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""iT"' fi 4dr .1 I I V T ft V " ?4 ' -r fc MT. VERNON SIGNAL ESTABLISHED 1887 36th Year No. 9 MT. VERNON SIGNAL. FRIDAY. DECEMBER I J. 1922 PRICE $1.50 PER YEAR IN AD,V CE THE Y I I Y Y Y Y J Y Y Y Y Y 5! The Store of Useful Xmas Gifts Our store is rich in its offering of suitable and appropriate Christmas Gifts, which are sure to please. A few practical suggestions are listed below: and a visit to our store will convince you that Santa Claus has made our store his headquarters FOR "HIM" BELTS: COLLARS: CAPS; CUFF L1NKS;GL0VES;HANDKERCHIEFS HATS: HOUSE SLIPPERS: MUF LERS: NECKWEAR: OVERCOATS; RUBBERS: SILK. LISLE. AND WOOL HOSE: SHIRTS: SUITS: SHOES: SWEATERS: SUIT CASES: TRAVELING BAGS; UMBRELLAS: UNDERWEAR. ETC. FOR THE BOY BELTS: GLOVES: CAPS; HAND-. 'KEKCtffeFS; HOSIERY: NECK WEAR: OVERCOATS: RAINCOATS: RUBBER BOOTS: SHIRTS: SHOES; SUITS; UNDERWEAR: t.fr FOR "HER" HANDKERCHIEFS; DRESS GOODS BOUDOIR SLIPPERS; SILK. LISLE. AND WOOL HOSE: WOOL SCARFS: TABLE LINENS: TOWELS; OX FORDS: SWEATERS; SLIPPERS; SPATS; UMBRELLAS; GLOVES: TRAVELING BAGS; UNDERWEAR: AND A STORE FULL OF OTHER USEFUL GIFTS. FOR THE GIRL DOLLS; BOUDOIR SLIPPERS: HAND BAGS: HANDKERCHIEFS: -HOSIER-SILKr WOOL: HAIR RIBBONS: GLOVES SWEATERS: SHOES; RUBBERS UNDERWEAR. v t Y Y Y Y Y Y t y ? ? t ? ? Y t Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y things mentioned are up to you and mc. Pastors, Sunday School Super intendents and leaders, please send mc the number of members enrolled and the average atten dance on last August at you ser vices, From now on please keep a close record on any increase for we have to have it to gain our points. Also have someone notify mc as soon as possible. I have outlined our work but the job is too big for us to do alone and in our own strength but let us ask Him in whose ser vice wc work, to help us and we cannot fail. Mrs, Lt M. Miller, Chairman. I WHEN IT COMES TO War Savings Stamps "It is to be hoped that every person who can do so will ex change War Saving Stamps soon to fall due, for treasury savings certificate.'' said our Postmaster "The large amount of money in vested and the great number of persons who purchased war sav ings stamps showed that the people of this country could save money when the necessity arose. ? Now, if they will take the money , they saved when they bought J stamps to aid the government in - the prosecution of the war and J buy Treasury saving certificates, they will demonstrate that the thrift lessons ot the war have not ! Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y & & ChristmaS Suggestions FOR MEN AND WOMEN We Have a Whole Store Full vit Stvi Nicholas himself gave us a few tips. Why not letjs passim on to you? It's the practical that pleases. been without elicct. the holders of war savings stamps have seen investment of about $20.50 grow to $25 in five ears, and larger amounts in the same proportion. They can see the same thing re peated if they reinvest in Treas ury savings certificates. Interest accumulates to the rate of 4 per cent each year compounded semi annually. These savings certifi cates are exempt from the nor mal Federal income tax, and from all State and local taxation (ex cept estate and inheritance taxes) Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y ! r X 4; For Ladies HOSIERY, GLOVLS, TOILET ARTICLES, Ivory, JEWELRY MESH BAGS, . Leather BAGS Patent BAGS, BEADS Everything to Wear For Men SHIRTS, TIES, f HATS, CAPS GLOVES JEWELRY, SUITS i Y X Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y t Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y i ! A 1 X S. ,. -. .. . ; '-',.... . ,.' ., . .. i..... , I : ' . - i LISKiANr-''J-HWd.the---iMiHyt ot i.iiiMi. maiuritv vamp, tnr -' '- -f- . pnrli iRsiie. liv fverv member of W. A. McKENZIE MILLER BUILDING Phone MT. VERNON 12&.1111XXXXW Ala c 1 sure wc can not onlv make the Lountv Achievement r Y Y t Y Y Y Y Y Y t Y Y Y Y & EVERYTHING PRACTICAL Contest TWELVE OF THE SOUTH ERN STATES WATCHING THF, MOVEMENTS i Secretaiy Vaughn