The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-06-28
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In Crittenden County several mad
dogs have bitten a number of head ci
horses and cattle.
Colonel c. A. Bell. of Bedford, was
reelected president of the State
League of Postmasters.
The Daviess County Distilling Com
pany has sold $50 head Of cattle at the
top price of nine cents.
The United Travellers of West V1r-
ginia, Virginia, Maryland and Ken
lucky will hold their annual meeting
In Ashland in 1917
A large crane, measuring five feet
in height and six feet three and one
half inches from tip to tip was killed
by Nazareen Mason near Owenton.
Woodford Hector Dulaney, of Louis.
vile. graduated from Yale University
at New Haven, Conn. leading his
class of 2S2 in scholarship.
A committee of one hundred women
have enlisted to raise $4,000 for the
cause of the Kentucky llliteracy Com
mission Eacd woman is to be respon.
sible for raising 800.
nc DdlldIu HStdl Cuull has dN dIu
ed contracts for the construction of
16.4S miles of state aid roads, after re-
jecting bids for 36 miles because the
magistrates deemed them too high
There were six bids offered
The manufacture of alcohol under
French contract began Monday at the
Greenbaum Distillery at Midway, near
Lexington. II is expected that several
months will be required to fill the
order.
. At a meeting of the State Democrat
ic Committee held in Louisville We'd
nesday. J. Campbell Cantrill was made
chairman of the Campaign Committee
and T. b. Pannell, OF Central City, sec
rotary.
Amber oil was struck by Eastern !
capitalists two miles north of Glas
gov, at a depth of two hundred feet
The flow is steady and the operators |
are excited over the strike. The |
stream will be cased and the well |
drilled to four hundred feet.
Covington promises to become a !
"hyless city" if the plans of a delega-
ton of women working for sweet char
ity is a success. Hundreds of women
and girls sell fly swatters to pedes-
trians, the proceeds being added to a
fund for St. Elizabeth Hospital
Tripping the light fantastic" will
be a thing Of the past on Sunday in
CovingtOn. At a meeting of the City
Commissioners all Sunday dancing ex-
cept in private residences is ordered
prohibited. Police were instructed TO
enforce the order
The state school census report. pre-
pared by Superintendent of Public In
struction Gilbert. of the cities of the
first, second, third and fourth classes
for 1916, shows a total of SO.G55. ex-
elusive Of the city of Louisville.
Covington made the largest increase.
The first anniversary of the found.
ing Of the Kentucky Baptist Children's
Home at L.ynnland. near Louisville.
was celebrated on the grounds at the
home. Five hundred persons attended
The exercises. A feature of the pro.
gram was a march of the ninety-four
children OF the home.
Nora wilkins, Barbourville, is held !
bail to await action OF a grand ;
Jury on the charge of having MUIR !
Tered her one-day-old infant The
body OF the infant was found in a rain {
barrel at the home of County Coroner I
J. i. Dosie", where the Wilkins WON.
IN was employed. {
|. j. Rubinow, of New York, has G
'een appointed actuary for the Ken. I
lucky Workmens Compensation G
3oard. The board met with repre-
entatives Of the Reciprocal Insurance n
Companies and adopted a set of rules v
Inder which the insurance is to be
written. :
Secretary of State Lewis has award {
d to the National Color Type Com a
amy of Newport, the contract for /.
automobile and motorcycle plates for 4
kentucky for 1917. The state will pay "
Or 10000 automobile plates at q Il
ents each and 1000 motorcycle plates b
I 10 cents each a
The movement for the construction n
I public roads in this state, carving
nth 1t an expenditure of many mil. Y
ons OF dollars, means more than anv- n
ning else for the welfare OF Ken. +,
lcky, was the statement made nv n
overnor Stanley in addressing the Of n
cials of the Jackson Highway Asso- +,
ation' who passed through the state Il
Under the terms Of the James reso- m
ltion the United States Senate laid nj
side its business Saturday despite b,
he war situation to pay tribute TO the NJ
of the late Senator w. O HI
radley, OF Kentucky. Eulogies were III
elivered by Senators James. Beck. A.
am, Kern, Williams, Oyerman. Mel. pc
'n' Townsend, Works and Smoot IL
DIR. II. w. Frymre. Of Floral nine
Hes from Hawesville. shot ana w
abbed TO death Henry w. Schaerer a,
prosperous farmer and master of The nj
oral Masonic lodge Two hours LAT. ar
a deputy sheriff shot and wounded m
e physician when he refused TO sur. OK