The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1920-09-01
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> DISMANTLING OF
= A. r. FISHERS STORE.

My text last Sunday morning was,
Remove not the ancient landmark.
i fear that text has not been used
often enough in Cloverport. There is
peculiar sadness to me in reading that
the Fisher store has passed. Ii was
not sixty years ago, il must have been
| during the summer of 1870, fifty years
ago that Lafayette LATEST and A.
r. Fisher bought the drug store of
: John Raitt. Mr.. Fisher had been a
clerk so had some knowledge of the
business In 1871 Mr.. Latest died
of typhoid fever, and Mr. Fisher took
| the entire business. | left the town
as boy in February 1872. For several
years Mr.. Fisher has been the only
man doing business where he was
doing business at that time. Ii has
been to me, on recent visits, a point
of contact with the Cloverport that /
knew. To my boyhood memory Col.
ID. r. Murray was on the retired list.
Hayden Webb, X. r. Pierce and Philo
and Ben Duncan bought tobacco.
Pierce and Satterheld had store a
bove the creek as had also H. ]. May.
John LaHeist kept the post Office in
little log building at the upper END
of the bridge, where Joe kept snakes
under the steps. Bowmer and Hainil-
ton had store where the bank is
now located and Uric Farber had
his tailor shop in the rear. Next to
them was Bauldorfs, then Hamilton
Skillman & Co., little further down
Billy Smart had store with the tele-
graph Office in the rear, then McCrea's
book store, then Vest & Walters
A little later the telegraph Office was
moved unstairs into ]. d. Babbagc's
printing Office, where was the only
machine that | ever saw that had
printing attachment, so that the mes
sage could be read at liezure. On the
side of the street, Mahlon Taylor had
store on the corner. DR.. Newsom
had drug store little further down.
The prominent people of those days
are recorded on the windows of the
Methodist church and out in the ceme-
terry. | would like to see the town once
more when there are some of those
lift whom | knew as men. There are
only few of them now. Uncle Willis
Noel, the Oldest is not there. | can
recall only a few. A. B. Skillman, w.
R. Moorman, and J. d. Babbage are
about all that occur to me. If some
of you will hold on until another sum-
mer, will hope to see you.
| was sorry to learn of Milt Pate's
death by lightning That calls up
long train of memories. Milt was the
biggest boy we had when | attended
school at the Hardin school house.
The teacher was my aunt, Mamie
Noel. Among the pupils were Baster-
field Burton, Helen Powers, afterward
Mrs. Robert Mattingly, Mollie Muffet
William Muffet's children, Deck Pate's
family, Nat and Sam Taul, and others
whose names have almost passed out
of mind in the rush of other things
Then when | attended school in
Cloverport, in the Boyd Block, there
were the Babbages, LaHeists, Muir
rays, Pierces, Simons, and host of
others. Some of them rise up like
ghosts from the distant past. THE
times change, and we change with
them" But it is worth while to think
sometimes of the good old days.
What great time it was when the
Tarascon, the Grey Eagle, or the
Morning Star would land during the
noon hour and we would all go to
the wharf to see the deck hands load
and unload. AS we cherish the old
let us make good use of the new, and
set our faces toward the better things
that are to be in this world, and to-
ward eternal JOY in the world to
come. 5. c. Bates,
Aug &c, 1920 West Salem, Ohio