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Newspaper
Mount Vernon Signal
Location
Mount Vernon, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1922
Page
3
The infant child of Austin Staverson, born Friday June 9, died and was buried at Saunders graveyard. Local notices list social visits, travel, and court schedules as the community reports various residents in town and visiting Berea College commencement.
Market report lists corn and wheat prices with multiple grades and values for oats butter eggs and live poultry. Cattle calves sheep hogs and stocker figures shown with price ranges and quality notes. Local fines include multiple individuals with jail terms and costs for drunkenness breach of peace and transporting whisky.
Mrs A M Hiatt is sick. Bill Carmng returned from Harlan. Miss Mattye Robins has measles. Mr W B Russell sick. Leila Mae Francis Co has measles. David Craig from Mt Vernon Tuesday. Mrs C H Frith ill since last Tuesday. Mrs T Lawrence very ill since Thursday. Wallace Haggard in Elizabethtown with a bridge crew. Mr and Mrs Walter Robins and children visited Mt Vernon. Mr and Mrs T J Ball in Mt Vernon between trains. Mr and Mrs Edward Holly of Louisville visiting Mr and Mrs Henry Anderson. Swannie Price calling on merchants Treeday. Mr and Mrs Millard Knuckles in Mt Vernon visiting Mr and Mrs Henry Dailey. Mr and Mrs Bill Carmny Lonzo Watkins and Sidie Mink in Rowland Sunday. Mrs James Painter and child from Haddax here with her mother Mrs N J Vanhook. Mrs Ernest Masters very sick but improving. Prof J L Pilkenton left for Beatyville to teach summer school. Mrs W A Carson and daughter Ella visiting G R Carson and wife Isabelle Martin returned from Danville. Hazel and Lillian Wallen accompanied. Mesdames L N Bowling and W M Potts in Livingston for Christian Church meeting by Rev Dunn. Revival by Rev Dunn starts July 10. Rev Newton conducting meetings at Methodist church. Rev Newton a fine speaker with good crowds.
A local ad recounts a poultry keeper’s anger after losing a favorite setter hen then using RAT-SNAP to kill six rats in a week. The notice urges poultry raisers to use RAT-SNAP, with prices 35c 65c and 1.25 and guarantees from C. C. Davis and C. C. Cox.
Mrs Perry recounts a seaside home infestation that gnawed upholstery until RAT-SNAP cake form bait cleared the rats in a week. Davis Drug Store and C. C Cox sold the product in 35c 65c and $1.25 sizes.
A compact dish notes a balanced diet using eggs olives and rice. Six hard boiled eggs halved and arranged on rice, with quartered olives and Creole sauce ladled over, baked fifteen minutes for six servings.
An item promotes Chamberlains Tablets as a stomach remedy while reporting the burial of the two week old child of Mr. and Mrs. R E Cox in Mt Vernon Elmwood Cemetery. The column also features a veterinary ad by Dr H H Butler praising RAT SNAP for rodent control with local sellers listed.
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