Breckinridge County KyArchives News....."General News" September 2, 1891 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Dana Brown http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00005.html#0001067 January 29, 2006, 4:22 pm Breckinridge News; 9/2/1891 September 2, 1891 Messrs. Smith English, Orville Gregory, Clarence Keith and sister, Miss Jennie, of Cloverport, attemded the (English)party Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. English entertained quite a number of friends on the evening of the 29th, in honor of their son, Will, it was a delightful affair and Mr. and Mrs. English and Miss Emma entertained in the usual pleasant manner. Refreshments were served at 9:30 in a manner fit to please the most fastidious taste. Miss Pearl Perrigo, of Cloverport, is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. E. H. Miller. Misses Ruth Cunninghamd and Laffie Parr, of Chenault, Ky., were in town Sunday. Clint Tucker came home on a visit Saturday. He returned to his school in Grayson county yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. M. Meyer, of this place and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Meyer, of Custer, will leave Sunday for Louisville. Miss Lulie Gideon, who has been several weekswith Mrs. R. L. McGuffin, left for her home in Louisville last week. Misses Carrie and Bee Meyer are expected home to-day from Paynesville where they have been visiting friends. On next Sunday at Fairview the Rev. Tom Cocks, of Hardinsburg, will preach the funeral of Adam Smith, who died last spring. Mr. West, of Stephensport, and Isaac Davis, of Lost Run, were among our people last week looking for a location for Mr. West's saw mill. Did you know that Joe. Tucker had come back from Texas? That this has been a bountiful year and that there is much for which we ought to be thankful? That but one county in the state has more miles of railroad than Breckenridge? That Breckenridge has forty odd post offices, and that her number is next to the largest in the state? That the molasses maker is again abroad in the land, and that the pan sopper nightly reveleth in the sticky sweetness? That the country pedagogues now beginneth to daily betake themselves to their respective school-houses to teach the young shoot how to idea? That Gilbert Pile's gold watch is a daisy and that he steppeth proudly? That the chirphing of the cricket and the browning of the leaves tell us that the melancholy days are near? That the people throughout the country are canning more fruit this year than ever before? File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/breckinridge/newspapers/generaln414gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/