Christmas Gift Selections at Miller's Drug Store
The store features Liggett's Chocolates and Kodak products from $1 to $20 with supplies, shaving brushes, safety razors, Parisian Ivory pieces, Sterno stoves, Hudnut's perfumes, Ever-Ready lights, lead pencil sharpeners, spices, metal hot water bottles, Thermos bottles, Perfection shaving mirrors, holly wreaths, and Evergreens. Visit to browse or buy.
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Liggett’s
Sterno
Hudnut’s
Palmer
America
Boston
Miller’s Drug Store
Clara Kimball Young Seeks Separation From Husband
New York actress Clara Kimball Young known for Trilby films sues James Young for separation and damages in the New York Supreme Court. She alleges he choked threatened to kill her and bruised her arm and neck during their marriage begun in 1910 in Jersey City and says his first wife’s decree kept them from marrying in New York. Mr. Young is a moving picture producer and was known to visit Winchester.
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New York
Clara Kimball Young
Trilby Fame
Supreme Court of New York
James Young
Mr. Young
Aida Johnson Young
Brown
Harvard
Young
Winchester
Col John Graham Operated On At Johns Hopkins Hospital
Col John Graham a wealthy farmer from near Carlisle Pennsylvania underwent an operation last Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Aged over seventy he had traveled there on medical advice after declining health for some time. Graham owns ten large Pennsylvania farms and previously served in the state legislature. He is well known in Winchester and often visits with his wife Katharine Cartmell. The couple maintains a fine home at Newville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Graham
Carlisle
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Graham
Baltimore
Colonel Graham
Pennsylvania
Winchester
Katharine Cartmell
Newville
Increase Shown In Storage of Apples
An inquiry by the Office of Markets and Rural Organization shows storage responses rose by 62 since December 1, 1914, and 45 over last season’s peak. For December 1, 1915, 351 firms reported 8,056,865 barrels capacity. holdings totaled 4,258,841 barrels and 8,422,551 boxes, equivalent to 5,399,691 barrels. Comparing December 1, 1915 with December 1, 1914, 339 firms reported 7,906,838 barrels capacity with 4,206,825 barrels held in 1915 and 3,234,829 barrels held in 1914, a 16.5 percent rise year over year. Of 951 firms, 230 report 29.24 percent of their total holdings are under growers’ orders.
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Office of Markets and Rural Organization
Trustee's Sale Of Valuable City Property In Winchester Va
A trustee will public sale at 11 a m in Winchester Court House to liquidate a deed of trust from Chas II Light and wife dated November 4 1914. Properties include Ashley Flats eleven apartments with rents of 1 a week and several frame dwellings at 518 515 527 High Avenue plus surrounding parcels. Sale may be in parts or whole with terms: one third cash day of sale and balance in two annual installments at 6 percent interest, bonds and insurance required. Warren Rice trustee.
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Chas. II. Light and Wife
Corporation Court
City of
Winchester
Hi Avenue
Descri
E. F. Ashley
Rty No. 627
Highland Avenue
Warren Rice
Public Sale of Life Estate in Frederick County Farm
Special commissioners and substituted trustees announce a public auction of the life estate of A G Rutherford in a 147 acre farm near Lenore Station Frederick County Virginia. The sale to occur December 14, 1915 at 11 a.m. at the Winchester courthouse with terms one third cash and balance in two equal annual installments secured by a deed of trust and life estate insurance.
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R. P. Brannon
Frederick County
White Hall
Circuit Court of
M. P. Ebert
A. C. Rutherford
Als
A. G. Rutherford
M. A. Huffman
Court House
Winchester
A. G. Rutheford
Lenore Station
Cumberland Valley
Winchester and
Martinsburg
John H. Rutherford
Frederick
Hfe
Ada Spence suffers painful foot accident in Albín brief
Ada Spence of Albín was injured Friday when she mashed her foot. Elsie Loy, recently hurt in a runaway, is improving. A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Holmes Yeakley last week. F S Lineburg visited friends Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. B F Lineburg spent a day with the Mellwees at Mountain Falls.
