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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1920
Page
6
A long list of local residents and visitors is noted with movements between Lexington Winchester Paris and Prestonsburg. Names include Miss Lola Lawrence Mrs Wick Bush Miss Mabel Horton Field VanMeter Col W Corbin Mrs W S Holliday and many others with travel for court business visits and social events.
Dr J W Weber, renowned foot expert, opens offices in Winchester at the Colonial Building Kentucky. He guarantees corn and bunion removal and treatment of growing nails without knives, and is regarded as a top authority on feet alive.
Cockrell notes interest in six cylinder Studebaker cars with John C. Swope as local agent. Swope places a number of these cars in the county, signaling rising local sales activity.
Mr and Mrs Albert Bridges hosted a Sunday noon dinner at their West High Street home. Guests included Mr and Mrs J Will Clay, Mrs H B Kinsolving of Louisville, Mr and Mrs Caldwell Clay and children William and Albert, Mr and Mrs Walter Bridges and son, and Mr Clark Patterson.
Local notices list multiple residents battling influenza. Robert C. Lloyd Harve Knox Luther Mason and others are sick at home with flu or pneumonia. Mrs Carroll Chenault and family members remain ill amid serious conditions while John D. McColm is critically ill with double pneumonia after flu. Professor Meredith Cox shows marked improvement after chlorine gas exposure.
The Junior department met to study poet J T C Noe with Miss Margaret Hadden leading. March meeting will cover Kipling with Miss Ethel Baker guiding. Mrs J Oldham Greene and Miss Mary E Turner hosted a bridge gathering for Mrs John Harrison of Helena Ark, with a late plate lunch. Other guests included many local social figures and a second bridge event was hosted by Mrs Lewis Apperson in honor of Mrs Harrison. The Christian Church Missionary Circle hosted a miscellaneous shower for president Mrs Harry Hunt at Mrs Howard B Turner’s home with Valentine decor and a small wagon presents delivery by Emily Barnes Turner. A late supper followed.
Master Ed Jones sold at the Court House door a house and lot on Maysville street owned by Mrs Emma Harber to Arch Prewitt for 3000 dollars. He also sold 12 acres on the Howards Mill pike owned by W Dees Thompson to C C Combs for 2800 dollars and 14 acres on the same pike owned by Mrs M D Stevenson to C C Combs for 2800 dollars.
The article notes gas supply is badly strained by both consumers and producers and that larger cities cannot be met, a situation worsened by extreme cold weather.
The Young Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian church held a parish business meeting electing officers for the year. A union church meeting is planned at the Christian church next Sunday at 7 30 with Dr Patterson from Louisville as speaker to inform the public about the Y M C A work. The Baptist women describe three circles of activity.
The Everett Gill circle meets Monday afternoons, The Fannie Powers circle meets Tuesday afternoons, and The Ella Greene circle meets Thursday afternoons. The Ella Green will meet Thursday afternoon with Miss Anns Hunt at the home of her mother on Johnson Heights to discuss Royal Service, a missionary study.
R T Judy sold four pure bred Shorthorn heifer calves last week to the Otterhein Home at Lebanon Ohio for a total of 1000 dollars.
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