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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1916
Page
2
An essay condemns moves to replace high school classics with modern works. It argues Shakespeare Milton and Scott shaped deep human insight and warns substitutes cannot match the analytic value and enduring influence of the old idols. The writer asserts resistance to iconoclasts unless superior modern replacements emerge.
The article argues for consolidating rural schools to provide longer terms and competent teachers. It notes three to four month terms at low pay fail to educate, urges local solutions, and cites road development and public transport as aids to consolidation. Local scenes follow with a burial case linked to Amburgy.
For Sale. Seven room two story modern home on West Main street in Lexington. Located on brick street with all street taxes paid. Possession can be given at once. Leslie McCormick, Nb 12 eens Lexington, Ky.
By order of the Montgomery Circuit Court a sale by public auction will occur at the courthouse door in Mt. Sterling Kentucky on Court Day at one o’clock p m. The 45 acre tract lies on Donaldson Creek and is described by metes and bounds from Angelina Turley deceased and conveyed to her in 1891. Purchaser must post bond with approved security bearing interest from sale as required by law.
A funeral was prepared for burial at H H Hall undertaking in Winchester and sent to Mt Sterling. The body was buried at Kimbrell burying grounds near Jeffersonville. A store ad offers fresh dairy at 40 cents a gallon for sweet milk, 20 cents for buttermilk, and 50 cents per quart cream with one day advance orders at Greenwade's Store.
Joe G Allen, long time engineer for the Kentucky and South Atlantic Division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, is reassigned to Morehead in Rowan county. He moves with his family to live there and will oversee an engine in the local yards. Helen Rowland quips about ads in loss columns. For Sale Metz runabout in A-1 condition with or without delivery body. Mt. Sterling Laundry Co. (1911)
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