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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1908
Page
5
The Ky office sits in Hagon Block upstairs offering dental services. Readable text notes focus on first rate dental care in Springfield.
Public sale of Nancy Harmon’s household and kitchen furniture set for Saturday near Jensonton. Advertisements tout trunks rugs Home Comfort Range endorsements by Mrs. R. L. Putnam and Mrs. J. O. Tuomson. G. W. Lyon to preach at Methodist church. Washington County Farmers Institute to meet September 2 3 1908 in Springfield Ky under State Department of Agriculture auspices. Low priced trunks and rugs from Grundy and McIntire.
Locust Grove and Harrodsburg visitors, church events at Mt Zion, a large house party near Pali, and local rancher deals. Mentions Allen Litsey, Leachman family, Reed and Edgerton families, and multiple Texans and Virginians visiting Kentucky residents. Advertisements praise Home Comfort Range with long use and reliability.
The piece reports hot weather and a needed shower, crops prospering with corn and tobacco likely for large yields, and abutments and fills for the Beaver Creek bridge at Lick Skillet nearing completion. It mentions Prof Wash giving students a vacation to attend the Lawrenceburg fair and Mrs. R N Morgan visiting her mother. J D Sutherland and wife of Syca- line continues the item.
A long list of social visits and travels features Miss Jane McIntire of Louisville visiting her sister Mrs. J. W. Riedel, Miss Elizabeth Haydon staying with Mrs. Tom Spalding in Bardstown, and many others visiting relatives in Bardstown, New Haven, Lebanon, Griffin Springs, and surrounding areas. Guests arrive from Scottsboro, Ala.. New Hope, Ala.. Butler, Mo.. Pittsburg, Pa.. Harrodsburg. Louisville. and more, with numerous back-and-forth trips, returns home, and engagements noted along with a brief local business plug.
Mrs Mary Lee of rural route in Zanesville writes that her husband James Lee owes his life to Dr Kings New Discovery. Lungs severely affected by consumption seemed inevitable until a friend recommended the remedy. The product is advertised as a throat and lung medicine. First dose relief is claimed and trial bottles are offered free at Haydon and Robertson drug stores with 50 cents and one dollar sizes.
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