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rilTTTTI. 11 T71 117 171 IV T t' I I v 1 T71 TTlTTTn " -" ' ' - ... . - "' ' ii ,. i ,. ,, , . i ,, i M $1.50 a Year; 50c for 4 Months; 75c for 6 Months. ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT. $1 50 a Year; 50c for 4 Months; 75c for 6 Months. VOL. XLIV CLOV ERPORT, KENTUCKY, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 5. 1919 g Pages No. It MORROW'S ELECTION IS CERTAIN yam xxx xxx Republicans Lead In Kentucky By 15,000 Majority WALKOUT OF MINERS IN KY. COAL FIELDS 20,000 Are still out. Gen. Palmer Says Law Must Be Enforced. Pineville, Ky., Nov. 3. Eastern Kentucky miner to the number of a botu 20.000 are still out in obedience to the strike order, about the only mines now in operation in this end of the State being those at Lynch and Benham, and some operations around Hazard, in Perry county. The miners at Lynch and Benham are not organ- j ' J - C .1 t.u. .... i izea, ana reports irom wicsc hciuj it to the effect that the mines are run ning at full speed. In the Elkhorn fields practically the entire force is out on a strike and in this immediate vicinity, with the ex ception of a few so-called wagon mines, all the operations have ceased. Central City, Ky.., Nov. 3 With the exception of the four counties of Christian, Hopkins, Union and Web ster, the mines in the Western Ken tucky field are closed, but perfect or der prevails. Lynch, KyNov 3 The mines of SURVEY PARTY NEARING HERE Federal Highway Surveyors Cutting Out The Curves And Disappointing Folks. The survey party of the Louisville Paducah Federal Highway speeded up some last week although they lost some time on account of the rain. The party has reached Grahampton in Meade county and will be in Branden burg, the latter part of this week. The camp belonging to the surveyors will be moved this week. " Contrary to the expectations of a lot of people who are on the route of the highway and who hoped to have the road passing in front of their homes, they are going to find keen disappointment in having the rear of their homes facing the highway in stead of the front, as often the line runs several hundred yards away from the old road. In place of following the usual road that often goes a mile out of the way the survey takes a bee line over hills and fills in order to shorten the dis tance and cut down the building of useless miles of road. After the survey party leaves Brandenburg, they will speedily come down through Breckinridge county. RED CROSS ROLL CALL THIS WEEK Campaign Opened Sunday And Closes Nov. 11. Local Solicitors Busy. ' The local solicitors for the national campaign of the third Red Cross roll call for membership, started out on their worthy tasks in this city on Tuesday, Altho the campaign opened all over the country on Sunday, Nov. 2nd., and will continue until Tuesday of next week. Mrs. Frank F'erry, who has been chairman of the previous campaigns and has had such marked success, was appointed again this year but owing to other business which called her out of town, she could not act in that capacity, but appointed Mrs. A. N. Couch in her place. Mrs. Couch is also chairman of the publicity department in the campaign. She has appointed for her assistants a number of the younger matrons and girls of this city, who are putting the required zest and pep into their job. PIE SUPPER FOR K. C. H. QUITE A SUCCESS. Kavmond. Kv.. Nov. 3. (Soecial)- The pie supper given here Saturday j night, Oct 25. for the benefit of the ' Kentucky Children's Home was quite 1 a success. There was a large crowd lid pies sold well. Fifteen pies j brought $17 20. The prices paid for them ranged from 40c to $2.50. Miss Leo Cashnun'l pie brought the high est price. After the lucky ones had done justice to the pies they had bought, the young people enjoyed the remain der of the evening in an old time play party the United States Coal and Coke Company at this place are operating and according to the statement of mine officials, will continue to oper ate, as the workers have refused to obey the strike order. Washington, Nov. 3. -Attorney General Palmer today informed coal miners who protested against the strike injunction that the government stood ready "to do everything in its power to facilitate an inquiry into the merits of the controversy, but in the meantime the law must be enforced and combinations to stop production cannot be tolerated." ply to a telegram from the union local Mr. Palmer's statement, made in re at Glencoe, O., to President Wilson, was taken to indicate that no attempt would be made by the government to to settle the wage controversy until the strike was calted off. WILL OPEN A RES- TURANT IN HOWELL. Beavin and McCracken Sell Out Pool Room And Rooming House. Messrs Austin Beavin and Will Mc Cracken, who own a pool-room and soft drink establishment, also a room ing house known as the Austinwill Apartments, have sold their interests in the pool-room