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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1906
Page
8
Dr J M Burton resident dentist offers painless tooth extraction and crown work as a specialty. All dental work strictly first class. Office located in Hagon Block upstairs in Springfield Kentucky.
Mr. W. M. Nalley of Fenwick sold a three year old mule to Charles Beam of Bardstown for 120 dollars. Hagan Bros offer fruit jars tops rubbers and tin canes with other sale items and advertise real estate and legal notices. The Bardstown fair and Nelson County Farm are highlighted with increased premiums and attractions for September.
A detailed plan for organizing barley tobacco growers appears on the paper’s second page and is praised as a good approach. Readers are invited to send objections or comments after reading the suggestions, while notices announce a business change and a rural route expansion pending conditions.
Market items list prices for beeswax butter chickens dried apples corn meal rye potatoes and more. Notes include grain and livestock prices with per pound and per barrel figures and several garbled entries for herbs and fats.
Grain futures show rye and wheat fluctuating with dull corn activity as butter and oats hold steady. Chicago and Omaha reports list cattle and hog prices, with steady to firmer hogs and mixed cattle values across regional markets.
A weekly roundup lists visitors and residents, noting Mrs Sallie Burtle of Bardstown at Tatham. Ruel Foster leaving for French Sick. Margar ite Booker from Little Rock visiting Mrs Margar ite Bettis. Bertha Tong and Agnes Carrico returning from Howardstown. many others visiting family or traveling to Louisville, Lebanon, Bardstown, or Bloomfield with brief mentions of their stays, returns, or journeys.
Local residents from New Albany Bardstown and Lebanon visit Springfield. Funeral notices for Cecelia Barber noted. Teachers and trustees praised for school program and Institute led by Prof. White. Springfield baseball wins over Glenwood Y M H A and Louisville Reserve with strong pitching by Colvin Fulton Wyeat and Simms. Next Bardstown game scheduled before large crowd.
The institute's committee on resolutions adopts a statement urging teachers to uphold morality and temperance, endorsing local efforts to suppress the liquor traffic and pledging support to carry the county for the local option.
A comrade from Elgin Illinois at the Watocet Grane Army Encampment in Atlington City was stricken with cholera morbus and saved by Chamberlain's Cholic Cure. J E Land of Eldon Town notes ten years of immigration work and reports using the remedy successfully in many cases. Delivered by reliable dealers in the Blue Grass.
Auction announced after firm sale offering one phaeton, harness, runabout, three farm mares with foal, two two year old mares, twelve mules and seven mares with five male mules, a Jersey cow with calf, miller, butter producer, fourteen by fourteen head of oats and clover hay, implements and kitchen furniture to be sold to highest bidder on the date.
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