Local News Recap From Happy Hollow and Hillsboro Churches
Absent writer notes community happenings. Visitations from Perkins, Snider, Leachman, Royalty, Armstrong, Shields and Hines families over weekend. Bro Stout leads Hillsboro Hillsboo church meeting with protracted weeklong series. Maccabee decoration attended in Willisburg and Mt Zion. Birth announced for Otis Harmon’s wife: a ten pound baby boy Bill. Royalty family visits Armstrong household. more local gatherings and invitations conveyed.
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Erastus Perkins
Martha Snider
Lillian Leachman
Nannie Royalty
Joh Armstrong
Sadie Coulter
Davie Hines
J. M. Shields
Bro. Stout
Hillsboo
Solomon Kays
Willisburg
Mt. Zion
Naniiie Royalty
Springfield
John Armstrong
Hillsboro
Bro
Stout
Otis Harmon
Bill Hardin
Lonnie Noel
S. D. Royalty
Kentucky Fairs Dates for 1908 Listed by Towns
The Kentucky fairs for 1908 are announced with fixed dates and durations for many towns including Stanford Georgetown Winchester Danville Harrodsburg Lexington Uniontown Burkesville Broadhead Springfield Shepherdsville Lawrenceburg Carroll Gallatin Owen Tri County Fair Sanders Vanceburg Ewing London Elizabethtown Burlington Germantown Morgantown Somerset Hardinsburg Fern Creek Barestown Monticello Hodgenville Glasgow and the Kentucky State Fair in Louisville from July 22 to September 14 with 3 to 6 day runs. Officers are asked to report omissions or corrections.
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Stanford
Georgetown
Winchester
Danville
Harrodsburg
Lexington
Uniontown
Burkesville
Broadhead
Springfield
Shepherdsville
Lawrenceburg
Carroll, Gallatin
Owen
Tri-County Fair
Sanders
Vanceburg
Ewing
London
Elizabethtown
Burlington
Germantown
Morgantown
Somerset
Hardinsburg
Fern Creek
Barestown
Monticello
Hodgenville
Glasgow
Kentucky State Fair
Louisville
Farm for sale on Springfield and Manton road
Private sale of a farm 24 miles from Manton along the Springfield and Manton road. The owner lists relocation as the reason for sale and invites inquiries for purchase.
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Springfield and
Manton Road
Manton
206 Acres with timber grass land and ponds in Kentucky
206 acres of land for sale incl 18 acres timber and remaining pasture with some tobacco land. Three ponds and wells supply water. Two orchards, a dwelling, barn and outbuildings. Has rural telephone line and R F D. Call or write M Bringle Springfield Ky Rt 5 Box 37.
Adrift for Weeks in an Open Boat After Starbuck Loss
Six survivors from the Tillie E. Starbuck drifted eight weeks in open boats after the ship was abandoned off South America. They were picked up by a British vessel Cambuskeneth. two of the men died in hospital in Valparaiso. The Starbuck's fate followed a July storm that sank the ship and left the crew to endure extreme thirst and exposure.
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New York
William Kuhlan
Kuhlmann
Tillie E. Starbuck
Pacific
South America
Valparaiso
Cambuskeneth
Vesssel
Why I Must Love Why I Must Love
A narrator recounts moving into a flat with his sister and fiancé Cecil. A misinterpreted visit by Cecil prompts a comic disruption with a tabby, a policemen, and jealous misreadings. After Cecil is mistaken for a burglar and arrested, Lizzie’s engagement nearly falls apart, prompting the sister to abandon the flat.
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Tabby
Cecil
Lizzie
Butcher Suffers Stroke In Bizarre Nose Injury
Adolph Kratzer a Frankfort Kentucky butcher suffered a seizure while outside a restaurant causing him to fall strike his teeth and sever his nose The teeth shattered and fragments struck the ground as bystanders rushed to aid him with his nose hanging by a shred and the incident described as an Eiddiness event.
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Frankfort
Adolph Kratzer
Avenue of the Presidents Faces Public Backlash
A proposed replacement for Sixteenth Street in Washington named Avenue of the Presidents drew criticism for length. The piece contrasts such long titles with Chinese style street names like Street of Golden Profits and Street of One Thousand Grandsons reflecting poetic traditions.
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China
Sixteenth Street
Washington, D. C
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Happy Hollow
S. M. Bringle
Springfield, Ky
Rt. 5
Daily Courier-Journal
the Sun
Louisville Times
SUN
Springfield Sun
Stevens
J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co
Chicopee Falls
Mass
J. F. Bishop
Bobbt & Bishop’s Livery
Griffin Springs
Campbellsville
Columbia
R. L. Faulkner
C. Dohoney
Rome, Ky
Canker and Limberneck
Don
Bardstown
Pean
The
Dai Journal
Daily Courier- Journal
Allen
Allen's
Leon Allen Proprietor
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