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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1930
Page
2
City Manager L R Dettra submitted a detailed 1929 annual report at the city council session. Building permits topped 1 003 221 dollars with actual activity near 1.5 million dollars including 45 496 tons of stone quarried and 186 000 gallons of tar used for streets. The city laid 8 068 feet of sewer pipes and added 193 sewer laterals with 17 new manholes among other improvements.
The year 1929 saw 633,308,000 gallons of water pumped, 21,687,000 more than 1928, with 2,722 feet of mains laid and many hydrants installed. 440 meters are in use, 150 installed in 1929, 123 new connections, and 267,117,700 gallons flowed through meters for metered homes and industries. Meter users paid over 60 percent of the water income despite only 40 percent of users being metered.
In the first nine months of 1929, aliens totaling 380 917 arrived in Great Britain, compared with 364 775 in the same period of the previous year.
February listings show multiple farm stock and implements sales across Berryville Clarke County with buyers from nearby towns. Entries include dates from February 12 to March 26, featuring buyers such as John Plemente G P Fitchell Claude Kline Walter Anderson D B Wright J E Legge L P McKee P E Campbell J B Frye B G Grim L R Johnson Coleman Jacobs Farm J L Nethers Bob Lee H S Shiley N L Hottle E C Carper Mark Dunham Geo Swartz W S Hummer Pierce Wathey Jas Longerbeam Robert Lewis E B Royated Frank V Tilford Geo West C Wisecraver and others. Many listings include stock, implements, and some household goods or antiques.
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