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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1922
Page
4
Mt Sterling weekly Advocate publishes notices with editorial leadership listed J W Hedden Sr and Jr and Mary C Ayres Erling as business manager. Subscription set at two dollars yearly with cash payment required before insertion. Wording indicates standard post office second class mailing.
Readers weigh multiple locations for a new hotel as prices on properties, potential city dividends, and advertising value drive the decision. Favorites include the Christian church to Broadway on Main, the C. G. Thompson site at Maysville and High, plus East Main, McKee-Chiles, Locust and Bank, and Strother on West Main streets. stockholders prepare to choose a site benefiting the city.
The April court day is described as one of the year’s best with cattle en route to Mt. Sterling pens and merchants already engaging pens. The grass crop looks promising and a large turnout is expected for cattle and mules with several sheep noted to change hands.
Miss Nettie Prewitt daughter of Mr and Mrs Arch Prewitt of Montgomery county married Fred Gilbert of Lexington last week in Lexington. The bride comes from a prominent county family and is well known socially. Mr Gilbert is a railroad man with the C and O railroad. They will reside in Lexington.
Captured in Lexington on a warrant sworn by J H Conner of Montgomery National Bank and De tect ive Dudley Veal arrested R C Clark of Greenville N C. Clark is wanted for uttering a cold check for 37 dollars and posted $500 bond before Judge Riley to appear in Montgomery court on April 18.
W. M. Kirk dies in Lexington and is buried here. H. T. and O. M. Kirk attend. Social visits include Mrs. Jake Kline and children with Mrs. John Setters. Mrs. Robert Mason and son with Mrs. Vernon McKinney. Dudley Kline with Breck Turley's family in Winchester. Hattie Kline with Sallie Becraft and Sam Kline. Beulah Kline with Hattie Kline. Sunnie Norris returns home after visiting relatives. Robert Willoughby returns from Middletown Ohio.
The passage contemplates a world of sane and kind people and crooks, with many on the borderline. It argues for guiding the good among them toward a joyful life without material excess and critiques newspaper portrayals that glamorize crime while implying crooks can win through reform.
A fragment argues for treating a borderline group as a target for a long term advertising push to convert them into genuine crowds. The plan suggests waiting until readiness then realignment of efforts.
An elderly resident recalls a bygone era when women appeared modestly dressed and giggling was rare unless a house burned. The reminiscence reflects stricter social norms and surprised reactions to modern behavior.
One mile from Mt. Sterling two Mammoth jacks offered at ten and twelve dollars to insure living costs. Bible thought notes a good name is assets and favor over riches.
A bride's breakfast gown quickly becomes a greasy kimono as the day progresses, illustrating a humorous or ironic wardrobe mishap reported in a light, domestic tones. The piece centers on clothing mishaps and social timing.
Telephone 343 advertises Barns and Co clean clothing with a catchy question about dirty clothes and contact number 343.
W W Clark offers fine strawberry plants for sale. Call 332 for details. (51-8)
Locust and Queen streets offer ice on sale advertised by H Gordon. The note lists prices or quantities in a compact local sale tease with no further details.
An advertisement by Madison V Leach on S Maysville Street near the C O depot offers rubber tire and wheel repairs, painting and blacksmithing for buggies with moderate prices. The notice emphasizes affordable services for buggy owners.
Richardson Bros offers a seasonal selection for Easter including strawberries sweet potatoes head lettuce green beans beets onions radishes cucumbers and rhubarb. The shop provides meats dressed fowls beef lamb pork country hams lamb fries brains and sweetbreads and is a seed sweet potatoes headquarters.
Canned goods season begins with attractive specials offered by T. K. Barnes & Sons. Also advertised are rubber tireing and buggy wheel repairs by Madison V. Leach on Maysville Street near the C and O depot, with moderate prices for repairs and blacksmithing.
J W Whaley of Sharpsburg bought a Ford coupe and Dr J W Prewitt purchased a sedan from Strether Motor Company in a pair of recent field purchases.
Mrs Carroll C Chenault underwent a throat operation yesterday at Good Samaritan hospital in Lexington and is reported to be doing well.
In Jeffersonville Charles Brown shot Goebel Cornwell over a horse trade dispute. Cornwell was wounded in the right shoulder and not seriously hurt. Brown surrendered to officers Beall Hadden and Vivian Faulkner, was jailed for exam Monday. Also noted is a pecan kernel spot disease outbreak prompting USDA action to aid growers and protect top pecan varieties.
A columnist notes the rising costs and explains that sustaining efforts requires abundant funds as money grows scarce for ongoing projects and ventures.
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