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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1906
Page
5
Dr J M Burton resident dentist offers painless tooth extraction and crown work as a specialty in Springfield Kentucky. All dental work strictly first class. Contact details indicate a local business serving the area with emphasis on quality care.
Local notes list various ads and notices from Springfield Kentucky area. Items include a Deering self binding harvester offered under cost, lost and reward notices for a pup, a union church praise service, an English bulldog pup reported missing, frame making services, rural mail carrier examination details, road work manpower request, a Catholic academy opening in September 1906, a stray buggy mare reward, claims against the estate of S. E. McIntyre, real estate sale of St Rose farm, dissolution of partnership Robertson Brothers, a Baptist central association meeting with dinner, severe storm damage near Hillsboro including a mare killed by lightning, start of fall term at Springfield Graded School with staff changes, and anticipation of Bluegrass Graded School Tournament.
A county Sunday School convention will be held at Mackville on September 6 with Rev. Robi. M. Hoskins, State Sunday School Evangelist, to conduct exercises. Hoskins, well known in the county, strengthens the cause with engaging talks and tireless work. Profs. Poynter and Bell also visited for local option work, praised as thoroughly organized and effective. Miss Mabel Thompson hosted a lawn party with friends from Harrodsburg, Louisville, Indianapolis, Lebanon, Lexington, and Springfield. Rena Cheatham sang and played piano, guests enjoyed lantern-lit lawn and light conversation.
Notice states the Springfield Graded School opens Monday Sept 3 1906. Admission free for white district children aged six to twenty. non residents pay tuition: primary 9 dollars, grammar 13.50, high school 18 per term, all prepaid. Prolonged illness two weeks or more entitles a tuition deduction. C J Havcox president.
Mrs E G Holiday remains ill at her father’s home as voters report 144 to 26 turnout and pride in a quiet election day with no drinking. Land values may rise. multiple cattle trades occur including steers, fillies, mares, ewes, and a large sale to East Texas buyer Brown Graham & Co./Will Cocanougher.
Mrs Steve Chambers of this place committed death by own action by taking Paris Green on Thursday Aug 23. Funeral held at Heborn on Friday with interment in Heborn cemetery. She leaves a husband a son and a daughter to mourn their loss. A large circle of relatives and friends extend sympathy.
In Mooresville a couple welcomed twin girls born Friday August 24 to James Oder’s wife. A severe electrical storm last Sunday damaged James Truax’s barn, killed three hogs and a telephone pole, and burned boxes as the heaviest rain in a decade fell. The precinct voted dry by 74. Mr. Lee Godby and wife plan to settle here. Protracted meeting started last Monday. Several locals visited various families including Danville guests and Mr. and Mrs. Carney. Dr Latimer offered resignation at Presbyterian church.
John Temple Graves, Robert L. Taylor and H. H. Hitchcock named as speakers for Bryan reception in Chicago. Prices listed cover bacon, butter, poultry, flour, wheat, corn, oats, barley, hogs, cattle, sheep, and wool. includes Minnesota and New York markets with noted prices per pound, per bushel, and per ton for various grades and regions.
Rain plagues crops except corn in Willisburg. Election was quiet with a clear victory against a perceived evil. Local people and visitors are named, including Minnie Wells returning from Lawrenceburg and several residents visiting relatives. Notes on visits by Prof. Charles Bell and others close the item.
Washington county celebrates local option victory and notes County dry pattern. Residents report malarial fever improvement, friendships visiting neighbors, and praise for the Garden of Oaks and local editors. A lightning strike kills a horse. heavy rain floods Mayes Creek, washing out stream water gaps.
231 acres on Stoner Pike six miles from Bardstown and six from Bloomfield offers a spacious 10 room brick dwelling a fine stock barn barn cistern a hay loft 20 tons a 36 by 40 foot small barn 70 acres of timothy and clover 40 acres of corn with the rest in grass plus brick tenant house granary and a 30 foot long painted machine house one of the county’s nicest homes priced at 60 per acre all lime land.
Mrs Mollie Hawking and two daughters visited relatives last week. Will Linder and wife visited Mr Id M Sale Sunday. Thurman Cheser and Hubert Virgin returned from the Lawrenceburg fair Sunday night. Mesdames Sallie Sutherland Ottie Yeager Jane Barlow and Mollie Hawkins and two daughters visited Mrs J H Gray Friday. W P Cheatham dismissed his school to work in tobacco. Mrs W H Yancey spent Wednesday with her mother Lucy Sale. Tom Mattingly had a good cow struck by lightning Sunday evening. Rosco Sutherland returned from Tennessee. Laura Cassie Yancey and Ella Carney visited Ethel Gray Sunday. Locals rejoice over a victory won Saturday. Expect license expiration and saloons banished from Washington county. Subscribe for The Sun. $100 year.
A string of weekly social notices lists residents and visitors across Bardstown Louisville Shepherdsville and Lebanon. Names include J J Wimsatt Willie Knott Eddie Shader Fannie Smith Lillie Shrams Tommy Hamilton from Fredericktown and Misses Myrtle and Pearl Campbell in Louisville plus many others visiting relatives friends or attending fairs at Shepherdsville and Danville with remarks on health and recovery for Roger Evans and family.
A dramatic lyric titled The Rescue, sent by a ten year old, is published here after Aunt Janet could not fit it in her department. The piece describes frost on the ground birds in trees a cottage and a hawk threatening chickens leading Father to fetch a rifle and brother a knife to save the flock with a strong climax.
In Boyd county Kentucky a Plymouth Rock hen owned by John B. Stout of Lexington Avenue learned to ride a buggy horse. The hen perched on the horse and rode in circles for hours as the horse whizzed around the lot, posing a danger to both. The remarkable bird rides astride and keeps pace with the horse, a feat that astonishes locals and stuns passersby.
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