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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1906
Page
4
A notice states HON. BEN JOHNSON of Nelson County as a candidate for the Fourth Congressional district in the upcoming Primary on Saturday June 2, subject to party action and election rules. The fragment notes official involvement and the election date but lacks full details on party, district boundaries, or filing requirements.
A Western Kentucky sheriff is recalled in a Frankfort confrontation over a Republican love feast remark. The piece revisits the Goebel assassination plot, describing a sheriff who allegedly knew the plan and later reacted with a grim, gunfire allusion as Goebel fell.
An insane man claims to have killed Goebel before dying in misery, haunted by Goebel’s ghost. The Kentucky Legislature adjourned amid mixed reception, with debate over re districting and party lines. The piece reflects on loyalty, crime, politics, and regional tensions blending tragedy with political commentary.
Gov Beckham transmitted a message to the General Assembly after midnight calling an extraordinary session for noon Wednesday. The session is limited to two aims: legislation affecting rectified whisky interests and changes affecting revenue agents.
Cardwell Mary A Perkins visits Louisville for millinery styles while Frazer Corn moves to a new home and James Moore relocates to his father’s place. A church gathering at Freedom Sunday draws a large crowd. Several livestock and horse sales are recorded with buyers including W L Graham, J A Kyler, E T Perkins, and others, with prices ranging from 40 to 250 dollars. Local correspondence notes frequent requests for sale lists from Sun readers.
A circuit court sale bids the Wm Baker farm of about 120 acres near Willisburg, Ky. Three parcels are described with boundaries along Stallings Reed Keeling and Perkins lines totaling about 56, 25, and 19 1/4 acres respectively, plus a reserve 15 foot road passway. sale on March 26, 1906 at Springfield Court House with 6 and 12 month credit.
Hillsboro notes list illnesses and visits among Montgomery Hines Coulter and related families. Mrs. Mary Hines visited Mackville while Will Smith and Bob Hines’s families toured Booker. Several gatherings include singing parties for Thomas Coulter’s twenty first birthday and visits from Spencer county, Cornishville, and Hardins Creek locals.
Mr Warran Nally returns from Union county. Thomas H James, aged citizen, dies at home in Short Creek and buried at Mill Creek. About eighty. Mr and Mrs Mannie Alvey visit relatives in Chicago. Flora Keene opens school on Road Run. Miss Alice Johnston dies after long illness, shocking many.
Mia Walters of St. Clair St Columbus Ohio was starving as illness weakened her stomach and nerves. She could not eat until she took Bitters, which produced a remarkable restoration and full recovery, praised as the best health tonic on earth by C. J. Haydon.
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