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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1907
Page
5
The piece urges careful shoe choice during the season, noting three essential points and advising readers to stick to a trusted make when found. It emphasizes the limited number of shoes meeting all criteria and the wisdom of choosing a reliable brand.
Pattern Hats arrive weekly and display at my store Fridays and Saturdays. The Springield Christian church ladies host a court day dinner on the fourth Monday in October. Campbell's advertises full line of goods and prize items. Farmers Home Insurance Co. paid losses in full. M. H. Jones & Co. and J. K. Walls offer wagons and a Deering Corn Harvester. Rents include a furnished house near St Rose and 15 acres of corn ground. Notice: 5 percent penalty added to unpaid 1907 school tax. sixty days to pay or tax warrant will be issued. Baptist church quarterly meeting next Sunday at 3 pm. Want ads include 30 to 40 pairs shoes, delivery boy needed at W P Lawrence’s grocery, furniture for sale, coal at Mrs George Colvin’s. City crossing repair petition to be presented at next council. Farm for sale, 254 acres at Hillsboro, tobacco barn and water. Telegraphy training urged under 6 hour law. jobs pay $60-$80 monthly. National Telegraph Institute, Cincinnati.
Lawrence's Grocery advertises cash sales on maple syrup sugar and a range of bargains in tin and glassware. It promotes cheap groceries, exchange of excess vegetables for groceries, and cash paid for eggs with bold claims of low prices and assorted goods from W. P. Lawrence.
Personal notes record two children of Ed Bobbit ill with typhoid. Various visits and travels are logged: Miss Jennie Craycroft improving. numerous individuals visiting or residing with families in Lebanon, Bardstown, Louisville, Lexington and other places. Names include Foster Baird, G W Lyon, Taylor Spankling, Lucy Seleeman, Viola Brown, Lucile McClasky, Simms family, Nellie Hansbrough, Nellie Thurman, Rebecca McElroy, Edd Kelly, E L Davison, Edwin Carlile Litsey, Lula Timmons, G C Wharton, J L Barber, Catherine Spalding, Effie Thurman, Myrtle and Mabel Price, H M Moss, Margarite Bunnell, Jim McCabe, Will Hagan, Virginia Lisle, John Spalding, Zena Arnold, Will Simms, Alex Barber, Rath Hadley, C R McWhorter.
Private sale of grocery stock and fixtures including soft drinks and laundry agencies. Lease on store with cold storage included. Very cheap rent at a desirable business location. For particulars call on or address W P Lawrence Springfield Ky.
Notice that Campbell's Grocery offers bargains on glass and queensware from now until Nov 1, when possession of the store will be transferred after the sale of the business. The message invites customers to shop for discounted items before the sale takes effect.
Church notes report Woman's Home Mission Society leading a week of prayer and a Saturday 3 PM service. Three members joined Methodist church on Sunday and two joined Baptist church. Rev G W Lyon to preach at Pleasant Run 11 AM and Mayes Chapel 3 PM next Sunday. The Lyons thank the congregation for a warm Springfield welcome.
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