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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1907
Page
2
A long list of farms is advertised with locations around Springfield, Lebanon, Willisburg, Mackville, and nearby towns. Prices range from about 2 000 to 65 per acre. Many listings note good dwellings, barns, wells, fencing, and land in grass or tobacco and bluegrass. Some entries include proximity to railways or towns and specify improvements or water access.
Washington October 4 The Crit tenden peace tree which stood for over forty years in the botanical garden will be cut down tomorrow to make way for a foundation for the Grant Memorial statue. William R Smith superintendent protests to War Department urging the foundation be moved ten feet westward to spare the trees. The Beck tree planted by Senator James Beck in 1876 will also be removed. Smith, a longtime guardian of the gardens, laments the loss of a symbol linked to Crittenden and a broader peace legacy, but lacks the political clout to halt the project.
The excerpt muses on home as more than a building or furniture, a living spirit that welcomes all born into its circle and expands beyond walls. It rejects warehouses and markets as true homes, describing home as an ethereal essence that fills every corner and even scent strangers who enter.
A subscriber vented after a run through the post office. the editor replied with samples and rent notes, inviting trusted readers to help. The subscriber, seeing the tactic, relented, paid up, and renewed for another year.
Mrs. Fannie Connor of Rural Route 1 Georgetown Tenn credits Dr King's New Discovery with stopping her persistent cough and restoring weak lungs after pneumonia left her coughing day and night. She notes the remedy as the last hope when other treatments failed.
Miss Lillie May Bean and T C Sullivan wed quietly at St Joseph’s Church in Bardstown area. Real estate agent Morgan Yewell reports Armstrong Allen farm sale of 231 acres near Bardstown for 12689.96 dollars to Lee McGee, a Minnesota resident. Raymond Culver, 21, was fatally shot beside New Haven pike by Arthur Smith, 22, near Kirby Smith store. Arthur Simpson, near Bardstown, badly injuries in engine accident on Loretto pike. condition serious but improving as he recovers at his brother R L Simpson’s home.
Maine man Greenten Davis of Bangor trained woodpeckers to mark rock maples, aiming to produce birdseye maple by the red bark spots left by redheaded woodpeckers. He assembled nearly a hundred birds, observing that red spots on the wood correlated with bird activity, proposing a natural cause for the sought after figure.
A father advises his careless daughter to brighten their mother’s weary face by waking early to prepare breakfast and then kissing her on the mouth when she returns. He recalls the mother’s loving kisses from the past and the healing power of a mother’s kiss through years of childhood.
An ad from May don and Robertson druggists promotes Dr King s New Life Pills. It claims health in a malarious district costs 25 cents and ties Elia Slayton of Noland Ark to the product s benefits with a guarantee of satisfaction.
A West Point News ode to the successful farmer sitting under his vine and fig tree while banks fail and towns collapse. It lauds his independence from national turmoil, his weathered honesty, and the preserved virtue of his family, calling him the nation’s best manhood example.
Last warning to taxpayers: 1907 taxes due. Penalty starts November 1. After that date no payments to me. A tax warrant will be issued by the county clerk and executed within ten days, adding 18 percent cost. Pay before November 1 to avoid further costs and sale. J. S. Osborn, 8 W. C.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch report describes a novel fast market delivery idea for farmers. An automatic system would transport butter, eggs, greens and more in baskets through light rails at 20 to 25 mph from the farmer’s gate to a central office and then to the market. A single operator could run at least twelve units, with carrier rails depositing mail and merchandise at stations, and a telephone order system linked to a central office.
A man claiming to be Warren G Noble, NY automobile firm manager, paid 50 dollars and costs for reckless driving in Greenwich. His woman companion, introduced as Mrs Otto wife of a Nevada senator, spoke to the sheriff and police sergeant during the trial. She displayed a gold bracelet and chain claiming protection, saying poison could end her misery and asking if the crowd belonged to that group.
Carl Hagenbeck asserts a new pheasant breed created by cross breeding European and Asiatic stocks with selection. The stock weighs three to four pounds more than current European birds and over 300 birds have been sent to Walter Rothschild of Tring. He predicts Europe’s game could be radically changed in coming years.
A catalog of farm tracts numbered 64 to 90 near Springfield with 50 to 1700 acres. Properties feature tobacco land from 20 to 125+ acres, multiple dwelling houses, tobacco barns from 4 to 10 acres, stock and granary buildings, river bottom or bottom land, timber and grass, fences, water, and proximity to pikes, schools, churches, and depots. Prices range from 22.50 to 75 per acre depending on tract and improvements.
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