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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1905
Page
5
Local notes advertise three day Nelson County Fair events in Bartle town with premiums and fruit jars. Also listed are rental offers in Springfield, repair notices, preaching schedules, and assorted classifieds including hams wanted, photo sessions, and farm sales.
Crops progress as J N Bottom buys three calves from L Leonard for 52 dollars. Allston camp meeting reported lively with good facilities and inviting schedule. Births noted to M Cocanougher and Woodson Coyle. D 8 Brotom visits Jenkinsville, protracted Deep Creek meeting closes with twenty additions. Mrs Lettie Russell visits Mackville. J N Bottom improving. Sun newspaper praised. Wathenman Bachman incident noted in Mayfield Ky.
Hutchinson visitor J C Holliway calls on friends while Mrs Evan Rogers recovers from malarial fever at Camp Point Illinois. Numerous locals, including Misses Simms and Knott, travel to Bardstown Lebanon Bloomfield and Crab Orchard Springs. families visit kin in Louisville Cincinnati and Portland while a church minister takes a rest tour and plans meetings in Pisgah Kentucky.
The page offers medical tips for home remedies including turpentine, stramonium for coughs, and burns, plus ear cleansing cautions. It also feature notes on desk organization by Mrs Clarence Mackay, a sardine croquettes recipe, and a bank president J W Lockwood’s arrest for embezzlement in Orange Virginia.
In Sycamore Valley Rev. Whitehouse conducted a week of meetings drawing large crowds. The community notes no rain this week and reports ongoing church involvement. Also listed are visits among local families, a singing school planned in Hillsboro, and a death in the area with condolences offered.
Court order sets sale of tract land in Washington County by circuit court judgment from May 1965. Property described by meandering courses and branches, bounded by Perkins Keel Keeling and Shewmaker lines with stones and stakes, to be sold at public auction in Springfield Kentucky on August 28 1905 at 2 o'clock PM to satisfy the claim against Thomas B Baker and others.
Mrs Coulie Bottom returns home from Webavion hospital greatly improved after two weeks. Mrs Thena Darnell visited Haerrodeburg. Several young folks spent Sunday at Tatham Springs. Miss Ollie Shewmaker stayed with Misses Haydon Saturday night. Haydon sisters hosted Ollie Shewmaker Sunday with Dallie and Woodie Yankey. Mr and Mrs Matt Hilton infant died Wednesday and was buried Thursday.
A Kentucky court action from Washington County seeks foreclosure by sale of specified real estate. The judgment references a petition and court order, naming Dan C Folin et al as plaintiffs and describing property in detail including street bounds and the town layout.
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