of Berca College hus just returned frim a recent trip to Nashville Tinn.. where he says the entire South is watching with a vigilant'eyc every movement of the Coupty Achievement Contest of the ten counties now entered and w.cll out on the race. The Southern Cooperation League of Nashville will keep step with us in thjs contest and if we succeed they will then launch a great south4 wide Drosramme covering the en tire South. Let me urge every citizen of our county to hasten and acquaint himselt with this , School do you have a Ladies Aid thal.c..:.,,. m:.:... c.: ... . I0UU points but we will train our men, women, boys and girls in Christian Principles and ways to serve. Aic there Sundnv Schools in your neighborhood or a need for one? Do you have pleaching at least once a month. Besides church worships and Sunday oreat Achievement project you may be of service in winning the prize, CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPARTMENT OF THE COUNTY ACHIEVE MENT CONTEST. What is the greatest need in our county and every other other countv today t It can be answer ed in two words. Christian Citizenship. In striving to do the program elaborate programme that we of our part in this work S I Society, a Missionary Society or any Kind 01 a Young 1'cople Society? If you do not have and will organize any or all of these you will earn so many points. Arc you proud of your church house or arc you ashamed to take strangers into it because the win dows arc broken, the roof leaks, the walls are dirty and the floors are worn out. Make your church and the grounds around it attrac tive by clearing it up and you will help to win the 1000 points. f a Itnlla in ...... L.- I .ml . "Ue "i uui tuuiny on ac- nvt vuuiiijr uuiiuuy ijcnooi As sociation and will soon have iwimoitnui society so me other a family, incy are backed by the credit of the United States Government, and afford an easy and sure method of saving. During the war the Govcrnmen offered war savings stamps, pay ing about 4 per cent as a method of saving for people of small means. Since the war, and to take the place of war savings stamps, the Government offered Treasury savings certificates in denomina tions of $25. $100 and 1,000 now sold to investors at $20.50, $82 and $820, respectively. They pay 4 per cent if held until maturity five years from the date of issue. About f625.000.000 of war sav ings stamps, scries of 1918 be come due January 1st, 1923, and the Government now offers t? issue Treasury savings certificates in exchange for them, affording the owners an opportunity to continue a safe investment with good interest. Saving has furnish ed the life blood for many na tions and insures properity to the people. The Government is doing everything possible to encourage saving in the United States by offering sound and attractive securities for the investment of small sums. If you want to save and insure your future, it would pay you to investigate Uncle Sam's Savings System. SUTTON & McBEE MT. VERNON, KENTUCKY AA "V 2$h; n n CAPT. PETE RENAKER DEAD Y Y Y Y Y "Ll A T T'T' A T TOT I A ference. and stressed theneedof '-' -vVc -' more men and women giving The Mt. Vernon Chautauqua m0re of their time to Gospel Committee are asmred by the Team work in our county. Rev. White & Myers Chautauqua i. J, Clark of the State office, System of Kansas City, Mo., arrived a fraction lute, on account that wc are to .have the moit'o( the train service but in due have ever had. Our dates will be timc to ,ead ug jnto some fme in th.s early part of July. Begin thht ., to Rockcastle Y T Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y I now to make your plans to meet your friends at this biggest event of the entire year. CONFERENCE At LIVINGSTON A sDlcndid conference of Bible School Workers of the Chris. tian Churches of the was held at Livingston Christian Church on last Tuesday between the hours of 2 and 4 p.m. The meeting was opened with songs rendered by the Livingstonchoir, after which a suitable Scripture selection was read and a beautiful praer