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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1920
Page
8
Local mercantile notices promote roofing shingles monuments and real estate Cravens Turpin farms city properties and rental. Tire service and repair touts solid truck tires plus A E Lawrence work quality. An odd essay on conversation and a travel tale closes with a note about camping and burned shoes.
Correspondents report neighbors and visitors moving between towns. Names include Guy Lacey at Carlsbad Springs, J. J. Nesbitt in Lake Michigan, Matt Maury in Big Stone Gap, and many others visiting relatives, attending dances, or staying with families across Kentucky and nearby states.
Miss Hazel Mallory of Mt Sterling visits Mrs Lawrence Mallory this week. Miss Elizabeth Barnes and sisters hosted a party at their Howard's Mill pike home last Friday night with guests Mabel Reid Nellie Donahew Ida Clark Beatrice Beadle Mable Nell Guy Albert Jones Russell Crooks Ford Donahew Jesse Hampton Wes Bedford Reid Henry Gast Virgil Beadle Lemm Markland William Anderson Robert Guy Acie Devawary.
An aphorism from the Post notes that being bored and setting a show demonstrates social ease. The remark frames boredom as a strategy for social success and public display.
President Jefferson delivered the first written message to Congress on December 8, 1801, marking a shift from the custom of a personal appearance in Congress. Previously, Washington and other presidents spoke in person or read from manuscripts as desired.
On November 27 1520 Ferdinand Magellan the Portuguese navigator entered the strait bearing his name and began crossing the Pacific Ocean. He sailed for three months and twenty days without sighting land and named the vast sea the Pacific due to its calm weather.
Miss Lucy Marlowe Horton of Winchester a college girl ended her life in an Ashland hotel amid a suspected anonymous letter linking her to a fiancé and a West Virginia man. Relatives suspect a love affair motive and no autopsy was performed. The body was buried in Ashland with flowers from local residents.
A compiled schedule shows county court days for Kentucky counties with each pair listed and the court date as the second, fourth, or third Monday as applicable. The Advocate publishes this twice weekly.
The short notice notes she was a bright woman who planned to teach and was ready to take charge of a school when the fatal moment occurred on the road.
J. L. Williamson an engineer on a division of the C and O railway and his family have decided to locate in Mt. Sterling.
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