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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1916
Page
8
Local notes record sales, visits, and social events across Howard's Mill and surrounding areas. Mentions G W Staton selling a cow and calf for 55 dollars to Oscar Adams, and various visits by residents to Winchester, Lexington, Sharpsburg and Columbus. A reader report highlights Bert Carl as a prolific tobacco spear maker with 350 spears.
Farmers begin housing tobacco and pastures green up as grass remains short. Virgie Johnson of Bunker visits relatives while R L Brown from Winchester plans a visit to sister Mrs Chas Delaney. Grassy Lick tent meeting draws attendees as Mrs John Spratt and Miss Sallie It of Sharpsburg visit the Moreland family. Some Republicans plan to attend the opening of the
Local store Vanarsdell's advertises Heekin's Orange Pekin Tea available in packages for shoppers.
The handsome modern brick consolidated school house at Camargo will open its doors Monday morning for the session. The public is invited to inspect the new building which is the first of its kind in the county and may inspire several more similar structures soon.
A philosophical verse compares the lowliest lark to music and safety, contrasting it with the high soaring eagle that never sings, highlighting humility as a source of sweetness and security.
Mr Chenault Woodford sold about ten acres of tobacco in the field to W C Clay and C G Pangburn for nearly ten cents per pound. Mr Ralph Greene sold about four acres in the field to W W Eubank Sr for about ten cents per pound.
A reader was invited to try Sincerity Coffee in a one pound can priced at 30 to 35 cents per pound at Vanarsdell's store as part of a local promotion.
The Lexington Herald notes J Malcolm Forbes yearlings dominating the Metropolitan Circuit in Orange County. Magowan’s seven yearlings from Old Glory sale race well with several world records and fast two heat times at Middletown and Goshen. Forbes horses include J Malcolm Forbes (4) 2:08 while horses Mary Magowan and Leonard show improving times. other runners include Patsy P Col. John T. Hughes and Peter Belmont kin.
For Sale five shares of Citizens Bank of Sharpsburg stock offered by Mrs Wm L Milne Roslyn Md Also home grown squash and beans at Vanarsdell s New tomatoes and cucumbers Piano for Sale Upright recently tuned Phone 714
A young couple notes modern houses lack attics with finished rooms instead. The piece warns that losing attics severs ties to family history, calling an attic a genealogical link and a keeper of portraits, heirlooms, and memories through generations.
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