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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1905
Page
5
Various items report sales and auctions, business openings, and community notices. A fine harness stallion sold for 350 dollars, a Willisburg merchant opening in Wilmore, and a serious health court adjudication of unsound mind. The Postoffice orders rural route boxes numbered after Sept. 30.
A Republican County Committee mass meeting was called for next Saturday afternoon to nominate candidates for county offices. The session will be held in the courthouse and start at 2 p.m.
A Lebanon area weekly note listing residents and guests visiting or traveling to Louisville Lexington Bardstown St Marys Owensboro and Owensboro area towns. Names include George Austin A H Cunningham E Carl Litsey Willie Knott Katie Green Katie Kearns Oscar Walker M Spalding Conrad Hertlein J H Lampton Elizabeth Leachman Maury Lewis John Kelly Sarah Simms Louise Wathen Leo Haydon W W Ray J C McElroy Gwinn Marks Juan Londetta Olivia Clements Margaret McChord Lida Grundy Mary Bell Montgomery Ella Thompson Carrie Thompson Hattie Blanford Flora Mudd with mentions of visits to schools funerals minstrel shows and trips last week.
Local residents including Misses Janette Dawson Stella Houtchens Ethel Bush Sallie Mae Williams and Miss Bertha Snider plan to attend Millersburg College Jessamine Institute and Springfield high school. Others depart to Norman Bardstown and Millersburg institutes as area families face labor shortages and farm activity continues.
Cain and Mrs. W E Miss Annie Mayes and Viola Brown came back from Lebanon visiting Mrs Mahon. Miss Flaget Simms Miss Margaret Spalding were in Louisville. Several pairs including Mr and Mrs Porter Myers Lebanon visited W E Ray. Families from Lebanon Danville Fredericks town Harrodsburg Greensburg Spencer county and Mackville appear in a flurry of visits with updates on illness travel and social events.
A Springfield store proclaims the largest stock and best selections with new dress goods and improvements in mohair cremes, plain and changeable colors.
Hart Scahfiner Marx offers The Welworth men’s line and Perfection boys wear. The ad guarantees quality equal to tailor-made goods and urges readers to see the ensembles before buying suit or overcoat.
A local advertisement lists dress fabrics including storm serge cheviots prunellas venitians broad cloth sackings tricot coverts granetes and henriettas in black and variety of colors.
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