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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1921
Page
4
Advertisement states editor entered in the Mt. Sterling post office as second class mail matter with two dollars per year. Cash must accompany order and no announcement will be inserted until paid.
Rate card lists prices for political notices by office type. Precinct and city offices cost 7.50 dollars, county offices 20 dollars, state and district offices 15 dollars. The fragment suggests a published fee schedule for campaign notices.
Authorized list shows Henry S Caywood S B Lane H R Prewitt W C Hamilton Miss Anise Hunt E W Seuff W A Samuels Henry Watson R G Kern A S Hart Dan Welsh Sidney J Calk Chas E Duff Lindsay R Douglas W H Wright T M Greene R M Montjoy L B Mason James M Greer Charles B James Will S McCormick D D Salyer Wm F Stewart Ben R Turner R F Mastin C W Nesbitt J C Shoemaker Thomas H Turley headed by state primary officials and party ballots for counties and city offices
A sharp, brief missive reveals Mr Eventemper responding to an insulting note. The stenographer, described as a lady, cannot translate parts of the message, leaving readers to infer a stormy exchange and the clerkly tension behind the correspondence.
Rev F M Tinder returns from a two week revival at Bethel Kentucky. Local families travel for work school and visits including Daisy and Josephine Detwiller to Richmond and Mrs C W Dick with Dorothy Peters from Louisville. Chautauqua set to run July twentieth for five days. Mt Sterling Bottling Works modernizes dispersing room and expands sale of Cracker Jack ice cream cakes and drinks.
Local social notes report visits among Pennybaker Cronn Hoskins Calvert Jones and related families with several relatives in Winchester Bowen and Lexington. A Walsh Co sale offers 200 dozen men’s socks six pairs for $1.00. A crude remark about a Walsh Co. employee appears at the end.
A reflective note urges self examination of conduct and warns that cruel words and hidden offenses merit punishment. The speaker claims unrecorded incidents exist beyond notes, some severe, implying consequences for misconduct.
A Chautauqua manager asked patrons to stop smoking near the tent to avoid unpleasantness. The writer laments the loss of manners from the past and nostalgically recalls when mothers taught not to smoke in front of ladies.
In Laurel County 65 farmers formed the Laurel County Purebred Bull Association to improve dairying. Charter members own more than 160 grade Jersey cows and will use registered Jersey sires. The group will buy three registered sires for member use. R. C. McKay chairs the purchasing committee and H. M. Pfeister was elected president.
An elderly man, approaching a certain age, views a simple milestone as breaking in a pair of shoes against his corns. The act reflects a modest, personal achievement shaping his daily routine and sense of progress.
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