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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-12-05
LOCAL ITEMS.
OF a Personal and Business
Nature Gathered for Our Busy
Readers.

Shelby Conrad spent Monday IL
Louisville.
Miss Lula McGavock was in Holt
Ky, Friday.
Mrs. Harry Hannah returned from
Louisville Friday.
Mrs. Guy Bandy, Basin Spring wal
10 Hardnsburg Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Furrow were il
, Louisville Monday, shopping.
Great bargains in all styles OF hats
Selling below cost, Mrs. N. Cordrey
Mrs. Morris Beard and son, Murray
Beard motcred to Coverport Sunday.
William Hall, Webster and ]. B
Herndon, Irvington we're in Hardins
burg Monday.
Miss Grace Pauley and Miss kath'
leen Crist we're in Greensboro to spend
Thanksgiving
Mrs Sallie DeHaven and 'Samuel
Edward Conrad were in Louisville
Friday shopping.
Mrs. Mamie Cox, Irvington is In
Louisville the guest of her daughter,
Mrs. P. w. Foote.
While In Louisville last week, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Carter purchased a
handsome Victor "victrola."
Sam Dix representing the stephss
port Flour Mill Company was here
Wednesday on business trip.
Mrs. Sarah Whitworth of Garfield
went to Louisville Saturday and is
visiting her sister, Mrs. GER.
DR.. HI Stephenson and Mrs. Steph
enson and two children spent Satur'
day in Louisville, Christmas shopping
Andrew Ashba was in Eddyville,
KY, the guest Of Miss Freda Mae Ban
non during the Thanksgiving holidays
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Skillman are in
Morganfie d visiting their son. Mr.
Chas. B. Skillman and Mrs. Skillman.
Mrs. Wilbur Gregory and son OF
Louisville spent the week end with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Boiler.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace Lewis, Soda
La, Mo-, to be the guests OF Mr.. Lew
ISIS parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Lewis.
Mrs. Frank Mattingly spent Sunday
in Evansville, Ind, the, guest OF her
brothers, A. T. Mcdonald and F. X.
Mcdonald.
Miss Mollie Addison, Lodiburg who
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-12-05
Advisory Boards.

The members of Kentucky's legal and
medical advisory. boards for the selec'
tive draft recomme nded by Gov. STAN
ley have been approved as follows:
The Medical Board of the Fifth Dis
tricr including Daviess. Hancock, Brock
ipridge. Mclean. Ohio and Muhlenburs
counties: Drs. p. J. Gillian. X. E., Grit
fin and w. H. Strother, meets at
Greensboro.
Members Of the Legal County Board
for Breckinridge county: D. c. Walls.
Claude Mercer and w. Sherman Ball.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-12-05
Death of Mr.. Sam Adkiss0n.

Lodiburg Dec 3. (SpeciaD Mr. Sam
Addison, aged sixty one years, died last
Monday. Nov. 26, at his home in this
place after lingering illness of a COM
p ication of diseases. The funeral ser
vice was conducted Tuesday by Rev. J.
c. Argabright and the burial took place
in the Walnut Grove cemete y.
The deceased is survived by one sister,
Miss MolIe Addison, and one brother,
Clint Adkisson, both of I.odburg.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-12-05

mother, Mrs Sam Wheatley, left Sun.
day morning TO be at Ter home.
Joe Simmons and Mrs Simmons, after
two or three weeks at home, have res
turned to Dayton, Ohio, to make their
home for viii e.
Annie Keil is able to be out after sew.
eral days illness.
Meet me at the Washers Wash for
the benefit of the Presbyterian church,
Saturday evening, Dec Is
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-12-05
HOME BOYS IN SERVICE
ID c Home Boys in Service

Nov. 20, 19lS
Mr.. John d. Babbage, Editor,
breckenridge News, Glove rport, Ky,
Dear Sir:-I wish to write few lines
for your paper about the 9TH. L S,
Engineers stationed at IT Leavenworth,
kans.
We are getting ong fine and are also
fed we'll During the holidays we had
fine Thanksgiving dinner as good as
any body could get, the meals we got
won d be worth $500. This was our
menu: oyster soup and crackers, roast
turkey with oyster dressing, cold boiled
ham, creamed potatoes, candied sweet
potatoes, sweet corn, French pc S, celery,
oliver, sweet pickle, combination salad,
Worcester sauce, ketchup, wheat bread,
butter, apples, grapes, oranges, pump.
kin pie, mince pie, chocolate cake, as
sorted nuts. coffee, cigars and cigarettes
That was "some" dinner and we sure
did eat.
l have been in the Army six months
and the Army cannot be beat anywhere
Uncle Sam is mighty good to his bows.
enlisted June 9th, l9l7 and do not re =
greet it bit. Enlisted at Hutchinson,
Kans to fight for old glory. am a
Kentucky boy fighting in Kansas
Regiment.
have Just returned from Glen Dean,
Ky off on furlough. Came through
Cloverport Nov. 20, was visiting my
Grand father, DR.. r. 7. Dempster and
Father and Mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Baxter of Rockville, Ky.
will probably write you another let
ter Christmas, that is if am not i'll
France or Russia.
l remain yours sincerely.
William A. Howard
Co. L. 9TH Regiment,
U. Engineers Regulars,
Fl Leavenworth, Kanss
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CKENRIDGE NEWS
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WANTED MISCELLANEOUS

