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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1923
Page
4
The Women’s Civic League compares Paris cleanliness to Baltimore’s, praising strict municipal methods. They note Paris enforces rubbish collection and street cleanliness, using long low trucks and regular schedules, arguing Americans can imitate the Paris system to improve urban hygiene.
A fragmented verse piece by Walt Mason reflects on urban moral concerns with pithy lines about sinners cops and moral ambivalence. The narrator vents about street life temptations and the paradox of virtue amid city temptations and crime.
Jan 9 report from Reliance Virginia lists visits and family gatherings. Rose of Philadelphia visited her sister. Mrs H J String and others spent holidays with relatives. B F Cooley of Winchester hosted guests. Sam Cooley and family spent New Year with W L Bowen and others. W O Cooley family not well.
A scanned markets section lists wholesale prices for Wheat flour butter hay and grains and retail prices for various farm goods including chickens turkeys ducks geese and other poultry. It includes Baltimore wholesale market entries for turkeys hogs hay calves and sheep with scattered figures and notes on pricing.
The timetable shows April 30 1922 service for Berryville with No 13 9 07 am to Bristol and intermediate stations including a Pullman parlor car. No 1 2 45 am to Roanoke Bristol Bluefield Kantas Welch Norton and intermediate stations with a Sleeper to Williamson and Winston Salem. No 27 5 58 pm to Shenandoah and intermediate stations. Northbound No 26 8 39 am to Hagerstown Harrisburg Philadelphia New York with Shenandoah Junction connection to Washington. No 14 7 36 pm to Hagerstown Parlor car and No 2 11 38 pm Sleeper to Philadelphia and New York. For fares schedules Pullman reservations or more information contact H H Burks Berryville VA or W C Saunders Roanoke VA.
The World Almanac showcases an enhanced format for 1922 with up to date census figures from federal departments and expanded foreign country descriptions. It offers a full diary of the year, death tolls, scientific progress, tariffs, laws, election returns, and complete sporting events and records.
Richmond January 9 The Evening News Leader reports a tense showdown in Richmond as Governor Trinkle calls a February 28 special session to decide emergency highway funding. The debate pits a 3 cent gasoline tax against 12 million dollars in bond issues, with lawmakers split and public pressure likely to decide the outcome. The confrontation could shape governors’ campaigns and Virginia road policy for years.
Deed filed in the Corporation Clerk’s office shows Charles D. Smith as executor conveying the Smith home on Peyton Street to his sister Mrs. Caroline Smith Sheetz wife of E Blair Sheetz for 10500 dollars. The property was placed in trust for the Smith sisters with a sell and divide provision as two daughters married. The home, one of Winchester’s most desirable, sits on a large lot and fronts 90 feet on Peyton Street. The city once held an easement for an underground and surface sewer benefiting the northern part of town.
By an order in the Corporation Court Mrs Margaret A Conner is named guardian of her minors Luther T Conner and Charlotte C Conner She gave bond in the penalty of $700.
On motion of Fred M Mort, Judge of the Corporation Court appoints Adam Forney as Sergeant Administrator of the late John W Mort merchant of the city. Appraisers are named to value the estate.
A marriage license was issued by the Corporation Clerk to Clarence Robinson Jr and Ida M ee both colored in this city. The bride is the daughter of Charlie Green.
A dated sales directory lists names and locations such as Berryville Ridgeway Green Spring and Winchester with entries for stock implements feed and hogs. Dates span January to March with multiple sellers including J W Larrick Jos Jackson Amos Cochran and C W Strobridge among others.
A property listing notes a fine lot on West Leicester Street offered at a price $500 below competing lots, highlighting its value and location for buyers seeking a bargain in the area.
Lelia Thomas is granted an absolute divorce from Walter V. Thomas in the Corporation Court on grounds of desertion. The decree protects property rights of both parties and allows remarriage after six months.
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