The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1898-01-12

J B. Cox has been appointed city
clerk by the new board OF trustees.
Did you read the statement of the
Bank Of Hardinsburg doing good bust
ness.
B. F. Beard and his daughter, Miss
Bessie, will leave for California this
week.
X Lewis Moreman has sold ont here and
says he intends to move to Meridian
Mississippi.
A new carpet has been put down in
the Circuit Court rooms and the front
doors rehung.
Out at Antioch church is good place
for Sunday School, and it should be
organized at once.
Mrs. d. S. Richardson, OF Union Star,
came over last week to visit her daugh-
ter, Mrs. P. NJ. Beard.
James w. Miller has bought out the
interest of Mr.. Jarboe in the firm Of
jMattingly & Jarboe at Kirk.
= Misses Carrie and Nellie Atwood and
Eafe Withers and John Kennedy entered
the B. N. college last Monday.
Richard May lost a fine gold watch
while out hunting about ten days ago,
and has not been able to find it.
The town will be full of students next
session. Numbers of them are already
makir < applications for board here.
Henry Harmed, Of Harmed, thinks he
will move his family to town and enter
three OF his children in the b. N. college.
Drs. d. H. Basham and II. V. Basham
will be at Hardinsburg on Jan. 10th to
practice dentistry and remain one week.
The mud in the roads now is fearful
When you strike the old turnpike you
can 20 sailing. Ought to have some
more pixies.
John S. Rhea says there is no truth in
the report that he will be a candidate
against Joe Blackburn for the United
States Senate.
All persons wanting photographs or
pictures of any kind must come before
the first day OF February as will leave
here on that dste.-W. ]. Mattingly.
Several gentlemen met at the court
house last Saturday night and organized
the Pulen Historical club. R N. Mil
Ter was elected President, and Kimbal
Harman, Secretary.
Nelson Haynes aud Mrs. Alice J. Nor
ton were married at the residence of
Rsv II. @. Hook in this place last We'd
resday. The groom is sixty-four and
the bride sixty-three years of age.
Said J. A. Wit: LAST fall bought thir
ty-six bushels of beans and now they
are nearly all out. Irish potatoes are too
high for the people this year, and they
are taking bean soup instead"
Rev. W. B. Sneed, of this city, preach
es to more congregations than any min
lister in the county. There are nine
churches in his charge and the distance
he travels to reach them all covers over
eighty miles.
The new board of town trustees met
last week and organized with G. w.
Beard as president About the first
thing they did was to knock out the
pool table by refusing to license them
any further. Allen X. Kincheloe was
appointed Police Judge protein, in the
absence OF Judge Board who is in Texas.
Alex West is on duty as marshal.
Ga tomorrow the plaintiff will take de-
positions in the suit OF Hobson Frank
VS. Ben T. Miller. On Tuesday, the 18th
of this month, the plaintiff has given
notice to take dispositions in the case
OF VIM. Miller vs. Brickey &c. On the
goth the plaintiffs give deposition in the
case of Robt. Lavely vs. G. p. Conner &c,
and defendant in some case on the 2l.
On the 20 plaintiffs will take in the
case OF Nehemiah Dowell VS. G. w.
Dooholht huuululhlIdlOI az.
We had the pleasure of attending a
joint meeting of the Foreign and Home
Missionary societies at the parsonage
last Friday evening. The body is com
posed OF some OF the most elegant and
women in this part OF the
country. And when ii comes to things
spiritually they just let the Lord have
his way with them and he seems TO lead
them in directing the missionary work
N a manner that will make the cause
flourish oyer all opposition. They throw
n their dimes and their nickles and
dollars with a freedom that challenges
One lady from a distance
'ent in five dollars others dollar each,
Until the iootings for a single monthly
meeting ran up close to twenty dollars
But paying ia not all these women sing
md pray, and read and talk and dispatch
business likewise with peri ct accuracy.
These societies are organizations OF the
Methodist Episcopal church South, of