.WANTEp-ro buy n four-poster bed -Ap.
ply at The News Ofiice.
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Announcement.
For Appellate Judge.

We are authorized to announce the
name Of J. w. Henson as a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for APP
pella;e Judge from the Second District,
in the primary, August, 1918.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-12-05
Gard Of Thanks.

am deeply grateful to all who SC
kindly assisted me during the illness
and death of nv brother.
Miss Mullie Addison.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-12-05

WANTED-A farm hand to work for term
on Twelve months or more; married. --Thos.
q. Donoghue. Hardinsburg. Ky, X, No l.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-05-23
~ M
\ MT. CARMEL. =
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

Mt. Carmel, May 22.-Messrs. j.
w. Morrah and W. L. Miller attend
ed the Orr meeting in Abbeville on
Tuesday evening.
Mr.. H. M. Mccain of Mccormick,
was a business visitor in Mt. Carmel
last Monday.
First Sergeant William Sharp of
National Guards, of Georgia, spent
last Sabbath evening in Mt. Carmel.
Mr.. Edgar Bowers of Kershaw, is
spending few days at the home of
DR.. and Mrs. P. K. Black.
Miss Mary Paschal spent last Mon
day in Abbeville.'
Mr.. Roy Wells spent last Sabbath
in Calhoun Falls.
Mrs. Mary Smith, Misses Corinne
Smith, and Maggie Brough, Messrs.
Kirby and Herman Smith attended
the revival meeting in Abbeville last
Wednesday.
DR.. and Mrs. P. K. Black and Miss
Florence and Miss Dora Black spent
last Sabbath in Monterey with Mrs.
Mamie Lanier.
Mrs. James Hester, Misses Emily
Mae and Elizabeth Hester, Carrie
McC Celvey and Mr.. Lawrence Hester
spent last Wednesday in Anderson
and Greenwood.
The many friends of Mrs. John D.
Cade will be glad to hear that she
is doing nicely now after undergoing
an operation in the Anderson hospi-
tai last Saturday. Mrs. Cade has
been real ill for a week or two, but
grew suddenly worse last Tuesday,
and had to be carried to the hospital
Wednesday. We sincerely hope that
she will continue to improve.
Mr.. T. E. Rivers of Greenwood,
was business visitor in Mt. Carmel
Monday.
Mrs. J. J. McKellar, Miss Kathryn
McKellar and Mr.. W. L. Miller spent
Friday afternoon in Abbveille.
Mr.. Hugh Mccain visited Miss
Maggie Brough one evening last
week.
DR.. and Mrs. P. K. Black and Miss
Florence Black attended the revival
meeting in Abbeville Friday.
The young ladies' sewing circle
was pleasantly, entertained last Sat-
urday afternoon by Miss Maggie
Sutherland. Quite a number Of
young ladies were present to enjoy
the afternoon. Delicious refresh
ments were served by the hostess.
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PREJUDICE. JEALOUSY, ENVY.

Perhaps no three words in the En-
glish language convey such mo-
mentous meaning as these three
words. They have been the occasion
of more wrecks, in human life than
all other causes combined. They
are qualities out Of which spring all
other kindred evils. They are OBJ
stacles in the path of life over which
nations are stumbling into the gulf
of destruction. Destroy these, and
the terrible war that is now cursing
the world would cease in the twin
kle of an eye. The great trouble
with the man in whom these qualities
are found is that he is totally un-
able to tell you whence they came,
or exactly why they linger. The
very thought seems to intensity ra-
ther than. mollify. "From out your
heart cast every grudge; Danish from
your mind every unkind thought. "
My brother, is this a meaningless ex-
preston Of idle words, spoken only
to stultify the actions of every day
life?-P. G. C. j. G. Baird of
North Carol;na :.
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LARGE CROWDS ATTEND
THE TENT MEETINGS
CONTINUED from page one.)

