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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1911
Page
5
Miss Mary Blanch Wyatt returns from Kansas City. Mrs. Earl W. Senff visits Winchester with friends. Several residents travel to Cincinnati Lexington and Columbus for visits and events. Local families host guests from Knoxville Richmond and Pittsburgh while others move or plan trips for work or study. The list highlights frequent social calls and upcoming moves around Winchester Paint Lick and surrounding towns.
Several residents are listed as sick or improving. Lila Mae Harper and Mrs. George Smith suffer typhoid fever or illness, while Mrs. Ramsay and Mr. Hoffman show slight or general improvement. Others like Peter Evans and H. R. Prewitt remain confined or improving and out again.
300 acres under cultivation in cotton and corn with 50 acres meadow pasture and 75 acres hog pasture in wire. Balance in timber with a few hay acres. One farm house and 6 tenant houses, barns, 11 wells and a living spring. Entire farm fenced with wire, located 2 miles south of Gadsden near Steel Plant and 3 miles from Attalla on a good road. Soil is bottom loam, suited for cotton corn hay and diversified farming including dairy potential.
The owner, about 70, in poor health and without family, sells his 180 acre tract near Gadsden. Price 13500 on terms one third cash and balance in five years with interest on deferred payments. Two years ago 180 acres nearby sold at 200 per acre and was divided into city lots. For details apply at this office.
The notice covers Mrs. Charles K. Oldham hosting on North Maysville Street August 31, 1911, Clara Ethel Thompson and George Whitney Schlegel’s August 23, 1911 wedding in North Kenova, and John Knox Arnold and Jessie Eloise Scott’s October 3 wedding in Saluda. It also mentions a Trimble's Hall dance with visiting guests, a large Olympian Spring ball with Miss Carrie White Bean opening the event, and various local attendees from Montgomery County and surrounding towns.
Knox hats go on sale today at Walsh Bros. For the nicest chickens on the market call No. 2. Va narsdell's offers the best in meat and grocery items.
The Paint Lick post office in Garrard county was robbed last week. The thieves took the safe several miles across the river into Madison county, with $300 in money and $300 in stamps. About $600 in stamps had been banked for safekeeping by Postmaster Sherman Gudgel and was saved. No clue to the robbers has been found.
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