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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1913
Page
8
Mr. A. R. Robertson of this city sues Wm. E. Kerns of Nicholas County for 4000 dollars alleging it is due on a note and mortgage. Other lines advertise seed potatoes and printing services. Advocate Pub. Co.
Hawthorne gelding owned by Mr. Buschmeyer of Louisville is listed as the favorite for the Kentucky Derby with Helios owned by Mr. Johnson N. Campen of Versailles as a strong second choice. The field includes several good entries and neither top horse can claim the race outright. The notice also advertises Elgin Cream Chewing Candy orders and local farm and plant offers with contact details and prices.
An advertisement lists Ready Mixed Paints Varnish and Varnish Stains Rubber Roofing from Soca square up to $2 Plumbing Fixtures Wall Paper Gas Fixtures Medicine Cabinets Mirrors and more. Old Mirrors Resilvered for 30c per square foot. Offer lasts a short time.
John G. Vivion reports Aunt Callie Pieratt is very ill at this writing. Mr. T. J. Vivion and wife and Mrs. Matt Thomas visited Ned Crow and family at Right Angle over the weekend. Local notices also mention sales of horses by Joe Hisle and by Hisle partner James Richardson of L. & E. Junction, with prices of 170 and 190 dollars.
Multiple short items report people visiting relatives in town. Lewis Lyle, of McSterling, moved to a farm rented from J. W. Haggard. Normal Sewell visited Stanton Sunday. Clay Williams of Ulvah Ky returned to work after staying with Mr and Mrs James Williams at Indian Fields. Ethel Boone visits friends in Winchester this week.
When in need of stenographic work phone No 117 38 tf Miss Ruth Tharp ail
Great Sire of Trotting Horses, Bingen, died at the home of owner Mr. David M. Look near Lexington on Saturday evening. Bingen produced Uhlan and ten other performers in 2:10 or better and was regarded as one of the world’s most valuable stallions.
Star Emerald a seven year old seal brown stallion 15.3 hands high and weighing 1100 pounds, sired by Emerald Chief 2132 and dam Star Lady 5029 will stand this season of 1913 at Lone Pine Stock Farm six miles north of Mt. Sterling on the Maysville pike.
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