their hearts and lives.
The prayer groups are doing won
derful work in all parts of the city
to arouse people to their RESPONSE
bihty along the line of prayer and
the mems prayer-meetings in the
stores for 20 minutes has already
had an effect on the business life of
the city.
The coming two weeks hold won
derful opportunities for all of US.
Let US be up and doing. The har-
vest is here and the unsaved are all
about US on every hand; let US pray
and work and sing for the glory OF
God and the salvation of souls and
bring a blessing upon the city of
Abbeville that shall make it a better
place for US to live, and better
place for the outsidre to come to
and may we not keep the blessing to
ourselves but may the whole coun-
try-side know that Jesus Christ has
visited US and that we are living
closer to the Man Of Galilee.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-05-23
GIRLS! LEMON JUICE
is SKIN WHITENER
How to Make a Creamy Beauty Lo-
ton For a Few Cents.

How to Make a Creamy Beauty Lo-
ton For a Few Cents.
The juice of two fresh lemons
strained into a bottle containing
three ounces of orchard white makes
a whole quarter pint Of the most re-
markable lemon skin beautifier >at
about the cost one must pay for a
small jar of ordinary cold creams.
Care should be taken to strain the
lemon juice through fine cloth so
no lemon pulp gets in, then this To-
ton will keep fresh for months. Ev-
cry woman knows that lemon juice
is used to bleach and remove such
blemishes as freckles, sallowness and
tan and is the ideal skin softener,
whitener and beautifer.
Just try it! Get three ounces of
orchard white at any drug store and
two lemons from the grocer land
make up a quarter pint of fsthis
sweetly fragrant lemon lotion and
massage it daily into the face, neck,
arms and hands.-Adv.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-05-23
TEN MILLION MEN TO DRAFT
Subject to the Selective Conscrip.
ton Under the New Law.

Washington, May 21.-Ten million
men in the United States will be
subject to the selective conscription
on July 1, within the ages agreed
upon in the conference report on the
war army bill, Director Rogers of
the census bureau announced last
week. This number of men between
the ages of 81 and 80, inclusive, rep
resents very nearly 10 per cent. of
the total estimated population of
between 1O3,OOO,OOo and 1O4,OO0,-
900 on July 1, 1917. Of these con-
scription eligibles the bureau esti-
mates South Carolina will furnish
$4,000.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-05-23
WHAT DO THEY Do7

Recently, when in conversation
with a lady who wished to know
about the Order of Knights Of Py-
thias, she frankly and fearlessly
asked me this question: "What do
they do?"
At first it did not strike me as be-
ing most highly important .ques-
ton, but the more I reflected upon
what she had said the more import
ant it grew, until finally I found my
self asking the Order over and over
in my mind: "What do you do?"
This is an. age Of doing things, a
nation which does things and peo-
pie who never stand still or sit about
in idleness- everything and every
body who is worth while is busy at
something. We are nation of ser
vers and the Order of Knights Of
Pythias has a place in the front ranks
among the servers, 80 I had not
much trouble recalling to mind many
things we have done and are doing
for the betterment and the uplifting
of mankind and said to her: "Mrs.
Smith, there are SO many good things
the Order does of which the old
world knows nothing that it would
take me all night to enumerate them,
but here is a typical case."
In Indiana there once lived most
honorable, economical, Industrious
and upright man on little farm.
His humble cottage home sheltered
his faithful wife and five small chill
dren. Yes, five, but none to spare.
During the summer season of which
I speak that man had planted, tend
ed and brought his crop of fifteen
acres of corn to maternity, had cut
the stalks and placed them in nice
neat shocks, and it was to be husked
later on. He was a proud monarch
of all he surveyed, though the realm
was small, but he was proudest OF
that family Of his. One day as he
was sitting on the fence in front Of
his house a neighbor came along
going to the city and asked him to
20 along. He objected, but his wife
urged him to 60 along. He objected,
but his wife urged him to 60 and
have a little recreation. He finally
went, but when the two were on
their way home the owner of the
auto in which they were riding, lost
control of the car and it ran into a
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-05-23
CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN
NEITHER TARDY NOR AB.,
SENT DURING YEAR.
Certificates of Attendance.
Grade /.

