The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1917-11-07

Lexington.-The Fayette County Tu.
berculosis Association bought by auc.
ton from the city of Lexington for
s10,625 21A acres OF land adjoining
the tuberculosis Sanitorium and Fred
Douglass Park.
Paducah.-Rev. T. c. Newman, OF
Marion, KY, was elected Chief Moder.
ator of the Presbyterian Synod of Ken
lucky, when the eighty-ninth annual
meeting was held here. The synod Sc
lected Marion for the 1918 meeting.
Louisville-Permissio to work out
a new schedule of freight rates on coal
which will remove present inequalities
and establish competition on a fair
basis between Eastern and Western
Kentucky mines, was granted by the
Kentucky Railroad Commission in ses-
sion here.
Lexington. - Lexington's biennial
for the Suppression of
Commercialized Vice" took the form
of a mass meeting, at which speeches
were made by Mayor James c. Rogers,
Rev. VIM. T. Punch, e. E. Snoddy,
George c. Hunt, chairman of the Vice
and others.
Lexington-Pullet II, Lady Walnut
Hill, owned by Dr. II. Lindsey Ireland,
of Louisville, won the national egg.
laying contest, which closed on Octo-
Der 81 at the Experiment Station. She
had 2S9 eggs to her credit during the
last year. The worlds record for pro-
duction in single year is 314.
Dawson Springs.-Carl Hudspeth a
negro, shot and instantly killed Louis
Perry, another negro, here. The trou-
BILE is said to have arisen when Perry
attempted to shove the wife of Hud
speth down a railroad embankment,
and when reprimanded for his act
seized an AK and attempted to strike
Lexington.-The Kentucky Hard
ware and Implement Dealers Associa
ton elected officers as follows: Presi.
dent, Gus Albrecht, Louisville; First
Vice President, c. S. Troutman, Shep-
herdsville; Second Vice President, A.
+. Byron, Owingsville; treasurer, NJ
D. Joran, Olive Hills; Secretary, ]. NJ.
Stone, Sturgis.
Winchester a motion
for peremptory instructions made by
the attorney for the contestee, Jake
Gay, Judge w. r. Shackelford, at the
special term of the Clark Circuit Court
upheld the will of Mrs. Elizabeth Gay,
wealthy Clark county woman and
landed proprietor, disposing of her
$4,000 estate.
Mt. Sterling.-Two children, twins,
we're burned to death in Menifee coun-
ty, near Rothwell, when the residence
Of Price Tabor was destroyed. An old
or child was rescued. Mrs. Tabor had |
gone to a store and left the children |
at home, when, it is stated, the young
sters turned on the gas and set it afire,
causing an explosion.
Scottsville.--A new oil pool was |
opened in Allen county when Chris |
tian and others from Oklahoma drilled |
In large flowing well on the Susan
Moore farm seven miles north of here, |
near Barren river. The lucky find is |
ten miles from the present producing |
pools of the county and opens a field |
that bids fair to increase the large oil |
Industry of the section.
Louisville.-Events of importance in
the life of the Eighty-fourth Army Di- |
vision occurred at Camp Zachary Tay-
Tor last Saturday and Sunday. Cover
nors of Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana
were present and figured in important
exercises at the camp. The raising of
the official flag of the division on a
giant fiagpole was the principal fea.
lure.
Louisville Corps Officers
at Camp Zachary Taylor
have been notified of the procedure
hat would be followed by the govern.
nent in dealing with those who were
for inefiiciency or miscon.
iuct. Gen. Hale has received author.
ty from the War Department to con.
Gene a board Of officers whenever q
serious report Ia made against q re-
serve officer.
Middlesboro.-Five hundred miners
employed at the TT. Ridge Coal and
Coke Co. operation went on strike on
he refusal of the company to re-em.
)loy as a miner a man who had been
as motorman and who recent.
y had resigned.
Carlisle.-The most remarkable ad.
ances ever known are now noted In
arm lands In Nicholas county. A. s.
sold farm OF 800 acres