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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1922
Page
1
Manager H. W. Lockridge announces tobacco will be received from pool members at the warehouse starting Monday and continuing until Christmas to aid growers' holiday funds. After Christmas only whole crops or complete barns will be accepted. Registration for pre holiday delivery is set for Friday, December 8 at the Farmers' Warehouse. tobacco must be stripped to be registered.
Eastern North Carolina growers receive first cash advances of 18 to 23 per hundred with second payments equal to the first promised by December 20. Virginia and North Carolina farmers expect double receipts for tobacco delivered by December 79 as some 50 thousand checks are processed. Individual payments vary with pounds delivered at Apex Fusuay Springs and Danville markets. Legal cases with contract breakers proceed slowly while a promotional meeting for Mrs I Buss Peffer at Hazelrigg's is announced for December 7 and 8.
The November report shows 38 total cases in care with 15 remaining. Discharges totaled 18 with 15 recovered, 1 improved, 1 unimproved, and 1 death. Various services included nursing visits 69 and school visits 15, plus food and clothing donations and 241 children weighed and examined.
Miss Estella Copher a Mt Sterling city schools faculty member wed Travis Montjoy a post office employee in a 9 30 a m ceremony at the Baptist parsonage Rev Olas Hamilton officiated. After a brief bridal trip the couple will establish a home in Mt Sterling Kentucky.
The mile and a quarter of the Maysville pike from city limits to the Paris pike is in first class condition per County Road Engineer W H Canan and may be state funded for future maintenance. Butterick Pattern Co rep Mrs I Buss Peffer will be at our store December 7 and 8 inviting local ladies to meet her.
Warehouse graders from the Burley Tobacco Growers' Co operative Association gathered in Lexington for final instructions before starting duty Monday. Ralph M Barker approved detailed grading rules urging careful, orderly prep, separate grading, and neat tying to ensure uniform quality and higher prices.
Miss Virginia Rose Duff of Montgomery County stands out at the University of Kentucky as a junior with a strong scholarship and wide campus involvement. She majors in romance languages with minors in economics and sociology, and is active in the Philosophian literary society Lambda Phi fraternity and the university athletic club.
The beauty parlor is now open offering a selection of comics and dolls wigs as gift items. The shop promotes a ready-to-browse lineup including a lovely line of comics and accessories suitable for gifting.
Keller Greene Jr the young son of Mr and Mrs Keller Greene broke his right leg when he jumped from a fence near his home on Wednesday evening. He was taken to Mary Chiles Hospital where the bone was set and he is now reported to be getting along nicely.
F. J. Schafer sells his two South Maysville pool rooms to W. K. Williams and J. C. Stacy. Possession is immediate and the firm will be Stacy & Williams with Schafer staying on. The duo are well known locally and promise energetic management. Also listed is a sale of poultry stock and birds by Mrs. James Cravens with contact details.
J. C. Graves a leading county farmer and prominent citizen has been critically ill after a colt he led to pasture struck him on the face. The blow broke the skin and infection spread to his throat. He was moved from his Paris pike home to Mary Chiles Hospital for special treatment and is now improving and believed out of danger. Bath robes at Walsh's.
Hod Eller, popular manager of the Mr. Sterling baseball club, has leased the East Main street bowling alley and will open for business once new balls and pins arrive around December 10. He earned many friends during the ball season who wish him success.
By unanimous vote the Lexington board of city commissioners passed an ordinance by Mayor Bradley to purchase the northwest corner of Limestone and Short streets for 122095.84 to site the proposed new city hall in the so called burnt district. The action follows the mayor's week old proposal and reflects city planning for a central administrative hub.
WANTED FURS FURS Will pay the highest market price Ask your neighbor who it is in Mt Sterling pays the top prices H Gordon corner Queen and Locust streets. T WILSON RESIGNS POSITION T Wilson connected with J P Taylor Tobacco Company resigns and accepts a similar post with Burley Tobacco Growers Association and will be located at Louisville. Mrs I Buss Peffer explains the uses of the Deltor at Hazelrigg's on
The Old Kentucky Refining Company begins operations at a refinery on the old Frankfort Pike two and a half miles from Lexington with 300 barrel stills already in use. Additional stills will be brought online periodically. J. P. Helm serves as plant superintendent.
The administration shipping bill passed by the House last Wednesday faced a Senate filibuster tied to the anti lynching bill and was referred to the Senate Commerce Committee. A meeting was postponed to Wednesday and leaders expect to bring the bill to the Senate later in the week. Walsh hats go on sale Friday and Saturday at six dollar hats for three forty eight.
Ben Scott and Robert Thomas purchased the Bright Cockrell soft drink and confectionery business on West Main Street and took possession on Thanksgiving Day. Also advertised is a near-new grist mill for sale with 24-inch burrs, crusher, shelter, cut-off saw, table, and a 16-hp gas engine. owner Charles Cornwell of Rothwell, Kentucky offers it at a bargain.
Ex Chief Justice James H. Hazel Rigg, once of this city, sustained a broken hip when alighting from an automobile in front of his home in Frankfort last Friday. Holeproof chose for women at the
A new well in the Keaton field of Johnson county completed by Cumberland Petroleum Co and R. A. Chiles of Mt. Sterling is No. 9 on the Joe Wheeler tract. It is reported to be good for 75 barrels.
The message emphasizes neat handling and orderly delivery as key to achieving the objective. It invites readers to contact their grader at the delivering point for any information.
Judge W. R. Shackelford in Winchester urged the grand jury to pursue prosecution and juries to convict, condemning pardons for murder convicts and blaming parents for crime. The Clark circuit court term lists important cases, including the Renaker murder trial set for next Monday.
100 acre farm at the head of Slate in Menefee county offered for sale. Features include a well fenced property, a good house with cement cellar and a new barn. Property identified as Sam Rothwell farm and listed by Charles Corn.
County officials concluded William Cline a 60 year old blind peddler died of starvation after wandering from home last June. His skeleton was found in Purtee Hollow near Maysville following a hunter locating his canes. Cline sold pencils and shoe strings and had no known relatives. Meet Mrs I Buss Peffer at Hazelriggs store on December 7 and 8.
A six legged sheep raised by Pigg Brothers in Madison county near Red House sold in Cincinnati for $600. The freak was bought by T. P. Ross & Company of Sumter South Carolina and is expected to go to a circus. The animal walks on five legs with the extra leg in front. the sixth leg barely touches the ground when resting on its other five. Also mentions day and Saturday with a $5 hat sale at $3.48.
Frederick J. Libby of the National Council for Prevention of War warned the Optimistic Club in Lexington that a world war could begin within fifteen years unless international dispute methods improve. He cited the risk to white civilization and urged urgent action. Mrs. Peffer demonstrated the Deltor at Hazelrigg's store, illustrating consumer interest amid the discussion.
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