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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1911
Page
5
Readers are urged to share local happenings with The Advocate by mail or phone, including child parties, family visits, club activities, or travel plans, to keep the community informed.
A long list of visitors and residents includes Miss Grace McCormick of Aurora Missouri visiting relatives, Stanley Arthur guests of his brother, and many others from Louisville Lexington Cincinnati Noblesville and Dayton. Attendees plan trips to Olympian Springs and Vanderbilt events. graduates and letters from University of Virginia and Lake Forest College noted.
New beans peas and tomatoes at Vanarsdell s daily. S P Greenwade advertises suits cut from 18 to 12 50. Walsh Bros offers 30 suits cut to 22 50. Punch and Graves also featured in the ad.
Mrs Lucien Bridgeforth will entertain at her Holt avenue home Tuesday evening June 27. Mrs W C Moore and Miss Olivia Anderson host at E High street Wednesday June 21 from 4 to 6 pm in honor of Mrs Grover C Anderson. The wedding of Miss Mary Herriott to Prof R I Cord will be solemnized today at the bride's parents on W High street in a quiet ceremony witnessed by immediate family and a few close friends. A full account will appear in the next issue.
Punch and Graves offers reduced prices on ladies misses and children's shoes and slippers. This sale highlights bargain footwear for all ages.
Mr. Ed Prewitt recently operated on in Lexington for appendicitis is improving nicely. Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, confined to bed for a week, is somewhat improved.
A Life message proclaims nature in universal love for you at this moment. It describes love as spiritual power and cites the atmosphere, trees, birds, winds, tides, waves, rivers, stars, skies, and mountains expressing care and protection for the reader.
Bishop John L. Nelson in Omaha warned against intolerance invoking Parson Brownlow. He recalled a pond rescue where the parson saved two boys, then was admonished by Deacon Jones who quoted the Bible, “six days shalt thou labor,” as a rebuke.
Sale notice from Walsh Bros promotes boys knee pants suits cut from 7.50 to 2.48. This is correct.
The B foundation has been laid for a twenty by fifty foot pavilion to be used for dancing and seven other purposes at Oil Springs. It will be placed away from the hotel to keep noise from disturbing nonparticipants and should be completed this week.
The young ladies of Camargo announce an ice cream supper to be held Saturday night June 25 at Old Fort Grove. Everyone is invited to attend.
Punch and Graves offers ladies slippers in regular sizes priced at 3.00 3.50 and 4.00 with a marked sale at 1.98.
The mother of Senator T. H. Paynter is dangerously ill at her home in Vanceburg and is expected to live only a short time.
The notice announces premium meats available at Vanarsdell's market. It highlights high quality cuts and the market's commitment to supplying top grade meats to customers.
Mr Hampton Montjoy resigns from Guthrie Clothing and accepts a position with the Variety Store on Bank Street, signaling a personnel change in local retail.
Last week while cutting kindling with a hatchet Mr E Y Nelson was injured when the hatchet slipped and cut a knee gash. The injury is painful but not serious. 19117 to 2.48 10 knee pants suits cut Walsh Bros.
A quiet horse at 492 Nick Hadden Jr is noted for calmly approaching cars and trains, described as unafraid and suitable for a gentle family setting.
The listing shows slippers priced from 1.98 to 4.00 with regular prices 3.00 3.50 and 4.00. A note indicates all 3.50 shoes cut to 2.98.
Naturalist Mr Collingwood Ingram reports a new indigenous bird in County Sligo Ireland not seen in Britain for fifty years. It is allied to the coal tit Parus ater but shows a distinctive sulphur yellow hue on the white cheeks and neck spot.
John Burroughs captures the Grand Canyon as an immense chasm nearly a mile deep and ten to twenty miles wide. He likens its scale to Niagara as a wall image and pyramids as tents, noting opulent color and massive forms that dwarf earthly structures.
Article VI of Dutch laws against luxury and ostentation banned umbrella use by all but the governor, junior merchants, and their wives and daughters. In practice the owners narrowed to about fifty people in Cape Town, illustrating strict displays and social control.
In a humorous exchange during a court scene, Mrs Henpeck asks if her spouse would remarry after her death and Mr Henpeck jokes about taking a rest before remarriage as a judge smiles.
At the commissioner’s sale Mrs J E Griggs and her sister Miss Lucy Smith bought the Winn street residence and six acres and the Broadway building occupied by Lindsay Rodman. The Winn street property sold for 3050 dollars and the Broadway site for 3901 dollars.
Vanarsdell's advertises a wide selection of canned goods in stock. Shoppers can find staples and specialty items across many brands and varieties.
Mrs Charles Reis hosted a Thursday gathering with a six oclock dinner in praise of Prof Phillip Ryan. Stacy Adams & Co presents six oxfords priced at $4.75. Punch & Graves advertise COW EASE to deter flies for horses and cows. Kennedy’s Drug Store notes Harmless at 48 3t. Knee pants suits offered at $1.98.
Experiments by MM Billard and Jaublant in the Comptes Rendus of the Biological Society of Paris show the common duck and the owl exhibit marked immunity to viper venom. Two ducks badly bitten on the feet showed little worsening. Billard also reports the domestic cat has near complete immunity to vipers.
Bargain alert as $27.50 suits are reduced to $20 at Punch and Graves. Also advertised is a new Kitchen Convenience draining rack designed to hang on the rim of a dishpan for easy drying of wet dishes.
Reaping the Sea's Warvest reports discounts as $22.50 suits drop to $16.48. The piece notes nearly five thousand miles of nets set nightly in the North Sea as part of the maritime enterprise.
A compact quotation asserts that human reason surpasses any opposing brutal force, highlighting rational thought as the decisive power in conflict or challenge. The remark attributes the idea to L Estrange and frames reason as superior.
The First Baptist church in Mt Sterling extended a call to Rev George S Kennard of Ashland Kentucky to become pastor after he filled the pulpit on several occasions and impressed the congregation.
Text notes shoe sale with price cut to five dollars and fifty cents. Call line 74 for printing details.
Mrs. John S. Frazer hosted a handkerchief and bag shower on Maysville Street honoring Miss Mary Herriott who will wed Prof. R L Cord today June 21. About 18 couples attended and all enjoyed the evening.
The article recounts John Wesley using a dramatic tactic during a sermon to wake sleeping listeners. He shouted Fire and sparked a brief panic, prompting a member to ask where, to which Wesley replied Hell, for those who sleep under the Word.
A brief advertisement notes $15 suits at Punch & Graves reduced to $10 at A Good Thing with Dr Clausen cited on a curious aside about animal speech, adding a satirical remark on talking beasts and social chatter.
A compact aphorism notes an oblique method of reproach that softens sharp rebuke, using Steele as its touchstone. The line contrasts direct censure with subtler, gentler rebuke while hinting at literary wit.
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