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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1906
Page
5
A collage of short items lists real estate for sale near Springfield, debts and estates requiring settlement, lost items, stray livestock, and local business notices. Ads promote second hand goods, frame making, toilet sets, sideboards, and fashions from Leachman’s Furniture Store. A July 1906 fire at Springfield Lumber Co. shop sparked by gasoline leakage is noted.
Peter O’Brian & Co shipped four loads of hogs yesterday and will send one car of export cattle on Saturday plus two loads of butcher cattle. Rev G W Lyon and Dr W A Earley assist at a protracted meeting in Lebanon starting November 5. Real estate agent B D Lake sold 220 acres in Bear Wallow to P A McIntire for Tyman and Richard Keene. Martha Shewmaker to marry Jack Raybourne at Mackville Christian Church. Arvine Arnold bought C B Jeffries farm near Texas at $47 per acre for 186 acres. Big Store promotes cloaks suits and dress goods. Local injuries to Logan Walker from a buggy accident improve. MacKville sales include 50 sheep at $6.50 and cattle at $4 per hundred. J T Lester buys 50 acres at $95 per acre. Silas Johnson buys 84 acres at $75 per acre totaling 7050 dollars.
A brief note from M H Jongs asks the ladies to refrain from selling heirs or roosters until after the turkey season, stating they are already low and promising at least two more cents per item afterward. The message urges them to bear this in mind and hold them for the writer.
Happy Hollow reports a flurry of visits as Missea Flossie, Pearl Armstrong and grandmother Mrs. Royalty stayed with uncle Dan Castell in Chaplin over Friday and Saturday. J M Shields and daughter Sarah attended to town business on Saturday.
The notice extols Chamberlains Cough Remedy as safe for children and effective for coughs colds and croup. It notes no harmful ingredients and cites a world wide reputation. Local items mention Mrs Shauity staying with Byron Crooke and travels of S H Bishop and wife and Mr Conrad Hertlein to Germany for family reasons. Rev G F Hamilton accepts a pastorate in Hillsboro Ohio and will move there soon.
Personal notes list many residents visiting relatives and friends across Louisville, Danville, Harrodsburg, Lebanon, Martinsville, Owensboro, Frankfort, Corbin, and St Marys. Names include O Nan Blanford, Pattie Blanford, John Brown, George Colvin, Leo Simms, Stith Thompson, Jennie Redding, Luckett Simms, Nan nie Simms, Mary Ragsdale, D. E. Wayne, Fred Grigsby, J. W. S. Clements, Reeves, Burk Robertson, John Baker, Jennie McCabe, Myrtle Price, Ethel McClasky, Viola Brown, Emily Russell, Will Huston, J. W. Carter, Len Allen, Mayme Allen, VanNetta, M. H. Jones, Bessie Morris, Bullard, Winchester Phillipps, Elizabeth Leachman, David Shuck, J. B. Robards, Mina Lou Boole, Sam Montgomery, J A Way, Sarah Simms, Margie Bonta. Many trips and visits span multiple towns and weekends.
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