The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-02-23

/ lIdlUlllS UldN Dt at It's DeSt.
lucky Millers Association, in session
at Lexington.
Church Barley, Georgetown, who
shot and killed DR.. ]. w. Davis, was
sentenced from two to twentv-cre
years in the penitentiary for man
slaughter by the Scott County grand
jury.
Forty-six new names have been
added to the Confederate pension list.
During the last four years, since the
Confederate pension act has been in
existence, there have been 3,433 pen
sions granted.
T. A. Smith, of Thine, bought the
largest hog reported in the county
from Bob Moreland, near Pinckney-
vile. 1t weighed $40 lbs, paying
S5O.92 1t is Duroc and little over
two years old.
The Paducah and Nuhlenburg Pres
byteries will hold a laymen's meeting
in Hopkinsville on May 3. and 5.
The territory embraced in the two
presbyteries covers 81 counties Of
Western Kentucky.
Private Bryant, of Blake, Ky, has
been wounded and his left leg ampu-
tated, according to overseas casualty
list made public by the militia depart
ment. He enlisted with the British
army several months ago.
Thos. Tansil IS, a farmer, was
killed instantly with a shotgun by his
foster son, Edward Ash, %, who was
said to have fired when Tansil at
tackled Mrs. Ash with an ak at their
home, 90 miles southeast of Louisville,
near High Grove.
The State Farmers Institute met at
Frankfort. Addresses were made by
Starring l.. Marshall, Henderson,;
Mayor Joseph Rupert, Frankfort; e.
X. Renaker, Berry; Mat S. Cohen,
Frankfort; S. NJ. Jordan, Columbia,
Mo.
Carter Osborne, Is, Paducah, con-
fessed to his mother that he and four
other boys of about the same age
placed the bundle of switches and the
note of warning at former Mayor
Thomas n. Hazelip's home few days
ago Just for fun"
According to the annual report of
Surgeon General of the Public Health
Service, the best solution of the ira
choma problem is the establishment
of small trachoma hospitals in locali-
ties where this contagious disease of
the eyes is prevalent.
One thousand Kentucky veterans
are deprived of pensions because of
inadequate legislation according to the
statement of Congressman r. Y. Tho
mas, Jr., on the floors of Congress in
supporting two measures which passed
benefitting former soldiers.
Miss Sallie Eldora Brown, leap
year bride, proposed to Jas. Herbert
Tweddell, Crofton, following an an
nouncement of Hopkinsville mer-
chants that several hundred dollars in
prizes would be given the first leap
year bride, including a mule.
Mr.. Walter Gayle, Columbus, owns
a clock that is six hundred years old
Inscribed in two places upon highly
polished brass plates in the works are
this name and date: John Owen
August, 1924" which is 16S years be-
fore the discovery of America.
Charley j. Sanderson, Mayfield, filed
suit in the Graves circuit court against
the Illinois Central Railroad Company
for $4,000 for injuries inflicted October
T. 1915, when he fell down a flight of
concrete steps leading from the gen.
eral waiting room to the basement.
The sheet mill at Ashland was sold
at the Commissioners sale for S67 900.
1t was appraised at 100000. For
eighteen months it has been closed,
but it is expected that arrangements
will be made to reopen it, thus pro
viding employment for a number of
people.
The first moonlight school organized
| in Warren County has an enrolment
OF 81 women, girls, men and boys from
10 to 60 years. Spelling, reading,
writing, arithmetic. horticulture and
agriculture are taught The supplies
were furnished by Mrs. Cora Wilson
Stewart.
The failure Of fifty-three pupils in
Dayiess county to pass examinations
for diplomas admitting them to either
county or city high school. was due,
County Superintendent Mcfarland
said. to the fact that the examination
was much harder than 1t had been In
recent years.