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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1908
Page
8
OCR reads a detailed farm inventory including registered animals such as Duroc Boar Col Ed and Queenie sows with pigs, Orion Duchess Miss Alice and Eight shoats. Also listed are assets: two stacks hay, various implements like McCormick hay rake brown cultivator mower scrapers plows harrows seed sower and wagon harness, plus farm tools and gear.
Lurlie Allison, eighteen, son of Mrs Eliza Allison, was accidentally shot and killed Wednesday morning at about 6 30 while a revolver at the U P Wells Co store was shown and misfired. Chas Mattingly, a fellow clerk, witnessed the tragedy as Allison died within minutes. Funeral set for Friday at 9 at the Methodist church with Rev A V Sizemore officiating. Burial in Bardstown cemetery.
Mrs J M Shields and son Ernest visited daughter Mrs Perry Ruby near Chaplin over the weekend. Leslie Keeling and wife visited his brother M C Keeling and family. An ice cream supper hosted by Mr and Mrs George Keeling drew a large crowd. Mrs Erastus Perkins spent a period at the gathering.
A granddaughter asks for a western tale. The grandmother recalls a Colorado mine childhood, a masquerade ball, a Mexican masked suitor, a staged escape to Mexico, and a rope of danger as a coach robbery unfolds with a hidden ring and a captured robber.
Property listings near Springfield Kentucky show bargains across 6 to 277 acres. Notable lots include No 3 70 acres near Springfield with tobacco land and a dwelling at 40 per acre, No 4 255 acres in Nelson County at 60 per acre, No 65 190 acres at 42.50 per acre, and No 70 1 acre with 50 acres of timber and tobacco land at 50 per acre. Some listings note near depots, schools, churches, pikes, and multiple tobacco barns with good fencing and water.
B D Lake announces L M Rue has sold his interests in the Jenkinsville mill. All parties with accounts must settle by October 20 to close the business promptly.
Local column lists multiple buyers and sellers including J R Connor selling 130 stock ewes, J R Walker offering Timothy hay, Prof G W Colvin selling a young Carpe Jersey boar, L B selling Timothy hay and a baled feed, J L Allen offering a harness and saddle mare, T W Bailey selling a hay press, C C L Grandy advertising thoroughbred animals and corn, Case and Breast listing head of cattle, Stiles and Thompson with stock owns, W P Montgomery offering 150 bushels of seed rye, T Kimberlin selling 25 hogs, J and Smith offering 40 bushels seed wheat and canal bushels of rein.
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