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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1906
Page
8
Dr J M Burton resident dentist offers tooth extraction without pain and crown work as a specialty. All dental work described as first class. Office location in Hagon Block up stairs in Springfield Kentucky with clearly stated services.
Fragments note local business ads a poultry talk and church sermons at Eld Walden on Sunday morning and evening. Stray ewes found on Texas pike with reward offered. Remnants sale ten days at P J Thomas. Notice on Kate Green estate and August 15 deadlines. Picnic of local option forces set for Pleasant Grove August 22 with talks and free dinner.
Rev W H Williams assisted Rev R L Purdom in a Mackville meeting. Attendance was large and interest high, resulting in forty nine additions to the church, twenty nine by experience and baptism. Land for sale between Willisburg and Walden’s Pike with good cultivation, house, barn, and timber. Bullitt County Fair set for Shepherdsville August 22-24 with planned features and 25 cent admission.
Large Willisburg crowd met last Saturday to organize a state bank here. Plans include $15,000 in stock and purchase of a lot. Gibbs named president. The Central Bank of Willisburg is expected to aid the local economy. Also reports on a singing school, visits, and upcoming local option committee meeting. A serious fall injured W Boggess but he is improving.
Springfield loses 6 to 5 after a nine inning battle at High School Park. Golgin started for Springfield giving up six runs amid fielding errors. Stultz shut down Bardstown on one hit over five innings. Fulton pitched well for Bardstown as three hundred Bardstown fans cheered. Springfield notes list letters uncalled at the post office for the week ending August 4, 1906.
Personal notes list numerous residents visiting fairs, relatives, and friends across Danville Bardstown Louisville Lebanon Harrodsburg French Lick and nearby towns. Names include J Danville fair guests Dr J B Robards Misa Gertrude Stoker Miss Lydia Duncan Abbie Kimball Effie Kimberlin Will O Nan George Clements Mary Sallie Carrico Anna Fig Brown Louise Hamilton Anna J Simms Mai Moore Katie Neale Elsie Neale and many others with travels to Bardstown Louisville and Taylorville.
St. Louis visitor Mr James Wharton and many locals are noted for visits and relocations. A Fredericktown girl and Bardstown guest join Mrs Katie Williams for a Thursday gathering. Funeral notices for Mrs Fowler and Mr Joe Green mark bereavements in Fredericktown and Mooresville with local prayers and interments.
Lebanon Enterprise reports the funeral for Robert L. Kelley held Monday after his death by lightning in the mountains near Taos New Mexico on July 24. Chief Engineer C. H. B. Turner of the St Louis Rocky Mountain and Pacific Railway provides full details of the fatal incident and inspects Kelley’s survey duties and location near Cimarron Canyon Moreno Valley four miles from Taos Pass.
Chas W Moore a machinist from Fort City Pennsylvania burned his hand in an electrical furnace. He applied Bucklen's Arnica Salve and recovered quickly. The ad promotes Bucklen's Arnica as the greatest healer for burns wounds sores eczema and piles sold for 25 cents at C J Haydon druggist.
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