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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1905
Page
8
A brief listing shows "Meats Below" and a ready reference for seafood special days. It notes Fish every Thursday and Oysters on Wednesday with flexible ordering times. The fragment hints at a local market or print feature offering assorted meats and seafood.
Mrs. John Armstrong ill. J. M. Montgomery and relatives visited Spencer county kin. Emma Coulter and Effie visited Chaplin relatives. Magmie Merritt visited Brooksville. J. M. Shields family with others Sunday. Bull Hangin family and Katie Catsinger visited Ben Grigsby. Mr C Hines buys farm at Valley Hill for 30 dollars per acre. welcome to Hines. Merritt visited Monday night with Mrs John Shewmaker.
Miss Mary Ellen Young improves after pneumonia. John Cocanougher and Mrs Cocanougher visited Mr J H Good. Harrison Coyle sold to Clarence Coyle a yoke of oxen for 55 dollars. Miss Gertie Coyle hosted friends at her country home with music. A large gathering honored Miss Mattie E Kimberlin of Texas featuring the Yocum band and young Matt Mayes.
Zam Kimberlin attended Fenwick musicale Saturday night. Rev H P Hatchett will preach at Beech Grove next Saturday and Sunday the 16th and 17th. Prof Sanders starts teaching singing at Beech Grove December 26. Georgie Cocanougher and Elvian Perkins wed at Perryville last Thursday. The bride is daughter of Mr and Mrs George Cocanougher and the groom son of the Jensonton merchant. Also tips on longevity and Chamberlain's Tablets sold by C J Haydon.
RE T and James Best with families and Mr and Mrs Leslie Coyle visited Mr G H Christerson. A A Crane hosted by W T Kimberlin. Mrs Lucy Young and Miss Bettie Young visited Springfield friends. Long Run notes hog killing and wood hauling while references to court, corn show, pumpkin display, and marriag e speculation appear. A Sun correspondent recalls Harrodsburg visit and praise for The Sun. Consumption article cites a reader’s note.
In a castle dining room Mr Kesteven coolly gathers news of a looming danger while tension builds from a distant cry. The narrator returns, finds Mr Kesteven dead with pallor and a silent mystery, as the housekeeper calls for a doctor and the night conceals further clues. Continued next week.
Ten telephone men at Cardwell expected to arrive in two weeks. Rev Mason preached at Hendren senet house Sunday night. Ben Bendren visited W L Graham Sunday. Richard Leonard visited L C Jenine Sunday. H Gardner and wife M A Perkins M E Perkins and L B E Perkins visited E T Perkins Sunday. W A ity and family visited N B Royalty Sunday. Rev Young held a meeting at John Lambert’s home. Taylor Ferrill visited Robert Shilton Sunday. Jasper Durr and wife visited Wm Foster’s Saturday. Masters Bannon Leonard and Daley Moore visited H C Moore’s Sunday. Nannie and Rebecca Graham visited S S H Gardner’s last week. J A Kyler says it pays to advertise in The Sun, it brings big crowds and good prices.
At the base of J A Kyler everything sold well with ten months credit. Horses brought 155 and 225 dollars, a mare 129 dollars, another 121. Cattle sold well at two dollars twenty five cents per hundredweight. Various transfers include H J Brown selling mares to Nelson Long and W L Graham, a combined horse sale, and calf and cow deals. Alfonzo Vorhies bought E W Sommers farm for two thousand dollars. E T Perkins bought calves at four to five dollars per head. A child with croup should use Chamberlains remedy per a testimonial from M F Compten ket of Texas. For sale by C J Hayden.
A 1903 Symsonia Kentucky letter from ED Draffes requests agency to sell Hall's Great Discovery also known as the Texas Wonder. The advertisement asserts the product cures kidney and bladder troubles, gravel, diabetes, seminal emissions, weak backs, and other urinary ailments in men and women. it claims testimonials and nationwide druggist availability.
Local notices mention tobacco men eager for shipments by Christmas. Items note Mr. B. Humphrey renting the old William Hunter farm near Hunter’s Depot, nursery stock sales for WilL S. Hale of Hannibal, a scaffold accident injuring Will and Marvin Huston and N. Biven, and Lee Godby escaping injury. Other notes cover weather, telephone exchange work, cattle delivery by Wat, toons, and Thanksgiving dances. Bee line advertisements offer Bucklen’s Arnica Salve and various local sales.
Mooresville reports a ten pound son to Mr Jesse Waushburne and notes a completed telephone line under Miss Lelia Wall with general satisfaction. Visitors include Mr Green Oliver from Kentucky. livestock sales record a mare sold for 150 dollars to George Morrell. A church meeting is planned for December 26 to appoint a minister for next year. Hog killing is noted as current activity.
An advertisement warns of a future bad scare from abdominal pain and fear of appendicitis. It promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills as a guaranteed cure for bowel and stomach complaints and lists C. J. Haydan’s drug store as the seller at 25e.
The ad promotes Paracamph as a versatile remedy for all family aches from head to foot. It urges immediate purchase, promises money-back relief if unsatisfied, and highlights safety for babies to grandparents while stressing its value in every medicine chest.
The notice from Sycamore Valley notes cold days and winter entertainments. Mr. and Mrs. Marshal Keeling hosted friends with music. Mrs. E. V. Sales sold sixty turkeys at an average of 1.12 dollars each, claiming there is money in turkey raising.
The Illinois Central Railroad offers very low round trip rates to Mississippi and neighboring states including New Orleans with departures in November and December. Tickets permit liberal stop overs and long return windows. The line emphasizes personally conducted excursion sleepers from Louisville to California Arizona New Mexico and Texas.
The Passenger Department of the Illinois Central Railroad offers free monthly circulars on fruit growing vegetable gardening stock raising and dairying in Kentucky West Tennessee Mississippi and Louisiana. Mail name and address to F W Marlow Louisville Ky for circulars Nos 1 to 11. For rates contact the nearest railroad agent.
On the above date a public sale offers at the highest bid a farm one mile north of Buoker near wagon including one horse one buggy and harness two dozen hogs six bed stands 500 feet of ash lumber 200 feet of gate lumber 30 bushels of wheat three bushels timothy seed gear saddlery and farming implements plus household furniture. Cash for sums 5 and under. over 5 credit 12 months with interest from date notes payable at Peoples Bank. Sale begins 9 am.
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