The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-08-04
CORRESPONDENCE.
sharpsburg Items.

Miss Mary Hord Elgin is quite il
with typhoid fever.
Allie Ratlff and wife were the
guests Of relatives near Winchester
last week.
Thos. Judy and wife are spending
few weeks at Swango Springs in
Wolfe county.
Mr.. Fulton Greene and sister, Miss
Ora, visited Miss Pearl Kincer last
week.
Mrs. Eva Moore, Of Kansas City.
Mo-, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Milton
Ratliff, near town.
Miss Lena Arrasmith has returned
from pleasant visit to friends and
relatives at Bethel.
Mrs. Miranda Peters and daughter,
Miss Bessie, of Owingsvillc, visited
Mrs. G. w. Peters last week.
Mrs. Fannie Goodpaster and daugh-
ter, Miss Ina, of Owingsville, visited
relatives here last week.
Waller Allen and family and Miss
Susan Craycraft spent several days Of
last week at the Olympian springs.
Miss Clemmie May Jones, of Mt.
Sterling, is spending few days with
Miss Mary e. Clark, on Flat Creek.
Our Democratic friend, Judge j. M.
Alexander, has returned from st.
Louis, where he has been on a visit of
several weeks to his son, Alban Alex
Alexander.
Miss Nancy Kimer entertained a
number of friends at her home, "Vine
Cottage" on last Saturday evening,
in honor of her guests, Misses Amanda
Smoot, OF Bethel, and Matte Emmons
of Reynoldsville.
The Sharpsburg Fair commences
next Tuesday and will continue four
days, the Bluegrass Circuit advertise
ment to the contrary Notwithstanding
Every thing is getting in readiness, and
the Association expects to have one of
the best fairs of its history.
MS. Waller Sharp who has been
very sick for several weeks with
typhoid fever, was dangerously low
during several days of last week, and
the gravest doubts were entertained
as to her ultimate recovery. We are
happy to state that she is much better
at this writing, and is slowly improv-
ing.
A very sad and most deplorable
suicide occurred few miles from this
place last Thursday. Mr.. Will Taylor
Il young and well-likcd farmer, took
large dose Of Paris green and died in
great agony. The supposable cause
Of the suicide being an inability to pay
some debts which were due. His re-
mains were inferred at Springfield |
church on Sunday.
Sharpsbupg now has two bar-rooms,
and the boys say they are a great i'm
provement over the drug stores. They
can now take their "smiles" without
the circumlocutory process of affecting
al the ills that flesh is heir to, consult
A physician, and getting prescription.
They can just walk in, plank down
heir dimes and the barkeeper does
he rest.
Daniel IL. Jones, Of Mt. Sterling, has
Judgment and an order Of
ale in the Bath Circuit Court against
J. 7. Jones, j. Clyde Nelson and
he heirs of Virginia Jones, deceased,
md their real estate, consisting of
arm of about $50 acres, near town, is
dvertised to be sold by the Master
Commissioner at Owingsyille, next
londay. Only enough Of each de-
share will DO sold to produce
ne sum Of $l,775.40 against each.
)hce before the plaintiff obtained
Judgment in the Bath Circuit Court
gainst these defendants for over
1900, but the case was taken to the
|ourt of Appeals, where the decision
f the lower court was reversed. We
ave it on good authority that the case
7ill again be carried to the higher S
curt. HENos. 7
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