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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-11-27
Big SPRING

Miss Zelma Strother has return
ed home after a weeks visit with
relatives in Louisville.
Frank Hilf has purchased the mill
from Ben Huffines.
B. S. GARRISON spent Sunday here.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. V. GARRISON have
received news of the safe arrival of
their son, Lewis overseas.
Frank Hilf, Misses Sue Net Miller,
Cora Drake, Mesdames Bob and
Frank Hodges, Argus Arms, Misses
Leah Meador, Maud and Maryelenor
Scott and Mrs. Ben Flower motored
to Louisville, Thursday.
Mrs. Annie Woodson, Kansas City,
Mo-, who was here the guest of her
mother, Mrs. Margaret Talbot re-
ceived news that her son was i'll, but
on arriving home found that it was
her daughter, Mis- Margaret she died
shortly before her mother reached
home, having had pneumonia follow
ing influenza was ill only few days.
B. s. GARRISON has purchased his
sisters, Mesdames Kemper and Hard
Always interest in the farm owned by
their father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs.
B. S. GARRISON.
]. w. Norman and mother, went
to Louisville, Saturday. Mrs. Moor
man remained for visit with her
son. Raymond and Mrs. Moorman.
Mrs. Will Griffith entertained Sun
day in honor of her daughter, Miss
Howe David fourteenth birthday.
The exchange after having been out
for nearly two weeks was installed
last week at Mrs. Prathers.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-11-27
LABOR SHORTAGE THREATENS
PRODUCTION
The Fertilizer Industry Hard Hit BY
the War.

The supply of fertilizer for 1919
spring sown crops is threatened by
shortage of labor In the fertilizer fac
tories. This fact Is of particularly Sc
rious import TO the potato farmers of
the country, for the great potato sec
lions are coming more and more to de-
pend on fertilizer for the economic nj
production of this crop. Thus II hap
pens that the very factor which pre-
vents factories running to full capac-
ity also has effect In preventing farm
ers from using their own depleted farm
labor supply to best advantage. Labor
cannot be used to advantage on those
fields which can give but half a crop.
The fertilizer industry is normally
a seasonal industry. Abou. the first
of February the factories are normally
In full blast, producing fertilizer for
use on spring crops. Then they "die
down" again for period of several
months In late spring and early sum-
mer. This requires a large floating
supply of labor. supply which has
largely been eaten up by demands of
the shipyards and munition factories.
Transferring the industry from q
seasonal basis to full IL months op-
Grating basis will certainly be econom-
ical of labor. The factories can then
work at somewhat diminished daily
capacity for more weeks in the year,
and in this way get out the necessary
tonnage. 1t can't be done at once,
however. because factories do not have
storage space enough to allow of this.
Goods must be shipped out almost as
fast as they are made-so that the
greatest possible output by the re-
stricted supply Of labor may be as
sured.
If fertilizer users the country over
will order early, through accustomed
channels, and agree to take the goods
from the car on arrival, much may be
done to help insure a sufficient supply
for next springs business. Early or.
dering, however, means NOW.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-11-27
AVOIDING SOFT CORN LOSSES
How Proper Management Enables
Corn Crop to Get Ahead Of
the Frost.

An ear of hard corn may break, but
1t never bends. An ear of soft corn
bends easily, but 1t never breaks.
Sometimes water may even be wrung
out from such corn.
A "soft corn year" is disastrous.
The corn can't be stored, and can't be
sold. 1t must he fed at once-with the
result that hundreds of carloads OF fat
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-11-27
John Blair In France Two Months

y
Pvt. John Blair, son of Mr.. Luther
Blair who lives near Cloverport, has
been in France two months. He
was conscripted in the early spring.
Pvt. Blair's letter is written to his
friend, Miss Bertha Warner of this
city.
Miss Bertha Warner, Cloverport,
Ky. Dear Grille: / will try to an
swer your kind and also welcome
letter received a few days ago, was
very glad to hear from you and know
you are we'll, as these few lines leave
me fine.
| sure would love to be back in old
Kentucky once more and see how
she looks to the side of France.
l would give anything to see all
of the people on Irons Hill once
more Do they still have dances over
there2 If | was there just while
am writing these few lines, | could
tell you more than | could write in
a week
/ hope it will not be long before
| can be there to tell you all about
Over Here" | will send you some
OF my pictures in few days.
Well, | will have to close. Hope
to hear from you soon. Good bye.
Pvt John Blair, Battery B. 326 F.
A. Amer. Exped. Force, France, A.
p. O. 9O5.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-11-27
THE WORLD SHORTAGE
of LIVE STOCK

