The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-02-16
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McAdoo will visit Louisville on
February 10.
Robert Blair, Baptist minister, was
named as police judge at Whitesburg.
| The Kentucky State Fire Proven
ton Association met in Henderson.
The Louisville Board of Trade and
, the Commercial Club are to be merged.
About 5000 delegates to the Ma.
tional Gamers Association met in
Louisville.
]. T. Cox, 26, Bardstown, died from
the injuries he received when he fell
rs feet from telephone pole.
A campaign to raise 100000 for an
auditorium has been started in Louis.
vile.
OF the $4,000 miles of road in Ken
| tuckyk, only about 10000 miles are OF
improved material and construction.
Col. Lewis Casey, veteran news.
paper publisher, died at his home in
Covington at the age of SO years.
Mrs. Margaret Ford is Paducah's
first policewoman. She is investigat-
ing secretary for the Settlement House.
Campbell County is planning to sue
turnpike companies because the own
ers refuse to repair the toll roads.
The big Brother" movement has
been established at greensboro in an
effort to solve the bad boy" question.
Henry T. Bugg, Mayfeld, Carlisle
County, is less than A years old and
Is the father of nine children.
! Mrs. Nancy Goddard, SO, died at her
home on Cedar Creek, Robertson
County.
David Scott, of Stanford, recently
cast his fifty-fith vote in the same
township.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union is fighting to stop the sale Of
cigarettes in Glasgow.
Pitchers and catchers of the Pitts
burg National League club will again
train at Dawson Springs this year.
Will arrive there next month.
The Boys Corn Growing Club will
be revived in Warren County and a
premium will be offered for the best
acre grown by boy 16 years or under.
w. A. Barnett, near Shawness Run
church, few miles from Harrodsburg,
was bitten by pig, making a painful
wound
The General Education Board of the
Rockefeller Foundation, appropriated
$500 to Kentucky for homemaker's
clubs for negroes.
Pete Durbin. 20, after saving his
way out of the Highland Park Jail,
was captured three hours later in the
prison, having returned for his clothes.
George Franklin, half-breed Next
can, near Gradyville, Adair County,
shot and killed his wife. He is be-
lieved to be demented.
Mrs. Minerva Graham, aged So, of
Concern, Lewis County, shot herself
to death through the head with a shot.
gun.
Bishop Atkins will be the principal
speaker at the laying of the corner
stone of the $4,000 Methodist church
in Hopkinsville on February 81.
Louisville reports the first girl
graduates of the 1916 season, when
the Girls High School gave diplomas
to 60 this week.
| Geo. S. Shanklin, President of the
Fayette Home Telephone Company and
chairman of the Democratic City and
County Committee, died at his home
at Lexington.
The Larue County Fiscal Court has
made application to the State Road
Department for $4,000 state aid
money in 1916 to be used on the
county's intercounty-seat roads.
Hopkinsville merchants and officials
have promised several hundred dollars
worth of presents to the first Lean
Year bride, who admits having made
the proposal of marriage.
| Charles r. Hadley, of Lexington, has
sold to representatives of the Japanese
Government, fine stallion known as
Montgomery Rex" which will be used
by the Emperor.
Miss Ida M. Tarbell, author and
lecturer, will be one of the speakers
at the convention of the Kentucky
Educational Association in Louisville
April 10.
VIM. j. A. Reinhold, Louisville, COM
mitted suicide while in an out build
ing with his collie doy. The dog went
to the house and frantically led the
young mans mother to the scene,
where she found the lifeless body
Twelve hundred refugees, thinly
clad. are living on ten cents a day at
Hickman. Federal aid has been en-
listed and money for sufferers is being
raised in various cities throughout
the United States.
Students of Pennsylvania College at
Lexington, voted their preference, 10
to !, for the preparedness policy of
President Wilson as compared with
the Roosevelt idea of preparedness and
the Bryan policy of pacifcism.
j. NJ Gouldman, residing near Three
State (Mo) Landing, ten miles below
Hickman, killed a wolf ON his front