The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1899-01-18
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pneumonia but is better.
Mrs. Hobbs, OF Hardin country, is
visiting her son James Bland.
Miss Bess Lewis Is visiting her sister,
Mrs. Jesse Malin, of Vine Grove.
Write to A. O. Burton, Brandenburg,
KY, and get catalogue Of the Normal.
Mr.. Burton has three hundred pupils
teaching in the schools of western Ken.
lucky.
Thank you Mr.. Editor for "Current
Topics" in last issue culled from my pro.
auctions.
Miss Sue Neill, of stthtou, is spending
some time 9Th her aunt Miss Lee
Hagan.
Mrs Cressap and children, of Eliza
bethtown, visited her sister, Mrs James
Bland last week.
Doc Gray has returned from Porto
Rico with the Legion boys, is still very
i'll Of typhoid fever.
Mrs. George i. Neafus came down
from Louisville and is at Mrs James
Fontaine's on business.
Mrs. June McGehee has returned from
visit to her daughter, Mrs. Stuart
Pecke paugh, of Evansville.
Mr.. Roland O'Bryan has been recalled
to his position in the revenue service
| He has sold his residence to Mr.. J. ID
Hardin
Misses Ida Powell aud Fannie
Phillips and Mrs Chas Coleman went to
Louisville last Tuesday as guests of John
Powell, clerk on Tell City.
The ladies of the Baptist church will
give a candy pulling next Friday night
at the Normal building after the Literary
circle concludes its program.
Mrs. Ella Dowden Gregory came up
last week to say good bye" to her fam
lily before leaving with her husband for
Georgia. MIR. Gregory is still i'll but
hopes chang, of climate will improve
him. We all hope go.
Miss Beulah Fontaine entertained a
few friends last Saturday night for Miss
Bess Allen who left for home in Para
disc Bottom. Bess has been with her
aunt, Mrs. Blanche Fontaine aud has
won many hearts, perhaps one in parti-
cular.
Mr.. Richard Knott, of the Louisville
Post, is getting in some Of tie abest
editorials Of the state. When it comes
to logic and rhetoric. Mr. Knott is
ahead of Congressman and Senators.
He knows a good thing and drives it for
all there is in it,
d. NJ. Duncan has bought the Meade
County Messenger from Roland O'Bryan
and will continue to conduct it at the
old stan /. David Duncan has given this
county the best paper it has ever had.
He will make it better for 1899 than in
the past. He is literal newspaper man
Al and Ernest Bishop took a number
OF prizes at the poultry house in New
Albany. They will have a number of
fine birds at the Kentucky State Poultry
Association which opens at Music Hall
in Louisville today (Monday Meade
county should feel quite proud of the
Bishop Poultry Farm"
Miss Mary Taylor will leave in few
weeks for Russellville, KY, to attend the
marriage of her brother, Percy, to Miss
Posey. Percy is or the staff of the
Courier Ledger of that city and is a very
bright promising young man Mary
will go to Mayfsld to visit her aunt and
a sChOol-mate before her return home.
@. M. hewitt "Good-bye" last Satur-
day aud left for Dallas, Texas, to engage
in business for John McDonough. How
soon our children grow away from us !!
all too quickly We ind our aching arms
and hearts are empty of their burdens
and the child is man. He may wonder
far, may stay long, but mothers arms,
mothers love will linger like the per
lume of sweet fragrant flowers.
Major j. H. Ashcraft, of Paducah, has
been appointed Commissioner on the
Shiloh National Park commission to
succeed Gen. Buell. on a salary of So, 900
year and it is life appointment Maj 4.
Asbcraft was born and raised to man.
hood in old Brandenburg and married
Miss Molle Brown, of this place one Of
the handsomest girls that ever graced
our society. We all extend congratula-
tions.
l made mention two weeks ago of the
death of Mr.. Will Richardson which
occurred in Arkansas not Tennessee as
stated, he had changed residence. News
reached here last Saturday that his wife
had died of pneumonia and leaving
several children who will come here to
make their home with relatives, Mrs.
r II. hewitt, d. s. Richardson and VIM,
Bewley, The circumstances are ex-
tremely sad and we all sympathizs with
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