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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1918
Page
5
Memphis visitor P H Corbett and Camp Taylor arrivals mark a bustling week. Navy and Army personnel including Adlai Richardson and Lt H W Van Antwerp Jr visit, with families traveling to Lexington Nashville Columbus and Cincinnati for short stays. Local residents host relatives, attend funerals, and plan moves while readers are urged to read the Dog Law.
The deacons will hold a meeting in the pastor's study Sunday at 10 30 am. Sunday School resumes at 9 30 am with full attendance encouraged. Worship begins at 11 am with Rev T B Hill preaching. After flu restrictions many have dropped church attendance and organizers hope for strong turnout next Sunday.
Chairman R L Coleman reports a letter of congratulations from State Chairman McKenzie Todd for Montgomery County where nearly 2400 members enrolled. The notice commends the effort while humorously noting the premium headaches and the high price of bad conduct.
A forty year old woman believes she appears thirty while female rivals insist she seems aged. The Get There group chase lightning as a guiding trail around the globe. Women reform drinkers and wild men yet fail to advance against misers.
The sick list includes Mrs. Walter Turner with influenza and Miss Anna Mary Triplett and Mrs. Clayton Howell Jr recovering from flu. Rev. T Benton Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Prewitt and daughter Evelyn, and Woodford Knox are ill or in serious condition. Post office employees Ben P Drake Ellis Salyers and Georgia Pangburn are on sick list. W T Fitzpatrick Sr is in dangerous coalition at his winter home in Eustis Florida.
At the annual mid winter meeting in Louisville 28 to 30 December George E Stephens Executive State Director of the Reserve outlined the work. Editors endorsed the movement and Hoover's call that America must feed the world was stressed. Shortage of farm labor was discussed and authorities noted many farmers entering the army may not return.
Mr and Mrs Chas C Derrickson and daughter Alice depart for Richmond Indiana to establish their future home. They leave behind many warm friends in this city and the Advocate joins in wishing them success and happiness.
Charles Ballard of this county surprised his parents by returning home for the Christmas holidays after fighting near Verdun where part of his ankle was shot away. He spent weeks in a French hospital and another on this side before recovering enough to come home.
Mr. C. B. Doane and Miss Florence Curry of this county were married in Winchester last Friday. They are well known locally and enjoy the warm wishes of many friends.
I thank the people of the city and county for hearty co operation and support during food regulation and restriction. I am grateful for their loyalty and for recognizing that my duties as Food Administrator were to the government and country without compensation.
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