Local notes capture August fair and farm prices in 1920
Fragments from historic notices record sowing times and sales at Morgan s Grove Fair with special prizes and cakes. Items mention milk tests, flour and bread quality, egg and meat prices, and a horse show demonstration. A Methodist picnic and estate matters also appear alongside politics and local commerce.
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Leetown
Little Green
Sbourn
S. Osbourn
Morgan's
Hagerstown
Cruder
Bet Hat
Morgan's Grove
Tore
Los Valley Firemen
Stern Railway
Vrdstown
Charles Town
Sadler Block
Charles
Little Locals Celebrate Katherine Mason Rush Birthday
Little Katherine Mason Rush celebrated her sixth birthday with a small lawn party at her Main Street home. The event drew several young friends in a cheerful, family setting on a pleasant evening.
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Katherine Mason Rush
J. M. Rush
Main Street
Walter W. Winters
Shepherdstown
New York
Alaska
Winters
Eiffel
Paris
Hagerstown
Wroth
Bessie L. Pick
Baltimore
Natonal Life Insurance Company
Vermont
Frank D. Schulz
Schultz
Will
Miss. Pick
Charles Town
J. C. Johnson
Advocate
Fire Threatens Threshing Outfit Near Scrabble
Last week near Scrabble a threshing crew led by £. E. Harwood battled a fire sparked by a straw stack corner catching a tire. Horses were hitched to the machine as the crowd snuffed the blaze, saving the threshing engine though the straw pile burned. The incident likely started from an unsmoked cigarette.
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E. Harwood
Administrator's Notice for Estate of Osbourn
The opposite administrator of the estate of J. Osbourn asks all debtors to make prompt payment and all creditors to present claims properly authenticated for settlement. Notice dated June 22, 1920.
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Osbourn
J. Edgar Osbourn
Billmyer's Bargain Store declares tough times ahead
A clipped notice laments reckless spending and rising prices caused by wage barons. It predicts tightened sales and insists prices must fall or the store will stop selling. The fragment ends with a price line reading two dollars and a shorthand note.
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Sai Wries Town
W. Va
Lige
Ong
Hve
Burey
Lewin
Norfolk & Western Railway
Luray Caverns
Western Maryland Railroad
Resturn
Washington
Alexander and Cooke
Jos
H. Trout
Halltown
Harper's Ferry
Adjant
Washinwen, Alesander & Cooke
Charlie Town
Owenw’ Drug Store
Silo
Hovett
Labor
Millville Power Station
Millville
Northern Virginia Power Co
E. Douglas Davis
North Potomac Street
S. M. Langford
Martinsburg, West
A. Carl Owens’ Drug Store
Rumsey Hotel
Eutler Hotel
Main
Princess Streets
E. H. Reinhart, H. S. Baker
Billmyer’s Bargain Store
O. N.T
Wah
Opera House
Alize Brady
Wallace Reid
William Farnum
Zane Gray
Macko Sennetts
Mickey’eataripé Mabel Wee Eeected
Charles L. Cran
Wiellinetin, Alexanter & Cooke
B. V. Hill
Boonsboro
Tate
M. K. Bowers
Fiehtala
POLIC
Whington
Alexander & Cooke
Subsagent
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