The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1916-03-01
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March 18th will witness the close
Of the tobacco market at Paris.
The last tobacco sale was held at
Flemingburg, on February 20.
Five car loads of hogs, bought by
Cleft Coleman at Harrodsburg at seven
cents per pound.
Capt James II. Simmons, age SO
years, one of the best known river
men of the Ohio, died in Newport.
Christian, Union, Powell, Letcher,
Knott and Casey Counties will vote on
road bond issues soon.
Henry County will vote on a $500,
900 road bond issue within the next
sixty days, the Fiscal Court announced
last week.
One thousand delegates and visitors
from all parts of Kentucky, attended
the Layman's Missionary Convention
held at Lexington.
James Robinson, charged with the
murder of Emmett Woodruff and
Glover Hoard, was acquitted as to the
murder of Woodruff, at Madisonville.
William r. Thomas died at the age
of eighty-six at his home in Elizabeth
town. He is survived by wife, whom
he married sixty-three years ago.
An attendance of an average OF
1000 people daily marked the most
successful automobile show in the
history of Louisville, held last week.
0f DAhnrfcn, County
was killed and Il. T. Maddox, of Paris
wounded in a negro settlement in
Paris, infested by negro bootleggers
A new steel mill at a cost of more
than a million dollars, is assured for
Ashland. Four hundred men will be
employed.
Fair secretaries and horsemen will
meet in Winchester on March 8 tC
form a fair and trotting circuit fol-
Central Kentucky.
The sale of 10000 acres Of rich
Morgan County coal and timber land
to w. S. Whiting, of North Carolina
was announced in Lexington. The
price was $4,000.
oCudlOl JdlutS has
to give Col. L. NJ. Maus, now secre
tary of the Kentucky tuberculosis
Commission, the rank of Brigadier
General.
Large buildings at Middlesborc
trembled when an earthquake was felt
in various parts of Eastern Kentucky
last week. 1t is also said to have been
felt in several southern states.
Representative R. Y. Thomas, Jr.
has suggested to Congress, an en-
prisal against England for refusing
tobacco shipments.
A campaign for 100000 for an
auditorium in Louisville, was launched
with three hundred business and pro
fessional men making canvass fol
funds.
DR.. Hiram Arnett 80 years old, died
at his home in Woodford County fol
lowing a protracted illness. DR.. Ar
nett was a soldier of Morgan's com
mand. Burial was made in the Lex
ington cemetery.
A fourth marriage for both bride
and groom occurred in the case of the
marriage of w. T. Crawford, as years
old, of Upshur County, West Virginia.
to Mrs. Eliza ]. Fugate, 43 years old
of Whitesburg
Farmers in the section near Mt
Olivet sustained heavy losses from Q
recent sudden change in the weather
some losing rs per cent of their lambs
It was caused principally from the
ewes wandering from shelter.
A barge of the Pittsburg Coal Co.
containing 10000 bushels of coal, was
wrecked on the rocks below the Ohio
river dam at Louisville, after being
mysteriously loosed from its moorings
The loss was about $500.
March marked the closing of the
seasons tobacco market at Carlisle
Margaret Drake, negress, lis years
old and reputed to be the oldest WON
an in Kentucky, died at her home In
Woodford County.
At mass meeting Of citizens al
Mayfield, in which a Commercial Clut
was organized, sum of $1,000 was
raised within ten minutes, with which
to employ the services of a secretary