the top of the market
MIR. Scott like many other farmers