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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1908
Page
5
Advertisement notes dental services available in Springfield Kentucky with office location in Hagon Block upstairs, highlighting high quality care and priority given to superior results.
Len Bush opened his school at Pleasant Run Monday with fair attendance. Leachman & Campbell advertise frame moulding and insurance through Farmers Home. J. N. Wells, Junction City, Ky, reports. Mrs. T. B. Flaugher splashed eye with lye but escaped serious injury. Daniel Kelly injured foot with a fork prong but is recovering. A Fellow Craft degree is planned for Springfield Lodge No. 50, F. and A. M., with all members urged to attend.
Picture frames by Leachman and Campbell offered at reasonable prices. Also note: The ladies of Mackville Christian Church plan a court day dinner in Springfield during county court in October.
Four room cottage offered for sale or rent. Apply to this office or to S. J. Smock.
Notice to taxpayers that the school tax for 1903 is due and a five percent penalty will be added after August 15. The treasurer G C Wharton states the office over Peoples Bank will be open all day for tax collection.
Warton and Tarr, liverymen, announce a switch to cash-only sales from July 1 due to high feed prices. The firm states cash payments are necessary to cover the costs of all varieties of feed.
Silver City resident C M Harden praises Electric Bitters for stomach liver and kidney relief and overall weakness. The Springfield Sun notes the medicine as best for chills malaria and other ailments, sold under guarantee at Hayden and Robertson's drug store for 50 cents.
Mrs Margaret Kelly wife of D C Kelly died suddenly Friday morning at 6 30 after a heart disease spell. A devout St Rose Catholic member with seven children, she was formerly Miss Moffett and married in February 1892. Survivors include her husband three sisters in Louisville and Lebanon and many relatives. The family mourns, while heaven gains a faithful Christian mother.
The old toll gate house owned by Conrad Hertlein burned last Saturday after sparks from Hill's threshing machine. Wood Powell occupied the house at the time, and both Powell and the stock firm Campbell & Bottom report substantial losses. The item also notes Campbell & Bottom shipping fifty five lambs last week, with fifty averaging 108 pounds, and advertises a Washington county excursion to Mammoth Cave on July 30 for 7.25 dollars round trip including board, limited to ten days. Mr. J E Shelby plans a trip to Indiana and Illinois to inspect Duroc hogs for potential brood sows, expecting to be away one week.
Mrs John B Wathen died at her home near Lebanon July 6 1908 after a ten day illness of organic heart trouble. Funeral at St Augustine's church led by Rev J A Hogarty. Interment in St Augustine's cemetery. Survived by husband Col Wathen five children Charles Kincaid Edith M Fannie Susie John B Jr and siblings S A Lev Russell W E Echols Russell Hendy Russell and Mrs Robert Coppers. The Falcon sends sincere sympathy.
Mr A A Elton of Harrisville New York endorses Dr Kings New Life Pills as just exactly right. The pills claim to relieve without discomfort treating constipation biliousness and malaria. 25 cents at Haydon Robertson's drug store.
Mr. C P Wells of Bloomfield visits town. Mrs Moore and Mrs Handy of Sherman TX visit sister Mrs H R Thompson. J M Boswell and family back from Perryville. Mrs M K Hayes and Mrs Margaret McElroy of Ardmore arrive to make Bloomfield home. Various locals and visitors across Bloomfield, Harrodsburg, Lebanon, Bardstown, Louisville attend visits, stays, picnics, and a K C picnic at New Haven.
Mrs Susan Rhinehart of Louisville visits with her ailing mother Mrs Lune Begley. Lee Hiatt and family stay with Brad Coffey near Texas. Delta Logsdon guests of Adray Canary. Susie Fenwick with cousin Alma Fenwick. Ella and Mattie Tobin ill. Alf Whiteman returns from Mt Washington with two children Hila and Sadye. Joseph Hardin returns from Louisville after visiting Hartford Logadon. Maggie Hiatt returns home from Mackville. Susie Edgerton visits Ella and Mattie Tobin. A party in honor of Della Logsdon hosted by Array Canary was well attended. Will Sweeney ill with typhoid fever at Bowling Green. staying with Marion Sweeney. Birth day supper by Wallace Adams and R P Lanham. School progress with Miss Bessie Poweay and Ft Worth visitor Mr Lee Litsey. George Fenwick, Lebanon, visiting relatives. Robert Milton visits with Wm Milton near Mackville. Also a Bourbon Hog Cholera Remedy testimonial from R S Darnaby Clintonville Ky claiming immunity for exposed hogs. Sold by druggists.
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