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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1917
Page
2
Advertises discounted bed comforts bought early in the season and now sold below current cost. Highlights include white spreads, books for children, ladies coats at low prices, fancy china, Xmas cards and ribbons. Promises profit sharing and invites customers to visit store to place obligations and benefit from specials. Financial figures appear as large totals and notations.
Troop 2, Boy Scouts, held a Thanksgiving night meeting five miles from Winchester to dedicate their new 24 by 24 foot log cabin. Assist ant Scoutmaster Lauck led reports and awards including six service stripes, merit badges for McCeuley Stine and Brown, and a life badge for Brown.
Reliance Virginia remembers five local youths serving in the army Frank Cauthorn John Ash Frank Grover Albert Steele and Guy Beaty as their letters and care boxes arrive from camps and France. The community notes a busy social with a gypsy fortune teller and planned gatherings by the United Brethren Church Young People’s Society and the Reliance CHic League weekend at the Way Side Inn.
Miss Kirkpatrick returns to her home after a summer in Amherst Virginia. Mr C W Cooley of Amherst visits family and plans to move his family to Strasburg soon. A note recalls ancient Spartans used butter as a healing ointment for wounds.
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