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The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-01-14
MAIN STREET PROPERTY
SOLD AND GROUND LEASED

Will Jones, who lost his property
in the FIRE Christmas, has purchased
from DIR. Chas. Lightfoot the store
room on the corner of Main street
opposite Fishers Drug Store. The LOT
where the building stands is the pro-
perty of DIR. +. L. Lightfoot from
whom Jones leased il.
The building is being repaired and
will be used for pool room.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-01-14
MISS WHEELER IN NEW YORK

Among the Louisville buyers who
were registered in the New York
hotels. last week, was Miss Edith
Wheeler for the Cannon Byers Mill
inery Company.
Miss Wheeler is a sister OF Miss
Eunice Wheeler, of this city, and she
has frequently been to New York
as buyer.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-01-14

At a Teachers Association held at
Hardinsburg, on December 20, 1919
the teachers of the First Educational
Division of Breckenridge county vot-
ed to form a Teachers Federation
Officers were elected and committee
appointed to draft bylaws. A meet
ing will be held in the near future for
the purpose of adopting the bylaws
and taking other necessary steps to-
ward getting the organization IN
working order.
Kingswood school with Mr.. Chintz
Royalty as teacher has organized a
Thrift Society with SO members and
each member pledged to purchase ~
worth of Thrift Stamps per month.
They expect to increase this amount
later. Miss Jane Thompson is Pres
ident and Miss Dorothy Wright sec
retary-treasurer.
The schools of the county have
raised to date $1059.22 for the Ken
lucky Chidren's Home Society and
this amount has been forwarded to
the Treasurer, Mr.. Chas F. feathers,
of Louisville.
The Mid-Winter term OF the State
Normal School at Bowling Green Will
begin January 81. There is plenty OF
| free tuition for all teachers who wish
to attend and every one who expects
to teach next year should attend at
, least two terms at the Normal this
spring. In the near future professional
| To he and
those who start in time will have the
advantage. Let's have the biggest
| delegation at Bowling Green this
spring ever sent from Breckenridge
| county.
The examination for Common
School Diploma will be held at Hard
insburg on Friday and Saturday Jan,
will also be held at Irvington and
nary 30, and 81. This examination
! Cloyerport in either January or May
II those places can have a sufficient
number OF applicants to justify It.
! 600
The following schools have closed
the years work and made the repor;
for the term. The names OF the school
Is given with the teachers name iol-
lowing:
Kingswood, c. Royalty; Freedom,
Jesse Burlington; Garfield, Mrs. Ahah
| Beauchamp and Miss Jacie AleNan-
der: Perrin. Miss Martha Harmed
POST Oak. Miss Viola Kiper; Nc
Daniels. Miss Bessie Galloway; Beech
Grove, Givan jackson; Constantine
Hobson Hall; Rhodes, Miss Florence
Rhodes,
The average attendance for the
term for the nine schools reported
was 20 pupils. This was 40 per cent
OF the census in those districts.
| We received the contribution made
by your school some days ago, Du'
owing to the rush of business we have
been unable to send you receipt un
Ill today.
Please accept our heartfelt thanks
tor this donation and extend our APP
probation to your pupils and all VINO
contributed to this amount.
We know you will be happier e
know YOU have had small share II
the building of the much needed
Home in the country for Kentucky
destitute children.
Enclosed you will find an ofhcia
receipt for $l,05922, the amount o
the donation sent from your school
Thanking you again and hoping yo'
will some day visit our Home and Sc
our work, / am, Yours sincerely
Geo. l.. Sehon, Superintendent Ken
lucky Children Home Society.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-01-14
NEW ARRIVAL WEIGH
ED FIFTEEN POUNDS.

Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Scales. Glow
export, are the proud parents of son,
John Arthur Scales, who arrived jan
uary Z, and weighed Is lbs.
Mr.. Scales is an employee of the
L. H. & ST L. X. r. shops and he is
very proud Daddy"
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-01-14
THE LOUISVILLE
STOCK MARKET.

