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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1920
Page
1
The Advocate announces a whistle alert system for paper carriers to signal deliveries. Readers urged to report delivery issues to The Advocate office for prompt handling with the carrier.
M C H S News highlights March and April activities at the Hobart school. Y MC A experiences in France are recounted by Mr. Lewis Judy. Miss Lucille Booth visits from Millersburg. Easter service led by Rev B W Trimble. Emersonian Literary Society program includes creed debate jokes and more. Grace Maxwell visits from the University of Kentucky. County High School hosts Country Women's Club event with picture show and refreshments. Senior class play My Cousin Timmy set for next Friday at 8 pm. demand for good seats noted.
Mrs. Tapp, wife of Charles Tapp, died Tuesday at her Richmond home from injuries suffered in an automobile crash weeks earlier. Funeral services and burial were held yesterday. She was a frequent guest at the Oscar Baird home and leaves many friends in the area.
The Mt Sterling music scene anticipates a major recital by violinist Jules Falk with Estelle Wentworth and Malvina Ehrlich as soloists. The Women's History Club will host the program featuring diverse works by Burleigh Zeckner Elgar Tschaikowsky Chopin Kreisler and more. Tickets are selling quickly as locals look forward to the concert.
News of the drowning death near Umatilla Florida reaches this city. Mrs. Margaret Embry Devault daughter of Taft Embry and wife of George Devault, had lived here for years. She leaves parents siblings and wide family ties including Nannie Shackelford and A B White as relatives.
Lincoln Willoughby son of Mr and Mrs Croxton Willoughby of this city is improving after a severe burn from a gas explosion. He has been treated at St Josephs Hospital for several days and physicians say he has a good chance to recover. Death had been expected during treatment.
A campaign outlines a constructive program to build a county wide system of hard surfaced roads using state and federal aid. It urges a $300000 bond issue as revolving funds to match Midland Trail and Paris to West Liberty segments, with state refunds on completion and rapid construction through the new Kentucky Road Law.
Oscar Moss a prominent farmer near Camargo died at his home this morning from a shotgun suicide. He was in poor health recently and was found in the yard after leaving his room to light a fire. Survived by wife, son Robert, three brothers, and one sister. Funeral Friday at 2 pm at his residence with burial at Machpelah Cemetery.
The piece notes Quinn and Loveshave renting a room from Judge McKee to start a local business and discusses the Kentucky roped law impacting Montgomery county highways. It highlights potential savings in road maintenance, increased earning power, rising property values, and the impact on bond issues and funding for roads and development.
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