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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1920
Page
5
An advertisement invites talking machine owners to join a mailing list for monthly new records from Victor Columbia and Edison. Bryan and Robinson Jewelers offer to add names to the mailing list upon card mail or store visit.
Local personals column records numerous residents visiting Lexington today including Miss Hattie William, Mrs. Elgin Sharp of Sharpsburg, Mrs. Harry Stephenson, J. R. Prewitt returning from Lexington, and others. Several guests in Winchester, Louisville, Cincinnati, and Moultrie, Georgia are noted, along with visits by Rev. Clyde Darsie and Rev. B. W. Trimble to Louisville for church movement events.
Mrs Thos H Heinrich attends the State annual meeting of the Missionary Society in Cyn thiana this week. Mrs H T Kirk Mrs J S Mason Miss Carolyn Bourne and Miss Elizabeth Wyatt attend the Missionary Conference in Cincinnati. Col 8 M Newmeyer returns from a business trip to Cincinnati and St Louis with purchases for his department store. Mrs Paul Weckeser and children leave for Detroit after visiting Mrs Weckeser’s parents Mr and Mrs H S Bittinger, accompanied as far as Lexington by Mrs Bittinger and Luther Bittinger.
Miss Sylvan Swartzel of the Salvation Army based in Louisville toured Cincinnati to conduct a general census of clubs and religious groups in preparation for a state-wide May fundraising drive.
Sunday morning service at 10 45 and evening at 7. Morning hour to discuss the Threrchurch World Movement and why Southern Baptists will not enter it. Open discussion urged. Sunday School at 9 30.
Miss Redmond invites a group of young friends to a tacky party Friday at her W Main apartment. The note mentions a complete spring hat line and fresh styles each week, and Miss Minnie Goins signs the notice.
The Sick Mrs S S Ralls is ill at her High Street home. Mrs Elijah Groves Jr is critically ill at her home near Spencer.
The National Board of Fire Underwriters reports 92 fires in Kentucky from Sept 12 to Nov 16, 1919 during tobacco firing, causing $101,486 in losses. In all of 1918 only 16 fires caused $23,087. Most insured losses were below actual damage, with no fraud suspected.
Mrs George Snyder and her Sunday School class staged a benefit picture show Tuesday afternoon at the Table featuring Billie Burke in Sadie Love. The event cleared over one hundred dollars to aid a little girl in the Christian orphanage.
Dr W W Beckett medical director of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of Los Angeles visits Mt Sterling in April with Mrs Beckett and Secretary Moore. They plan an agency meeting with General Agent H G Hoffman and local agents from Maysville Prestonsburg Ashland Middlesboro Lexington Paris Winchester Owingsville Frankfort and more. The writings show 262 percent gain in January 230 percent in February and 300 percent increase in March over last year. The stay includes one of the largest meetings of its kind in Eastern Kentucky.
W E Bean of Mt Sterling Kentucky reports eleven Silver Laced Wyandotte pullets hatched June 7 1919 laid seven eggs during a five below zero spell while other pullets produced fewer. By March 11 the eleven had produced seven eggs in a day and thirty plus forty birds totaled similar counts. Experts invited to comment.
Dr J W Weber the noted foot expert has opened offices in Winchester at the Colonial Building. He guarantees corn and bunion removal and treatment of growing nails without a knife and is regarded as one of the leading authorities on feet. Colonial Building Winchester Ky.
Governor Morrow signed the Smith Moss bill creating a system of state highways extending to every county. Funding comes from state and federal sources under a new state highways engineer. The ceremony included numerous lawmakers and the pen was given to Representative Smith. The governor also signed Mason’s measure requiring daily passenger trains on railroads fifty miles long.
Mt. Sterling Commission & Storage Co. sells Carolina Chemical Co. Brand tobacco fertilizer for the best bright tobacco. Located at Queen and Railroad, the firm markets this product to local planters seeking improved leaf quality.
The Montgomery County Fair Association contracts Zeidman and Police Exposition Shows one of America's top carnival outfits to exhibit at the fair beginning July 19. Officials strive to make 1920 fair the best on record.
James Holly, colored, was recaptured at Hamilton Ohio last Saturday. Local authorities report the suspect known to have escaped custody was found without incident and returned to the county jail.
Chief of Police James Tipton retook Holly at Frankfort Penitentiary after a prior escape from the asylum following a sentence for cutting Joe Botts's son and an elderly Black man. He feigned insanity to avoid custody, but Tipton located him and the suspect is returned to the penitentiary to complete his term.
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