Hog Market; best, 100 lbs. up
STATS; pigs, 80 to 120 lbs, S13 so; 80
lbs. down $11.5O; throwouts, $l2.5o
down.
Best Veals ST. a $3.50; medium
SO "a $12; common S. "a 81. Best
sheep 81, lambs S13 "a $3.50 Prime
heavy steers $l2 "a $3.50; for heifers
So "a $11.50.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-01-14
BASHAM FAMILY MOVES
HERE FROM HARDINSBURG

Mr. Maston Basham and family ar
rived in Cloverport last week where
they have come to make their new
home
Mr.. Basham bought the Boiler
property in the West End, and near
his home he with his son, Herbert
Basham are engaged in handling a
prist mill
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-01-14
PREACHING IN
STEPHENSPORT

Rev. VS. Ship, pastor of the Bap-
fist church, Stanley, KY, will preach
in the Stephensport Baptist pulpit on
Sunday, January 25
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-01-14
INTEREST
ABOUT HIGHWAY
Garfield is Highest Point in
Route-Tip Top Next, Sea
Level Varies.

In the survey of the Ohio River
Federal Route, some interesting facts
are to be noted concerning the line
so far surveyed to Cloverport.
Tip Top is 7SO feet above the sea
level and was thought to be the high
est point along the route, but Garfield,
Breckenridge county is $50 feet above
the, sea level. being the great divide
of this route.
Hardinsburg is also up in the air.
1t is 712 feet above the sea level, yet
Harmed is 1913 feet higher than Hard
insburg. Cloverport is ALP feet above
the sea level and Hardinsburg need
not worry because Harmed is higher
than they are for Hardinsburg has it
over Cloverport, being 800 feet high
err than the latter.
The sea level at Hawesville is 400
feet and Cloverport is just 8 feet
higher than that city.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-01-14
No Coasting On S. c. Hill.

When nearing Sinking Creek Hill,
autoists will need their gasoline tanks
we'll filled and expect no coasting
down Sinking Creek Hill for they will
be sadly disappointed. On this Hill
some of the most clever work of the
engineers has been executed. They
spiraled around this hill in little over
a 2 per cent grade, where the railroad
has not only sleeper grade and spent
many weeks of surveying, while the
federal road surveyors were only a
few days and have but one bridge to
build
AS the tourists leave the city limits
of Cloverport they will be almost on
direct East line until they cross the
Stephensport road, and If they have
compass they will find themselves
surveying around letter S curve, one
going South toward Balltown. After
one is again headed for the Hites Run
bridge, and when climbing the Miller
hill, it will be SO easy spiraling this
hill on the gradual grades that folks
will be surprised when they get to the
summit of it,
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-01-14
High Water Mark Varies.

Another interesting fact brought
out in the survey that should interest
river people is that the high water
mark at West Point is 42O feet, and
the lower wharf in Cloverport it is
400 feet, making fall in the Ohio
river between Cloverport and West
Point of IA feet, or fall of Is feet
between Cloverport and the lower
gauge below the locks at Louisville.
SO now when the travellers get in
their Tin Lizzies" and start on a
trip to Louisville, they will have
IS miles ahead of them starting in
front of the post-office at Cloverport
Before getting to Garfield they have
climb of 438 feet. However, the
grade will be so gradual that one will
hardly know when they arrive at the
top.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-01-14
SCHOOL NEWS
AND VIEWS

By J. Raleigh Meador. Superintendent
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-01-14
Bosworth Elected Speaker.

In 1896, Hon. Charles Blanford was
elected the first Republican Speaker
of the Kentucky House OF Represen-
tatives On the opening of the pre-
sent session. that honor was conferred
upon Hon. Joe F. Bosworth, who is
the second Republican to occupy the
Speakers chair.
Before the vote electing Mr.. Bos-
worth, was announced, Representative
Waggoner, (Dem.) moved that he be
elected by acclamation. In his address
Mr.. Waggoner stated that Joe was
the BLACK Sheep" OF the family. That
, 1920-06-25
Executive Order No.. r..

