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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1910
Page
4
Our readers are urged to settle overdue accounts at once. The note asks Sun subscribers who have not paid in one or two years to call or mail a check, noting the paper’s “dollar or two” liberal terms and requesting payment against their home paper.
A good rain blessed the Booker vicinity on Sunday. Residents report tobacco cutting activity and several visits among local families. Typhoid fever illness narrows to Mrs Eliza Goatley as she recovers. Various farm price notes and social visits unfold including Cull Brothers farm quote at 54 per acre and a protracted meeting closing with 24 additions. Look out for a wedding soon.
Manchester Ohio man Lewis Chamblin recalls a severe cough and lung trouble dropping him to 115 pounds. After using Dr King’s New Discovery he recovered to 160 pounds, regained strength, and his four children were cured of croup. The ad promotes the remedy as infallible for coughs and colds with a guaranteed trial bottle.
A Washington statement shows only one Kentucky postmaster requested postal savings depository by that date, while thirty-three Kentucky banks filed applications. Indiana lists eleven postmasters and twenty-four banks, Tennessee nine postmasters and sixteen banks, and Pennsylvania leads with thirty-four postmasters and one hundred two banks seeking depositories.
A light rain blessed county farmers on Sunday morning, helping tobacco crops, while lightning caused damage including a barn at Squire J O Polin’s farm burned with two mares and colts inside. The Walton Hotel chimney was struck, bricks loosened, and other minor damages were reported.
A son arrived August 15 marking the fifth generation in the Leachman line. The child is said to have seven grandmothers from local and Nelson county lines, naming Mesdames Peachman Bishop Bish op Jones Wilson Brewer Williams and Annie Brewer Lizzie Williams. James Richardson known as Lightning Bug was arrested in Noblesville Indiana after being linked to a jail lynching and alleged stabbing of Carl Etherington.
Dr G T Burton resident dentist offers teeth extraction without pain crown work a specialty. All dental work strictly first class. Springfield Ky. Mice in Hagon Block upstairs.
Local notes report an August estray red gilt weighing 100 pounds near Thompsonville with a reward for information. Advertisements offer a Main Street lot for sale east of the Methodist church and a 143 acre Frederick town farm for rent, plus various notices of tax penalties, business changes, and lost items. Speaking events feature Judge Ed C O Rear and Senator Byron addressing Washington county farmers on the tobacco trust. Special trains to Nagareth for the Nelson County Fair run September 1–3 with a fare schedule. Several debt notices urge prompt settlement with local firms and churches plan county court dinners.
Sunday night about 12 30 a Mr Freeman of Washington county was held up at pistol point by two unknown men on Greenville street near Mrs Julia Daltons residence but she dissuaded them from taking his money. Freeman alerted officers and with Messie William Barnes and Cecil Bolton searched the carnival grounds for the culprits but found none in darkness. Monday Chief Smith arrested a man but Freeman did not positively identify him and the prisoner was released.
Thirty six of forty six states will elect governors this year. Kentucky and South Dakota do not participate, while Ohio and Tennessee will. Oregon will elect in November for the first time, earlier than usual. Vermont Maine Arkansas Georgia schedule shifts. thirty two states vote in November as normal.
John Crow and family visited Mr and Mrs Crow's father Hence Scott near Polin last weekend. Miss Mallie and Ernest Shields stayed with their uncle J B Jenkins and family near Willisburg. Pope Bishop from near Polin spent Saturday and Sunday with Walter Han.
Advertising calls for bids on multiple sections of county roads and turnpikes in Washington County. County Judge BL Litsey seeks contractors to complete specified segments by May 1 to November 1, 1910, with meetings to sign contracts immediately.
The State Normal School at Bowling Green Ky offers a strong opportunity for young people seeking teaching training. The Fall Session opens September 6 1910 and further information is available on request.
Mrs. and Mrs. Tom Mellvoy hosted an ice cream supper for local youths last Wednesday with good attendance. Covington residents Mrs. Mary Williams and two sons visit Mellvoy relatives. various neighbors and kin spend time at Willisburg and nearby farms. A medicinal note advertises Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for sluggish liver and dullness.
The County Board of Education will consider bids to erect a two room school building at Withaburg. The board will provide materials. contractor to lay foundation, erect structure, plaster twice, build two brick flues, and apply three coats of paint. Specifications available from committee members.
The president of the Industrial and Orphans Home in Macon Georgia reports nine years of use of Electric Bitters in the institution. He says the medicine revitalizes stomach liver and kidney function purifies blood aids digestion increases appetite strengthens weak children and run down people. It is best for female complaints and sold for 60 cents at Haydon and Robertson's.
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