The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1910-03-23

to the lowest notch possible and came
near losing out altogether. The bin
to appropriate $150000 for buildings
for medical school at the State uni
versity and $4,000 year to maintain
1t was amended to cut each amount
down to 5000, and then the bill was
defeated. The State fair asked for
100000 for more buildings and i'm
proyements, and the house had hard
work to pass bill giving It measly
$4,000, and the senate may not pass
that much.
There was one bill, however. that
escaped the pruning hook, and Justly
so. That was the bill asking for an
appropriation of $4,000 year to help
maintain the Home for Incurables es-
tablished in Louisville by the Kings
Daughters from all parts of the state.
Kentucky already makes provision for
caring for its insane and its feeble
minded, but has never made any pro
vision to care for the hopeless, help
less and penniless people who have
incurable diseases or are incurable
cripples. The Kings Daughters start
ed this charity and soon found that
1t was impossible for them with the
limited means they could raise to
care for the scores of worthy incur.
ables, so they appealed to the state
for aid, and so well did they present
their case through Mrs. Homer
STICKY of Louisville that the bill APP
propriating the $4,000 a year was
passed by both house and senate by
practically unanimous vote.
Governor Wilson is mucn interest
ed in preserving Kentucky's forests
and in having more trees planted for
future generations. so the following
proclamation issued by him for Arbor
day will be read with much interest:
ITO the People of Kentucky:
1T takes long. long time during
the lives of several people Tor tree
to grow great. 1t takes only little
while to kill it. We have wasted hun
dreds of millions of trees that it took
more than one hundred years to grow.
We are using millions of trees every
year now and putting nothing in their
place. We ought to plant more trees
than we use every year. We have
millions of acres of lands that will
not grow anything else but trees and
and we could cover them all with
trees. We have bare places along the
roads and in the streets and in the
yards and on the farms everywhere
that will not be used for buildings or
crops or anything else, where trees
could be planted that would make
those who come after us rich and
would make the face of the earth
beautiful for us.
Let us all get together and all
to plant trees and let us have spe-
cial meeting on the Sth day of April,
1910, in every schoolhouse and other
good places for meetings to talk over
how to have more trees, how to make
every place more beautiful, how to
plant the waste places with trees that
will bring health by and by how TO
save something for the people fifty
years from now who won t have any
wood if we do not do something about
it, how to put some of our prayers for
blessings to come to people hereafter
in living shape by starting trees that
will answer our own prayers.
LET us plant trees for ourselves
and for all whom we love. Let us
plant trees for. the future and for this
year and next year and every year.
Let us plant trees for profit, for glad
ness, for beauty. for conservation. for
storage of the rainwater, for houses
and furniture, for everything we use
food for, for our own sake, for our
children's sake for our grandchil-
dren's sake and for humanity's sake.
d" AUGUSTUS Il. WILSON,
Governor of Kentucky"
The members of the Retail Grocers'
association are jubilant over the pas
sage in the house of their bill to
amend the exemption laws of the
state. The bill provides that, where
any person earns $50 month or less,
10 per cent of the amount shall be
subject to attachment, and all over
$50 a month shall also be subject to
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