to Murel Beaty. and and in turn bought a resturant in Howell. Ind. Mr. McCracken has already gone to take charge of their new business, but Mr. Beavin remained to dispose of the furnishings in the rooming house in the Simons building. SELLS RIVER ST. PROPERTY. Mrs. Sally Moorman has sold her property on River street in the East End to Mr. Fletcher Pauley. Consid eration private. The deal was trans acted last week. EASTERN STAR WILL HOLD NEXT MEETING IN LEXINGTON The Grand Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, which convened in Lebanon, Ky., last week, adjourned on F"ridayf afternoon after the election of grand officers and voting to hold next year's grand chapter meeting in Lexington. There were more than 300 delegates present and they were given a re ception and ball on the closing even ing Mrs. Lora Lee Bates, of Shep herdsville, was elected worthy grand matron; LEAGUE MISSION STUDY CLASS BEGINS THIS WEEK. The mission study class of the sen ior F'pworth League of the Methodist church, will hold its first meeting this year at the home of Misses Margaret and Edith Burn on Tuesday evening. "Adventures in Faith in Foreign The class has chosen for its study, Land." Those who have joined are: Misses Burn, Misses Lillian Cart, Mary McGavock and Mildred D Bab bage. Mrs. D. B. Phelps. Messrs Lafe Behen, M. M. Denton, Andrew Ashby nd Rev Randolph NEWMAN OIL COMPANY DRILLING SECOND WELL. The Newman Oil, Gas anbd Refin ing Co, have started drilling their second well on their 12000 acre tract in Hancock County. The present well is one mile Southeast of the first location on the Tom Brown lease The first well was an edge well and was not a paying well with much pumping. The second well just bt gun on the Toinmie Jackson lease will be a deep well of probably 3,500 feet if the first sands are not a paying proposition.--Hancock Clarion NOTICE. , Notice is hereby given that the Bond of the city of Cloverport, Ky , known as the ("Shop Bonds") are due and payable at the Breck-inridge-Bank of Cloverport, Kyv on December 1, ltfltt. Parties holding said bonds arc requested to' send them in by Dec. 1, as no interest will be paid after that date. John A. Barry, Mayor of city of Cloverport, Ky LAND SALES ON A BOOM IN WEBSTER Farm Lands Bringing Good Prices Big Live Stock Deals Transacted. Webster, Ky., Nov. 3, 1918. (Spec ial) Like a number of other towns in Breckinridge county Webster is having a boom in real estate deals. Farm lands have been changing own ership and have brought excellent prices v.th the deals. J. H ys has b '.ight C. Hatfield's farm ci 130 acres tjr $2,500 C. Hat field i.. turii b.iught from Horace Hatfield. !o() acres for $3,500. Camp Henderson sold his farm to D. Lyddan. Consideration un- I s;:Own. I Not only is land bringing good prices in tins community, but live stock seems to be valued high too. Vic Robertson recently purchased two mules at $600 each from Harry Xorton and Mike Lyddan Vfr. Rob ertson sold John Lyddan a fancy walking horse at a fancy price. IMPORTANT. The members of the Cloverport Baptist church will hold an important meeting at the church on Wednesday evening of this week at 7:3.) o'clock The meeting will be more than of passing interest and importance The 75 million campaign, and plans for its consumation in the local church, should have the attention of every member. JUNIOR LEAGUE OPENS NOV. 9. The Junior Epworth League of the Cloverport Methodist church will open for the winter on Sunday after noon, Nov. 9, at 2 o'clock The sup erintendent requests that aU the Lea- I gue members make an effort to be j present tor the opening meeting. FIVE GOVERNORS TO BE ELECTED In Tuesday Election. Ky. Votes On State Wide Prohibition Amendment. New York, Nov. 3 Gubernotrial elections will be held in five states tomorrow, as follows: Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi and New Jersey. 1 Prohibition occupies the center of the stage in Ohio, which will vote on two referendums and two-amendments , The referendums relate to legisla- j tive ratification of the federal prohibi- j tion amendment and the prohibition enforcement act passed by the last i legislature. The amendment relate to definition of I "5 per cent as non-! intoxicationg liquor and a repeal of constitutional state-wide prohibition. Kentucky votes on state-wide pro hibition, and in common with Mary land, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Virginia elects members of both branches of the state legislature. The chief duty before New York is the election of assemblymen and sup reme court justice. J. A. SEYBERT, JR.. WINS PRIZE. James Alvin Seybert, Jr., the 21 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Seybert. of Fargo, N. D., won the second prize in a baby contest at his home in that city. Master Seybert's picture was pub lished in the Fargo Courier-News, and he has every appearance of being a prize baby with his winsome smile. CARNIVAL AT