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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1922
Page
8
Farmers in the area have mostly finished plowing and are preparing ground for corn. Community visits include Harlan and Lydia Wilson families, Leach and Richardson families in Mt Sterling, and Goshen area neighbors. Notable items mention a piano recital May 5 at the Baptist church, Prohibition Officer Duff returning from a moonshine raid, and local civic developments including a gas franchise discussion with W O Back.
Owingsville residents report social visits and moves including Ed Reid of Morehead in town, Miss Gene Brother in Louisville, and Mrs. J. L. Ewing visiting Ashland kin. Circuit court attendance by Judge J. W. Riley, and several families relocating or traveling between Mt. Sterling Mayslick and Louisville.
Advertises for men and women to handle the original Watkins line including remedies extracts spices toilet requisites and home goods with over 150 guaranteed products. Claims unequaled value and Watkins quality. Offers free sample and full details from The J. R. Watkins Co Memphis Tenn Dept 76.
Real estate notice by H. Clay McKee advertising four flats for rent. One flat features five rooms and a bath with hot and cold water in two rooms and potential for subdivision.
The Kentucky Burley Growers Co operative announced another large sale of redired tobacco to R J Reynolds Tobacco Co at Lexington on Friday night led by President James Stone. Officials and buyers from multiple counties and manufacturers, including Reynolds, worked through the day with secretary H Lee Earley preparing for a second distribution of growers’ money. Farmers in Virginia and the Carolinas were invited to sign up as contracts rise, while a new Joint Stock Land Bank moves toward opening with temporary HQ in Louisville and later the Inter Southern building in downtown Louisville.
OC Hall at 24 Mitchell Avenue advertises a new automatic loom and readiness to perform all kinds of weaving work with guaranteed results.
Announcement states the city’s first Joint Stock Land Bank is formed by financiers from Citizens Union National Bank Fidelity & Columbia Trust Company and Fourth Street Bank. It will finance Kentucky and Indiana farms with $250000 capitalization enabling up to $4000000 in loans via government supervised tax exempt bonds. Individual loans may reach $35090. Walter
For sale Bodne county white seed corn advertised by Roy Byrd contact 644 WW-1. Publication appears as a typical rural classifieds note.
Kentucky became a state in 1792 with eight Virginia counties forming the new commonwealth. Isaac Shelby served as first and sixth governor. The state has 169 newspapers, 35 dailies, and Morgan county marks 100 years since its 1822 creation. Kentucky leads in tobacco production. Fulton County grows cotton commercially. The first convention looking to a
The County High School senior class will stage its annual production at the Tabbe Theatre Tuesday evening, May 16. The all female cast performs a comedy titled Mr. Bob noted for its professional feel and broad humor.
Samuel Tolson and Mrs. Mattle Bishop both of this county were married in the city Monday by County Judge Senff in his office.
Advertisement offering to pay top dollar for wool by John M. McDonald, age 88, inviting buyers to bring wool for purchase.
Two 16 year old American girls Violet and Daisy Hilton of San Antonio Texas follow in the steps of Rosa and Josefa Blaszek as famed Siamese twins. They perform with notable ease and speed in their acts.
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