A census of cattle In France
reveals a decrease of IL per
cent In beef animals, 3S per cent
In sheep and 40 per cent In hogs
since December 81. 1913. Italy
has suffered a loss of p per
cent of horses. Is per cent for
mules, and 8 per cent for swine.
No one can even guess what the
decrease In Germany, Austria.
and Russia has been, but 1t must
be enormous. According to a re-
liable estimate the decrease of
live stock In all Europe is equal
to one-half the amount of live
stock In America today. This
estimate places the loss at 100.-
100000 head.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-11-27
WITH THE HOME BOYS in SERVICE
~ NJ 7 7 III
Pat Hinton Gets To Go Around.

Pvt, Patrick Hinton. a Cloverport
boy who was called in the first draft
has been in France quite a while.
"Pat" as he was known here while
working for the Cumberland Tele-
phone Co, as wire man, is carrying
his trade with him into France He
is with the Engineers and gets to go
many places as an electrician in wir-
ing the Headquarters and Hospitals
Pvt Hinton is the son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Pete Hinton and brother Of
Miss bessie Hinton to whom he has
written this letter.
Miss bessie Hinton Dear Sis: |
will try and answer your letter which
| received some time ago. Have had
so much to do did not get to write
you before this, but was sure glad
to hear from you, and was glad to
hear that you were all right. | am
well and having very good time. |
am doing electric work | was at
an the Headquarters and at all the
big Hospitals and put up electric
plants.
You wanted to know how my
French is. 1t is very poor, | can't
get along with it. | have quite a
time trying to talk to some of the
French ! was attached to the French
Armies for few weeks. | had some
: time then as was the only American
in the company.
You also asked me about the eats.
always get plenty to eat. Some
times eat with the French and
sometimes with the English. | get
to go all over the country, and go
up in the trenches to do some work.
II is a great life to follow.
Y Tell everybody 'hello" for me! Tell
Laura | will write to her if | ever
get time Tell her to write to me
and tell me all the funny things.
don't have time to write to any one.
l have worked every Sunday and lots
of nights have plenty of work to
do but don't think it is hurting me
as | am getting fat.
Tell Miss Josie Raitt hello" for
me and give her my regards. ! often
think about all of them, and about
how used to sit up in the office and
tell them big tales Tell Miss Josie
/ will have lots OF stories when
get back home.
Oh say, tell Mary | will try to get
to answer her letter, but for her to
write me | don't have time to write
and haven't much of place to write
in either. | am living in an old barn
up in the hay mound and | can not
get my writing desk up there nor can
| write very we'll on the hay or my
knee But | feel fine as | have my
electric light up here | always fix
my own light first.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-11-27
Soft Corn (above) Full Of Water, Hard
Corn below All Corn.


hogs and fat steers must later on be
marketed at the same time-tO the
disadvantage of all concerned.
But-why grow soft corn, when a
crop of hard corn costs less per
bushel?
Corn is planted when the soil is still
cold, and just after the soil has been
leached by the winters rains. Avail
able plant food In the soil is lacking.
The reserves in the seed are soon ex-
hausted, and then the plant ''hangs
fire"-makes no growth, remains small,
spindling, and sickly-until such time
as the weather warns up and soil
plant food begins to become available.
Available plant food, especially avail
able phOsphoric acid and ammonia,
when applied in fertilizer have Won
derful effect in saving time-in getting
growth started early in the season.
Later on in the summer poorly fer
tilted corn once again "hangs fire."
1t waits, and waits. and Is eternally
slow in ripening its seed. Too often
such crop is caught, still immature,
by the first killing frosts of the season.
A high available phosphoric acid fer
tilizer applied at time of planting is
tremendous aid in ripening up the
corn quickly and surely.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-11-27
FOR SALE!

