The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-03-27

/ Maysville.-The County Commits
sioners have voted $500 for the em
ployment of a fulttme county healtl
officer, yet to be selected.
Flemlngsburg.- hcme OF A. VI
Evan, a farmer OF this county, Twins
near Helena, was destroyed by fire
with all its contents. The loss wa!
about $4,000, with no insurance.
Maysville. activity has never
been seen here before toward raising
garden stuff. Prizes will be awarded
by the Chamber Of Commerce for the
best garden and the best vegetables.
Winchester.-Mrs. Phelps Renick, q
beautiful and cultured woman OF this
city, committed suicide by taking fou,
ounces of formaldehyde at the home
of her mother-in-law. Mrs. Scott Rem
ick, on Maple street.
Stanford.-Two airplanes loaded in
one OF the cars making up Southern
railway freight train caught while
the train was going through the King s
mountain tunnel and were destroyed.
The cause of the fire has not been
fixed.
Flemingsburg. d. Kelly, 81
years old, a farmer of this county,
was adjudged of unsound mind by a
jury in the Fleming county court and
sent to the Eastern Kentucky hospital
for treatment. The judgment recited
that his trouble was due to heredity.
He is worth over $4,000.
Owingsville.-The State Board Of
Equalization raised the assessors val.
uation of taxable property of Bath
county s1,12O,OOO, making the total as
sessable property of the county nearly
100000 This is the largest in.
crease the Board of Equalization ever
made in this county.
Louisville.-An appeal to the farm
ers of Kentucky to market their wheat
this year earlier than usual, in order
to meet the demands of the Allies
has been issued by National Food Ad
Hoover in a telegram re.
ceived by Fred NJ. Sackett, Food Ad.
for Kentucky.
Danville-Lucien Stigall, colored. Of
Junction City, was arrested by Sheriff
Morris Farris, Jr., on the charge of
malicious cutting. 1t is alleged that
he maliciously assaulted with a knife
an old man by the name Of Dick Bell
at Junction City. Stigall was brought
before Judge Coulter and held to the
April grand jury on 5000 bond.
Owensboro.-Mrs. Walter Evans,
county food demon strator for Daviess
county, was seriously injured when the
automobile she was driving up steep
hill turned over backward, pinning her
and Miss Cary Halves beneath it. Miss
Halves was not injured. Several of
Mrs. Evans ribs were broken and 1t is
thought she is internally injured.
Louisville.-Frank Ruffra has enter.
ed suit against William j. Young and
others for $1,000 for injuries alleged
to have been suffered in a collision of
automobiles near Broadway and
Fourth street, January 20, 1918. Thos.
T. Thompson sued the same defend.
ants for $5,O42 for injuries alleged to
have been suffered in the same acct.
dent.
Frankfort.-Kentuck drive for
5000 boys to enroll in the United
States Boys Working Reserve, an or.
ganization created to help in harvest
ing the country's crops this summer,
has begun in every city and county in
the state. The national campaign, coin.
Gliding in date with the drive in this
state, aims at the enrolment of 1,000,.
900 boys between the ages of 16 and
81.
ASuldHu'- tnSiuccT, HIcnldH anu
brakeman of a C. & o. extra freight
train from Lexington to Ashland, were
overcome with gas when the train was
stalled in the Williams Creek tunnel
twenty miles from here. l.. o. Lear,
the fireman, died within half an hour.
Engineer E. S. Jones and Brakeman
F.. G. Roberts recovered after treat
ment. The three men were from Lex.
ington.
Observation-Disclosures in Ken.
lucky for the second war fund cam.
paign for the American Red Cross So.
ciety was given impetus at an enthusi
astic meeting held here, when leaders
from the state discussed with C. B.
Dyer, of Cleveland, various details re-
lating to organization work. Kentucky
will be asked to raise 100000 Of the
$9.400.OO0 apportionment of the Lake
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