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Newspaper
Hartford Republican
Location
Hartford, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1917
Page
5
Local society items note travel timetables for Eliminateh and Irvington trains, plus social visits and shop news. Residents include Mrs W H Barnes visiting Owensboro, Mr Harry Woodburn of Rockport, Mrs Annie Stewart of Louisville, and others in Horton, Fordsville, Simmons, and nearby towns with updates on illnesses, protracted meetings, and local commerce and exchanges.
A roundup of community happenings from Central Grove Beaver Dam and surrounding towns includes visits by James Jones and others, farm transfers, factory moves, and social calls. Mentions of soldiers at Camp Taylor, farm sales near Rough River, local business ads, and Thanksgiving remarks frame a snapshot of wartime rural life in the region.
Major James De Venn came down from Leulaville Sunday to spend a few hours with his friends, wearing his straw hat and enjoying a quiet visit.
The page lists turkey purchase offers and cash bids, local merchants advertising furniture and supplies, and notices from Circuit Court about ongoing sessions. It notes Mr Thomas D Cox returning from Kansas, a plan to organize a Red Cross Chapter in Ohio County, a death of Mrs. Dave Allen, and funeral details, with community updates on court activity and local commerce.
If you have sent money by mail to any tax and have not received receipt it is because we are several hundred letters behind in answering our mine patient.
Local advertisement lists cash prices for various goods including flour patent plow oats crackers beans tea soda corns kraut and baking powder. Advertises discounts on Arbuckle coffee shotgun shells brooms mops and butter substitutes with per pound and per case rates and a note of lower prices on lard and butter.
The sheriff warns that unpaid taxes will be advertised after December 12, 1917 with added costs. Taxpayers urged to settle before December 13, 1917 to avoid public sale and embarrassment.
A Martford Kentucky jeweler advertises early Christmas gifts with limited staples and reduced prices before wartime raises. The notice promotes a full jewelry and optical line and Bastian Kodaks, inviting customers to browse for free without spending a cent and to shop before prices rise.
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