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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1921
Page
2
Multiple small ads list items for sale and services including fertilizer, monuments, flour, wagons saddles and harness, pianos and real estate. Local merchants Reid Prewitt Ring o Homestead Fertilizer H B Ringo advertise buys for poultry eggs hides and more. Rentals include furnished rooms and store space with prices and contact details.
May 25 report from Bourbon Stock Yard shows cattle receipts 176 head over three days with light demand and weaker trade. calves 497 head unchanged, hogs 1,684 head weak at most prices, tops around 8.10, and sheep lambs 3,285 head with prices steady to higher, top lambs at 13.50.
Miss Katherine Laughlin proprietor of the Junior Shop, Lexington, has leased a fine business room in the Phoenix hotel block and will move when her current lease ends. Her friends commend her enterprise and foresee continued success.
A brief ad notes more prunes at 9c and promotes high grade coffees including Old Master Golden Dream Gibson's Special Phoenix Hotel Silver Tea San Mario and Golden Cup for their excellent flavors.
Call 413 to place orders for floors and select a peony assortment. Rush your orders with Mrs Lucy Wilson of Howard Avenue urging readers to nominate their favorite today.
Readers are urged to send in subscriptions now to join a club offer. Fill the nomination blank in this issue and mail to Campaign Manager care The Advocate Mr Sterling Ky for supplies and instructions to the prospective candidate.
The document lists standings as of 8 A M Thursday and explains that voters pin their votes before placing them in the ballot box. It asks inactive candidates to notify the campaign manager if they do not wish to run and notes coupons already received for nonactive candidates may be canceled. Votes are not transferable if a candidate drops out.
The Mt. Sterling Outlaws defeated the Lexington Travelers 6 to 5 in ten innings at the Fair Grounds. A large crowd watched a well played game and the late surge gave Mt. Sterling the win.
A playful, historical note stating that the maximum sentence a justice of the peace can impose is marriage, illustrating a tongue in cheek view of old legal limits.
The Salvation Army reports thousands of babies saved in 1920 through seven maternity homes across Ohio Kentucky and others. Catherine Booth Home Cincinnati and Susan Speed Davis Home Louisville led efforts with 28 births and 159 admissions 43 maternity cases. Most girls came from Ohio and Kentucky with admissions mostly to guardians or families and only one death.
A lighthearted line noting that a true friend is someone you can get along with during a hunting trip.
County Agent J. O. Horning reports residents J. O. Carmon G. E. Jones M. Y. Chamberlain D. B. Wheeler Mrs. Sam Jewell and Joe Barlow of Barren County have purchased several head of pure-bred stock as part of the state livestock campaign. Vote Today Vote Every Day.
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