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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1921
Page
2
The Kentucky Board of Health issues warrants against the Mayors and Boards of Aldermen of Versailles and Hazard. Officials have 30 days to purify their municipal water supplies or the state will act as in the Maysville case. The Maysville suit is now before the Kentucky Court of Appeals.
Catalogue lists the Blue Grass Fair at Toman September 5 to 10 with Labor Day opening and a full week of attractions. Flying Circus on Tuesday and Wednesday headline a sensational, hazardous show with nightly fireworks, live stock events, running and trotting races, foxhound and baby shows, all for 50 cents.
A weather note reports the Caspian Sea region receiving about 10 inches of rainfall annually. This limited precipitation affects local agriculture and water resources.
J L Knight, a Fayette county farmer with Lexington interests and a warehouse, returned from South Carolina where markets showed severe declines. He signed his crop with the Cooperative Marketing Association plan, boasting bleak conditions in Mullins and Bamburg with prices from ten cents to eleven dollars per hundred, urging Central Kentucky growers to join 100 percent.
Mrs EB Oberndorfer writes in The Ladies Home Journal August issue accusing jazz of demoralizing influence and linking it to Voodoo dancers. She endorses promoting good music to make it popular and to uplift homes nationwide.
One admission of 50 cents grants access to the Orpheus Comedy Quartette performance. The event promises a full show with a variety of humorous acts for a modest price.
Dr. W. A. Ganfield submitted his resignation as Centre College president in Louisville but agreed to remain until a full board meeting in October. He will stay through the next term and is bound for Carroll College in Wisconsin. He cites no quarrel with the board and laments departing Kentucky.
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