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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1918
Page
5
Miss Pearl Lane visits relatives in Bourbon county and Miss Virginia Ayres visits Fulton. Numerous Lexington and Louisville residents travel or host relatives at Olympian Springs, Beattyville, Harrodsburg, and Cincinnati, with shopping trips in Lexington and Cincinnati and a Boonesboro camping outing noted.
The Sick Mrs Fulton Greene ill at home on Holt avenue. Mrs Mollie Gatewood shows little improvement. Mrs Allen Prewitt Sr very improved after a serious illness. Mr Thomas Denton improving after two weeks of illness. Vivian Faulkner recovering well from a broken arm in a Ford crank incident. Mrs Emma Chenault home from Lexington hospital and doing nicely. Eleanor Bogie convalescing after illness. Mrs Nannie McCaun ill two weeks with general breakdown, some improvement. Prof W C Hopper home from Indianapolis hospital, weak but able to visit. Mr Lee Crear still bed bound but improving slowly. Prolong the Life of your shoes by repair at O Connell s Shoe Laboratory. 33-If.
Religious leaders from Louisville Somerset and Paris speak at local churches next Sunday and on Sunday evening. Missionary society meetings set for Friday and Thursday at Methodist locations. Also a classified rental ad for G W Blevins grocery store space and help wanted at Mt Sterling Laundry Co seeks two workers.
WW. R. Riley calls for moonlight school openings for white and colored communities, urges teachers to canvas districts, and links literacy to democracy. He cites 1910 Kentucky illiteracy figures and warns lack of reading harms soldiers and officers.
Messengers from Mt. Sterling Church of Bracken Association of Baptists will attend the Bracken meeting with the church at Lewisburg on Wednesday the 7th. Rev. J. S. Wilson Rev. T. Benton Till J. C. Graves Dr. W. R. Thompson J. W. Hedden Sr John H. Blount and Mrs. J. S. Wilson Mrs. T. Benton Till Mrs. 8. B. Carrington Miss Anne Tunt Miss Lucy Smith Mrs. B. F. Thomson and W. L. Kilpatrick will represent the church societies. A letter of dismissal will be requested to unite with Boones Creek Association due to travel savings.
In the Ways and Means Committee renewed effort targets a war profit tax to capture profiteers as President Wilson backs the measure. Plans to raise 6 billion dollars from excess profits and income taxes have fallen short. Also a fragment about a family sale of a 1918 Saxon runabout from a navy son.
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