Local News Notes and Bargains from Williams and Others
Local items advertise millinery bargains at Mrs Williams and other sales including Baggies Wagons and clothing, poultry powders from Enterprise Poulty Powders, Kentucky Star Flour, and various farm tools. Also notices on a religious revival, church property sale, rummage sale, stray cattle, county dinner, and a New York Mail Order House ad seeking trustworthy agents with an $18 weekly pay.
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New York
Clarke Co
Park Ave
Death Claims Local Resident Sam Coleman in Louisville
Sam Coleman, once a prominent resident, died at his Louisville home from pneumonia. Funeral services were held Sunday with burial in the Hill cemetery's colored section. Surviving family members are noted. In Fredericktown the 1866 wooden river bridge was razed by C. L. Price and W. A. Smith, who plan to erect an iron bridge after abutments are finished. about 70,000 feet of lumber and preserved timber will be sold.
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Sam Coleman
Louisville
Cemetery Hill
Fredericktown
Messrs
C. L. Price
W. A. Smith
Messrs. Price and
Smith
Red Bird
Cabell
Joe Brown
Cannington
Lizzie Griffin
Baileyter
Lexington
Dollie C
Elastic Horse
Pembleton
Elizabethtown
Insurance offers self supporting disability cover on long contracts
An advert touts self supporting disability insurance with 20 year terms paying out in 15 years and promotes life insurance via Lee Haydon or Lee VanArsdale for Southern National Life. It also markets Dr King’s New Life Pills for headaches, claiming health benefits and 25¢ at Haydon & Robertson's, plus Kentucky Star Flour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Haydon
Lee VanArsdale
Southern National Life Insurance Co
Happy Hollow Social Notes and Local Market Preview
Mr Solomon Kays and family and Miss Nellie and Raymond McIlvoy dined with Mr J M Shields. Neighbors visited and farm updates note corn planted, wheat good, tobacco scarce with possible 60 percent yield. Ed Foster sold a calf for 12 dollars. Roy Bishop bought a buggy for 75 dollars. Spring lambs offered at 5 to 6 cents per pound. Sums up social visits, farming prospects, and local trades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Foster
George Armstrong
Will Sims
Tatham
Luther Ferrell
Spencer Ery
Dudley Ferrell
John Hardin
Roy Bishop
Merrifield & Co
Bloomfield
S. E. Wornall
Tatham Springs
Spring Lambs
Cardwell
Bourbon Stockyard Journal
Baptist Mission Statistics Highlight Kentucky Growth
Dr W D Powell secretary of the State Board of Baptists Missions visited Frankfort to share year end figures. Kentucky churches added over 5 000 members and raised 108 945 94 for foreign home state missions and building funds, ranking Kentucky as the third strongest Bapt ist state behind Texas and Georgia. About 12 000 new members were received by baptism in the year ending May 30, 1908, with stronger figures expected this year.
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Frankfort
W. D. Powell
State Board of Baptists Missions
M. B. Adams
Kentucky
State Mission Board
Powell
Union
Texas
Georgia
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury
Warning against using mercury based catarrh ointments and urging prescriptions from doctors. Highlights Hall's Catarrh Cure by F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as containing mercury and taken internally. Advises buyers ensure genuineness and mentions testimonials and druggist sales. Also notes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Through Geography Lesson and Mother's Demand
A school scene ends with a mother demanding her daughter pass regardless of geography. The tale contrasts a teacher’s reproach with the mother’s blunt claim that passing, not geography, is the goal for securing a husband. The piece shifts to a testimonial by Mrs. James Duncan praising Electric Bitters for relief from dyspepsia after decades of illness.
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Phillippie
Avee
Case of Virgil Bobbitt Hung Jury in Malicious Wounding Case
In Marion County the Commonwealth vs Virgil Bobbitt ended with a hung jury after a two day trial. Nine jurors favored conviction, three favored acquittal, and the case was dismissed. Separately, Monte Fox & Co sold about 350 head of cattle to Jos. B Stern & Son of New York for transport to a distillery in two shipments, with an estimated value near $25,000 at $5.90 per hundredweight.
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Falcon and Enterprise
The
Commonwealth
Virgil Bobbitt
Monte Fox & Co
Jos. B. Stern & Son
New York
Mueller, Wathen & Robert
Subscrib ers Free Column Advertises Farm Goods and Sales
A cluttered free column shows subscribers asked to report stock sales and farm ads to stop ads. Listings include Rhode Island Red eggs at $1 per 15 from pen, 50 cents per 15 from yard, a 2-year-old colt for sale, Pekin Dock eggs, 400 bushels of corn, a registered jack, and various farm items. Multiple individuals and places such as Springfield, Lebanon, and Lyons are named along with auction notes and price quotes.
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Sam Tucker
Rt. 1
Rhode Island
Brussels
Stee
Lebanon
50 and $5.50 wire J. C. Renee sold to Sees
A partial sale record notes J. C. Renee sold a batch of ewes and five lambs for a total of 85 dollars. The fragment mentions price per head and a buyer named Sees, with no clear date or location.
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Wire J. C. Renee
Sees Bate T Ewes
Also Mentioned on This Page
G. T. Burton
Springfield
A Kimball
Hamilton’ Brothers
Bat- Me Ax
Old Hickory
Pt. Thomas
Springfield Cleaning and Pressing Club
Harpon & Robertson
Nannie Mullian
Peoples Bank
Rinpann
Cenningham & Duncan
Ee A. C. Kimball
Old Casey Shops
Main Street
E. M. Russe
Mt. Zion Methodist Church
P. C. Eversole
Robt. Johnson
Wilmore
the Baptist Church
Geo. J. Begemann
Baptist Church
West Main Street
Ladies Aid Society of the
Chris- Wan ‘Church
Wharton & ‘Fapp
Richard and
John Kelly
St. Catherines
Kentucky Star
Springfield Lumber Co
Flatchett and Andersons
Whitman & Barns
Happy Hollow
John Crow
Hence Scott
Near
Polin
Lade Coulter
Solomon Kays
John Armstrong
Myrtle
J. M. Shields
John Kays
Edward Hanby
Hanby
Erastus Perkins
Maud Inman
Wes Bailey
Myrtle Armstrong
Walter Hanby
Mackville
Ja. Bellzona Hanley
J. Lee Settles
Pulliam
Red Bird Stock Farm
Jim McElroy
Fair Ground
Bardstown Pike
Rep Brrp
Moxo
Little Pearl
Alice Loraine
Homer
Hinder Thomas
Plumstone
Imp
Knight of
Bouncing Canought
Mary Canought
Bonnie Clara
Canonett
Nelson II
Nelson 11
Germany
O. V. Aion
Oltmanna
Watseka
America
Otto II
Bill Goebel
Stonewall
Montgomery Prince
Jack
Gregory
Stigall
L. D. Baker
James Duncan
Haynesville
Haydon & Robertson's
Marion County
Sun Thay
Iiae
J. L. Allen
Hfe
Lloyd Haydon, Jr
Rt. 4
Martin Elder
Thomasville
Sale
Pekin
Lebanor
Elder
Thomanville
R. A. Thompson
S. B. Nally
Rt. 2
Sallie Mills
Mills
Marnebuy
Ae F. Morris
Mackington County
J. M. Elder
Rt. 3
B. P. Rock
J. K. Cheatham
J .H. S. Litsey
B. L. Litsey
Ce B. Tagioma
Leo Nally
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