STEPHENSPORT. Stephensport, Ky. Nov. 3. ltfl. (Special) The school here will give a carnival, Saturday evening, Nov. 8th beginning at 7 o'clock at the school house for the benefit of the Kentucky Children's Home Society. Come have your fortune told. See the wild ani maU, the contrast in size of babies. Tom Thumb and wife, Negro preach er, and try wour luck in the fish pond. Everybody cordially invited to COMM. BOOK-KEEPER FOR C'PORT LOOSE LEAF HOUSE. Miss Cleona Weatherholt, who has been in Louisville for the past year holding a position in the office of the . Mengel Box Factory, is expected home Wednesday to be with her par ents, air. and Mrs. Geo Weatherholt, and to enter her new position as book keeper for the Cloverport Loose Leaf Warehouse Company MORROW WINNING BY BIG MAJORTY Latest News On Tuesday Evening Gives Him 15,000 i Majority. The election of Edwin P. Morrow, Republican candidate for Governor of Kentucky is conceded by Democratic head quarters in Louisville, by lo.ooo to 15,000 majority Morrow carried Breckinridge conn-' ty between 500 and tiOO. TO HONOR LOCAL POSTMASTERS He May Wear a Distingushed Service Pin Awarded by U. S. Treasury Department. Postmaster Lightfoot, of this city, is in line for a "Distinguished Service Pin" that may be conferred on him by sury Department. a Division of the United States Trea- This insignia of honor is a beauti fully lettered gold pin. with a blue enamelled border, bearing the words "Distingushed Service, Treasury De partment. Savings Division." The pin has the same intrinsic value as the Distinguished Service Awarded by Congress. The honor of wearing one of these pins is confined to the postmaster who causes to be sold between November 3rd and December 6th the quota of Treasury Savings Certificates allot to his office. In cities with a post office of the first class the quota is $5,000 of either the $100 or $1,000 Certificates. Sec ond class offices should sell $4,000, third class $3,000 and fourth class offices $2,000. The postmaster may also cause the honor to be shared by any attache of his office, who will perform the service required. Thus the assistant, any carrier or clerk in an office of any class, who with his chief's consent, makes sales equalling the fixed quota for the office, may on the postmaster's request, receive one of the coveted trophies. DAVID O. MAY MARRIES IN CHICAGO. Misses Eva and Eliza May, of this city, have received an announcement of the marriage of their brother, Mr. David O. May and Miss Emma L, Williams, The wedding took place in Chicago, Thursday, October U, 1919. Mr. and Mrs. May will make their home in Chicago. FLOOD STAGE TO REACH EVANSVILLE Wednesday or Thursday River Will Probably Stop At 40 Foot Stage. Evansville, Ind., Nov. 3. The Ohio River in the Evansville district will continue to rise at a rapid rate the remainder of this week and flood stages will he passed some time Wed nesday or Thursday, according to a warning issued today by the local United States Weather Bureau. The river will probably stop under a stage of forty feet here. The danger line is thirty-five feet. The warning issued by the bureau states that flood stages have been passed at all points along lower Green River in Western Kentucky and that Green River will remain above flood stage as long as the Ohio River is rising. It is expected that the crest of the flood along the lower Wabash River will be reached at New Har mony, Ind., some time Tuesday or Wednesday. TAKES TRAINING COURSE AT FORD MOTOR CO. J. B. Taylor, Jr, returned to his home in Lewisport, from Detroit, Mich, this week, having finished a six weeks service course at the Ford Motor Co. Mr. Taylor not only passed the highest examination of any man in the class, but is the young st man, who has ever taken this course. --Hancock Clarion WEEI OF PRAYER. The annual week of prayer services for the Woman's Misionary Society are heUi on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday f this week at the Methodist church A different prayer is arranged for each afternoon, and the women of Clorport are cordially invited to attenfL FLOOD PLAYS HAVOC WITH CORN CROPS Back Waters Inundating Corn Fields and Hundreds of Dollars Lost. Rise Still Coming. F.irmers of this section of the com munity whose corn crops are on the river and creek bottom land will suf fer the loss of hundreds of dollars from the heavy flood in the Ohio river utid Clover vreek. Much of the corn around here has been cut and still in the shock and will be damaged more than that which had not been cut. But there were a few farmers who were able to save their entire crops by working day and night. A lot of fodder and pumpkins have been swept away with the flood too The river men report that the Ohio has rizen 30 feet. It is expected to have 1-' feet more of rise, ti feet of it coming Tuesday and Wednesday INSTALLING A SHELL CRUSHER. At the Phelps Button Factory. Chick en Feed Ground Prom Cast Off Shells. Mr. D. B. Phelps, owner