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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1920
Page
4
Fragmentary text listing timeframes and amounts mentions one year in advance six months in advance three months in advance and various figures such as 4.50 2.25 and 1.20. No clear event or entities identified to report a specific news item.
Fragment from a historical narrative recounts the early Court of Frederick and the Glen Burnie estate. It describes brick houses, English garden walls, and period furnishings as it traces the Wood family line including James Wood and Mary, with connections to notable figures and the Revolutionary era.
The Gore district hosts a patron of Gore Teachers meeting with a chicken dinner attended by teachers and residents. Programs include discussions on school discipline teaching spelling science in elementary grades and rural school techniques led by D B Kern Mrs George Craig Miss Garvin Miss Carey Russell Oliver C Good and Miss Mabel Haynes. Red Cross and school nurse roles are covered including delinquency solutions and health issues affecting half the pupils.
Twelve year old James Alexander Hill son of Jim Hill a city jailer emulates fiction and solves a missing child case without reward. He questions passersby and peers, locates the child, and returns him to his mother, earning praise before the child vanishes again two days later.
A fragment hints at greed and luck, noting some men gain wealth by clinging to a mop and by borrowing money, contrasted with their efforts to earn. The lines suggest irony over thrift and profit.
A historical memorandum lists holdings across Green, Muddy Creek, South Branch and New River grants with parcels on Crooked Creek Holston's, Cripple Creek and Tom's Creek. It notes a vow to give John Rutherford three hundred acres if he helps locate suitable tracts, with conditions and future payment for improvements.
Special Commissioners announce a public auction of parcels from the Hammack estate in Frederick County near Middletown. Tract A is 10 acres of timber land and Tract C is 28 acres with a frame dwelling, both part of Joseph L. Hammack’s estate, assigned to heirs. Sale set for February 14, 1920 at 11 a.m. in Winchester Court House with terms: one third cash and balance in two equal annual installments secured by bonds and a deed of trust.
Six adult crows died along Tripper Creek near Westfield as villagers found them near death or dead with no clear cause. Some theorize poisoning from insecticide, others suggest a storm or epidemic affecting local wildlife including rabbits and grouse.
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