Turkeys and local trades stir Harrodsburg area
Local notes report turkeys selling high with a top price of 114 and a head. Residents including Mrs. Littrell and Mrs. Mobily visited S. C. Milton near Harrodsburg. Several locals traveled to Danville for sales at B. G. Fox stable. Real estate and livestock trades appear, including farm acreage, Chaplin river bottom land, and a two-year-old filly sold for 83. The period records multiple social visits and illnesses among infants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.H. Littrell
J. T. Mobily
S. C. Milton
Harrodsburg
Golda May Williams
E.G. Holiday
J. A. Kyler
Danville
B. G
Gokdman Patterson, Jr
Chaplin
W. L. Gra
J. R. Ward
Abner Foster
Long Run and Local Happenings in Beech Grove Area
Ten weeks after his son’s fever Mr John Cocaneagher is at home. Bert Coyle of Springfield visits his brother J M Coyle this week. Jim Best is on the sick list as Mrs Laura Best and daughter Mrs da Coyle visit. Mattie Begley spent weekend with Mrs Ella Montgomery of Springfield. Mrs Parlee Cocanougher returns home after a week with son Mr Cocanougher. Beech Grove prayer meeting progresses. all invited. Miss Lattisha Carpenter guests of Aunt Mrs Katie Coyle. Little Katie Best visits great grandmother Cocanougher. Turkeys sell 11 30 to 12 cents. hunting season opens, rabbits and birds scarce. Tobacco yields low due to dry weather. Com stock sells at 1.76 to 2 per bushel near Antioch church. Methodist meeting near Washington county line at Antioch. Thanksgiving service planned at Pleasant Hill church. All are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Cocaneagher
Bert Coyle
Springfield
J. M. Coyle
Jim Best
Laura Best
da Coyle
James Best
Mattie Begley
Ella Montgomery
Parlee Cocanougher
Cocanougher
Beech Grove
Lattisha Carpenter
Katie Coyle
Katie Best
Washington County
Antioch Church
Pleasant Hill Church
Profit in Duck Raising and chicken care insights
Article discusses profitable duck farming across regions, favoring Pekin varieties on Long Island but noting other breeds like Mekina Aylesbury Raven and Indian Runner as viable. Describes housing, brooding, and interior setup, plus curing chicken cholera with corn bread and turpentine doses, then feeding green cut bone to winter layers and exhibition birds, and finally describes a dropping board for cleanliness.
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Long Island
Aylesbury
Western Poultry Journal
Slanting Drop Board and Duck Egg Experiment
An old note describes a slanting drop board for droppings collection and discusses the rising favor of ducks for egg production. It cites a French experiment comparing hens and ducks with 257 eggs from hens and 402 from ducks between January and August, plus 215 eggs from ducks in the prior autumn after hens ceased laying. It also mentions a moisture remedy for poultry houses using oak leaves to cover doors and absorb moisture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Pennsylvania
American Agriculturist
Christmas church decorations a guide to floral harmony
A columnist advises how to decorate churches for Christmas using palms, evergreens, holly, ivy, berries, and grasses. Tips cover grouping away from the altar, avoiding mixing tall palms with greens, creating unstudied festoons, and lending warmth with frost gloss, berries, and pine-inspired massing.
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St. Louis Grobe Democrat
How to Arrange the Christmas Menu
Guidance on keeping Christmas traditions with a simpler menu. Suggests not overloading meals with many sides and desserts, recommends one heavy dessert with ice cream, and advises a light salad and soup to leave room for main courses without causing indigestion.
How to Give a Novel Dance Christmas Costume Party
Merry guests attended a Christmas dance with costumes themed as fruit and vegetables. Rooms resembled a barn kitchen garden with celery, cranberries, holly, maize, and paper wheat. One guest wore green cheesecloth celery trim. another a corn color Ceres look. Men wore celery tops and carrot boutonnieres. The event was widely praised for its humorous, lively flair.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
How to Make Plum Pudding Sauce and Dragon Snap
Instructions describe making a plum pudding sauce with cornstarch butter sugar egg and boiling water, then thickening on heat and flavoring. It also details a Christmas game Snapdragons with raisins lit in brandy and passed around while singing, plus rendering matton tallow from kidney fat to treat ingrowing nails.