and man ager of the Phelps Button Factory on River street, has purchased for his plant a shell crusher to use in making bi-products from the cast off shells. With this new machine, the shells left from cutting out the button slugs, are ground up for chicken feed and the dust that accumulates may be used for fertilizer. Fart of the machinery has been received and as soon as the bal ance arrives, it will be installed and ready for business. MADE 19 ROUND TRIPS TO FRANCE Herman Lewis, Boilermaker on U. S. S. Leviathan. Gets His Discharge. F'rancis Herman Lewis, son of Mr. Henry Lewis, of this city, who was in the U. S. Naval service from May 15, 1917 to October 31, 1919, arrived home Saturday evening from Hobok en, N. Y. after receiving his honor able discharge. Lewis was a boiler-maker, and he made nineteen round trips to F"rance aboard the U. S. S. Leviathan, the largest ship in the world On his last voyage from FVance, General Per shing and his staff were aboard the Leviathan. In relating his exper iences, Lewis added to his conversa tion that he would cast his first vote ill the presidential election next year and he expected to help President WilfOO finish the joo. After a visit with his parents, Mr. Lewis wil probably go to Sedalia, Mo , to make his home. Program of Teachers' Association To Be Held at Union Star, November 22, 19 19 The following program has been arranged by Miss Clyde Severs the teacher at Union Star, for a Teachers' Association to be held at the school house at that place on Saturday, November IS, If II The Association will be called to order at 10 o'clock, A M. Invocation Rev. E. B. Gentry S'tag - Chorus Welcome Address Miss Rheuellma Dowell Response Miss FMiza Meador Song Chorus Address Supt J R Meador Thrift in the School - - - Miss Alta StClair and Mr. O M McCoy Community Cooperation and the Parent-Teachers Association as a Factor - Mrs. Laura Eskridge and Miss Anna Clark Athletics in the Daily Program Prof. H. R. Kirk Song Chorus Noon Intermission I P. M. Song Chorus Primary Reading - - - Miss Rosa Lou Ditto and Miss Gussie O'Bryan The Pro viae Of the County High School .... Prof. F. J. Bowlds Mathematics in the Advanced Grades Prof H A Ater Agricultural Opportunities and Responsibilities - - Prof. E. N. Pusey Some Features of the Compulsory School Law - - - - Mr. J. A. Haynes and Mr Win. H Dowell Violin Solo Miss Catherine S.hreiber Agricultural F.xtension N II l.oy Discipline and Management - - - - Messrs. W. H. McCoy and U I. Kelm Home aiid School Sanitation - Misses Mayme Cart and Miss Ruby Dowell Alternation and Correlation in the Grades - Miss Ruth Wegenast and Miss Judith Watlington Language in the Lower Grades - Mrs. C. C. Stewart and Mrs. O. 1. Kelm The Teacher as a Community Leader - Miss Bessie Watlington and Mr Merton I art Song Chorus Benediction Miss Clyde Severs, Secretary. morning there will be a slow rise of of about fi feet The rains have been general and the flood comes from the upper tributaries of the Ohio. ("lover creek is out of its banks, and the farmers of Cloverport who have creek bottom land have all been touched in some measure by the rise. John and Irvin Beavin, croppers on Isadore Popham's farm had 200 bushels of corn and lost about one third of it. Joe Thompson, who is another cropper on the same farm, lost between 150 and 200 bushels of his corn crop. James and Ernest De Jarnette were among the loosers too. The farmers of Holt's bottom, who had crops on the river bottom land are reported to have had a big loss. GRAND OPENING FOR NEW GROCERY Musical Program And Dance At the Cow Heel Grocery's New Quarters. Friday, November 7, will be the opening of one of the cleverest and most up to date grocery stores in the State of Kentucky. Certainly there are no others like it in Cloverport. The Cow Heel grocery which will be gin occupying its new quarters on Friday, will not have counters, but every article marked in plain figures and relieves the high cost of living. At this auspicious opening there will be music by FLldred Babbage's full orchestra. And in addition there will be songs by Cloverport's best singers and dancing on the porch. In arranging this novel store, .Mr. Holder claims his novelty as original. He is a man who likes to do things a title out of the ordinary, thus his plan for having the opening to which the public is cordially invited on Nov. 7th. MRS. HATTIE WALT DIES FOLLOWING AN OPERATION. Mrs. Hattie Walt, wife of Carl Walt, of Kansas City, died at the City Hos- I pital in Owensboro, Friday night at .9:19 o'clock following an operation, j Mrs. Walt was a niece of Mrs. J. F, McGary. of Kirk, who survives j with the four sisters. Misses Annie, I Mary. Nellie and I.ela Head and one ! brother, John Head, of Evansville. The funeral was held in Owensboro from the residence of her sisters at 4410 Clay street Y K. McGary and sister, Mrs. Margaret Rhodes, and Walter Rhodes, of Kirk, attended the funeral. 1