FOR SALE-All my interest in
Sample, consisting of 2 dwellings,
storehouses, acres of ground. My
stock of general merchandise. This is
one of the best stands for a general
store in the county. My reason for
selling is my boys are all on the rail-
road and l have no help. Will sell or
trade for good land S. B. LASLIE,
Sample, Kentucky.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-11-27
Is Well Provided Fer.

You wanted to know ii you could
send me postals and pictures. Yes,
you ;an send anything you want to
provided il can come IN a letter.
Your mail is not censored and you
can tell me anything that happens
over there.
am sending you a card that will
get package sent over here to me.
You were right about having a pack
age sent to me as we do have to have
an order from our Captain before you
can send US anything. But | don't
know OF anything | need | have
plenty oftobacco always get along
i have more junk now than
Know what to do with.
You wanted to know if | was with
any of the boys from home. No, |
have never have seen any OF them
yet Was near where some OF them
were located at one time, but did not
get to see any OF them. | wrote to
Don Smith but did not get an answer
don't know whether he got my letter
or not What is Floyd doing, does
he still write to Miss NJ at Bowling
Green? got letter from her but
never got time to answer it. | guess
she thinks ! am all right
Did you ever get my insurance
paper and my Liberty Bonds?
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-05
NORTH sToNNGTON
Crary- Sheffield Marriage at Wester- y-DeIeeates to Stonineton Union Association Meeting = Personal Items.

The marriage is announced on Mem orial day May Seth, at Westerly, R. l., of Albert D. Crary. of Norwich and Miss Phebe B. Sheffield of this town, MT. and Mrs. Herbert B. Vincent and Mrs. E. B. Partele were guests of Mrs Minnie Sheffield on Sunday.
 Judge John Goats of New Britain was in town last week to visit his brother, George F. Goats.
 Miss Jennie B. Whinple of Ledyard is caring for Mrs. George E. Coats who is i'll.
 Miss Ruth E. Main of Ledyard was week end
 Mrs. Stephen Main of Westerly is at her old home in this village.
 Guest From Nova Scotia.
 Miss Emma M. Pattille of Nova See- tia, a former teacher in Wheeler School, is visiting friends in town.
 Allan w. York of Hartford spent Sunday with his parents, Mir. and Mrs John l.. York.
 Mrs. Avery A. Main has taken rooms in the house of Mrs, D. w. Bisseil
 RaccaIaureate Preacher.
 Rev. F. N. Hollister of Wilton formerly of this town, will preach the pdCCdlduT6dte sermon beIORe the Wheeler School, class of 1918.
 The pupils of Wheeler School enjoy ed picnic at Pleasant View, Satur- day.
 Association Delegates.
 Delegates named from the Third Baptist church to the Stonington UnioT Association at Jewett City, June 19 and 20, are Mrs. Lueian Drury, Mrs H. M. Perkins, Miss Ruth G. Fhemp- son and Miss Evelyn I. Main, witl Rev Lueian Drury. pastor emeritus who is a delegate ex-ef1cio. The Young Peoples League held z meeting, led by Rev. O. D. Fisher, 1T the Congregational church Sunday ev- ening.
 The Congregational church will ohr serve Children's day next Sunday morning.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-05

