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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1905
Page
4
A satirical piece warns against self harm with overblown claims for hope and calomel as cures. It mocks personal crisis reports, mentions a Michigan man jailed for stealing a billy goat, Lincoln birthplace sales, and a Chicago kiss gone wrong, all in a brisk, period voice.
Correspondent chides infrequent letters to The Sun while noting progress at public school under Professor Sweeney. Local livestock sales include twenty ewes at 5.50, twenty five ewes at 4.75, and ten ewes at 4.50. Visitors, fairs, and rice fish arrival in Perryville context, plus hay fever illness and social visits.
Public auction scheduled for Friday September 1 at 1 PM offering household and kitchen furniture. Kate Canter states items will be sold to highest bidder.
Local column from Bardstown and Frederickstown area with social updates. Clerical visitor Rev Pieters, a Jasper College professor, stayed several days and left four students for study. Mrs James A Cecil won blue ribbon for homemade wine. Students sent to Gethsemane and Saint Catherine's colleges. Baptism ceremony at Beech Fork river bridge with thirteen new members at Mill Creek church. Miss Ella Shauity leaves for Texas to teach, praised for Springfield Sun articles. Springfield fair shows strong stock. Sam Nally’s blue-ribbon stallion shines. P S Barber and Albert Hamilton enter stock. Florence Hamilton visiting Springfield. Dr George Shauity visits. Public school under Mixses Osborne thriving. search for Ty continues.
Mackville sees visits from Miss Sallie Fleming and Indiana kin, Mr Johnny Call and wife from Louisville, and Maggie Kendall with children returning to Tennessee. Rose Showmaker visited Battle relatives. Rev G W Todd left for Covington conference. The new Christian church at Mackville to be dedicated the first Sunday in October.
Cardwell residents report a good tobacco crop as farmers work the fields. J. T. Moberly sells a 150 acre farm to H. J. Brown for 4500 with possession November 1. Local dealers trade livestock and horses at prices from 37.50 to 300, including yearlings and ewes, while residents seek a physician for the area.
A crowd from Deep Creek attended the Springfield fair last week. Mr. Jake Cocanougher and wife from Boyle county traveled through en route to Mr. West Kimberlin. James Best and family visited J. H. C. Elliott's family. Little Jane May Carpenter stayed with her brother Willie. John Elliott and son John Jr completed work on the Mackville Christian church and now build a tobacco barn at home. W. B. Carpenter and wife visited Aunt Nancy Kiley in Mackville. Linda Anderson Holderman and wife were guests at Mr. Drury’s Sunday home.
Hon W D Claybrooke will travel to Louisville tomorrow morning to represent Dr S M Crume accused of shooting Mike Monte Donico in the city on August first. He expects an acquittal at the examining trial.
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