The Breckenridge news., 1906-08-15
NEWS in
MEADE COUNTY.
Local Option ElectiOn--StOck
Law VOte--ChiIdS-S hack.
lett Wedding.
Meade Messenger.

election IN Meade county under the
Unit Bill were filed Monday with
Judge Basket, it being a regular term
OF the County Court. 729 names were
on the petitions and this alone assures
a victory ON October Q. the day set by
the Court to hold the election.
Every man VINO has taken the pains
to investigate into the situation in
this county as it is today, knows
that an overwhelmingly majority of
the voters stand for local option, but
not wlthstanding this, the fight must
90 on, and the victory made more de-
clsive. There must be no Tagging -
Legitimacy must not be allowed to creep
into the ranks, tor the opposition
stands ready to strike if we are caught
asleep.
A temperance society will be cr0an
lied in every precinct IN the county
and every friend of the temperance
cause should make up his mind to at
tend these meetings and see that your
neighbors are there also.
A society was organized at Salem
thursday and a meeting will be held
at Enron Thursday afternoon when a
society will be organized at that place
Other places will be organized as fast
as the committee can get to them.
In the next few weeks we will give
testimonials from the business men OF
Hcrrodsburg, CampoellsviIIe, Hodgens-
Vile and other ; ints where they have
had local option less than two years
and you will be surprised to read what
the result has been. Business has In.
creased, morals are a thouasnd times
better, property values have increased
and bankers, merchants, lawyers,
doctors, officials testify TO the good
results following local option.
Mrs Jess Board was called to Hard
insourg Monday on account OF sick
ness in her sons, Gus Bown, family.
All of his children. six in nump Der,
are down with typhoid fever.
The wheat wagons continue to come
to town. These are pretty sights, as
the merchant, the professional man,
the mechanic, the day labor, each ex-
pect their share OF the proceeds and
they are sure to get it.
A petition mas been filed In the
County Court requesting Judge BasK
EFT to cause poll to be opened at the
regular election on November 6. 1906
to take the sense OF the legal voters OF
Meade county as to whether or not
cattle generally OF any species thereof
shall De permitted to rln at large.
There are fifty nine signerI to the petit
tion and they are all RESIDENTS of the
lower end OF the county. 1t is said
that the clover end" is almost soliu-
ly n favor of the law, and we under
stand that the proposition is very pop
ular in the upper end A vote was
taken several years ago and 1t was only
defeated by small majority. 1t il
claimed by those favoring the law that
if there had not been a mistake in the
ballot it would have carried then.
Stewart Owings, of West Point,
was in town Monday. His many
friends here are glad to know that he
has recovered from the accident he
sustained by being Jerked under a tram
at West Point several months ago. The
only bad effect fIom the fall is a stiff
arm.
MIR. and Mrs. D. s. Richardson, Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Howard, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. l.. Fontsine, Mrs. d. W. Lewis,
Mrs. j. R. Dink, Mrs. Ed Yeakel, Fred
Ditto, Henry Woodson, Jr., and ]. Il.
Bondurant will leave August IS for a
trip of several days to the Mammoth
Cave.