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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1909
Page
5
Springfield Kentucky advertisement notes a dental office located in the Hagon Block upstairs offering all dental work strictly first.
Local news items announce four good second hand buggies at auction on Monday. S. M. Campbell promotes Leachman Campbell Sanitary Couches Dayenports and buggy painting by A. C. Kimball. Also advertised are hats millinery feeds, stove polish, flour, and real estate rentals plus Go-Carts Baby Carriages and Baldwin Piano certificates.
An old advertisement touts Dr. King s New Life Pills as the source of clear thinking and vigorous energy. It credits J A Harmon of Sizemore Virginia with praise and notes the product costs 25 cents at Haydon and Robertson s.
Our fellow townsman Hon W D Claybrooke was re-elected secretary and attorney for the Kentucky Hotel Association with no opposition. The group met at the Galt House in Louisville for an encouraging session. Aunt Rachael McElroy, 85 to 90, died suddenly likely of apoplexy, buried at Lebanon. Dagos and two bears entertained Court Square crowds with the Merry Widow Waltz and feats. Wharton and Haydon met L N RY officials in Louisville seeking freight-rate relief. The mass meeting delegates’ report will appear in The Sun. Try Kentucky Star Flour.
The Kentucky Farmer announces a special inducement for arrears and new subscribers. Get home paper for one year and farm paper for three months for the price of the home paper. Open to all who pay cash in advance with clubbing rates to leading dailies and weeklies. Read ad on sixth page.
Landowners announce posted lands and ban all hunting on premises to protect sheep and stock. Violators will be prosecuted. Names listed include Noel, Gardner, Cooksey, Hayes, Roberds, Matherly, Bosley, Riley, Botoms, and others. Send 25 cents per name to add to list in advance. Ep.
The column lists residents and guests in Springfield and nearby towns. People like Mr. Hamilton Robertson, Evan Hagan, Lonnie Campbell, Messrs. Gwin Marks and L. B. Cain, Miss Ida McClure, Mrs. J. J. McCabe, Rev. Lawson, and many others are mentioned visiting, spending Sundays in Louisville or Bardstown, attending weddings, presbytery, and family visits. Several heads of families, educators, lawyers, and professionals travel to Louisville, Lebanon, Bardstown, and Lexington, with mentions of health trips to Texas and Oklahoma, and social events such as a Hagan-Bland wedding and a bubble party for Thorn Mayes.
Kentucky Star Flour best made notice advertising Kauffman Moyer Arnold and Enterprise buggies for sale including Mogul Wagons Disc Hadows Corn Planters Tobacco Setters and The American Field Fence in sizes from 55 inch No 7 wire to 26 inch Hog Fence with poultry fence at 40c per rod by A C Kimball in old Casey carriage shop on Main St
D A Crosby from Washington County proclaims Nicat Hawk Jr the fastest trotting stallion and offers to challenge any season horse in 1909 on any mile track in the state after the season, asserting the claim with formal respect.
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