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Elsie Loy
Stork
Holmes Yeakley
F. S. Lineburg
B. F. Lineburg
Jack Mellwee
Mountain Falls
War Front Briefs From Europe Cover Balkan Retreats and Attacks
The London War Office reports 1500 British casualties and 80 guns lost during the Tenth Division retreat from Lake Dovian Serbia. An Austrian air squadron bombarded Ancona rail station and targets on the Adriatic. Bulgarians press French British lines near Saloniki while Gievgeli is bombarded. Turks claim surrender of three British battalions on the Tigris. An explosion at Havre munitions kills 110. Austro Hungarian forces reportedly capture 6500 prisoners and 40 guns in Montenegro Albania. A major Ypres artillery duel continues. German fortification efforts include the Bug River line and Brest-Litovski. Greek Colonel Phallis warns retreat is planned if Bulgarian crossing occurs. Serbians release 25,000 Austro/Hungarian prisoners. Germany reports 26,000 refugees in Alsace outside the war zone.
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London War Office
Lake Dovian
Serbia
Ancona
Adriatic
Italy
Saloniki
Gievgeli
Tigris
Bagdad
Havre
Berlin
Ypres
Bug River
Brest-Litovski
Phallis
Educator’s Wie Commits Death by Own Action
Mrs Grace Pattillo wife of Dr Nathan A Pattillo dean of Randolph Macon College died by drinking poison at her Lynchburg home on the campus suffering melancholia. She taught at the Baltimore Peabody Music Conservatory before marrying sixteen years ago. She had sisters in Baltimore and friends in Winchester including Mrs C Fred Barr and Mrs George Dalgetty Kerr.
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Lynchburg
Grace Pattillo
Nathan A. Pattillo
Randolph4
Macon College
Baltimore
Baltimore Peabody Music Conservatory
A. N. Strother
W. N. Finley
Winchester
Decree Refers Case to Master Commissioner in Winchester
In The Corporation Court Winchester Virginia Mary Smith Kinzel as administrator of Charles W Houck deceased et al the court orders T R Cather Master Commissioner to report property debts heirs and taxes related to the estate with publication as notice and a January 6 1916 execution date in Winchester Virginia.
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Winchester
Virginia
Mary Smith Kinzel
D.b.n.c.t.a
Charles W. Houck
T. R. Cather
Winchester Evening Star
T. Russell Cather
Old-Time Colored Resident Is Dead in Red Bud Va
Charles Robinson an aged Black resident of Red Bud Va died suddenly last Monday evening. He was buried Wednesday in the colored burying ground near Burnt Factory. Funeral services were held at the home of Phil Williams, to whom he had been living. Known as Old Robin, he previously belonged to the Montgomery family of Brucetown and had long resided in the area. He was described as honest and reliable.
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Red Bud
Charles Robinson
Burnt Factory
Phil
Williams
Qld
Robin
Montgomery
Brucetown
Byrne Buys 226 Acre Jefferson County Farm
Mr K H Byrne of Clearbrook Virginia purchased the Waverly farm from W S Powers in Jefferson County covering 226 acres at seventy five dollars per acre. The Charlestown Advocate notes Byrne’s return to the county and congratulates him on securing a fine property at a favorable price.
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Mr. Byrne
Jefferson
K. H. Byrne
Clearbrook
Frederick County
W. 8S. Powers
Virginia Apples Shine in National Picks
A Virginia grower touts state apples as superior to Pacific coast and Washington fruit. The Stark Brothers Nurseries cite Virginia samples from Orkney Springs as handsome and high quality, urging real estate interests to promote Virginia as a premier apple state for in-state and westward markets.
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Union
Pacific Coast
Stark Brothers, Nurseries
Louisiana
Missouri
J. W. Fisher
Strasburg
Orkney Springs
Virginia
Fisher
West
Washington
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X-mas Buyers
Madison Lamp
Griffith
J. M. Steck
D. C. Dix
Grain
S. Washington Street
B. F. Strosnider
H.& W. Seabright
Gordon S. Hardy
E. N. Hardy
Admr
C. R. Grabbs
P. E. Campbell
Bell Phone
Kernstown
Turkeys
H. & W. Seabright
C. M. Solenberger
MO. M. Weicht
Tomdix
Greene
Star
Col
Sary
Welltown
Robert M. Ward
Harry R. Kern
John M. Steck
Circuit Court of Frederick Co. Court
I. J. W. Baker, Jr
R. M. Ward
J. W. Baker, JR
Albin
Adam Spence
Booster Club Watch
Europe
Teutonic
Germany
Alsace
S Wie
Aarehandice
Pandora
Medici
Elizabeth
H. K. Green & Bro
Charlestown Farmers’ Advocate
Moling & Seal
Toys
X-mas
People’s Bargain Store
N. Main St
F. R. Crane’s
Main St
F. R. Crane
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