crust, steam came speuting out of the hole, forming a new fuHnarole. But it was always one foet only and the owner did not take loRS to get out,
 '0nee, while walking across a place that looked perfectly solid, I hoticsd a new hole midway between tive old, Assures and on Investigating found that a steaming Assure two feet WiAs and ten feet deep was roofed over for fifty feet by a layer of mud SC thin that I could perfoFate it anywhere by a slight thrust with my iee-axe.
 rBut such experiences rapidly led us to perfect a sort of teohinque like taat of the mountain climber which enabled us to choose the safest paths. Moreover, the first trip over the ground was the most dangerous. After one man had explored any area in safety, there was no probability of accident ta those who followed.
 ceeking at FunsFele, II
 'In many places the valley ,eaad about the vents is covered with 9 peculiar blue mud, thinly coated with a chestnut brown crust, which some times gives way suddenly, letting one down to his shoe-tops in the soft, scalding mud beneath. At such timer one is apt to feel that his feet are taking hold on hell in veFity, pakti- cularly if the place happens to lock "ticklish" otherwise. We were sur prised to find that continued iHameF- 1 sion of our feet in such places did our shoes no pereeptihle injury, for we had expected that they would be rapidly eaten away.
 We chose our camp well up on the mountain side overlooking the valley, close beside a melting snov=drift. Here, although we were denied the ] pleasure of camp fir. for not stick of wood remains anywhere in the val ] ley. we had all the comforts of hene.f Fifty yards behind us was our refFt+ i geratoF where we could keep exeFy- thing freezing cold until needed. Just in front was our cock sters-, a mild hammered fumarele-into which we hung our pots to cook OUT food. We were somewhat dubious beforehand l as to the feasibility of this method pf cooking, because of the noxipus gases that came off along with the steaMi | but the results were more than satie- factory. We never dstested the faiut- est taint in any of our food, Every 1 thing was always done exactly Ftght. i Since the pots were surrounded hy aA atmosphere of live steam, just at the point of condensing, nothing ever paii- ed away, cooked to pieces, or huFlad, no matter how long neglected or tfF- fotten.
 A Steam Heated Tent.
 'eWhen we turned in the first night. we were astenished to find that the ground under our tent was decidedly warm. On examination we found that thermometer thrust s inches into the ground promptly rose to boiling point, This was indeed surprise, for the place only recently had been vacated by the retreating snow-bank behind US.
 We put most of cur bedding HnaG 1 us to keep us cool. M
 But before long cur blankets yeFe as hot as the ground. Close ta the snow drift as we were, and at an Al- titude of about 2s5ee feet, the air aas at times quite cold; so while we steam, ed on one side we froze ep the other, We had to keep turning ever and ever in the effort to equslize the tsmpea- ture"
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-05
THE EIGHTH WONDER
 OF THE WORLD
The Great Safety Valve of Alaska's WeadeFfui Yeleane, Mt. Katasi, the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes,
lsnseial te The Bulletinl,

(Sneeial te The Bulletin),
 Washington, D. c. June 4.-"TAe Valley of Ten TheussMd SnekeE the great safety valve of Alaska's wenaeF- full volcano. Mt. Katmai, is one of the greatest wonders of the world, if not indeed the very greatest of all the wonders on the face of the earth,A de- elares Robert F. Griggs, leader of the National GeegFaphie Saeiety's 1s15 1918 and 1917 Mt, Katmai expaditiens, in his report to the Society on the Fe- suit of his investigations.
 a9he valley eannet be described, continues the Griggs' Fenert, a part af which is issued by the Seciety as 8 bulletin released to the press today. "Qnly after ane has spent many days within it's confines 9eas one begin to gFasp the RFeReFtiens.
 ssThe sensation ef weRdeF and ads miratien, which came first to all eur party, seen gave way to ele of stu= | pefaotien, The magnitude ef the PheR= emeRa simply aVeFeame US. As we meyea ta any eeFner of the valley what we had surpassed fram distanee l to be little fuAaFeles turned out Fnen= ster vents, each group mere wonderful Ia spectacle than the whels. seen iH panorama, Sc ineeAeeivaely vast ts thf volcanic region.
 NO amount of experience seemed
 sufficient to enable US to grasp pro.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-05
ELMVnLE

Sig. sautelle's Big Overland Circus on the Davis lot Monday was the event of the week.
 Fayette Wright and family of Pom fret were guests Tuesday of MT. and Mrs. Clayton Wright
 Mrs. Mary 4. Potter of Providence is visiting at the Hill Crest house.
 MT. and Mrs. Robert Bennett motor cd to NaFFasansett Pier, Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs. Henry v. Hasweli have been entertaining relatives from Con anicut, R. l.
 Thas1;as Henderson spent the week end in Providence.
 Albert Murray ef Providence called on his sister, Mrs. G. D. Arnold, Mem orial day.
 Mrs. Frank Davis. Mrs. John Purvis and son are visiting in Providence.
 Mir. and Mrs. James Kent have re- turned from few days outing at To- na camp.
 Mir. and Mrs. 4 H. Battey and daughter and Miss Florence Rrayten matered to Providence Sunday, to visit relatives.
 Arthur Milligaa and family of Wau- regan called on leeal frieuds Sunday
 Mrs S. K. Baker of DayviTle visited ed at Kuseme Saturday,
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-05
portions of thls sn0rmous safety

