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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1906
Page
5
Dr J M Burton resident dentist offers painless teeth extraction and crown work as specialties. All dental work strictly first class. Springfield Kentucky office in Hagon Block upstairs.
Local notes report two calves killed by lightning on a Jensenton farm owned by Mr Jno Coeanougher. Notices advertise Radiant Home heater for sale, picture framing services, millinery purchases, and various property sales and estrays. A county notice lists debt settlements due by October 16 and recalls multiple farm sales and transfers, plus a church assignment for Rev Ezra Sutherland to Buffalo LaRue county.
Washington county Medical Society will meet at the Court House in Springfield next Monday October 8. Doctors Hunt Stucky Barber Hyatt Thomler Crume will read papers on typhoid fever. Farm for sale forty nine acres three miles from Springfield on pike with good house stable and grass priced ten dollars an acre. Rent two farms 1907 cash. Fiscal Court elected County Physician Tine Cecil and Sam Bottom as poor house officials.
Market report items list camelint disordered prices for farm goods. Beeswax and butter figures vary. Chicks and dried apples noted. Ducks hens and corn meal prices shown. Eggs per dozen and feathers per pound cited. Hides lime and flour values mixed. Salt barrels potatoes onions noted with barrel prices. Turkeys tallow vinegar wool sorghum and country goods included with scattered figures.
Miss Fannie Smith spent several days in Louisville. Miss Maud Marcum of Catlettsburg visits her cousin Mr Mimms. Miss Sarah Simms stays with cousins Mr and Mrs Bernard Mattingly. Many others travel to Louisville Lebanon Bardstown and Bloomfield for visits business or study. Notable moves include J C Greene resigning Grundy McIntire for Sunny Brook Distillery Coon Hollow Ky and L O McCarty becoming bookkeeper at Peoples Bank. The State reunion of the Daughters of the Confederacy arrives tomorrow at Pewee Valley with Springfield chapter No 1017 in attendance. McChord chapter vice president C C McChord noted.
Taxpayers are warned that 1906 taxes must be paid by November 1 to avoid penalties. After November 1 only the county clerk can issue a tax warrant with a ten day execution period, adding 18 percent. Come in before November 1 to save on costs. J. S. Ossourn, 8. W. C, Nov. 1.
Miss Olive Sutton stays with Miss Lena Gibbs in Brooksville while relatives call on weekend. Rain sweeps the area as Purdom Pinkstone and Lesa Keeling visit. Miss Lena Gibbs returns from Rabbit Hollow followed by social calls from Myrtle Goode and Less Keeling. The Kimberlin family announce the marriage of Effie Mansfield to Dr. William Earnest Crume on October 17 1906 at their Texas Kentucky home.
Miss Mary Atchison daughter of William Atchison and Emmet F McElroy were married at 7 30 oclock in the home of the bride’s aunt and uncle M D Scruggs 2460 Tracy avenue Rev F C McConnell officiated The bride wore a white messaline gown with duchess lace trimming and a diamond brooch The maid of honor Nancy Scruggs wore organdie lace and carried white roses The bridesmaids wore organdie gowns with red rose bouquets The best man was Joseph Robinson of Fort Worth Tex and Lindsay Gilmer and John Launder were groomsmen Christine McConnell sang All For You and I Love You Truly The ceremony was in the library with Southern smilax and white roses decorations A reception followed
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