Whereas, the outbreak Of the European
war in August, 1914, led the Gov
ernOr of the Danish West Indian Is
lands, on August 3, 1914, to issue a
Provisional Law temporarily cancel
ling the obligation of the National
Bank of the Danish West Indies TO
exchange its notes for gold at st.
Thomas said provisional law was
annulIed and concurrently a law sub
stantially to the same effect was
passed by the Danish Rigsdag and
confirmed on October 2, 1914 con-
ditions have now so changed that the
best interests of the Virgin Islands
of the United States demand the abro-
cation, in the manner therein pro
vided, of said Law 50 passed by the
Danish Rigsdag; and
Whereas, by section 3, Of aforesaid Law
of the Danish Rigsdag, confirmed
October 2, 1914, that law may be
put out of force by Royal Or nance;
and
Whereas, by virtue of the Treaty OF Ces-
sion entered into on August 4, 1916.
between the United States of Ameri
ca and Denmark the sovereign rights
heretofore exercised by Denmark
over the Danish West Indies passed
to the United States in accordance
with the terms thereof; and
Whereas, by virtue Of Section l Of the
Act of Congress approved March 3,
1917, entitled AN Ac- to Provide
for a Temporary Government Of the
Virgin Islands of the United States"
all military, civil and judicial powers
necessary to govern the said islands
are vested in the Governor thereof:
Now, therefore, l. J.. w. Oman, Gov
ernor of the Virgin Islands Of the
United States, acting under the
authority Of the aforesaid Act of Con-
gress and in order to reestablish the
currency of the Virgin Islands of the
United States on a normal basis, do
hereby abrogate the aforesaid Law
of the Danish Rigsdag confirmed
, 1920-06-25
Advertisement.

dds are requested for the following
d supplies which are needed in the
administration of Richmond Insane
and Ieper Asylum for the month Of
July 1920. Delivery is to De made. by
the merchant.
Bids should be addressed to Inspector,
Richmond Insane Asylum.
All supplies to be of best quality
Flour 50 lbs. Cornmeal 500 lbs. Rice
300 lbs, GAS 800 lbs, Sage 300 lbs.
Beef 400 lbs, Pork $50 It's. Fish (salt)
224 lbs. Peas 200 lbs, Potatoes 500 lbs.
Lard Is lbs, Cooking butter Is lbs,
Table butter 80 lbs, Onions SO lbs,
Tea Is lbs, Matches 2 gross, Soap 6
cases.
All bids should be received by June
26th, 1920.
Christiansted, St. Croix, V. / of u. S.
A., June 22nd 1920.
H. :. HANSEN.
Inspector
Richmond Insane =
LcpcF 4syiUM
, 1920-06-25

October 2, 1914, and decree that
Section / and Section 8 Of the
Danish Law confirmed March e,
1914, shall, upon such abrogatlon be-
coming effective, stand in full force
and effect.
The said aDrogation shall be effective
on and after % August 1920.
Witness my hand and seal Of the Gov
eminent of the Virgin Islands Of :he
United States, at St. Thomas, this 22nd
day of April, in the year 1920.
7 w OMAN.
Governor.
Approved.
WOODROW WILSON.
The White House
Is June. 1920.
, 1920-06-25

1T being again possible to continue the
manufacture of ice from rain-water a
. supply Of which has been kindly placed
at ny disposal, notice concerning this
matter as published on Saturday 19jh
instant is rescinded accordingly,
P. L. LA BEGA.
ChriStiansted
, 1920-06-25
Hart-Parr Tractor.

At Sion Farm duplicate its excellent Porto Rnm records wenm the presence OF NE&" l. NM III
RINGBERG it powel II Acres ug 10 Gals. Kensenem 3 hours, Whnh means h"' "o Po
Acre in a LAY of 10 hours
Considering the condition of the gmnd which d ntb been powedm teeye years. and without having
in six months it is arefommcp which places this machine in class by itself
AUFFANT & ANONSANTI Agents.
pm Pn Rm
The Press., 1920-11-18
SOMERS.

Mrs. Ida M. Gage of Hillburne is the guest of MT. and Mrs. c. s. Fuller.
 Rev. J. s. Curtis has returned home after spending several weeks in Maine.
 Miss Evaline L. Smith has been visiting Mrs. Carl Gluck in Ware house Point.
 Miss B. Louise Patten is visiting her cousin, Mrs. George Bardwell, in Holyoke, Mass.
 Miss Mabelle Gager spent the week end in Boston, guest of her cousin, Miss Jean Spencer.
 MT. and Mrs. Gleason Wardwell and family of New Haven spent the week. end with relatives here.
 N Friday noon fire broke out i'll the tenement house owned by William Sunderland and occupied by Joe Cormier in Somersville. Before aid could be. procured from the Somers- vile manufacturing company, flames were bursting through the roof and sides of the rear of the house. The fire started around the chimney in the rear of the house. The large hose was laid from the mill up to the house, distance of about 100 rods, and a stream of water was played on the building. After working for an hour the flames were extinguished. Only the front of the house remained standing.
The Press., 1920-11-18
w. R. c. meeting Friday evening at

