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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1908
Page
5
Springfield Kentucky advertisement notes a dental office location at Hagon Block up stairs offering primary dental services with emphasis on quality care and strict first-rate standards.
Lost compressed air tank and pump return to Dr J Smock. WANTED two good second hand roll top desks. For SALE or RENT house on Davidson Avenue by C W Stallings. Dr Ben L Bruner Secretary of State of Kentucky to address Republican voters at the Court House next Tuesday at 1 p.m. Rug suppliers Grundy and McIntire advertised. RENT five room cottage near Springfield with barn water and outbuildings to Mrs J L Parvier. Mackville Christian church ladies serve dinner in Springfield on the fourth Monday this month. County Court day notice posted land. trespassing prohibited. Mrs J W Kenty Sr. RENT house and two lots with blacksmith shop near town. phone 101 Richard Riey Springfield KY. As administrator Theo C Campbell to sell private sale twenty five shares Washington County Fair stock to settle estate of F M Campbell.
Miss Ruby O Neal daughter of J R O Neal recently moved to Valley Hill recovering from a serious scarlet fever attack. It is thought the school will close there to prevent spread. A 56 acre tract sold by Mr C F Bosley at the same price as the prior sale, $45 per acre, J E Hagan and George Clark involved.
Washington county people seized the chance to hear William Jennings Bryan in Louisville last night. A special train carried about fifty local Democrats and a colored band to lead the procession. The train waited in Louisville until midnight and then proceeded to Springfield at 2 30 this morning.
A fragment from Sonny's Soliloquy contemplates family parlor proprieties and cherished cushions while a Tuesday fire devastates land near Litsey, Stigall farm area, burning several acres of woodland and grass but causing no serious damage. A humorous crime note about Chicago robbers ends with a phonograph joke from The Musical Age.
Absentee writes in from Happy Hollow listing visits by Pearl and Myrtle Armstrong to the Keelings, Mrs. Solomon Kays and children with H P Chesser, John Armstrong and wife with George Cutsinger of Anderson county, and several others visiting relatives in Willisburg Fairview Maud and Sycamore Valley. Frequent host and guest trails include Erastus Perkins, Gilbert Chesser, Thomas Brown, Bruner Carney, T W Sutherland and families.
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The text recalls ancient scholars and statesmen who sought counsel from elder sages. It notes that the oracles were elderly and their wisdom was revered as divine. It mentions young men consulting Gamaliel and even Caesar seeking guidance from such pundits.
A large sign hangs outside the car barns at Seventh Avenue and Fiftieth Street announcing a recruiting station for motormen and conductors. The piece comments on rising militarism in America as reflected by this recruitment display.
A wave of visits and illnesses fills the week in town. Miss Katie Hertlein spends days in Louisville while Dr. Joe Mudd visits relatives there. Mrs. Edelen improves after a recent illness. Parker Medley and Isabel Medley plan to return for the Medley McCawley wedding. Several Lebanon and Bardstown residents travel or host guests, including Miss Angela Mudd and Miss Mary Agnes Mudd for the wedding, and Rev. Lawson with Mayes family attending Grand Lodge in Louisville. Among health notes, Wallace Mudd is ill with typhoid at home.
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