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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1920
Page
5
A notice to all talking machine owners announces exclusive agency rights for Victrola Columbia and Edison phonographs and records. It names the brands and positions the seller as the exclusive agent for these machines.
Miss Hettie Brockway returns from Cincinnati and many others travel to Lexington Cincinnati Louisville and New York for visits business and shopping. Several guests are staying with relatives as families attend funerals and markets for spring millinery and goods. Col S M Newmeyer returns home from hospital to cheers.
Walter Boyd conducts the sale of J M Hutsell noting it was the best cried by the seller. Horses sold from 125 to 400 dollars yearling mules 100 dollars cows 86 to 124 dollars sows 31 to 50 dollars ewes 25.50 poultry mixed stock 14 per dozen pure bred 17 per dozen farming implements seven years old at cost and household furniture at full value.
Charles B. Stephens, who sold his Harri son Avenue dwelling, yesterday bought B. F. Caudel’s modern bungalow on West High Street for 6500 dollars. Possession is set for March 1, and the Caudel family has moved to South Maysville Street apartments.
Miss Agnes Hill, International YWCA worker, will speak Friday at 2 oclock in the Presbyterian church. The lecture promises to be very interesting and urged for every woman in the county to attend.
The grand jury adjourned after a four day session. Eleven indictments were returned, likely the smallest number on record. Officials attribute the drop in lawlessness to strict enforcement of prohibition laws.
James Wyatt accepts a sales position with Prewitt and Howell Hardware Co. He succeeds J. Rice Wyatt, who resigned to take the manager role at Western Petroleum Co.
Word from Mayo's Hospital states W. T. Fitzpatrick is free from tubercular germs and improving. Doctors expect he will recover completely unless some unforeseen trouble arises.
A reflective piece contrasts night and day with a warning in darkness and a hopeful morning. It muses on knowledge and desire, noting a woman's concern is not what she knows but what she wishes to know.
Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Cordis hosted friends Tuesday evening at their Cooper apartments home in honor of Mr. Cordis birthday. Five hundred and other games were played, followed by delicious refreshments.
Mrs. Steve Pieratt hosted a Rock Tuesday at her West High Street home with daughter Martha assisting. Guests included Mrs. John Coleman, Mrs. J C Cooper, Mrs. Henry Seniour, Mrs. C H Petry, and others. games ended with delightful refreshments.
At a North Maysville street home guests gathered for a Rook game followed by a luncheon from card tables. Attendees included Mrs. Enoch and many named friends such as Mrs. Robert Vanarsdell Mrs. 8 B Carrington Mrs. Ben G Land and others, enjoying the afternoon.
The Baptist church will administer baptism to a number of persons after the regular preaching service Sunday evening. Pastor R. C. Goldsmith will speak at morning and evening services. Morning service at 10 45 with the sermon A Psalm of Trust. Evening service at 7 00 with A Blessed No Wise. Sunday School at 9 30.
Circuit Court adjourned February 4 for a week to resume February 11 in the Commonwealth of Kentucky versus Claude Salyers murder case. A special judge appointment is awaited as governors report all judges are tied up. Three will cases Fitzpatrick Hamilton Trimble continued to May term, fourth Monday.
Word from Trimble McKee of New York reports son Henry Clay stricken with influenza. The Advocate notes the illness in a brief society style update, priced at $1.50 per year.
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