The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-12-05

tanned during the coming winter.
Mt. Sterling.-An unprecedented
demand for livestock was noticed on
the Mt. Sterling market during Coun-
ty Court day. Mules and cows pre-
dominated and brought high prices. A
number of sheep, also, topped the
market.
Louisville.-Mayor Smith has ap-
pointed j. Preston Tabb, office man.
ager of the Louisville Cotton Mills, as
City Treasurer to fill vacancy caused
by the refusal of Captain Harvey
White, United States Engineers Corps,
to qualify
Barbourville.-A heavy movement of
coal trains is noted in this district.
These trains are being given right OF
way and passenger trains sidetracked
for their passage. The coal is being
transported from the Southeastern
Kentucky coal fields.
Georgetown. -Twenty-three shares
of the capital stock of the Farmers
Bank e. Trust Company, belonging to
the estate of Willis Gunnell, were sold
at public auction. The block of stock
brought 1909 share. Buford Hall
was the purchaser.
Paris.-Charles s. Brent and broth
err, of Paris, were awarded a verdict
in the Bourbon Circuit Court against
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany for $592.71. They sued the
company for damages resulting from
a misspelled word in a message.
Louisville,-The city government of
Louisville passed into the hands Of the
Republicans on November 20, for the
first time since Mayor Grinstead held
power eight years ago. George Wes-
singer Smith took the oath of office as
mayor H. the Office of the mayor in the
city hall.
Cloverport.-The local chapter Of
the Cloverport Red Cross has sent
its first consignment to headquarters.
The shipment consisted of napkins,
table cloths, tray cloths, pillow slips.
sheets, hand towels, handkcrchiefs.
tea towels, swabs, bath towels, and
knitted sets.
Camp Zachary Taylor-A battle in
the night, Illuminating the sky, will
mark the initial use of a new system
of trenches-duplicatin those in No
Mans Land-at Camp Zachary Taylor.
Big guns will be brought into play,
bombs will burst and grenades will be
used in the attacks.
Winchester.-At the call of Chair
man G. Lee Wainscott, of the Clari;
County Fuel Committee, the coal
dealers of the county met with the
committee at the courthouse. The
meeting was held in the County Court
room and the fuel situation in Clark
county was discussed.
Earlington.-A feature of the Hop
kins county campaign for the Y. M. G.
A. war fund is the individual contri-
buttons made. Among these miners
and negro mine employees generously
helped the cause. Two teams were
working, with the leading team
showing an advantage of only $25.
Lexington.-Six nurses of the Good
Samaritan base hospital, Unit No. 40,
enlisted in the Bluegrass by DR.. David
Barrow for service in France at an
early date, have volunteered for TEN.
porary detachment from the staff to
serve as cantonment hospital nurses,
probably at Camp Zachary Taylor.
Louisville.-The bodies of three Ken
lucky boys who died Of pneumonia on
the same day at Camp Shelby, Miss,
were shipped to their home for burial.
The soldiers who died were Albert T.
Minor, % years old, of Shelbyville
Strother Reynolds, 81, of Clay, Web
ster county, and Willie Wilson. "a, of
Columbia.
Versailles.-Pleased with the result
Of their canvass and impressed by the
effectiveness Of thorough organiza-
ton, the men who conducted the cam
paign in Woodford county in the in
terest of the ". M. c. A. war work
fund and secured $2,70O more than the
$4,000 allotted to the county, met at
the Y. NJ C. A. building and made the
organization permanent one, for the
period of the war.
Observation-Disclosures graduate off,
GERS at Fort BENJAMIN Harrison. in
GLIDING four from Kentucky. are un-
der orders for foreign service, accord
ing to information revealed. All are
expected to leave here soon. Two of
the Kentuckians are First Lieutenant
Frank Barton and First Lieutenant
Scott Duncan, of Louisville, both of