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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1906
Page
5
Dr J M Burton resident dentist offers teeth extraction without pain crown work a specialty. All dental work strictly first class. Springfield Ky office in Hagon Block upstairs.
Attend the Picnic at Frederick town on September 29, live bargains at P. J. Thomas bring frames to order for pictures and a wide stock of pants underware and shoes. Typhoid fever outbreak in Harrodsburg and Mercer county linked to impure water prompts public inspection urged. Land and animal sale notices include Kid Boone Property near town and 100 mule colts in Springfield with details on homes stock and creamery prospects.
The notice announces a September 29 picnic at Frederick town and reports a dissolved partnership asking debts to be settled at once with books at Robertson & Claybrooke. It notes Boblitt Brown & Bishop acquiring Tunney & Bishop, with Boblitt Brown stable changes and a feed stable reuse. an ad for horses and buggies appears. It records Ernest Spalding’s serious injury from a runaway accident and updates on W C M Society meeting in Springfield and Luther Burns’ recovery from typhoid fever with community support.
Hardisty resident Colie Hardin lost about 50 dollars worth of tobacco last week when a barn fire started while drying the crop. A fire kindled in the barn roof spread before crews could extinguish it, causing the substantial damage.
The notice warns taxpayers that 1906 taxes are due before November 1 to avoid a 18 percent penalty after November. A county clerk tax warrant will be issued and executed within ten days, increasing costs. Reader urged to pay at once, The Sun subscription offered at $1 per year.
In Bardstown Lud Muir shot Harrison Cox twice after an argument at Coy's saloon. Cox was wounded in the elbow and near the hip, with Muir claiming Cox threatened him with a knife. The men then met near Whelan's saloon where the shooting occurred. Muir’s Nelson Circuit Court trial will cost taxpayers 90 to 150 dollars per day plus 60 cents daily jail board for the defendant.
Judge Bell addresses the Danville Grand Jury on the new law that bans under sixteen year olds from working as messengers, clerks, and shop hands while allowing vacation work or support needs. He urges strict enforcement to improve educational use of facilities and citizenship standards. Also notes immediate settlement for debts to Darboe & Campbell and books at B. D. Lake's office.
Market items list various prices and terms for commodities including corn meal eggs wool and flour. Several incomplete phrases and misspellings obscure specifics but indicate prices per pound per barrel and per dozen across grains livestock and poultry with notes on firmness and activity.
Personal notes recount visits and travels in Louisville, Bardstown, Lebanon, Cincinnati, Danville, and Cincinnati area. Names include Mayes, Mulligan, McChord, Hord, McClure, Searcy, Shaunty, McElroy, Clements, Peters, Lake, Meade, Wimsatt, Blanford, Mulligan, Curry, Whelan, Pettus, McGill, Dancan, Hopper, McCabe, Anderson, O Nan, Williams, Mayes, Atchison, Hyatt, Claybrooke. Several attendions mention typhoid fever, journeys for shopping and schooling, and upcoming weddings.
Mrs Jennie McClain Patterson of Adairville Kentucky and Mr James W Bell of Springfield Tennessee were married in Louisville by Rev Chanler of the Methodist church. The bride, mother of Mrs W M Hagan, has long been welcome here and the couple will live in Springfield Tennessee. Notices call all to settle debts owed to estate of F M Campbell by October 15. books at B D Lakes office Tuco.
The Sun notes invitation to the marriage of Mary Elizabeth and Emmet Field McElroy. The couple plans a home later at 2017 East Twenty-month Street in Kansas City. McElroy, son of Mr and Mrs A C McElroy of Springfield, is described as a progressive businessman with strong local esteem.
A public sale will be held at the Wright farm one mile east of Mackville on Glens Creek. Items include livestock a family horse brood mare two-year-old filly two-year-old work mule two milk cows two yearling heifers a weanling calf fifteen Poland China sows and 600 bushels of corn plus hay farming implements and household goods. Sale starts at 10 a m terms to be announced. W H Wright.
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