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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1907
Page
5
Dr J M Burton resident dentist offers teeth extraction without pain crown work a specialty. All dental work strictly first class. Office in Bagon Block upstairs Springfield Ky.
Local notes show available rental of two rooms on the second floor of Peoples Bank Building with heat water and light provided. Skating rink hours Friday afternoons 2 30 to 5 with 20 cent admission. Crop sale report states Wall and Simpson sold tobacco for 2136 dollars last week. Ownership notice offers reward for stray dark red ten year old cow with milk qualities after paying keep. Ten acres of land for corn and four for tobacco with a good dwelling and outbuildings near Bethlehem Church at Springfield Pike Brady, Springfield KY. Stray notices: two young steers missing near Willisburg transfer N B Riley place five weeks ago. Reward offered by J L Allen, Prop. Contact listed.
Having decided to quit farming we will sell at the above date commencing at 10 o'clock p m our farm near Mooresville Ky on good road one half mile from the Springfield turnpike 74 miles from Springfield 14 miles from Booker 24 from Wally Hill two L N railroad shipping points Farm contains about 156 acres of sugar ure black walnut and limestone land fair cultivation convenient to church with a 6 form dwelling stock barn tobacco barns outbuildings all new 10 acres wheat 25 or 30 acres corn 20 or 25 acres timber balance in grass tobacco land good home potential Possession March 1 Stock and farm implements several hundred head of stock including mares geldings cows hogs and poultry with farming tools hay wheat meat lard and more Household furniture includes organ cooker stove chairs beds tables and other items Terms: real estate one third cash balance in 1 3 and 7 years at 6 interest. personality cash under 10 notes payable in Springfield Bank with 6 interest.
Letters from Long Run Hillsboro and others delayed publication. Dr J C Mudd sets new office hours 8 to 9 and 1 to 2. Sunday Baptist topics Regenation and The Divinity of Jesus Christ. February 16 bids for Fitzgerald tollgate turnpike. Mayes Creek school bids awarded. Farms for sale via W T Ewing Harrodsburg. A white and red spotted cow missing. Nancy Mattingly and Obe Philips wed. Lost A A Waterman pen. Creamery milk 10c per gallon in Springfield. Washington County tax payers rose about 217000.
County organizer Wm Nally will address Pleasant Grove on Thursday night and Mooresville on Friday to organize A S of E locals. He will speak in Texas Saturday night February 9. Lampton promotes book lending and pickup arrangements. Springfield Creamery began operating, producing 72 pounds of butter after a delayed February start. Shrager Brothers advertise tailor services for skirts at one dollar. Washington County Farmers Club will meet February 9 to elect delegates to the State Farmers Institute in Shelbyville February 26-28. Public sale of Robt Simpson in Nelson County reported. cattle and stock prices noted at Harrodburg sales.
Last Wednesday the Big Four and Main Street Stars played three match games with Big Four taking two. They won the second by 20 pins and the third by 23. Main Street Stars won the first by 106 pins. Jim Shultz rolled 251 to top week’s scores. Other scorers include Campbell 228 224 216 204, Reed 238 221, Greene 211 201 200, Alten 201 200. Lebanon may send a team this week to face local players.
A mass meeting in Lebanon last night featured Judge I H Thurman among speakers as locals push for a favorable outcome in the local option election. Enthusiasm ran high with both sides waging a vigorous campaign. Also listed are uncalled letters for the Springfield Post Office for week ending Feb 6 1907 including Mrs Sallie Barnett and Chapman Anderson.
Local society notes list residents and visitors including Mr. Will Curry of Louisville Mrs. Teresa Hagan's guest Miss Ella McAtee of Cincinnati and many others visiting family or traveling. Attendees include Dr. Geo Shaunty from Louisville Mrs. H D Rodman visiting in Louisville and Mr. Guthrie Wilson candidate for the Board of Agriculture in the Third Appellate District among events and travel in Harrodsburg Lebanon and surrounding towns.
C. G. Hays a Bluff Missouri businessman touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the quickest and surest healing salve for sores burns wounds and piles. He claims personal use proves its effectiveness and the product is guaranteed by Haydon Robertson, druggists, for 25 cents.
FENWICK, Miss Rose Adams travels to Louisville to teach at the Baptist Orphans Home. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Logadon hosted Sunday with Mrs. W. G. Adams. Mrs. Will Homan and children and Mrs. Hines and daughter Mary Agnes visited C. W. Oder’s family. Stanley Rogers and Irvine Thompson left for West Louisville. Mr. Martin Spalding of Union County visits relatives here. Miss Appie Kelly of Decatur is visiting her parents. Mr. W. T. Barker bought a horse from George Powell for 125 dollars. Elmer Anderson and Miss Ruby Pottinger wed quietly at Gethsemane last Sunday. Miss Retta Barker and Loraine Wall spent Sunday with Miss Anna. J. W. Barker visited J. D. Barker. Miss Lizzie Harmon visiting relatives here. Mrs. John Hall visiting her mother, Mrs. Raney.
State of Kentucky Washington County Court notice states that on January 1907 T P Wells executed a general deed of assignment for creditors. Creditors must present verified claims by March 7 1907 at the law office of W C McChord Springfield Kentucky for receipt of claims. c P Wells Assignee of T D Wells The Sun and Daily Herald 2 dollars.
The fragmentary note mentions a CeC chief executive and a 260 unit figure tied to a decs ne ce phrase, with unclear context. Named entities include CeC and possible geographic or organizational cues, but details are incomplete.
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