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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1918
Page
5
Readers find a selection of school books and school supplies advertised for families preparing for the new term. Local stores feature textbooks, notebooks, backpacks, pens, and rulers for students of all grades.
A collection of brief notices lists neighbors and visitors: Claude Martin spent Sunday in Winchester. Miss Clara and Miss Mary Stamper in Lexington. Lake Cockrell of Clark County visited last week. W C Clay was in Louisville on business. Ratliff Lane of Philadelphia is in the city for a few days. Sheriff Walter Boyd of Bath County visited. B W Hall left for Canada to manage interests. Geo Yeaman at Lindon on a short home stay from EMI. Wm Rees Worick staying with his mother at Rolling Heights. E L Payne and son Ewell Jr. spent days in Owingsville. Charles Hetty returned home from Covington. Mrs Clayton Ramsey visited daughter Margaret at Caldwell College in Danville. L Mccormick family visited relatives. C D Powell returned to Winter Park Fla after visits here. Mrs J Y Rogers and son with Miss Louise Davis left for Louisville. George Tramilton Jr. returned home after illness. Howard Cockrell of Camp Taylor spent weekend with parents on Holt Ave. Mrs David Trowell left for Stanton to join Howell at Powell County bank. R L Coleman returned from Ashland and goes to Prestonsburg. Will Henderson and families motor to Carlisle for weekend. L G Cannon and sons John Francis and Tommie Gordon Jr of Georgetown visiting Lockridge. Elizabeth Wyatt, private stenographer to Senator Beckham, returned home from Washington. Mrs G B Swango returned from four months visiting relatives in Indiana Montana and Kansas City.
Mr and Jack Owings plan to attend the races in Louisville with friends from Washington City staying at the Seelbach hotel. Several local ladies and gentlemen including Mesdames Henry Hoff man Prewitt Jeffries Wilmott Prewitt Young and others joined Rex Hall and Reverends Darsie and Trimble on a motor trip to Richmond for the State Convention of the Christian Church.
A partial list shows local board classifications for numerous men with designations like 1A 4A and 2A, including David Marcus Stewart Henry Rice Rollie Rutford Moreland and many others across ranks and codes, indicating rapid ongoing drafting decisions.
Regular services at the Presbyterian church will restart once the Board of Health allows public gatherings. The regular quarterly communion will be observed at the first service and all members are urged to attend.
Four year old pony offered for sale with trap and harness in excellent condition. Gentle and safe for children to drive. See L. J. Rankin, 13 31 Bank Street, Blacksmith, The Advocate for Printing.
Augustus Sorrell writes to Miss Nina Foley from the 5th MG Bn at Camp Devens. He describes delays getting passes and church access, hopes to ride in an airplane, compares clothing fitting at Fort Thomas, and asks about friends and family while noting camp restrictions and a few social temptations.
The town reports multiple influenza cases among residents and officials including Dr. R F May and editor W Wolfman Wood. J C McNeal and Harry Hant are ill with Spanish influenza while G M Trorton recovers from an appendix operation in Lexington. Mrs. J C Graves is hospitalized in Lexington and Joe Bogie, after influenza and pneumonia, is improving at home. Camp Devens Ma.
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