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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1922
Page
5
Readers are invited to contact the Society Editor at the number 74 to learn about social events and items of local interest. The note emphasizes keeping friends informed about social activities and suggests reaching out for details.
Miss Dessie Stamper visits friends in Cincinnati. Charles Mann of Dan travels to Cincinnati on business. Mrs Mary Wood Rice of Los Angeles visits relatives here. Miss Clara and Florence Stamper spend time in Lexington. Lena Whaley of Paris visits sister Mrs Hoffman Wood. W A Cox of Elder in the city on business. Returns noted from Lexington and Ashland. Hettie and Elizabeth Brockway visit Jellico relatives. Dr J F Reynolds returns from Mayo Clinic Rochester. Mrs Tipton Wilson and Betty Wilson visit Mrs T D Judy in Millersburg. Mrs Floyd Burns of Lexington visits brother Joe M Conroy. Mrs Richard Moore of Lexington guests of daughter Mrs Bright Cockrell. Mr and Mrs W C Clay and children guests of Mr and Mrs James Shropshire in Fayette county. W B Schuhart of Georgetown spends weekend with ill wife at Stamper home. Burton Prewitt with Miss Botts of Lexington Vickers.
Owensboro's Ruby Owens and Paducah's Mr. John Walsh joined Lexington's Joseph Shouse for a weekend at Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Prewitt's country home. D. L. Munse and wife and Mrs. T. B. Arthur of Lexington visited J. W. Hedden, Sr. The county high school's senior class, chaperoned by Professors Taylor and Hamilton, attended the Strollers of the University of Kentucky performance in Paris on Monday night, with students including Bates Hastie West Oldham Steele Oldham and Nancy Rebecca Annie.
Mrs. Harry G. Hoffman hosted a Wednesday bridge party on North Maysville Street for guest Mrs. Alfred M. Pulaski of Chicago. Miss Suzette Johnson won best score and a handmade handkerchief. consolation went to Mrs. J. C. McNeal who presented the candy prize. Refreshments followed.
The notice invites parishioners to Baptist church events with Sunday School at 9:30 led by superintendent A L Mitchell and preaching at 10:45 on Steward ship and 7:30 on The First Disciples of Jesus. A midweek prayer service is held Wednesday at 7:30.
The article notes Miss Elise Derrickson sick with mumps at home on Clay street. Miss Clara Stephenson is recovering from a recent severe illness. Floyd Stamper is rapidly recovering from a recent operation and will soon be entirely well. Judge H. Clay McKee has been quite sick but shows signs of recovery. J Will Clay is somewhat improved after a few difficult days. Harrison Kimbrell, who fell and injured his hip, is progressing but will be unable to work for about 10 days.
Martha Jones reports on weekend social visits as Miss Jennie V. Settles stayed with Miss Lennie Hoskins. Several families gathered, including the Johnsons, Joneses, and others visiting relatives such as Mrs. Anne Poe with her daughter, and Mrs. Kate Emerson visiting in Winchester.
Opinion suggests many favor a bonus if lawmakers drop the us from the taxpaying end. The line hints at shifting language to ease or rebalance tax policy rhetoric.
The First Baptist church of this city becomes the first in Kentucky to install radio service. Wires are being strung this afternoon and the system will operate once instruments arrive. The service will serve the men's Bible class room and the Sunday School auditorium.
The deacons of Mt. Sterling Baptist church will meet in the pastor's study Sunday afternoon at 2 30 o'clock.
It suggests inviting young people to rest and enjoy themselves at home and in churches. It calls for providing instruction books to foster interest in church work among the younger generation.
A reflective, opinion rich piece laments the slow progress of national life and politics. It compares leadership and reform to historical figures and parables while dismissing blind optimism and urging practical action.
Auction-like ad notes Buff Orpington eggs for sale by Mrs Jesse Florr with phone contact 272. The page also includes quips on wealth, aviators, and old-time manners.
A fragmentary column quotes a satirical call for labor reform proposing two weeks work and fifty weeks vacation. It questions moral boasts and mentions a job ad seeking a good girl for nursing and housework with a fair wage at 261 E Maxwell Lexington. The note also references a character Volvia asserting the world is flat and turning over.
In Hot Springs Arkansas two children a boy and a girl are described as living photographs of their parents the boy a living photograph of his father and the girl a living phono graph of her mother indicating remarkable resemblances within a family.
A Virginia town reportedly stays dry and pins postage stamps on a post. The gag contrasts people with odd heads and the note that most piano keys resemble imitation ivory.
The note claims Charlie Chaplin sues an actor imitating him seeking 80 000 dollars. The piece also muses on fame and civic concern, questioning veterans' leverage and President Harding’s golf habit while offering a string of aphorisms about ambition and sweetness.
Board of directors returned all bids for hotel locations with the remark Prices too high The directors will hold another meeting Friday evening The rest of the passage renders as satirical quips on fate fortune potatoes and social mores with no further concrete events.
A historical note describes how the average woman ended letters with a promise to share more on her next visit. The quotation reflects polite discourse and social expectations of personal correspondence.
A reflective musings piece contrasts intelligence beauty and the soul as a photograph of circumstances. It suggests blessings in poverty and laments liberal generosity inviting exploitation. It questions the old fashioned man with a backyard goat to deter doctors.
The excerpt notes that those who protest bank early closings are the people who wait by the banks most of the day. It contrasts age impressions, saying a man ten years older claiming to be younger can provoke anger.
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