W. R. c. meeting Friday evening at 7.3O.
 Regular meeting of Baker chapter,
 at 7.45 p. m.
 Woods orchestra of eight pieces
 will furnish music for dance at Mon
 son Thanksgiving night.
 Miss Matilda Wardwell, aged 73 , years, died Monday morning at the Johnson hospital, to which she had been taken three weeks previous. She
 was born in Palmer, Mass. but for the past 30 years had lived at the Adams home in Westford avenue She is survived by her sister, Mrs. Anthony Adams. The funeral services, at
 which Rev. Levi Rees officiated, were conducted in the Adams home Tues day afternoon at two o'clock. Burial was in the Springs cemetery. Connecticut State Forester, O. W. Filley of New Haven, spoke Monday evening at the Methodist church, at the open meeting of the Current Events club. The lecture was illus trated by stereopticon slides and the use. abuse and diseases of Connecti- cuts forest trees were explained. This state ranks we'll with those at tempting to restore their depleted wood lands, and the account of effort in this vicinity was of unusual inter est. Miss Edith G. Cushman, Mrs. J. D. Griffith, Mrs. finders Jacobsen and Mrs. G. Raymond Towne were host nf
 will speak on Russia, before the club,
 November twenty-ninth, and any wish ing tickets may purchase them of
 club members.
 The will of the late Col. Charles
 Warren, about which there have been
 so many rumors and guesses, was
 probated here yesterday morning, so
 the bequests which benefit the public
 can be made known. He leaves s100,
 900 to the town to be used in the
 erection of building to contain the
 town offices and town hall; $25,OOO
 for a soldiers monument; $10,000 to
 the library, the income to be used in purchasing books etc.; $5,000 to the board of church aid of New England Southern Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church; s30O0 to the Meth odist Episcopal church of Stafford Springs, the income to be used for current expenses; and 5000 to the I Stafford Springs cemetery association, l income to be used for care of his own | lot and the G. A. R. lot Many other | DeQuests were made to relatives, his | otal bequests being more than $200, | 100. The choice of a suitable place for | he erection of a soldiers monument | Is left to the executor of the estate, | Freeman F. Patten, the town select | men and committee from Winter Post, G. A. R. Doubtless the erection of a town building will necessarily be delayed at least a year, as it is ex- pected it will take that time to settle the estate.
The Press., 1920-11-18
WELLINGTON. East WillingtOn :

Charles Chomer is driving a new Ford, a recent purchase
 Armitage and .Amidon have one mill at Clark's Corners and one in town near the Roaring Brook school house.
 Donald Reed is at work for c. E.. Amidon, expecting to continue through the winter or until farming is again in order.
 Harry Pratt has recuperated re- markably from the illness that has caused his family great anxiety, and is now able to get out and around his farm and farm buildings.
 Monday morning as Frank Bosworth was chopping in the woods, the axe glanced and nearly severed one of his feet from the ankle. He was at once taken in an automobile to the Johnson hospital.
The Press., 1920-11-18
HOME NEWS
STAFFORD SPRINGS.

Regular meeting of Wm. Horton Camp of ", next Wednesday night.
 Lauritz Hansen has returned to Leb- anon after spending few days HI town.
 Miss Annette washburn leaves to- day to spend the winter in Park Rldge' III.
 The teachers in the schools of the town are planning for Pilgrim pa geant to be given at the end Of this term. in which nearly all the schools will have a part. The more prominent characters will be represented oy SUI dents in the high school and by some of the teachers and citizens. Further particulars will be given later.
 Harry Hedley Smith of New Haven, county Y. M. c. A.. secretary for Con- necticut, will tell of his work among bows in rural communities, with a view to the establishment of work Ill this town, at a union service to De held in the Congregational church Sunday evening. November 2S, at i.4o o'clock. Everyone is cordially invited to attend.
 According to a telegram receiVeo by relatives here. Mrs. Frank DaDalt and her four children will return to the Springs soon. after an absence or nearly 10 years. She left here with her husband, to go to Italy 1O years ago and later went to South America where MT. DaDalt died last June. Mrs DaDalt, who was formerly MISS Lena Paneiera, is we'll known here.
 The funeral of Corporal Charles Roberts. who died while serving over seas in November. 1918. was held here Saturday morning. The body was brought to Stafford Friday from Ho- boken. N. J., in which place It had arrived the previous week. Nearly all the members of Strazza Post turned out in uniform to attend the services which were conducted in St. Edwards church at nine o'clock. They also ac- companied the body to- the grave Three yoIleys were fired over the grave by firing squad. Many or the towns people and relatives from out or town attended the funeral. Corporal Roberts was born in Somersville, but | lived most of his life in West Stafford. | He entered the service April 20, 1918, md was soon sent abroad. After the signing of the armistice his regiment was one of the first ordered to return nome. In the last letter which he wrote to his parents he told them | that he expected to sail for this coun- | try soon and would not write again till he arrived here. Ten days after this letter reached them his parents were notified that he had died of pneumonia shortly before the date set for sailing.
The Press., 1920-11-18
The Old knocker Knocks.

