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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1926
Page
7
A bank acts as a reservoir for community surplus funds with deposits flowing in and loans flowing out to meet business needs. Savings departments offer interest but no check writing, while the cycle maintains the reservoir level as funds circulate among factory payrolls, purchases, and eventual redeposits.
Farmers gather grain as residents share weekend visits. Mr and Mrs R L Bailey hosted relatives J L Bailey and Mrs J L Bailey from Front Royal. Artents Smoots of Brunswick Md stayed with Uncle Arthur Jenkins family. Dorothy Parker visited her grandmother. Madie Gazette visited local households. Nine piglets survive after loss of a sow. Kirby Miller returns to Washington DC for work.
Fruit growers and farmers in the Cumberland Valley learn that insurers will stop selling hail coverage in the area after this year. Years of costly storms have driven up losses, with this season’s events around Hagerstown estimated to total about 50 000 for hail protections and a single Smithsburg Edgemont storm aimed at 30 000 in losses.
The account describes a life with almost no theatres or restaurants, scarce social opportunities, and a hollow daily routine, highlighting the isolation and challenge of finding any cultural or recreational outlets.
Apple Pie Ridge Virginia June 30 Mr and Mrs Frank Barrett and children Amelia Zelda Harold Ray Floyd of Pitcairn Pennsylvania visit Mrs Barretts parents Mr and Mrs Isaac Miller and other relatives in the locality On Sunday visitors included Mr and Mrs Edward Strother and children Martinsburg W Virginia Mr and Mrs FE Bailey and children Albin Mr and Mrs John Adams Greenspring Mr Ora Bailey Winchester Mr and Mrs AG Clark and Mrs Joseph Cave John Smith and children Winchester Mr and Mrs Dory Miller John Brill and son near Welltown Mr and Mrs C E Braithwaite Charles Lupton Clearbrook Mr and Mrs John Livengood and children near Grimes and Rev SS Ludwig and friend Winchester were guests Sunday of Mr and Mrs OCrix.
From a mud settlement of 10 000 to a city of 80 000, Angora expands with stone houses, a modern post office and Parliament, planned opera house, two high schools, and new roads. New facilities include a National Museum, hotel, factories, and an electric plant, though water supply and sewerage remain scarce. Sand and windstorms affect the city.
Mr and Mrs Alson Smith visited Martinsburg and stayed with the Smiths over Sunday. Sfarry Braithwaite from Harrisburg Pa spent a few days with his parents Mr and Mrs Braithwaite. Mr and Mrs James Strother of McKeesport Pa were guests of Mr and Mrs Edmond Barrett. Jemnel Clark had a serious accident last week when he fell from a wagonload of straw fracturing both bones in his arm.
Mr and Mrs Ben White and son Leroy moved from Virginia nine years ago and recently toured Keyser West Virginia to Luke Michigan visiting old friends. A trip described as splendid includes Sunday visitors at Mr Simon Snapp s who hosted Mr and Mrs Clarence Zucher and their young son to Mountain Falls. Mr Godfrey Bly and others were present.
Bert Smoke Leonard Williams and Ralph Williams Ernest Ashwood Charles Ashwood Lucian Ashwood Leroy White visit families. Mrs Pearl Bly called at Mr Shell Bly's Fawcett Gap Monday morning. Ernest Barrent and Mrs Lula Lineburg hosted a recent overnight. Obelia Snapp visited Ben White Tuesday evening. Rhueber Wisecarver and children stayed with her mother at Kernstown.
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