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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1907
Page
5
A note describes a thriving hat trade with a large shipment arriving next Saturday. The seller invites customers to view hats on display and mentions carrying a full line of baby goods and a large selection of pretty caps.
Springfield Kentucky advertisement notes Omics in Hagan Block upstairs offers dental services touted as first class care with location in Hagan Block upstairs and business in Springfield.
Local notes report Springfield Graded School pupils picnicking at Fredericktown and a May 28 A E S E local organization meeting at Cranes school house in Boyle county. Other items include Dr J C Mudd office hours, a severe hailstorm damaging tobacco crops, Rev W H Williams returning from Jamestown Exposition to preach, a two story Mackville business house for sale, and updates on matinees at the fair grounds. The Electric Light and Water Company warns against trespass and warrants. Jno Y Mayes confirms his undertaker business operates above Hagan Bros. grocery.
Citizens of Willisburg and nearby areas are notified that Decoration Services will be held on the first Saturday in June at the Willisburg cemetery. Residents with kin or friends buried there are urged to attend to decorate graves and clean the grounds. Also notes that oiling Main Street in Springfield was tested and found satisfactory, urging merchants to fund it to protect stock from dust.
Personal notes record guests and visits from Lebanon Burgin Bardstown Harrodsburg and Louisville plus calls by telephone company staff and nursing graduates. Several families attend funerals and relocate temporarily while others plan future residence. Estate creditors are urged to settle accounts by June 1 1907.
SPARROW. Farmers finish corn planting after wet delays and prepare land for tobacco with most plants ready. Land sales: R L Mitchell sold 110 acres to B F Long for 8000 dollars and 9 acres to J C Webb for 1035 dollars. Church work begins at Fairmount. Community notices include a local whisky election in Anderson County on June 11 and a cemetery decoration at Fairmount on June 1 with a full program of services and prayers. Assistants and residents are urged to attend and support the building fund. editor of The Sun is invited to join the program for about ten days.
Poultry raising advice promotes Réll-44 tonic to prevent and treat cholera roup gapes and limberneck in fowls and turkeys. Instructions call for 8 drops to sick birds or 3 to 4 feedings weekly as preventive. Price 50 cents. Guaranteed by Haydon the Druggist.
Springfield Post Office reports letters remaining uncalled for including Chas Brown Son Mrs Anda C Claybrooke Miss Hertha Cook Miss Mattie Elliott Mrs C R Grigsby Hueston Green John MeIntire Mrs Willie McElroy Miren Mythelre John Patterson Dan Roberts Mrs Mary Thompsons. When calling for these letters state advertised and provide the date. W A Waters Postmaster.
Funeral services for Mrs Sallie William were held at the Baptist church last Sunday at eleven conducted by Rev Mason and Rev Sims. The service drew a large crowd as neighbors gathered. Several local residents and visitors, including Miss Effie Shirley of Harrodsburg and others, spent time with relatives. A weather incident preceded the service with an electrical and hail storm damaging Jerome Colvin’s barn nearby, valued at over 1000 dollars. The community mourns the death of Mr Frank Seay at his Maud area home May 16 and honors him with funeral services led by Rev J A Sims.
J G Jenkins of Chapel Hill North Carolina praises Buck Len’s Arnica Salve for quick pain relief from a felon, claiming it cures sores burns and wounds. The advertisement claims the salve is the best on earth and lists Haydon and Robertson Drug Store as the retailer selling it for 25 cents.
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