The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-02-16
e. Hall. a merchant at Mayking, Is

old-made in 1716 and handed down
by his forefathers. Hall has been
offered large sums for the instrument,
but refuses to part with It.
Greensboro will construct a $225,0
sewer extension; Council also voted
to erect a new City Hall on the site Of
the present building which was erected
in 1860. The new structure will cost
$4O,O 900.
The Kentucky Solvay Co., Of Ash.
land, which is completing a second
unit of 81 coke ovens, has decided to
add two more units as soon as the
present work is completed. Several
hundred more men will be employed.
Estimated operating revenues of the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co.
for the seven months ending January
81, were 1891 ,243 more than for the
previous corresponding period. The
increase for January over the same
month in 1915 was $910,27S.
Lonnie Whitehouse, 16, half starved
and shivering from the cold. begged
greensboro officers to let the jail be
HIS HOllts Ills llONHtl was othl W INC
Asylum three weeks ago and died
there a few days ago. His father left
IL years ago.
Judge Harry w. Robinson, Louis
vile, in deciding against transferring
the case of a negro who has just
passed his seventeenth birthday to
the Juvenile Court, says a person is
| ban hic hirth1au na11c
for.
c. A. Bishop, of the County. was
hurried to the Surgical Hospital,
Louisville, for operation of gladstone.
One hundred and eighty stones were
removed, the largest number ever re-
moved from a patient in the history
of the hospital.
The millers of Franklin are offering
$1.30 a bushel for wheat, but very
little is being received. 1t is estimated
that 10000 bushels of last years crop
is still in the hands of the farmers of
Simpson County. At threshing time
the market opened at 81.
w. c. Williams, of Providence, had
SOW to farrow seventeen healthy
pigs. The mother was able to furnish
nourishment for only twelve and the
remainder we're given to a neighbor.
This is said to be the largest litter
ever narrowed in Simpson County.
Judge Carl Henderson, of Marion,
in instructing the Grand Jury. urged
that thorough investigation be made
into all bridge parties and card parties
in the home of society women, and to
indict every woman who played cards
for prizes.
Assistant Secretary of War, Henry
S. Breckenridge, of Lexington, has re-
signed with a similar action on the
part of Secretary of War Lindsey NJ.
Garrison. Congressman Swager Sher-
ley is being suggested to succeed Gar
rison as Secretary of War.
A gun battle of Everett Burnett and
wife, Williamsburg. ended in the
death of Mrs. Burnett and Mr.. Burnett
was taken to the hospital with two
wounds in his breast, but will likely re-
cover Mr.. Burnett went home drunk
and started the duel with pistol.
The Mercer Co. Fiscal court has
maui oil dllOWdhCt VI 3cO nlohth
for the maintenance of the Girls Can
ming Club and the Boys and Girls
Poultry Work. The $500 appropriated
last year resulted in $4,000 worth of
canned and prepared goods put up by
the canning club.
The Bell County Fiscal Court, in APP
probation of the results accomplished
h., aoll ~ off
priated $4,000 for continuing the work.
The State Board supplemented the
amount fixed by the Fiscal Court, so
that $4,000 will be spent this year in
Bell County for public health work.
Edward Sager and wife were found
dead in their home on farm at the
top of Flemingsburg Hill. near indie
pendence. The woman was shot in the
back of the head and the man back of
the right ear. Harry England, a
nephew of the woman, a deaf mute,
was found in the home in bed with his
head covered up.
Judge G. f. Vaughn, Dixon, re-
ceived an unsigned letter containing
$40 bill with instructions that the
school superintendent for the county
institute. The letter contained nothing
to show who the generous person was
or where he lived, letter having been
mailed on the train.
Jessamine County's 275 acres of
hemp, which made 100000 pounds and
sold at 81 hundred, was pooled by
C. T. Ashley & Co. for the growers
of the county. The firm has pur-
chased 500 bushels of hemp seed for
$7,400 The hemp acreage for Jess
anime County this year will be larger
than for several years. Many farmers
contemplate turning from tobacco
to hemp, which is easier raised and
leaves the land in better condition.
Senator Ollie NJ. James arose in the
United States Senate the other day
and presented memorial which
caused the solOns to wonder what had