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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1908
Page
5
Dr G T Burton resident dentist advertises painless extractions and crown work at first class standard. Office in Hagon Block upstairs, Springfield Kentucky.
Local notes promote Grundy and McIntire for trunks rugs and affordable lines. Rev Walden to start a protracted meeting in Willisburg on the third Monday night with all invited. B G Fox to Springfield county court day August 24 to buy 100 title horses. Ed Enrich of St Louis canvassing Washington and nearby counties for The Home Comfort Steel Range. County Clerk W F Booker issued marriage licenses for several couples from Nelson Washington Polin counties in the past week.
Long sick deceased Mrs. Mary Mayes died at home of husband James H. Mayes on Sunday night August four after a two year illness. She leaves a husband three sons sisters brothers and many relatives. Sympathy expressed to the bereaved. Other items note Mrs Skeans ill Royce Isham ill J H Mayes lost a cow and Ed Graves a male on Sunday. Nearby death of Joseph Ray Smith near Springfield referenced.
The death of a young man aged just over 18 following a ten day typhoid illness shocks friends and relatives. He was devout, valued for good habits, and deeply loved his widowed mother and siblings. Burial occurred at St Rose Church with Catholic rites. We extend heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family.
A Detroit Free Press style verse extols the value of a baby, noting the parent’s joy and sacrifice for the small child who brings hope. The poem juxtaposes tender family love with the larger world of duties, while a separate snippet mentions Parisians and cider.
The Washington County Teachers Institute met at the Graded School Monday morning with all county teachers present except four. Prof J T C Noe, former president and now faculty member at State University Lexington Ky, lectures tonight at 8 after a closing lecture by Noe. The session is free and open to all. a fall report will appear in the next issue.
After a Dutch judge in the Mohawk valley accepts a Sunday travel pass from Aaron Whiting a Yankee peddler, he persuades Katrina the judge’s daughter to elope. The ruse ends when a bank order reveals Katrina’s inheritance and Aaron’s forged pass, exposing the tale as a clever Yankee trick.
A batch of brief notices covers sudden death of Loretta Moberly at a Lebanon area home, injuries to Chief of Police W A Brown from a railroad accident in Spalding avenue, postmaster Wm T Elder’s embezzlement case with bond set, Theodore Weber’s close call at W E Merkley Mill Company, rising rat nuisance affecting crops near Lebanon, and a Lebanon resident's account of a child’s biscuit theft by a rat, plus local picture frames by Leachman Campbell.
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