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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1921
Page
5
In Lexington today and this week numerous guests and visitors from Covington Louisville Hazard Fort Worth and beyond arrive or travel. Notables include W Gaitskill R E May and John McKee visiting friends. Lectures and camp gatherings feature Miss Elizabeth Bedford and Miss Ruth Day amid a steady stream of journeys to New York Chautauqua Cincinnati and Shelbyville.
Mrs S Ellis Spratt will entertain a number of the younger girls with a picture show party Wednesday afternoon at the Table in compliment to her niece Miss Lucille Robb of Jessamine county.
Miss Ruth Wyatt acted as hostess for a small Friday morning bridge party at her Harrison avenue home. A few friends joined to play with Miss Dotsy Beggs of Florida. Guests included Miss Katherine Howell and Mrs. Kenneth Collins, among others.
Elizabeth Coleman Dorothy Tyler Elizabeth Guthrie Grace Jones and Miss Beggs are listed as contestants for the upcoming pageant, representing area participants in the event.
Miss Elizabeth Bedford of Oklahoma City was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Stofer at a fashionable dinner party last evening hosted by L. T. Chiles on West Main Street. Pink sweet peas and roses decorated the table and a multi course menu was served to twelve guests.
Miss Dorothy Tyler hosted an informal theatre party yesterday in honor of Miss Datsy Beggs of Florida visiting Miss Katharine Howell. Guests included Miss Howell Miss Mary V Robertson Mrs Kenneth Collins Mrs William May Mrs Dudley Hunter Miss Frances Kennedy Miss Mary Crail and Mrs Lester Tharp.
Miss Sally Clay acted as hostess at a theatre party held yesterday afternoon at the Table to honor Miss Lucile Robb. After the matinee the party moved to the Delicious Cafe for refreshments. Guests included Miss Virginia Ayres Miss Alice Bright McAllister Miss Margaret McAllister Miss Susan Gatewood Miss Lizabeth Anne Reynolds Miss Elise Derickson Miss Elizabeth Strossman Miss Judith Hathaway Johnson Miss Nora Highland Miss Marion Cockrell Miss Mildred Cockrell Miss Frances Turner Miss Mary Bridgforth Miss Emily Barnes Turner and Miss Mary Elise Spratt.
Geary and Buckley of Lexington announced they sold 457810 pounds of common smoking tobacco to Venable Tobacco Company of North Carolina for 12 12 cents a pound. The deal follows a strong market turn after the closing of the loose leaf trade and signals bright prospects for growers with good crops this season.
Elizabeth Anne Coleman has recovered from a several days illness. R. M. Trimble and R. M. Trimble Jr. have recovered from ptomaine poisoning and are able to be out. Mrs. B. F. Horton is seriously ill from a stroke of paralysis on the Camargo pike and may pass away soon given her age of 64.
Screen star Mary Miles Minter becomes engaged to Orville Erringer of Portland Oregon son of Clarence Erringer of Chicago and grandson of Theodore Erringer longtime Paris Kentucky railroad agent The couple announced during a Chicago visit with Erringers mother Minter sails July 4 for a two month European tour before a California wedding planned later Honeymoon plans include a Bluegrass visit to Paris France where Erringer was born.
A recent meeting of the South Florida Press association saw women elected to fill every office. The report notes Hartman Trunks at the Walsh Co and mentions 12,000,000 women employed in gainful occupations in the United States.
After fifty years Augsburg seminary in Minneapolis ends its ban on women students. The Lutheran institution announces the change as it moves toward expanded educational access for women.
A bill before the dominion parliament proposes making wife desertion an extraditable offense between Canada and the United States, subject to enactment into law.
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