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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1905
Page
4
The editor is away this week and the column humorously notes the neat appearance of this issue calling it a beauty. The playful phrase Ain't she a beauty is echoed in the caption.
Cardwell diary reports a week of rain and healthy crops with high weeds. Local visits include Mr. and Mrs. R A William at W L Grahams. births listed for Erastus Young and Sallie Milburne. Market notes show numerous livestock trades, prices, and shipments, with stallion Mambrino Boy dead at Magaw and protracted church meetings at Battle.
Mr and Mrs Clarence Ashby of Greens Chapel visited Sunday. Ivan Phillips and Miss Annie Royalty attended church at Rock Bridge Sunday. Mr and Mrs Ivan Carey visited Willisburg Sunday. Mr Harvees of Polin visited Sunday afternoon. Several youths attended church at Fairview Saturday night. Mrs Wolford Keeling and daughter with Mr Joan Hale of Camden were in town Wednesday.
The transfer of Father Roach from Kentucky to Ohio is deeply regretted by his many friends in the parish and citizens alike. He leaves this week to continue instructing Dominican novices during their probationary term, a step he is reluctant to take despite his long tenure and broad friendship network across Catholic and Protestant communities.
Mooresville reports a boy's fall from a straw rick injuring an ankle and a colt valued at $75 lost to a snag. Homemaker news covers tobacco barns, barn additions, and painting. Ice cream supper brings about $65 despite rain. many locals attend and socialize with dances and churchgoers. Visitors include Dr. E L McIntire and relatives. local visits note several trips to Woodlawn and Brush Grove.
Mr P A McIntire sold four feeding mules to Buck Brent of Botland and took a combined mare in exchange though terms of the trade are not learned. Mrs Nannie Edelen and her son Thomas of Springfield visited uncle Hillary McIntire and family aided by sister Mrs Ellen Wright of Danville over Friday and Saturday.
Sycamore Valley residents gear up for a fair this week as Sutherland prepares drawn work for display. Rev. We E Sutherland preached in Warren County. The infant child of Jim Sutton died, with funeral services held in Hillsboro attended by locals. T.W. Sutherland and wife return from Anderson County visit. Mayme Merritt, teaching locally, visited Willisburg with her parents. Mrs Annie Godby and children spent Thursday night with Mrs W F Sutherland.
W F Moran is on the sick list. Mrs Willard Thompson and her mother Mrs Smith of Springfield visited Mrs Eliza Mudd on Wednesday. Miss Pearl Goatley attended the Institute at Springfield last week. Hon C C McChord and family were with relatives here Sunday. Herbert Virgin hauled rock from Ed Kelley’s place to his Maud farm for a tobacco barn foundation. Miss Rebecca McWhorter visited Friday and Saturday. Mine Miranda Tucker and Mrs Dugan were at Maud Saturday. M D Reed and wife were at Brush Grove Sunday. A number from here attended the ice cream supper at New Hope Saturday night. Farmers struggle to ready tobacco barns amid carpenter shortages.
Springfield residents plan to observe the sun from dawn on August 30 but will find the moon partially obscuring the view. The eclipse begins to cover half the sun at rising and should fade to a thin crescent by six o'clock with the city sky brightening shortly after.
Hillsboro reports a Sunday singing event and plans for a local class. Miss Pearl Barr of Springfield attended. Miss Claudie Royalty returned home from a week with Mrs. Annie Montgomery. The infant of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Sutton was buried here. Several locals visited relatives and hosted guests, with Rev. W H Williams of Springfield slated to preach September 3 at 3 30 PM.
During hot weather mothers are urged to be cautious with infants and use fresh castor oil for bowel troubles. If symptoms appear, Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy followed by castor oil is advised to prevent danger. The remedy and oil should be kept ready for instant use, and C. J. Haydon sells the remedy.
Kentucky fair dates are given for multiple towns with varied durations from August through October including Nicholasville Bardstown Florence Elizabethtown Glasgow Kentucky State Fair Henderson Falmouth and Owensboro. Norman E. Roberts is under arrest in Chicago and alleged to have sal mer chants in twenty one cities spanning thousands of dollars.
In Elkton on June 8 1901 S L Thompson writes to Dr E W Hall of St Louis praising Texas Wonder Hall's Great Discovery for kidney and bladder troubles. The testimonial states full recovery for family members.
A small bottle of Texas Wonder by Hall’s Great Discovery claims to cure kidney and bladder troubles in men and women, regulate child bladder issues, and even aid diabetes and rheumatism. Priced at $1, mail order available via Dr E W Hall, sole manufacturer in St. Louis, MO. testimonials offered and sold by all druggists.
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