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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1911
Page
7
A hostess hosts an unexpected dinner for friends and has to fetch tarts from a bakery. She points to the dish in a bid to overstate knowledge, asks John to name the tarts, and he replies with a brisk price of five cents each.
A light scene on a front step shows sister Mabel proudly dressed with shiny shoes and coral beads. A visiting boy remarks on her outfit and jokes about girlhood, prompting her to quip about her neck needing washing.
The Courier-Journal notes Canada United States reciprocity clears ill founded agita and boosts trade. Taft defends measure with Democratic aid while critics face voters. West farmers gain despite fears of price shocks. Paynter and Lorimer criticisms noted. time will prove treaty right and expose critics as protecting old tariff norms.
The Northwest faces drought pressures on old and new crop wheat as prices stay uncertain. Frost remains a worry for Canadian farmers while threshers report good winter wheat yields. Oats have slipped about six cents in speculative pricing due to hints of unexpected machine yields.
Preachers will no longer be singled out for training as a correspondence school to teach theology has been incorporated in New Jersey. Any man with the price and inclination may fit himself for the pulpit, though many now preach without any theology at all.
The United States Marine Band will perform at the Blue Grass Fair in Lexington during August 7 to 12. The visit, secured by Champ Clark and navy officials, features daily concerts including a sacred performance, with all events priced at fifty cents.
Speed program running races set for six days during the Blue Grass fair in Lexington August 7 to 17. Each day features a Gentlemen's Driving Club cup race and multiple prize events, with 2:16 trot, two-year-old trot, 2:20 pace, three-year-old trot, and 2:22 trot scheduled. A special gentlemen riders race, requested by the Lexington Polo Club, opens Monday afternoon and highlights the week.
The Blue Grass fair features a poultry show for August 7 to 12 with 268 classes of poultry and pigeons. Judges include B. Lane of Spiceland Indiana for poultry and C. W. Trapp of Lexington for pigeons, with Blue Grass Poultry association leaders overseeing preparations.
The Blue Grass fair in Lexington runs August 7 to 12 with the Woman's department occupying the Floral hall third floor. Premiums are increased and classes cover nearly all kinds of women’s work and table luxuries while Lexington merchants fill booths on the second floor. G Norton Sharpe directs the Floral hall for the third year, with higher appeal anticipated this year.
Kentucky railroads offer one half fare to the Blue Grass fair in Lexington during August 7 to 12. Daily events include J A D McCurdy aeroplane flights and band concerts by the U S Marine Band from Washington starting August 6 with afternoon and evening performances.
Sleeping dining and parlor cars on express trains offered daily on weekdays consult agents for particulars.
The document notes a timetable adjustment affecting the axmaelin and Eastern lines west bound, taking effect on May 2, 1911.
Train No 1 will connect at Lexington with the L N for Louisville Kentucky and No 3 will connect with the L and N at Lexington for Cincinnati Ohio Campton Junction trains Nos 1 2 3 and 4 will connect with Mountain Central Kentucky to and from Campton Kentucky Beattyville Junction trains Nos 1 2 and 3 connect with the L A Railway for Beattyville O and K Junction trains Nos 2 3 and 4 connect with Ohio and Kentucky Railway for Can nel City Kentucky and O K stations
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