Certificates of Attendance.
Grade !.
Mabel Tusten Bradley, Mary Nor
wood Perrin, Susan Emily Minshall,
Minnie Ella Swetenberg.
Grade II.
Irene McMahan, Roy Nance, Helen
Beauford, Anna Jones, Frances
JONES'.
Grade Ill.
William Pinckney Greene, Jr.,
Rachel Hemphill Minshall, Ida w.
Calhoun, Willie Bradley, Mildred
Deadwyler, Paul Richey.
Grade w. ...... =.
Jeanie White, Mary Swetenberg,
Myrtle McMahan, Thomas Bradley,
Estelle CASTOR, Lillian Langley, John
Archer Thomson, Sarah McAllister
Edwards.
Grade v.
William Franklin Nickles, Joseph
Carlwell CASTOR, Renwick Bradley,
Mary Louise Jones, Grace McHardy
Milford, Mary Shaw Gillian, Hugh
Wilson Bradley, Willie Godlobe
Bowie, William Pearson Nickles,
Raymond Lee Swetenberg, Alton
Deadwyler, Donald Douglass Harris.
Grade vi.
Mary Louise Dargan, Hilda Rebec-
ca Syfan, Gladys Edwards, Fred
Minshall, Lewis Henry Deadwyler,
William Edwin Barksdale, Elizabeth
C. Thomson.
Grade VII.
Mary Perrin White, Lena Belle
Johnson, Teofilo Bradley, Carolyn
Ward Edwards, Arthur Manning
Klugh, Eleanor Schroeder, Florence
Henry Neuffer, Thomas Hugh Max
we'll.
Grade VIII.
John Klugh, Everett Hughes,
Elizabeth Jones, Mary Greene, Cath
crime Faulkner, Margaret Sweten-
berg.
Grade TX.
Helen Harris Haigler, Alpha Ome-
ga Graves, Margaret Eliza Cox, Nina
Ruth Bauknight, George Nance.
Grade X.
Fannie Josette DuPre, Samuel
Lane Hill, Fannie DuPre, Matte
Eakin, Elizabeth Faulkner, Mary
Graydon.
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THE CITY DELIVERY.

Our neighbor, The Medium, on
receiving information that with city
delivery comes higher postage rates,
is "agin" the city delivery. We
must admit that there is some force
in the position of our neighbor, be-
cause of all things country news
paper has, it has less money with
which to pay postage than anything
. else.
But it seems to US that there are
more serious objections to city. de-
livery than the matter of paying
more postage. We speak for the
laboring men of this community in
saying so. AS it, is now "a laboring
man must go to: his Office at nine
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o'clock and get right down to read
ing the morning paper. At the end
of an hour he may get a slight in
terruption by going up to one of the
soft drink stands and taking Cand-
Ter Cocktail with the first man who
asks him. After talking for half
hour with those assembled of the
promises and possibilities of the war
the probabilities of Teddy's going
to France, the condition of the
crops, what roads have been dragged
who will run for Office next year
and how the revival is getting on
he is able to get back to his Office.
By doing a half hours hard rest,
ing he manages to exist until train
time, when he goes to the post-ofice
to get his mail. Here he meets with
another crowd of hard-working men
and after putting their feet together
on convenient radiator, the state
Of the country may again be investi,
gated and the future of the Darda.
nelles settled. He returns to his of.
fee and gets right down to reading
the newspapers for an hour because
it is the patriotic duty of every
country-saver to know all about the
country he is going to save, and the
laboring man in Abbeville believes in
doing his duty.
Having done this he looks at his
watch and finds that it is now about
one o'clock and that by walking
slowly and talking to two or three
other men on the way to dinner, he
will be able to reach home by two, en-
tirely worn out from the mornings
toll, but conscious of the fact that
he has been 'sbusy all morning." He
is ready to sink into a chair at the
head of the table and take the big
gest piece Off, no, not chicken
but of the fat back cooked with the
turnip greens.
It must be evident to any man
who thinks that this matter of city
delivery, unless there is a provision
in the law that we may still go for
our morning mail, will in serious
way affect the curriculum of the
average. business man in Abbeville.
For that reason, we are of the opin-
ion that meeting should be called
at once to investigate the matter,
with full power to act in the prem
ises to the end that we shall not be
compelled to call the assistance OF
Mr.. Gambler twice each morning. It
will be cheaper to allow matters to
stand as they are now in statu quo
which means about like they are now.
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ABREVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
ENDS SUCCESSFUL YEAR

(Continued from page one.)
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ENROLL YOUR NAME.

