16 Apr 1920
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Newspaper
Mount Vernon Signal
Location
Mount Vernon, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1920
Page
1
Entry records show Mt Vernon Kentucky post office designates mail matter as second class. Agent Landrum cites times 5:18 pm and 12:33 pm with 3:35 am and 12:45 am references. Phone number 8 appears in the notice.
Locals mention C H Maollins returning from Lancaster and upcoming trade checks on April 24. The Kentucky Educational Association will meet in Louisville next week. Circuit Court starts May 3. Farmers Meeting at the Court House next Monday at 1 pm. News of William Wallen's family welcoming a baby girl. Logan Bryant and Dick Albright rent the new Brodhead garage and prepare for business. Bryant seeks two Cleveland Sixes from the local agency in Cleveland Ohio. Robert Griffin improves from illness at Sue Bennet School and moves home. Ten year old Daniel Cummins dies after a five month illness. funeral held at home with third grade pupils from Davies School attending and placing violets on the grave.
Milton Long died at his home near Clarence last Thursday from heart trouble and was brought to Friendship for burial. He previously lived here and left a wife and three daughters. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Dr. Gentry. Sunday school at Poplar Grove is held each Sunday at 2 o'clock.
Franklin K. Lane plans to join the Doheny interests as an oil executive in New York by April 1 while also accepting Commander Evangeline Booth’s invitation to be national chairman of the Salvation Army 1920 annual appeal. He emphasizes hands on work, pledging to talk only with workers and to support relief efforts for the poor through the Army’s rescue homes clinics and hospitals, noting the Army delivered real aid during the war and deserves continued support.
The Kentucky Children’s Home Society in Louisville requests local families to open their homes to 225 children aged weeks to eighteen years. Most are ready for adoption, and the society notes a current intake limit prevents accepting more until some are placed. Interested families contact 1086 Baxter Ave Louisville Ky to learn more from Superintendent Geo Sehon.
Community updates include Emily Dees visiting Leitha Gray, Lidia Gray with Pearl Gibson, and Sarah Goforth dining with Pearl Gibson. Dudley Orlando and Maple Grove residents raised eighty dollars to aid widow Hammons. O F Gibson considers selling this fall and moving to Arkansas. Edd Owens improves after illness. Minnie Johnson returns from Laurel County. Tilmon Gray visits uncle Dan Gray. A man named Jenkins reads his own death notice, and a joke about a father and son at the capital ends with a punchline about the minister and prayers.
Advertisement urges happiness through digestion aid. It claims Chamberlain's Tablets quickly ease constipation and indigestion with pleasant taste and easy use, presenting the product as a solution for well being and mood improvement.
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