28 Jun 1911
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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1911
Page
1
Interest grows in a citywide pageant with nominations closed last Saturday. Readers learn early standings, note that votes shift as contestants seek subscriptions, and see promises of a summer tour and Washington visit for the top five.
The Sterling Dancing Club hosts its annual June dance at Trimbles Hall in Blue Grass tonight. Decorations by Clarence Leach of Lexington feature white posts arches and Japanese Wistaria with cooling fans. An eight page program with a white kid cover highlights evening, led by Lewis A. Judy and Nelle Tipton, with a Cincinnati orchestra providing a long list of waltzes and two steps. The event drew many visiting young women from cities like Frankfort Maysville Flemingsburg Philadelphia Carlisle Paris and Flemingsburg.
A series of names including Joella Conner Owingsville Rachael Settle Frankfort Ethel Howe Carlisle Mary Frances Brown Shelbyville Winnie Garrett Winchester Mary Wright Sharpsburg Mary Huff Lexington Eliza Nunnelley Louisville Cora Baldwin Amanda Bullock Maysville Stella Dawson Owingsville Laura Williams Spring Station Mattie Woodson Barnes Sharpsburg Letitia Dye Louisville Clara Belle Walton Lexington Lois Finnell Georgetown Cornelia Blackburn Georgetown Mary Leonard Cassell Lexington.
A brief notice references the Democratic Primary on Saturday July 1 and urges voting. It also lists sale prices from Walsh Bros including $4 pants $2.75 punch and Graves and $8.50 knee pants suits cut to $2.40, asserting the printer’s accuracy.
Automobile owners in the city push to form a club and organize a July 9 outing to Hig Bridge. The plan includes a midday lunch and a pleasant day, hoping to attract many car owners and foster more summer trips if successful.
The listing notes 33 pants priced at $2.25 in a sale at Punch & Graves promoting Greenwade's best line of meats in the city.
Young men of Owingsville plan a court house dance on Monday evening August 21. Dancers should wear full dress and carry invitation cards. Music by the Wright Saxophone Trio of Columbus Ohio. Sale notices for boys knee pants and Walsh Bros pants at discounted prices accompany the item.
Participants W Q Stephens Warren Stoner and J H Kemper scored 93 91 and 90 respectively out of 100 in the Grand American Handicap at Columbus. A Missouri amateur won the handicap with 99 out of 100.
Local ads promote Walk-Over oxford shoes priced at 4 dollars and 3 ¼ dollars and a 18 dollar suit cut to 12 ½ dollars. Other notices mention Punch and Graves and Walsh Bros as sellers with phone numbers 85 and 100 for meats and goods.
Emily Nesbitt wed Earl Wallace Senff in a quiet Wednesday ceremony at the bride’s mother’s house on N Maysville Street. Rev B C Horton officiated. The couple plans an extended bridal trip through the East and North after the ceremony.
John S. Wyatt, Montgomery County Road Supervisor, appointed Vincent Vance of Jeffersonville as Assistant Road Supervisor last Saturday. Vance is a well known citizen and is expected to be an efficient officer. Wyatt is congratulated on the selection.
Read the program of The Model Wife an entertainment to be given at the Somerset church. The event is described as a worthy cause and should be well patronized.
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