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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1920
Page
4
Advocate Publishing Company Mt Sterling press details list editors and staff and announce subscription cost per year with a payment requirement and note that no announcement is published until payment is received.
A wave of demand for good roads sweeps Montgomery and surrounding towns from Maysville to Paris. Voters and farmers press for better transportation, arguing roads will aid business and leisure. Politicians feel the pressure as the public declares the road roller more powerful than political machines.
The Montgomery county Republican delegation endorsed Judge H. Clay McKee as the party candidate for Congress in the Ninth District. The Advocate, Democratic in tilt, says McKee would be a popular nominee and urges support for the Democrat Fields if he remains the rival.
During filming of The Life Line a stormy coast scene was shot with a real ship run aground. A breeches buoy rescue carried Jack Holt and Pauline Stark to safety until the line parted and they were thrown into the waves.
Holt struggles in heavy seas while swimming with Miss Stark. Aware of danger, Mr. Tourneur had stationed sturdy life boats that trailed behind and arrived to pull them to safety. The scene unfolds at the Table Thursday.
B M Goodan and family relocate from Stoops to the Ray Moss farm on Greenbriar near Camargo. Goodan, longtime Advocate correspondent for the Stoops area, will be missed as his bright newsy letters depart with the move. He is hoped to continue sending neighborhood news from the vicinity of the big new home.
A playful verse depicts a gentle laundress seeking the weakest joints and always scraping buttons off, illustrating a cheeky domestic mischief with brisk, comic tone.
Mr L B Reasor is able to be out after influenza. Jack Hanks of Stanton visits his son in law Dr Faulkner. Miss Grace Shackelford of Mt Sterling visits aunt Mrs C H McKee. Ethel and Willie Hadley stay with Fannie and Effie Fortune. Walter Thompson moves to farm near this place. Sarah Lee Jackson visits sister Mrs Sid Lansdale. Sid Lansdale visits father in law J P Jackson. Maude Reed returns home after two months with relatives near Hazel Green. Julia Clarke and daughter visit with Mr and Mrs J P.
Mrs. Glen Perry hosted the Presbyterian Ladies Missionary Society on High street. Miss Lucille Vice returns to Danville after visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Vice. John Wood visits Mt. Sterling. Gano Steele’s illness prompted George Steele to return from Camp Knox. Dr. Alwalden visits Lexington. Clarence Power spends time in Mt. Sterling. C. W. Young travels to Louisville. Houston Lane returns home from near Sharpsburg. William Harper visits Catlettsburg aunt, Mrs. C. S. Ratliff. John Sheehan leaves for Colorado Springs for several weeks. Chester Lathram visits Detroit. S. L. Lathram and Miss Mattie Penny spend week with uncles E. R. Brother and C. S. Brother. Harry Crooks travels to Louisville for appendectomy at St. Joseph’s Hospital. Dr. and Mrs. A. W. Jones host Newton Johnson and Naomi Ruth Price of Grange City last week.
Edna Laughlin and others attend gatherings in North Middletown and Mt Sterling including Mrs. J. W. Shankland and Mrs. W. B. Arnold. H C F Martin returned from Cleveland after NEA meeting. Miss Virgaline Byron visits Danville K C U. Mrs. A N Crooks to move to Mt Sterling. Emory Anderson and Hughes Anderson return from Marion Indiana. Miss Blanche Whe and Jacob Warner wed at Rev M C Hart’s home. 8 S Johnson visits Mt Sterling.
The Mt Sterling market closed with three warehouses selling 7,231,325 pounds at an average of 31.29 dollars. Fairmers Warehouse moved 3,438,475 pounds at 32.52, Whitehall 2,787,505 pounds at 30.71, and Robertson 1,005,345 pounds at 28.85. Miss Arris Chiles stands in for Miss Dessie Stamper at the Traders National Bank this week.
A ten year old boy of William Stephens near Stepstone was bitten Friday by a dog reported rabid. The dog with a Clark county license tag was killed and sent to Bowling Green for examination. Several head of livestock were bitten as well.
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