The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1900-01-17
SAND GAVE FLAT.
Nice weather for January.

Killing hogs at Foster McKaughan's.
Mr.. B. Lay attended the sale of the
property of Lee Vandergrift, deceased.
Mr.. Ed. Haynes has moved to Poplar
Flat to crop with Mr.. AL. Whitwortb.
Mrs. w. 4. Claycomb's daughters,
Luells and Mrs. Henry Cline, were the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Clsycomb and
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Mclaughlin day and
night last week.
Mrs. DR.. Shively, of Stephensport, met
with a very painful accident at this place
Monday, January Sth. She was thrown
from horse and her right arm fractured
at the elbow. DIR. Will Miner was
called Immediately and her arm was at
tended to within few hours after the
accident occurred. She is an greensboro
lady and it was her first visit to this
place. We sympathizs with her and
the Doctor and regret the accident very
much. We hope she may soon recover
and be able to visit us again.
There seems to be a diversity of opin-
ions about when the twentieth century
begins. All agree that it takes one hun
bred years to make a century and that
80 years lacks one year of being that
number. Time is counted by chronol-
ogy instead OF mathematics and there is
no zero period of time in the Christian
era. The first year was numbered l at
the beginning, not because one year had
passed, but because it was the period of
the first year. The days and months and
even the centuries are numbered the
same way. We do not wait until the
last Of the day, the last of the month,
nor the last OF the year to date the period
of time, but date from the beginning,
and, as it takes 100 years for a century,
Just as it takes 60 minutes to make an
hour and it takes the last second Of the
last minute to complete that hour. Just
80 it,takts the last moment OF time in
this year to complete this nineteenth
century. We should study up on chro-
nology and teach it to the children and
by the time the nineteenth century
closes all may "see eye to eye and the
Waterman on the wall speak the same
things"
Mr.. A. NJ Matheny, an old and re-
spected citizen of Breckenridge county,
passed away January 9th at the home of
his son-in-law, w. T. Claycomb. His
S5th anniversary occurred during his
last illness. He "came to the grave in
a full age" and seemed perfectly re-
signed to the will OF God and even
anxious to depart. His estimable COM
panion preceded him by only a few
years, although he was ten years her
senior. He leaves seven children and
quite a number OF grandchildren TO
mourn his loss. The funeral service was
conducted on Sunday evening at the
home where he died by Rev. Stubble-
field and his remains were brought to
Stephensport on Monday, January 8th,
and inferred in the cemetery near the
churches. The family have our SINGER
est sympathy in the loss of both father
and mother and to the memory Of both
we ascribe the following lines:
Asleep in Jesus Blessed sleep
From which none ever wake to weep
a calm and undisturbed rePose,
Unbroken by the last Of foes
Asleep in Jesus oh, how sweet
To be for such a slumber meet
With holy confidence to sing
That death has lost its venomed sting.
Asleep in Jesus Peaceful rest,
Whose waking is supremely blest;
No fear. no woe shall dim that hour,
That manfests the Savor's power.