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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1906
Page
5
Local notes advertise new rice candy and poultry purchases. Ads promote stock bills, seed potatoes, garden seeds, and wood lumber. A $2,000 imported German coach horse is bought for a stud to be established locally. Eggs shipments, soaps, and Indian relics are mentioned amid merchant meetings and upcoming fruit and vegetable offerings.
The drama The Church Across the Way was staged at the Opera House last Friday week as a benefit for Mrs. Barrett. It drew a crowded house and earned $88 in door receipts with $67 balance after expenses given to Mr and Mrs Barrett. Johnson and McCabe’s advertise rolled oats and breakfast cereals among their fruit and vegetable specialties.
Falcon J A Johnston new Lake cigar factory proprietor visits the city with old friends. Loretto citizens organize a banking company with about two thirds stock subscribed on a $25 000 capital. Joe Primus failed from a wagon load of trunks at the depot suffering head injuries. Hon C C McChord travels to Frankfort to resume railroad rate hearings before the Kentucky Railroad Commission, noting open, not secret proceedings and a potentially lengthy decision.
Local readers report talk of a new pike to run from Blincoe past New Hope church to Fredericktown aimed at easing local grievances and attracting attention for county improvements. Other items note visitors from Kansas City with spring plans, church services, and social updates about residents including Miss Lorenetta Burnettix and Alma Cambron’s family.
A Meade County Messenger correspondent asks what news the paper wants. The list includes tobacco, deaths births marriages real estate and sales, accidents, weather, crops, visits abroad, society and lodge meetings, church and school news, roads condition, family reunions, curiosities relief robberies murders and general interest items.
Severe storm last Friday night struck the M Philips residence on Shawnee Run causing a roof hole, fire in the hall, and shattered front door. Mrs Philips was severely shocked. the porch and gas engine were damaged. Lightning also jolted Mix Carrie Coleman at a telephone box, burning wires and stunning observers. The piece lists local residents and attendees at events, noting typhoid fever recovery and relocations.
Cedecereceos Oscete CeCeos Mr F M Campbell is quite sick. Maud guests Miss Louise Settles and Miss Lydia Huston attended shopping and a play. Lebanon visitors include Mr Robert McChord and Mrs Palmer McElroy. Several locals travel to Louisville Bardstown Cincinnati and Indianapolis for business or spring purchases. The note collection records friends relatives and visits across Kentucky and nearby states.
In Taylor county the Reverend Short will preach at Pieter Fork church next Saturday and Sunday. Weather has delayed feed scarce but now plentiful. farmers disheartened by tobacco removal while lambs prosper. Horses remain high this season. a 45 dollar horse sale noted, plus other livestock trades. Local family visits, health notes, a birth, a prayer anecdote, a child’s fall, and the Winchester depot demolition in 1882 are recorded.
Mrs. Ora A. Stephens of Port Williams Ohio credits three bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery with stopping a two year cough and curing consumption fears. The ad promotes trial bottles free and lists prices 50c and 1.00 with claims of lung benefit and powerful lungs.
Magnolia Lodge 201 F and A M mourns H B Powell born March 4 1861 in Washington County Kentucky died February 15 1906 deputy sheriff at death long loyal officer and Masonic member. Lodge offers deep sympathy to his family and asks to place a memorial page in the records and have resolutions published in Masonic Home Journal and Springfield Sun.
List shows uncalled letters for the week including Jesse Anderson Anna Burnett Mrs Addie Fields Mrs N Frye Nealie Hancocks James Milburn Sam Pirtie James Phillips Miss Elizabeth Taylor Miss Lyda Smith W A Waters and Postmaster. Also a verdict of acquittal rendered for former State Senator George E Green in Washington after two weeks on charges of conspiring to defraud the Government.
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