Commissioner Sale of 135 Acre Property in Washington Ky
Washington Circuit Court in Kentucky orders a commissioner sale of 135 acres more or less in Washington County with a six and twelve month credit. Property described by metes and bounds near L H Satterly Seay and Durr with access via a turnpike and drain. Sale at 10 a.m. to highest bidder on premises, with bond and security required, updates by M G Leachman M C W C C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Durr
Easen
Wesley Graham
W. M. Sanders
Sanders
Duganville Pike
M. G. Leachman
Commissioner’s Sale in Washington Circuit Court in Ky
A description of the sale of property in Springfield Kentucky by order of the Washington Circuit Court in 1905. The sale, at the courthouse door on November 27 1905, will be by public auction on credit for ten months. Bidders must furnish bonds and security and comply with bonds terms. Leachman M C Washington Circuit Court Clerk notes details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Charley
Ethel Shewmaker &c
Washington Circuit Court
Springfield
Waitara
Mackville
County
Main Street
J. A. Clark
Rochester Avenue
Aes
Force Gaiaties
Eee
Parrc G, Leachman
Sale Notice in Washington Circuit Court
Announcement of a commissioner sale in the Washington Circuit Court in the 1905 case of J. E. Mattingly Adm. et al. against George Mattingly et al. detailing an offer to sell the property under equity. The document references the above styled cause and the court’s sale proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara B
Royal Royaly
Wille
Washinton
J. E. Mattingly
George Mattingly
Public auction terms and tragic tornado toll reported
A court notice outlines a vacant land sale with a six and twelve months credit, describing boundaries near Mattingly Graves Kelty and Alphonzo Joao Farm, with conditions enforceable by judgment. Eight killed and thirty injured by a November Mountain View tornado in Oklahoma are reported, along with dubious medical claims and wartime casualties from international wires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mountain View
Oklahoma
Suburban Free Column Notes Local Farm and Livestock Sales
A fragmented public sale column lists items for sale or rent including livestock such as four shoats weighing 75 pounds, bronzes like turkeys with prices for Toms and hens, and white Leghorn roosters. Several names and locations appear including Rosa Lancaster J D Stanfield in Lebanon Kentucky and Bettie Spaulding Fredericktown. It also references hay for sale and tenancy notices from Annie E McIntire Springfield and R A McIntire route 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. Stanfield
Lebanon
Bettie Spaulding
F. F. Mudd
Fredericktown
Ben
Edwards
Route 1
Springfield
Pie supper draws many young folks at Willisburg
In SYCAMORE VALLEY a sizable group of local youths attended a pie supper in Willisburg Saturday night. Several residents traveled to Springfield for shopping, and a family reunion occurred at Mr. Z. P. Leachman's with Mr Leachman Mrs Leachman and others sharing a pleasant day. The writer notes plans for a summer reunion of correspondents in Springfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willisburg
Thomas Praither
Alma Godley
W. E. Sutherland
Springfield
Cora Mcllvoy
Sweet Retreat
Sue Merritt
Thomas Prather
Z. P. Leachman
Mrt Leachman
B. Leachman
Robert Thompson
Wilson
Mr. Leachman
Gregory
Nellie Reed
Remedy for a Bad Doal by C J Haydon
When you have a bad deal you want a remedy that gives quick relief and a permanent cure. You seek a pleasant remedy that relieves suffering without expense or danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanie
Illinois Central Railroad Low Round Trip Rates Reach Midwest to Texas
Illinois Central announces very low round trip rates on the first and third Tuesdays of each month to Arkansas Indian Territory Oklahoma and Texas with cheap excursions to Hot Springs Arkansas via Memphis. The line operates personally conducted sleeper excursions from Louisville to California Arizona New Mexico and Texas. Monthly circulars cover Fruit Growing Vegetable Gardening Stock Raising Dairying in Kentucky West Tennessee Mississippi and Louisiana. Farmers and housekeepers may mail their names to receive Nos 1 through 11 free. For rates and tickets contact the nearest railroad agent or W Harlow Louisville Ky.
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Arkansas
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Texas
Hot Springs
Ark
Memphis
Louisville
California
Arizona
New Mexico
The
Minois Central Railroad Company
Kentucky
West Tennessee
Mississippi
Louisiana
W. Harlow
Louisvilia
Springfield Market Dispatch On Arrest Of Officials
Dispatcher report from New York states municipal arrest of one thousand election officials amid market barge incidents. Impacts on local governance and upcoming voting procedures noted.
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New York
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Ee de Ballard- Lies
Commissioner’s Sale
Mattingly
Peter Graves
Chas
Kelty
Bown
O Willis
Alphonzo Joao Farm
Tata
Chamberlain
Napier
New Zealand
Herald
Pha Board
New South Wales
Australia
C. J. Hay
United States
Odessa
DR. Miles
Miles
Sol
Miles Medical CO
Eihart In
Dee
Rosa Lancaster
Annie E. McIntire
McIntire
R. A. McIntire
Sycamore Valley
Illinois - Central Railroad
Springfield Market
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