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25 Years Ago Fire, floods, and civic notes from Williston area
The Zeb Horsey farm near Williston sold for 6200 dollars to W. L. Wheatley. Local teachers appointed include Barcus Blanche Butler Camp Grove Mildred Breeding and others. Mrs. Susan Hubbard aged 80 fractured her arm and hip after a fall at Bethlehem while visiting Easton relatives. A lightning strike damaged trees and stunned Mrs. Greenlee and her daughter. Fire chiefs for the town council were named with plans for a volunteer fire company. A threshing machine burned on N. S. Fifield’s farm destroying wheat stacks. Several Democrats filed nomination papers for local offices. Medical updates, club activities, and funeral notices fill the page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zeb Horsey
Williston
Fred R. Owens
W. L. Wheatley
Barcus
Blanche Butler
Camp Grove
Mildred Breeding
Hickman
Mildred Roe
Williamson
Lulu Kelly
Willoughby
Esther Kelly
Smithson
Roland Taylor
Susan Hubbard
Bethlehem
S. J. Kotcamp
Easton
B. F. Greenlee
Sheppard’s
Lee Walston
Charles H. Dean
Queen Anne
N. S. Fifield
Tuckahoe Neck
Joseph J. Garris
Marc Bryant
House of Delegates
Richard Merriken