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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1917
Page
5
A removal notice announces moving stock of drugs medicines sundries and school supplies from the Rogers Building near Belo Exchange Bank on November 1 1917. The owner promises best service and customer satisfaction and invites patrons to visit.
Elizabeth McCaun visits Farmdale Kentucky. Boyd shops in Cincinnati last week. Y Rogers spends Sunday with relatives in Louisville. Botts visits relatives in Louisville this week. Burchett returns from Los Angeles. Killpatrick couple return from Macisville Indiana. V Chapman Rural Schools chief visited Saturday. Anna Laura Ratliff at Danville attending college. Stella Stephens of George Washington College spent weekend with parents. Stanely Brown and Jas Grubbs at Camp Taylor visit relatives. Mary Lent visiting relatives in Chicago will return home. Shields D Gay attends officers training at Fort Benjamin Harrison. John Cassity private at Ohio HQ spent week with wife and relatives. J McNeal in Ashland for father’s hospital admission. 75 years old and feeble. Minnie L Heilman visits Mattie Cole, goes to Covington then Huntington home. Mary Miller Coleman Ayres and Virginia move here from Laurel to live with George Ayres. Frances Saffell, Elizabeth Frankfort, Emily Me dy Winchester, Stella Minneapolis visiting. J M Swango and party visit Missoula then home. Swango in law visits with family. Swango’s father-in-law returns home.
Local note from Tuscone Fork North Carolina highlighting a publication deemed the hottest Democratic paper over the past year.
Mr Joe T Wilson left today for Visit to Louisville and Bagdad Mrs J W Burbridge and Mrs B Cartington spent Monday in Lexington. Mr Lewis Kilpatrick has returned from an extended visit to relatives in Old Town Maine. Messrs Henry and Virgil Sullivan now in the navy are visiting their parents Joe P Sullivan. They will stay until next Sunday. Mr and Mrs Fred Shafer attended the wedding of Loretta Minnini to Virgil Holder of Cincinnati at the bride's Danville home last Wednesday. The bride often visits here and is popular.
Local notice by P. Greenwade invites buyers to inspect a selection of canned goods offered at cost for cash terms. The advertisement urges prompt inquiry and specifies no fixed dates.
At the regular meeting of the Montgomery County American Red Cross the new by-laws from headquarters were adopted creating an Executive Committee comprising officers and five members. Elected to serve: Col. A. W. Hamilton chairman, Mrs. Robi H. Winn vice chairman, Roy G. Kern treasurer, Mrs. M. C. Lloyd secretary, Mrs. J. A. Vansant, Dr. M. V. P. Yeaman, Mr. Richard F. E. Punch, Mr. Clay Miller, Mr. Rt. L. Coleman. Wonderful opportunity to buy your winter supplies at cost.
An unknown man believed to be a U.S. Army deserter was found in the residence of L. G. Howard after entering by a window. Mrs. Howard restrained him until police arrived. the man was jailed and his photograph sent to the department.
The family of Mrs. Sarah Moore Quisenberry expresses sincere appreciation for the many kindnesses and expressions of sympathy shown during illness and bereavement.
Vendor S P Greenwade advertises cash at cost pricing for winter supplies including canned goods and tobacco. B Frank Perry & Co promotes fire insurance against loss with office located at Julian Building near Main and Maysville streets. Munson’s Army Last Shoes for boys advertised at Walsh’s store.
The sick list notes Mrs. L. L. Bridgforth remains about the same and Little Miss Elizabeth Cockrell is recovering nicely. Rev. J. B. Wilson is ill at home on Howard Avenue. Mr. W. A. Sutton also remains about the same, while Mr. W. Caldwell Clay was on the sick list last week. Little Miss Henrietta Howell is quite sick with scarlet fever. Mr. A. S. Johnson, previously ill, is able to be out and greeted by friends.
Brief classified notice offers a suite of two rooms and one single room available for rent in the Jordan building. Includes splendid office rooms and provides telephone contact 284 for inquiries dated with the 18-tf listing.
The Town's Club Home Economics Department opened its first meeting at the Rest Room with Mrs. L E Griggs as chair. A large audience enjoyed papers and readings on nutrition and wartime economy, with plans for menus and a note that Miss Mary E Sweeney will speak November 9 on food conservation.
Nicely furnished rooms available for rent with contact phone number 732. Also announces wholesale prices on all canned goods for cash by P. Greenwade.
Eighth Grade Lena Foley Soria Henry Maggie Little Francis Drennen William Campbell. Seventh Grade Susie Leach. Sixth Grade Bessie Little Ray Little Cecil Bramblett Mable Foley Genevieve Settles Delana Stevens Sylvia Henry. Fifth Grade Pearl Breeding Bernie McCracken J B Garrison. Fourth Grade Mary Sienna Drennen Violet Langford Nell Breeding Mary Lansdale. Third Grade Phenis Lawrence Lucy K Ledford Robert Hynson Golden Henry Odus Lickens C A Likens Wanna Wood Anna Mae Updyke Nancy Pennybaker Frank Bramble William Robinson. Second Grade Willie Shouse Sarah F Sanders Elizabeth Ledford William Lansdale Elizabeth Hoskins Lawrence Kerns. First Grade Howard Wyatt Leach Rollo Eugene Leach Charles Peters Inear Foley.
The Mayor of Reno Nevada P Greenwade has been drafted but the move likely won’t affect the future operations of the divorce mill mentioned in Maysville streets.
Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Cannon welcome a son born Sunday October 28 at Ford Memorial Hospital Georgetown. The baby has been named Lonnie Gordon Jr. Mrs. Cannon is formerly Miss Mary Lockridge daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Lockridge.
A letter from James B. Malone at Camp Taylor praises donated magazines sent by Mr A. H. Johnson of Sterling Kentucky. He notes camp life is clean and healthy, the Y M C A provides reading material, and the boys deeply appreciate magazines after they finish with them. He urges readers to continue sending reading matter to the soldiers.
Room for rent described as single and furnished with office furniture in the Jordan Building. Contact tele phone 284 for details.
At a Bowling Green Chamber of Commerce meeting strong resolutions urged adoption of a constitutional amendment to let telephone companies buy lines and equipment from rivals with city and state approvals. A committee was formed to publicize the measure and inform voters ahead of the November 1917 election.
Emily Moore Quisenberry died at her brother E B Quisenberrys home after months of bed confinement. A lifelong Christian, she served her Lord and Master and is survived by her aged mother and several brothers and sisters. Funeral services were held at the home and she was laid to rest in Machpelah cemetery.
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