portions of this enormous safety
 For the first few days we were oyeraKed. For a while simply could net think or act in the ordinary way. At night I would curse myself, as I lay in my blankets, and make a list of the things l wanted to do the next day. but when the morning came l could not move myself to action. I could only look and gape,
 "As we explored the margin of the valley (the worst place. as we after ward found), we could plainly hear the ground ring hollow beneath the tunks of our staffs, and more than once we felt it shake beneath our blows. What if the ground should suddenly give way beneath our feet and pFeeipitate us into steaming ealdron?
 "A breath of the steam from vent blown around Us fer a moment by a chance breeze gave an uncomfortable burn. We knew that if once a man | fell into such a place he would be instantly parboiled.
 At first we roped as for mountain | climbing and spread out, so that if I one man went through, the other could pull him cut. But when we came to realize the conditions, we discarded the ropes, for we decided that if a man once got in it would be more merciful to leave him than to attempt to pull him out
 'sWe had been assured by the Lest authority that there could be no dan ser from the fumes. but had brought along a. chemist partly for the express purpose of warning us as to what was not safe. I knew this valley to be diff ferent from every ether place in the world. and reasoned that there could be no real basis for the assurances given me. What l feared was carbon tasteless gas, deadly even in concentra- tiens as small as five parts in 10 GOO, It is usually present in the emana- tions from volcanoes. There is, more over, no simple chemical test by which its presence may be detected. What if we should get a dose of that before we were aware of the danger?
 But, like practically all the buga=
 boos which one meets in this world these were proved by experience to be much less dangerous than our, imagin- atiens had pictured. Experience show ed that there was always plenty of air to breathe, and we found no in sidieus gases likely to strike one down W1tAOut MdFHiHS, 40F OuF HOSSs SdNe use abundant notice of dangerous places, so that we suffered no injury beyond slight headaches and temper 1 ary Inconvenience. | Learning to Travel Safely.
 "Se also with the cave-ins. As we grew familiar with the conditions we built up a basis of experience that soon enabled us to pick eur way with some
 degree of safety. The deposits brought up by the fumareles themselves so en-
 crust their threats and the ground
 round about that thin roof over a
 cavern will support a man with safety
 The worst places were those where Assures had been bridged over by ash
 and mud, so as to leave nothing te
 indicate their presence. After we had
 been in the valley several days we
 had some experiences with such places T that nrebabiy would have turned us
 back had they occurred when we first
 arrived.
 Several 3mes, when we aecidentlly
 put foes through thin place in the
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-05
ASAFE, EASY WAY
 TO CURE ULCERS

No matter how had sore or ulcer affliets you, it is believed that Hokara, the pure skin healer, will cure it, but if it doesn't cure, the purchase price will be refunded.
 Lee & osgoed Ce., the local agents for Hokara, who have sold hundreds of packages say they have yet to find any form of wound or disease af- feeting the skin that Hekara does not heal, and it's relief comes so quickly that those Whe try it are simply de- lighted with it.
 Pimples, eczema, hlaekheads, acne, harherss itch, and all skin trauhles are quickly relieved by applying this siA- Rie skin healer and tissue builder. It contains ne grease or acids. and is eleanly to use.
 Lee & Osgood Co. is selling large nackage of Hnkara for S5c
Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-05
Entertainment and Sale.
SOUTH CRIsWoLD


 Many leeal neenle attended the ano= ton at the home of the late William Kinney of Preston.
 Mir and Mrs. Henry 4. Guile of Ner- wich were entertained recently by MT. and Mrs. 4. G. Greene,
 MT. and Mrs. Theodore Brand of Norwich spent the week end with Mr, and Mrs. c. A. Brand.
 Mrs. William WeseFman and son, were holiday visitors with Mr. and Mrs. John Richmond of North Ston- ington. -
 A. G. Greene, I. o, Burdiel, and sons, were steniRgten visitors Sunday. The children's concert is to be given June 18th, at Ii o'clock. Mr, and Mrs. E. II. Clark and fami- ly attended the Smith Clark wedding in Westerly. R. l., June 1st. AlheFt c. Greene spent the hsli: day with MR. and Mrs. Herbert E l Barber of Almyville. Benjamin Young was a week enc guest in town.