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Newspaper
Mount Sterling Advocate
Location
Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1915
Page
4
Announcement notes second class mail matter status at Mt Sterling Post Office. It lists subscription price of one dollar per year and requires cash with order. No announcement will be inserted until payment is received.
The platform endorses President Woodrow Wilson for re election and the current state administration. It supports the state road aid law and calls for convict labor on roads, stronger public school laws, better agricultural courses, gradual textbook adoption, primary law refinements, anti trust and anti pass laws, a stronger State Railroad Commission, workman’s compensation, corrupt practices reform, cooperative farm enterprises, tax law revisions, lobbyist controls, state aid for fighting trachoma, continuation of county unit laws, and overall economic efficiency in state government.
In Hickman Kentucky residents take action after three men are killed and local option laws go unenforced. A posse labels the acts disgraceful and urges honest officials and public spirit to enforce the law everywhere. The Gazette defends party loyalty and warns police to act before further tragedy.
A run of farm and social news reports tobacco housing progress and a planned fall wheat planting. Several local residents visit relatives, travel, or fall ill. multiple injuries and a hospital appendicitis operation are noted. The Stoops ball team traveled to Levee and lost 11 to 6 to the Levee boys.
Sixteen acre property six miles from Mt Sterling on the Van Thompson pike includes a seven room house stock barn and outbuildings. Two cisterns one in house one in barn a pool of reliable water and fruit trees. Contact Mrs James Cravens Mt Sterling Ky R R No 2 phone 559W dated 10 31.
Mr. Joe T. Botts has purchased his partner C. A. Humphries grocery and meat business on Locust street and will operate under Botts & Son. Humphries will run a grocery business at Bank and Locust corners.
Two black jacks with white points aged four and six years battle ready for sale or trade. 14 percent hands high, well broke with good bone and prompt service. Written inquiry to W. C. Morris or view at A. B. Setter’s stock at Mt Sterling during September 18 to 20.
The monthly meeting of Montgomery County teachers and trustees heard Professor Charles D. Bohannon of Iowa State University share ideas for a county social survey. A visit to Camargo Consolidated School praised its design. The planned two story six room brick school will include a basement assembly room workrooms for manual training domestic science and agriculture. A four room teachers cottage hot and cold water nine acre school farm and large stable are planned. The project aims to create one of the nation’s most modern consolidated schools with enthusiastic local support.
A fragment announces a sale at the fair featuring about 50 Rhode Island Red cockerels and 10 cakes for cheap. It also mentions a soap product claimed to knock out pests, described as dirt-fine laundry soap, attributed to Ben R. Turner and dated 10-41 with a “The Fair” reference.
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