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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1919
Page
5
The column records a week of social and civic activity in Camargo and area. It notes visitors from Salt Lick and Morehead, camp meetings in Anderson Indiana, a fishing party at Big Rock, hospital visits, and local church services. It also mentions tobacco fields needing replanting, an appendicitis operation, and a hog weighing at Stone and Riggs.
The county awaits rain as wheat ripened quickly this past week and nears binding. Supporters express regret over Colonel Denhardt's withdrawal from the race, noting the impact on local sentiment.
Bascom Judy, five, son of Mr and Mrs Robinson T Judy, living on North Sycamore street after moving from Bath county, got hold of a pistol last Monday and discharged it blowing off the end of his finger. He received immediate treatment and proudly shows his bandaged finger.
Robert Coyle and Elliott Shoemaker arrived home last week after months in France with the American Army. They were discharged at Camp Taylor and reported to have endured much of the hard fighting.
A health and beauty claim describes women gaining vigor and color when using Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It asserts pallor and weakness vanish, eyes brighten, skin clears, and a renewed magnetism returns, available in tablets or liquid form from Buffalo New York.
Miss Mattie Judy Botts was thrown to the ground but escaped serious injury when a Chandler car driven by R. C. Baker struck the trap she was driving at Main and Broadway. The harness was broken, the trap unharmed, and Baker offered to pay for damages. Botts, daughter of M. T. Botts, was shaken but uninjured. Baker recently moved from his Spencer Pike farm to Sterling.
A public draw awarded Montgomery County a three ton artillery truck earlier. The U S Government allotted seventy nine trucks to Kentucky and Montgomery County gets another two ton truck. The trucks are at Jeffersonville Indiana and will be sent after official papers are completed for use in hauling stone for turnpike repairs.
Mrs. Mattie W. Coleman received a telegram stating her son Jere Coleman arrived safely in the United States. He landed in New York and is at Camp Dix awaiting discharge.
James W. Glover son of Mr and Mrs Chess Glover has been promoted to chief clerk with the American Railway Express Company in Kenova West Virginia from Huntington WV where he worked the past year The position brings a substantial salary increase and his many friends here are glad to hear of the promotion.
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