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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1916
Page
8
The document lists loans and discounts, overdrafts, U S bonds, and total liabilities. It shows capital stock, surplus, undivided profits, and reserves for taxes, with deposits and circulating notes. Pierce Winn, cashier, swears the figures true on July 7 1916, before Notary Frank M Hill.
Correspondence reports Mrs. John Caustigan and children visiting relatives in Paris and Miss Kittie Keller visiting. July 6th Norvil Lee Jones born to Clay Jones and wife. Families vacation in Lexington and Olympia. Rain blesses crops. Sale of George Hamilton, deceased, brings good prices. Local baseball team won 10 to 4 at Chudgers Hill. T. J. Douglas builds a modern residence. Visits by Henry Watson and others. oil field activities at Estill. Pulpit duties by Brother Black. Oil field boiler explosion injures several but repairs follow. Mrs. Claude Stephens dies, leaves husband and community mourning.
Ed Willis raises Peter Patchen 2:15 pace with week long workouts and hints at a 2:10 record pace. He also eyes a world record for a yearling pacing filly as she nears 2:19% with recent mile 2:35 and quarter 35 seconds. Both horses are owned in Mt Sterling by A. B. Settens and John M. McCormick.
The Lexington track hears about fast yearlings led by Col. N. B. Young and James R. Magowan as Forbes Robertson and Rose Forbes show hot quarters. Other lineages such as Chincuba and Alma Forbes post impressive 35% second quarters and 2:17% trotting marks, with several Black and Mainleaf descendants clocking swift splits.
Democrats are reminded that Saturday July 22 is special registration day at the County Court Clerk office. Do not forget the date.
On Monday July 17 during court days at The Fair a single person may receive Lenox soap a cake and one box of washing powder if the items are under 25 cents in value. The notice emphasizes limited quantities and eligibility.
The General Roofing Company pledges full pay and retainment of positions for employees who leave to serve with the National Guard. President George M. Brown, a West Point graduate and National Security League leader, supports universal service and readiness, noting the cost may be significant but deserved. The firm operates 21 sales offices, four factories, and about 25 warehouses with home office in St. Louis.
Second hand saddles and buggy harness and new ones at Conroy's, the exclusive saddle and harness man. All work handmade. The Advocate for printing.
Dr Marage a French artist presents an apparatus to study inaudible but tor menting sounds heard by deaf patients with delusions. He relies on high frequency electric currents and electric massage to relieve the condition, caused by persistent excitation of auditory centers.
A Chicago Tribune line notes a professor visiting a neighborly parlour and an ensuing exchange with his foe the doctor. The doctor mocks the professor as civilized while the professor retorts he resembles grels of barberism in a wry, wry pun.
The ad notes a slipper sale at Punch Graves & Co. priced at $1.98 and scheduled for Saturday January 15 with details readable on page.
A three year old girl, Margaret, learns to spell cats and dogs. When asked what hct spells she answers Billy, recalling a neighbor’s cat named Billy and the family’s past. The anecdote ends with the child’s quick-witted reply.
A rule in England prohibits carnivorous birds and quadrupeds from eating flesh of the dead. The carrion crow will not eat carcasses under the new regulation.
Dialogue depicts Mrs Spiteful offering a Pepsi tablet in response to a neighbor requesting cake. The line carries humor through mispronounced dialect and kitchen-table exchange.
Local readers are invited to a county fair in Schoomery County with events and activities planned for July 49-2, inviting community participation and showcasing local heritage and vendors.
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