At the request of the proper Off
GERS, and in accordance with instruc-
tions from the War Department of
the United States Government we are
printing today the requirements for
registration under the Conscription
Act recently passed by congress. It
is not necessary to comment on
what is stated in the notice.
All men of the ages of 21 and 80,
inclusive, which we understand
means all men who have arrived at
the age of 21 and who have not
reached the 31st birthday are re-
quired to register, it makes no diff
ference whether such person is dis
abled, not liable to military duty, or
otherwise.
The matter of exemptions will be
passed on later. The present officers
have nothing to do with exemptions.
It is their duty to see that every man
is registered in accordance with the
law. Those who do not register will
be punished.
The day for registration is set for
June 9Th. and the place is the vot-
ing precinct at which you vote in
all general elections. The names of
those appointed to look after the
registration Of names is printed in
another column. They will be pre-
pared to give you necessary informa-
ton on the day of registration. In
the meantime, by carefully studying
the requirements as outlined in this
issue, elsewhere, and by being pre-
pared to give the information there
in asked for, you will greatly assist
the officers of the government who
are to have charge of this registra-
ton.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-05-23
PREPARE FOR WAR.

The people at home and abroad
who have believed Woodrow Wilson
tame and vacillating in the matter
of asserting the rights of this coun-
try in our controversies with Ger
many, and in taking up arms in de-
fense of those rights, will find him
now not "too proud to fight"
It may be true that he has been
'slow to anger" and plenteous in
notes, but those people who expect
prompt, vigorous and unyielding
measures for the support of Ameri-
can rights may look to the acts of
the President since he appeared be-
fore Congress asking that it declare
a state of war existing between this
country and Germany, and his mes
sages to congress since then for full
assurance that a firm hand is at the
wheel, now that the machinery is
started.
And America may not be ready
for war. We have no doubt been
Glow to make preparations, if we
may be said to have made prepara-
ions at all, but the American army
will be in France all too soon for the
purposes of the Kaiser, and our SOL
diers will "quit themselves like men." Z"
When America makes war it makes
war in earnest, and friends of the
President and foes alike, will find in
him true American in war as well
as in peace. The announcement Of
the commander of the Destroyer
Synodron in English waters, that
he was ready for immediate action
Is the voice Of the President and of
this country.
Judge Benet in his poem, publish
ed in this issue, under the title,
'Hats Of to Woodrow" states the
case for the president most strongly,
and most truly. War under the
leadership of the President will be
NO pastime and no time for dallying
The fight is on in earnest. We must
prepare for war and to the finish.
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MR.. SELLARS ILL.

Mr.. George C. Gambrell was called
to Easley Tuesday to be with Mr..
P. A. Sellars, who is desperately ill.
Mr.. Sellars, is well known in Abbe-
vile, having lived here some years
ago. He was train dispatcher at
the Seaboard shops. Mr.. Sellars and
his family were popular in Abbe-
vile and many of our people will re-
gret to hear of his illness, and ex-
tend their sympathies to his family.
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telegraph pole, snuffing out the life
of this humble brother in an instant,
leaving frail wife and five orphans.
The funeral went by, the flowers
on the grave withered in the blasts,
the tears Of others were dried, but
not so those in the humble little cotr
tage, for the strong right arm on
which they once so confidently lean
ed for support had fallen in the dread
paralysis Of death.
The days went by and the shocks
Of corn remained standing in the
field for some time and the mother.
Of that little brood Of nestlings kept
wondering how she would ever get it
cared for when, on a clear, moonlight
night, after she and her little ones
had gone to sleep, dusky figures stole
into that field from all directions and
soon the swish and the swash Of the
rustling corn stalks and the husking
was heard and kept up until, when
the hoot owl called the hour Of mid
night every ear had been separated
from its parent stalk and heaped up
in little piles all over the field, after
which these same dusky figures stole
as silently away. as they came.
When that widowed mother rose in
the morning and looked out over the
field and saw what was done she
whispered to herself, then told her
children:\ "The Knights did it." In
all good time men with teams and
wagons came and took the corn to
market or to the crib and the fodder
to the shelter for the winter.
Yes, yes, it was only little thing,
for all those strong men to do, but
oh, what smile Of love and tender
ness must have wreathed the face
Of the Father above as he looked
down upon this little group Of the
children who people his earthly foot
stool and softly murmured: "Inas-
much as ye have done it unto the
least of these, my brethren, ye have
done it unto me-"
How prettily James Whitcomb
Riley puts it when he says:
"The worlds curious combination,
with its honey and its gall,
With its cares and bitter crosses, but
a good world after all;
And a good God must have made it
-leastways that's what say
When hand is on my shoulder in
., friendly sort of way"
&C. A. Robinson Of Greenfield, Ind,
in Pythian Journal.