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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1916
Page
5
The column lists many residents visiting relatives and friends in Louisville French Lick Springs Niagara Falls Lake Chautauqua New York and Baltimore It notes trips to Detroit Lexington Owensville and Cincinnati with remarks on returns departures and upcoming relocations including Mrs Claude Paxton Alma Strother and Miss Frances Samuels among others
Democrats are urged to register on Saturday July 22 at the County Court Clerk's office. Officials emphasize the date and location for voter registration.
An offer from A Hoffman & Son proposes loans of 800 dollars for three years on city or farm property. The lender will take the amount in one lump sum or divide into two installments of 400 dollars each.
The sick include Cynthia Thompson who will soon be able to go out, and Alice Peters recovering from severe scalds. Mrs W S Smathers, R M Bridgforth, and Mrs Anderson Bogie are improving after illnesses. Mrs Mockabee Montjoy is recovering from surgery and will return home later.
The Baptist church ladies serve meals at the Fair Grounds next week with daily menus. Thursday features fried chicken and country ham with corn pudding and vegetables. Friday includes country ham and chicken pie. Saturday offers fried chicken and gravy with Irish potatoes. Phone 914-F.06 for details.
Agnes plans to invite Doctor Leonard to her table at a bazaar but hesitates as another woman seats two guests with him. A starving Dick Stebbs waits in a church hall. Agnes feeds him and later accepts the doctor’s invitation to go home together with Dick.
Mr and Mrs W Caldwell Clay hosted a six o clock dinner for Miss May Louise Greene guest of Mrs Maggie Crail. Mrs J H Hardwick and Miss Gertrude Grigsby gave a Thursday party for Mrs Floyd Clay of Sterling in honor of her marriage as Rachel Ware Bush. The Hardwick home featured green white pink and yellow decor with an elegant tea in the tea room and Russian tea service. An orchestra provided music and a fine salad course with ices preceded by serving help from several guests. The Lexington Herald notes Winchester social rounds amid local shop ads from The Brunner Shoe Co offering shirts and dressy patterns on sale.
Mt Sterling notes a Baptist church dedication planned for late August or early September with services from 10:30 to 11:30. The Methodist Woman's Missionary Society plans a July 14 meeting at 1 30 p.m. Rev Horace Kingbury begins a two week meeting at Upper Spencer church and Rev B F Watson conducts song service as crowds attend. Next Sunday pastor J Wilson will speak to Mt Sterling youth in the Baptist Sunday school auditorium with the Junior choir providing music.
On Tuesday July 4, Mrs. Hedden formerly Miss Aileen Beall daughter of Mr and Mrs L N Beall of this city gave birth to a daughter named Emily Elizabeth. Also notice of a rental for a nice modern cottage on Holt Avenue offered by Marion Ford Mt Sterling Ky.
A July 10 1916 sworn bank statement lists assets including U S Bonds and reserves and records capital stock surplus undivided profits and deposits. It cites miscellaneous items such as circulating notes outstanding and deposits subject to check with signatures of cashier C B Patterson and notary Elizabeth Wyatt.
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