offered by Rev. J. W. Lieon of Mt. Vernon. The Presi dent. Rev. M. G. Fish, presented County's future work and ask the Conferrnce to set as their goal the following program, viz: A revival in every church: 200 new additions by baptism; three Gos pel teams in the county, namely 'is..: . n..u 1 J ivn the w , . . ., VCI11U1I. LiUlUa pujp.i ! vvw.jr Capt. Pete Rcnnker, one of the best known conductors on the L. & N., died at his home in Louisville last night of cancer of the stomach, aged about 70. He was a fine old gentleman and had many friends on this division, where he had been run ning passenger trains for some 40 years. He is survived by his widow, and she has the sympathy of the many friends Capt, Renaker had in this and other sections, where he was well known and greatly liked. KENTUCKY'S CROP REPORT The Kentucky corn crop this e nns- , , , x. D .. to'?cason is estimated at VU.748.000 F?1:! thT MiltryT a BTble'V comPa to 82.150.000 bus. School in every church, und an "'J """."" "vere annual .i fl..i 1 us.l PI??""1?" . . 97.152.000 bushels CI1I UUIUCflk Ul I.IJUUI 111GIIUV.ioiii'( 1 thr as many as three missionary or eanizations in the county, with the World Call coming into twenty-five homes. Which pro gram was unanimously adopted, and the conference adjourned in peace and harmony at 4:15, C. C. Davis, Secy. 1 91 6-20 inclusive, while this years Irish potato crop in Kenturkv U estimated at 4,720,000 bus. or 2$ percent more than the 3,770,000 bu produced in this state in 1921. Other crops reported for Kentucky are: sweet potatoes 1,818.000 bus. apples 5,070.000 pears liU.000 bus., clover seed the object of the Quarterly Con- (.;; HWWWHM'BBHM4HHHHWWWH 16,22nnnS,,nnd ,80r8--um syrup J.984,000 gallons. Last year Ken- .nj a piuuutwun oi inese croo 1 Santa ClaUS Day Is Here OH. THAT the BABIES could call back the days when we were babies: would lay awake until 1 2 o'clock watch ing for old SANTA CLAUS to come down the Big Stone Chimney to fill our stockin' with fire crackers, long sticks of candy, apples, and sometimes an orange. At five o'clock in the morning we would crawl out (while mother was sound asleep from being up so late) nd grab the pack of firecrackers and in the big wood fire would sling some and blow the fire all over the house and set the carpets and beds a'fireand it would take everyone on the place tc put out the fire and watch us until they were all gone. Them happy childhood days are gone forever. Don't get worried children, Aunt Mollie may leave you but your Uncle Bill will stay with you and feed you at the right Drice. There is nothing in selling goods, it's all in buying I have mine bought right. Don't go to getting fresh around here when I have plenty talt $1.00 per 100 pound bag. Its now chocolate candy and black' cake without any leavening in it, its rabbit instead of turkey, its cold water in stead of egg-nog. what will it be when you babies are as old as Uncle Bill. J. W. RIDER THE MAN THAT FEEDS THE BABIES AT ROCKCASTLE HOTEL WHEN YOU ARECONSTIPA TED. To insure a healthy action of the bowels and correct disorders of the liver, take two of Cham berlains Tablets immediately after supper. They will not only cause a gentle movement of the bowels without unpleasant effects but banrsh that dull, stupid feel iug. that often accomnanin r.m-. f Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y was: sweet potatoes 1,872.000 bus., apples 636.000 bus., pears 4.000 bus., clover seed 34.000 bus., and sorghum sirup 4,080,000 gallons. It is estimated that approxi mately 5 per cent of Kentucky's acreage of corn this season was put into silos, the average yield per acre being only about 5.5 tons. About 83 peicent of this seasons corn crop in Kentucky is reported as being merchantable, and farmers also report they have only 6 percent of last years Ken tucky corn crop still on farms. The average yield of corn per acre this year in Kentucky is 28 bushels, compared to 23.6 bus, per acre last year and a 10 year average of 27.3 bushels. 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