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Newspaper
Richmond Daily Register
Location
Richmond, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1922
Page
6
Ford ton truck, 1922 model in use four months, priced to sell. Ford roadster, ten months old, removable rims, starter, foot feed, in A-1 condition. Contact Farris Mar cum at phone 919 146 41.
For sale announce ability to fulfill Fay Stockings orders by Mrs. O C Templeman, phone 924, 149 3p.
Notice to bidders on the heating system for new city school buildings. Plans and specifications available from C C and W A Weber Architects Cincinnati Ohio. Bids to be filed with John Noland Chairman of the Board of Education Richmond Board of Education. June 27 29 Jul.
Major Joseph C. Thomas travels from Fort Thomas Kentucky to Richmond to promote the national citizens military training camp. Applicants aged up to 35 undergo physical exams and may receive free meals and quarters at Camp Knox. Uniforms and transport options are offered with possible reimbursement for travel. The program funds lodging, meals, and medical care during training.
Stories of loss of lifetime savings pour into Kentucky State Banking Commissioner James P. Lewis. Widows and orphans lose life savings and insurance as they buy oil stock, often after accidents. The Blue Sky Department weighs securities and determines value amid ongoing consumer losses.
West Virginia Farm Federation approves the association marketing system and its plan to enroll West Virginia burley tobacco growers. Secretary J B McLoughlin cites a satisfactory investigation, endorses orderly businesslike selling, and urges tobacco farmers to join. Ohio Farm Federation also endorses the Burley Cooperative movement.
Miss Omaha of Big Clifty Kentucky won the Kentucky state prize for the best essay on How Good Roads are Developing My Community. R O Garden of Berea and Andrew Howard took second and third. The contest was run by the Extension Department with the Highway Needs Port Committee, Washington DC, and Kentucky judges included L L Dantzler E P Farquhar and G H Whiting. John Howard Payne will teach at the Eastern Normal this summer.
Teachers across Kentucky eagerly attend 65 summer schools under Prof J C Lewis as part of state education efforts. Cumberland County reports lengthy commutes with some instructors traveling 12 to 15 miles daily to Burksville. By 1926 a required training standard will be enforced, with counties and students covering extra costs beyond the state appropriation of 50 000 from 1922.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Property owners and managers of lands near public highways must cut back brush and obstructions to five feet high between July 1 and August 20 each year. Local officials must publish notices for two weeks and post handbills. fines apply for noncompliance. Madison Fiscal Court enforces and funds notice publication.
Sealed bids will be received by Garrard County Fiscal Court at Lancaster court house Kentucky until twelve o'clock Friday July 7 1922 for road improvement on the Lancaster Lexington road from Porter Rich farm four miles north. Work includes scarifying ditching and resurfacing to 16 foot width with crushed limestone. Plans from County Road Engineer Irvine Stapp Lancaster KY.
Uncle Wetmore jokes about naming twins and offers to gift mugs with their names Tom and Jerry in gold letters as a playful present for the newborns.
Jefferson County paid into the Kentucky state treasury 2,528,657 dollars and 93 cents in taxes during 1921.
Mrs. Topper of Plainfield says rats in her cellar were so numerous the servant would not enter. She used RAT SNAP to clean out the infestation. The ad claims RAT SNAP destroys rats and mice and is guaranteed by Donstas & Simmons and Stockton and Sen with three sizes 35c 65c and 1.25.
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