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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1917
Page
5
Local society notes list numerous visits and trips. Residents from Bourbon, Clark, Decatur, and surrounding counties are visiting kin in Louisville, Huntington, Cincinnati, and Chicago. Several families plan or undertake travels to Montreal, New York, and Bay View while others host guests at homes and at regional fairs.
Tae Honner reports a year of strong interest in the Democratic paper and its political coverage. The piece highlights audience engagement and partisan dynamics shaping local discourse.
The sick list reports Miss Vivian Alfrey with typhoid fever and Mrs. Henry Judy ill for a week. Mrs. Clay Cisco, operated on at a Lexington hospital, is progressing well. Paul C., son of J C Trimble and wife of Nicholasville, fractured an arm from a swing but is recovering. Mrs. J W Hedden Jr, operated on for appendicitis in Louisville, has returned home and is improving.
For sale items include a quantity of barn or shed posts and rafters. Sold by Pinney Griggs Co at 7 4. Also advertised are spring lamb veal and brains from Greenwade's with prices or offers for these meat products.
The Church of God at Howard's Mill was dedicated Sunday with proper services. Dr. W. F. Chappel preached the dedication sermon as many visiting ministers attended and a large crowd witnessed the exercises.
Mr. C. Hammons, long associated with the Cumberland Telephone Company, is transferred to Frankfort and will relocate with his family this week to assume his new duties. Geo. D. Hopper of Danville, brother of Prof. W. O. Hopper, has been informed by the State Department of success in a Washington Consular exam and will be assigned to a port soon.
The Missionary Band of the Christian church enjoyed a picnic at the residence of Hon. Reid Rogers on the Winchester pike Tuesday.
The birth notice reports a daughter named Charlotte born to the wife of Judge Harry Lee Fogg in El Reno Oklahoma in August.
Miss Margaret Frost, a local Community Nurse, receives a one year leave from the Montgomery County Health and Welfare League to join a hospital unit organized by Dr. David Barrow in Lexington. The league hopes she may resume duties later. a replacement will be selected to fill her role before her departure on October 1.
Pine Grove school house hosts a pie supper on August 18 at 7 30 pm with an invitation to all residents to attend.
Brent G. Nunnelley formerly a Mr. Sterling boy and son in law of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Aperson has earned a commission as First Lieutenant at the Officers Training Camp in Fort Oglethorpe near Atlanta Georgia. This marks a second Sterling alumnus to attain a First Lieutenancy from the training camp and the community offers its congratulations.
Prof W C Jetton longtime Mt Sterling High School principal has joined the regular army and notified the local draft exemption board he had been drafted. His resignation was for a better position elsewhere and his enlistment is of wide local interest.
For Rent nice cottage on Holt avenue with possession set for September 1. Apply to O W McCormick. 7_tf.
James White and Mrs Badger Robertson entertained a number of their young friends last Friday afternoon at their Clay street home. Mrs Robertson arranged the gathering attractively and the children enjoyed a pleasant afternoon.
Olympian Springs in Path county will host the National Fox Hunters Association hunt the week of November 19. The decision came at the executive committee meeting in Lexington with nearly all members and many sport enthusiasts in attendance. Last year the event was in Columbia Tennessee and Kentucky supporters are pleased to host this year.
An automobile bearing a message from President Wilson to the Governor of California passed through the city last Wednesday afternoon. The relay trip uses several cars to advertise the Midland Trail and generate interest in the journey. There is much speculation on the total trip time. We can supply your needs of Mango peppers. Greenwade's.
Oil Springs, the popular Clark county resort, has changed management and is now run by Mrs. Riffe Hodgkin of Winchester and Miss Scrivener of Richmond. Under the new management the historic watering place is expected to regain its former rank as a leading summer resort in the region.
Cottage rental notice offering a nice dwelling on Tholt Avenue with possession given September 1. Apply to O W McCormick. Includes details for interested tenants to contact the owner for rental terms and viewing.
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