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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1909
Page
8
Valley Hill folks host and visit neighbors with many small social calls. Carries a long list of names, marriages, illnesses, church attendance, and a jail escape incident detailing two inmates breaking through the jail roof.
Individuals across Springfield Mackville Willisburg and surrounding areas advertise livestock poultry and farm goods for sale including mules horses cows seed corn timothy hay clover hay turkeys roosters chickens and a Poland China boar. Prices range from 50 cents to 200 dollars with lots of one month validity.
In Port Smart Argyllshire a London postmark letter addressed to MR. DONALD MACDONALD, Port Smart, triggers a sixfold draw of lots. Little Donald MacDonald reads it first and claims it, prompting villagers to seek its meaning. He later burns the envelope after learning it contains a health pamphlet titled What Is Indigestion.
John Coulter, 58, died last Friday from a paralytic stroke suffered weeks earlier. He and his son had worked on farmer Chas Harmon’s property on the Springfield pike. Coulter’s body was sent to Washington county for burial. Byron Mason, 83, died at his niece Miss Sue Caskey’s home last Saturday after age related infirmities. He was a brother of the late Mrs. Robert Caskey, known in Lebanon and nearby counties. Funeral services were led by Rev. C. H. Prather with burial at Ryder cemetery.
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