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Newspaper

Springfield Sun

Location

Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America

Date

Sep 29, 1909

Page

4

Live Stock Market Report from Louisville Sept 28

Cattle receipts 192 head over two days 3837. buyers light. market quiet with little change. Calves receipts 115. best demand for light calves 120 160 lb at 14 8e. other calves dull. Hogs receipts 1964. tops higher, lights steady. prices 7.80 7.90 for 165 lb plus, 7.25 7.35 for 130 165 lb, pigs 5.50 6.60. grassers slow. Sheep and lambs receipts 178. market quiet, good fat sheep and best lambs steady. top sheep 4 4c, lambs 6 6c.

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Wheat and corn prices quoted from market deal notes

The record shows prices for wheat as paid by deal and quotations for corn and oats as selling prices. Mentions include Mo center figures for red and longberry and references to white oats and levy notes on the levee.

A Card of Thanks for Kindness During Illness

Pearl ie Smothers expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for nine weeks of support during her little boy’s illness. She lists ladies who helped on September 6 by baking peaches and canning gallons of peaches. She adds a note about Kentucky Star Flour.

Lizzie Crouch Mary ‘Hadaone Susan Kays Mat Scott Susie Trent Beil “Cosatham A. D

Death of Geo Easter Found in Passageway Near Town Shop

Early Saturday Geo Easter known locally as Geo Easter was found dying in the passageway between a brick shop and Dr. Trusty’s residence by S J Anderson after moaning was heard. He had been drugged or had a fit and lay exposed in cold weather. Taken to Alex Adams barber shop, Dr. Beam treated him until about four o clock in the afternoon when he died. Easter had long been a well known town figure though thriftless and polite. County authorities will likely investigate the death.

George Geo. Easter Easter

Probably Fatally Stabbed In Wardaville Dispute

Sam Welch and Ezra William quarreled over whisky at the Wardaville Store. William fatally stabbed Welch just above the heart and through the kidney. Welch dies feared while William, wounded, awaits surgical intervention after doctors and a Louisville specialist were summoned. William remains at large.

Wardaville Sam Welch Thomas Welch Ezra William Washington County Fairfield William Welch Murdock McClaskey Beard Louisville Bardstown Standard

Valley Hill social notes and local visits lead story

Peyton Briggs Jr and relatives visit near Bloomfield. Nelson county funerals and marriages at Gravel Switch. Mayme Mann marries Lanham. Local farming, cattle sales, and court day scenes referenced. Readers urged to send weekly reports of births marriages transfers and other happenings to The Sun.

George Robinson Willisburg Peyton Briggs Nelson County W. F. Moran Edward Kelly Mayme Mann M. B. Mann Lanham Gravel Switch W. T. Binder M. Sales Polin Tatum & Brown Springfield the Sun

Old Walnut Desk From 1795 With Hidden Money Drawers

A hand crafted walnut desk dating to about 1795 features a hinged lid, two slip-out supports, four large bottom drawers, ten small money drawers, and upper paper slots. It remains in family ownership through generations and is not for sale. arrangements to view can be made locally in Springfield Kentucky.

John Hardin Mordeca Hardin M. B. Harbin Springfield

The Merchant and Editor Opinion on Town Advertising

The Mindon News argues a town’s newspaper credibility relies on extensive local business advertising to prove it is a financial and commercial center. It notes editors exaggerate without corroboration from merchants and warns that evidence must come from business leaders.

Mindon News

Public Sale Of Farm Personal Property At Springfield Ky

Having sold my farm I will on Thursday Oct 14 1909 at my residence near Springfield Ky sell at public auction without reserve all my personal property 34 1000 pound steers 60 stock hogs and shorts 1 brood mare 1 mule colt 1 yearling mule two work mules 20 acres of corn 12 stacks of timothy hay 3 calves 1 gasoline engine and corn crusher a large lot of farming settlements and household furniture Sale begins promptly at 1 pm All sales over 10 will be on credit 12 months purchaser to give note with good security payable in bank for less than 10 cash

Springfield

Druggists Endorse Chamberlain's Remedy in Portsmouth

Portsmouth druggist Frank C. Hanrahan testifies to six years of selling Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. He praises its reliability and cure rate, noting other medicines pay higher profits but this remedy earns trust and repeat customers. Sold by The Leo Haydon Brug Co.

Frank C. Hanrahan Portsmouth Chamberlain Leo Haydon Brug

All Dental Work First Class in Springfield Ky

An advertisement for dental services in Springfield Kentucky promotes strict first class care from a local provider located at 2 Bice in Hagon Block offering up to date dental work and services.

Springfield Hagon Block

Local Fall and Winter Millinery and Goods Sale Notes

Local notes advertise a fall and winter millinery lineup with new skirts coats and corsets. Listings include sales events Oct 1 2, seeds rye 400 bushels, a baby carriage, a gas engine MIAMI at A C Kimball, and a coat fitting Thursday. Also announced are farm sales near Springfield and Hopkinsville convention appointments.

Fall and Winter Millinery Ready For Inspection

Miss Ethel Turner of Mackville returns from Indianapolis with a full line of fall and winter millinery to be shown after Wednesday September 29. Auctioneer S M Campbell departs Thursday for Burnside to auction a $10 000 stock of merchandise over eight days. A rally at the courthouse drew tobacco growers to hear C C Allen tout the Burley pool and farmers begin pooling their 1909 crop with about 300 acres already pledged in Washington County.

Grace Wells Louisville Eliza Hagan St. Rose Baying Over Peoples Ethel Turner Mackville Indianapolis S. M. Campbell Burnside Mr. Campbell Court House C. C. Allen Washington County

Bids Sought for Masome Temple Construction in Mackville

Sealed bids for erecting the Masome Temple at Mackville Ky are invited between this date and Saturday Oct 9 at Zo elock p m The structure will be a frame building Send bids sealed to C F Hickerson Chairman Building Committee Mackville Ky

Mackville Zo’elock C. F. Hickerson

Two Tablets Improve Biliousness Says Mich Man

J J Firestone of Aflezan Michigan reports taking two Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets last night and feeling fifty percent better than for weeks. He praises the product as a fine article.

Chamberlain J. J. Firestone Aflezan, Mich

Electric Bitters Cured Boy of Eczema in Henrietta

The story recounts a boy’s cure from eczema after five years of failure with doctors as Electric Bitters, praised by his mother, is claimed to have healed eruptions and blood disorders. The ad also notes a No 4 Oliver typewriter for sale at the office.

H. M. Adams Henrietta Eczema Haydon and Robertson Oliver

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