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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1909
Page
2
Catalog of women’s accessories featuring novelty bags priced 50 cents to 1.50, leather lined bags from 1.50 to 5.00, rugs and lace curtains offered with various discounts. Details emphasize affordable ladies items in a home shopping listing.
Readable listing highlights X M as Christmas umbrellas for women in 26 inch pure silk with black silver and gold handles priced from 2 to 10 dollars. Men’s 28 inch pure silk umbrellas with horn English boxwood and gold and silver trimmed handles priced 2.50 to 10 dollars.
The article offers farm and stock advice on fattening pigs with good digestion, ventilated pig houses, and feeding. It emphasizes bees for pollination, charcoal as poultry disease preventives, oil sprays for infected animals, and practical tips like sending pigs to bed hungry, early tree planting, raking orchard rubbish, and proper drainage. It covers grape cultivation, pest indicators, stock supervision, lime wash for tree protection, feeding cracked corn, winter sheep feeding, cow comfort, reliable egg production, soil fertility, bone meal and potash rates, grit importance, and year round grit supply. It concludes highlighting Chamberlains Salve for itching and a local drug dealer.
Messrs Miley Keeling and Willie Lewis visited Chaplin last Thursday. Miss Sarah Trent from Polin stayed with the Misses Goodlett of Pine Grove. Several girls spent a Saturday with Texie and Lucy Barlow. A pleasant day was shared by all. A daughter was born Dec 4 to the wife of Mr Thurman Chesser. Mr Monroe Mullins and family lodged with W S Y Goodjett. Tommy Settles of Hillsboro visited Pine Grove Sunday. Many children suffer whooping cough. Will Hardesty and family plan to move to Mississippi. Russell Hardin and wife visited J H Gray’s house. Mrs Dee Hardin stayed with her daughter Annie Cutsinger. Ezra Goodlett and wife visited relatives at Mit Zion. Clifton Taylor was at Polin.
J Albertus Smith sold 54 acres on Hardin's creek to H P Osborn of Springfield for 2000 dollars. Silvester Smith moved 100 acres along the Springfield and Raywick county road to M J Osborne for 4500 dollars. Nannie p Lankford's home place near Pemisc sold publicly Wednesday at 54 dollars per acre to Robt Mister, W B Yowell, William Isaacs and Will Mays. The 44 acre Edmondson farm brought 90 dollars per acre to T M Marple. A large crowd attended and various items sold well. Lebanon Enterprise
In Washington County Kentucky a commissioner sale by Weebington Circuit Court justice at the October 1909 term will offer land at the Springfield courthouse to the highest bidder. The property covers about 90 acres on the waters of the Chaplin River with beech trees marks and bounds described, adjoining M E Crane and others, with conditions including bond and interest from date of sale and land retention for bonds. Bidders must meet terms promptly.
W D Claybrooke as administrator for Emily Cocanougher and others, under a 5 caenane and court order, will offer at public auction at the Washington Circuit Court to settle the estate of M E Crane. The sale, at the Springfield county courthouse, is set for 2 p.m. on the fourth day, with a credit of six and twelve months, describing a house and lot in Texas Kentucky bounded by W H Wilson, the turnpike, and G S Goode property.
A notice announces the sale of land by court process in Washington County Kentucky at the courthouse in Springfield. The sale, ordered by the county court, lists two tracts totaling about 110 acres with boundaries described and directed to the highest bidder at public auction on a county court day. Purchasers must present approved security and comply with execution requirements.
The hearing concerns legal interest from the date of sale and the force and effect of a judgment. The proceedings retain agents MG Leachman and M.G. W. CC, with specified personal oversight and continued authority.
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