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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1906
Page
7
A local option election message urges voters to reject whisky sales on the 25th, praising honesty, duty, and reform while warning against vote buying. It emphasizes home, family, and community stakes, predicts an anti liquor outcome, and calls for a large turnout of one thousand majority for local option.
In Hustonville a well dressed man collapsed during a trimming, later waking and claiming a hypnotic effect. The barber Heber McGrath and shoppers feared danger, but others held the man in the chair until he recovered. The man recounted a childhood railroad incident where steel ties caused paralysis. The article notes his status as a respected Hustonville resident. Kentucky Standard reports also note the July 1906 death of infant Pius Whelan Jr. and funeral details.
Morgan Yewell speaks at Russell’s School House on August 11 at 7 20 p m and at Greens Chapel on August 12 at 11 a m Reverend Johnson joins Yewell at Lenore School House on August 14.
A mysterious woman known only as the wanderer has been confined to the Harrison county Corydon asylum after weeks of roaming country roads with a dozen dogs. She rode a small pony, wore dark clothing, and showed traces of refinement. arrests for vagrancy in Brandenburg failed to reveal identity. Multiple attempts to identify her failed, and she now receives charity as her dogs’ fate remains unsettled. The report includes local preaching and meeting dates across several towns through August.
Marion County reports the August 1 marriage of Samuel L. Graham and Phoebe Funk at the Baptist parsonage in Lebanon by Rev. A C Graves. Eight Balltown men in Nelson county face federal bond for illicit distilling. Joe B. Clark is cleared. Bond amounts ranged from 100 to 2500, with others set at 500 or 100. Three more convictions arise from a whiskey sale raid on the depot dive, including a Sunday liquor sale fine of 25 and cost and a license violation at 50 and cost. a 17 year old boy linked to the sale pays 10 and cost.
Acute attacks of colic diarrhoea and dysentery come on without warning. Prompt relief must be obtained. Chamberlains Col 1 acts as a remedy and will relieve before a doctor could arrive. It has never been known to fail even in severe cases. For sale by every reliable dealer in the Blue Grass.
Mr. and Mrs Rasca Brown spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs M C Keeling. Mrs Thomas McIlroy and two sons returned home after two weeks at Newport. Louis Clark sold Calvin Showmaker 500 locust posts at 20 cents each. Mr and Mrs Sweeney and daughter Margie of Taylorsville visited their daughter Mrs Jesse Thomas. Mrs James Oder and daughters Laci and Christina of Newport visiting here. Mrs J S Inman and daughters Maud Eva visited Hattie Settles. D W Crow wife Effie and Mrs McIlroy visited Felix Noel's family. Mr and Mrs T W Suthen visited Mr J S Inman.
Mr Edgar Sea is building a residence at this place and locals desire a county option. Bill Robinson of Anderson county visited the Seavill family over the weekend. Elster Graham and family spent Sunday with Edgar Sea. The Maccabees hosted an ice cream supper at Duganville Saturday night.
The Womens Missionary Society of Bethlehem Baptist Church hosts a Measuring Party on Tuesday August 14 1906 at the home of Mrs J B Peyton. The program includes music song recitation and pleasure with lunch served from 3 to 10 pm. Guests pay three cents for every foot they measure and extra charges per inch. invitation notes novelty and pew.
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