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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1908
Page
8
A dealer advertises several excellent Washington county farms for sale and invites buyers to call before purchasing. Bargain prices are quoted on some of the best properties in the county.
Examinations close a successful school year as students prepare for vacation. Commencement at the Opera House Tuesday May 19 features two representatives from each grade, a varied program of dialogues and declamations, vocal music, and scholarship medals for the first and second years high school to be awarded.
Local residents and visitors are listed with attendance at church and social calls. Mrs. Charlie Ruby is ill with consumption. Several families travel to nearby towns for visits, shopping, and college trips, including Bob Showmaker and son in Harrodsburg and Miss Lydia Williams in Louisville.
Mothers should guard children from nervous exhaustion a fatigue from concentration in play or work. Indications include languor indifference or irritability. Limit prolonged tasks requiring concentration and teach relaxation for highly strung children. The Sun and Courier Journal.
Residents of Mays Creek hope for a new pike as the contractor began work Monday morning led by Walter Adams. A Sunday evening Hillsboro Sunday school crowd showed strong local interest while farmers worry about rain delaying work. Sheep shearing dominates Creek activity and Aunt Lucinda Cocanougher remains ill with unspecified illness.
An East Indian practice legal in name but cruel in fact sees daughters wed to flowers to be discarded later as widows. The grim custom reduces women to commodities, with widows sold cheaply after their spouses perish, highlighting systemic gender oppression.
Advertisement notes paints oils brushes glass and related items with color cards and prices furnished on request.
At a near evenly split Elizabethtown convention, John W. Lewis crafted a slate that defused tension between Taft and Fairbanks factions and between Heavrin and Bruner delegates. Bruner was sidelined while Gaddie and Haswell gained congressional nomination, with Bradly chosen as Delegate at Large.
Captain Hugh Smith and ten State Guards from Danville arrived in Harrodsburg at noon on sealed orders. After feeding and dinner at the New Era they rode north, believed bound for Anderson County to guard tobacco beds or to report at Frankfort. A bystander asked their purpose and they said Governor Willson likely ordered them to disperse the band lingering in town.
The item lists neighborly visits and social rounds as Miss Effie Coulter, Mr. Hubert Patrick, and Nancy A. Scott spend weekends with local families. Church and Sunday school activity at Hillsboro is noted as progressing, while farmers face delays due to extended rainy weather.
P Hatchett of Mackville lists 5 head of young steers for sale. A Perkins of Rt 3 offers a good milk cow with calf. J W Shirley of Willisburg sells a 7 year old family mare. W T Payne Rt 3 on Mrs McLaughlin’s property advertises a stallion? Sale. Mrs B L Litsey lists Burt Orpington eggs at 16 for $1.00. Mrs 5 Thempete Jr Rt 3 sells Big ite Pekin duck eggs 15 for 15c. Mrs B D Lake of Fairs egret le pure bred Buff Orpington eggs 15 for 80c. Phone 75. Mrs J I Martin Rt 1 for sale Rhode Island Red eggs from pen $1 and $2 for 15. From yead 85e for 15. Mrs 8 G Tucker Rt 1 sells Rhode Island Reds eggs. Palmer Goatley offers Sarred Plymouth Rock eggs.
A physician asserts long standing piles can be cured by simple home remedies that ease natural bowel movements. He cites letters from cured patients and promotes Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin as a remedy, with testimonials from H N John of Minneapolis and a Red Cross Drug Store as seller.
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