In every small town there is . tough old backslider who likes to poir+ with pride to the fact that Tommy Brown. who was the worst boy in town. is now a preacher; and that Willie Green, who was the best boy iu Sunday school, is now in the pen.-North Powder (Ore.) News.
The Press., 1920-11-18
ASHFORD. WestfOrd Hill.

Miss A. D. Amidon of w. Hartford was home over the weekend.
 Mrs. Edgar Kidder is in the Johnson hospital at the Springs for treatment.
 All the teachers in town attended the teachers institute at Willimantic Monday.
The Press., 1920-11-18
UNION.

B. R. Case was recently taken to the Norwich hospital.
 Mrs. Lizzie Richards is the guest of friends in New Britian this week. Ella Putek has accepted position with Mrs. George Gary, at Stafford. Mrs. w. Richards will be with rel atives in New Britian a few days this week.
 Mrs Oliver Hewlett of Holland called on her father, E. M. Horton recently.
 Annie Sedlak has position as help CT in the home of Mrs. Raymond Park at Stafford Hollow.
 Mr.. and Mrs. Earle Bowden have returned from Pennsylvania, and have teen at Michael Putek's this week.
 Mrs. L. M. Reed who has been ill for several weeks, is reported to be little more comfortable this week.
 John Viegaska and family, also Peter and Stevie Viegaska, are with their father, Stephen Viegaska, while the button shop is closed.
 Plans are being made for a silver medal speaking contest, under the auspices of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, Friday Nov. 26. Rock Meadow. Mrs. Levi Boynton of Long Meadow, is visiting at Charles Webster's. MT. and Mrs. Gilbert Willis of South Manchester visited at Oscar Williss on Sunday.
 Mrs. Oscar Willis and son, Olin, vis- ited Mrs. Ola Curtis in Holland the first of the week.
 MT. and Mrs. Walter Robertson and daughter, Helen of Monson, spent the weekend at George Heck's. MT. and Mrs. Charles Prince of Patterson, New Jersey, called on Mrs. Webber, at Mrs. Shows, one day last | week.
 The Rockmeadow school with the teacher, Miss Hewlett, also Mrs. George Heck, Mrs. Csatlos, Mrs. Booth and Mrs. Agard, went to Hart 1 ford last Wednesday, MT. -Glever of Stafford taking them by auto truck. 1 Through the kindness of Major Buck ley guide met and showed them l over the capitol, they also went to the state library and Morgan memo l rial museum.
 A very pretty wedding took place in the home of MT. and Mrs. Matt Heck Sunday afternoon, when their youngest daughter, Mable, was united in marriage to Nelson B. Horton of Union, son of Mrs. Mary Horton. Rev. I. P. Booth performed the marriage ceremony. The wedding was attended only by relatives. The brides dress was of white georgette crepe over white satin. The bridemaid was Miss | Della Heck of Southbridge, sister of the bride, and she wore dress of taupe colored georgette crepe. The best man was Wayland Heck. A wedding dinner was served after the ceremony. MT: and Mrs. Horton left for a short wedding trip, and on their return will l make their home in Union. They re- l ceived many useful presents, includ- ing furniture, silver, glassware and 1 money.
The Press., 1920-11-18
We'll, ,t's a Fine Phrase.

If ne were aware of fhe phrase the pursuing motorcycle cop might inform you some time. as he drew alongside. that the race Is not always to the Ewift.-Mohawk Messenger.