Lawsuit Aims To Reach An Unknown Heirs Interest In 165 Acre Farm
The case against Elmer Elsworth Keyser seeks to collect a 2130.88 judgment from 1915 with interest and costs and to claim a one half undivided interest in a 165 acre Bartonsville Frederick County Virginia farm. It asks for a partnership accounting and a lien on the farm, and for sale proceeds to pay the judgment. Unknown heirs of Elizabeth H. Keyser are named defendants and must appear within 15 days after publication. The notice runs in The Winchester Evening Star for four weeks and a court posting is required by May 15, 1916.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eudora
Bartonsville
Frederick County
S. R. Atwell
Carson Keyser
Elizabeth H. Keyser
Elmer Elsworth Keyser
Atwell Farm
Winchester Evening Star
Ww. Baker
R.gray Williams
Fahnestock Heads to Roches for Weekend Stop
M D Fahnestock departed Saturday and planned to spend some time in Roches, according to brief transit notes. The fragment indicates a short layover or visit as part of a larger schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Fahnestock
Saturn
Roches
Sunday School Convention Held in Shawnee
The Shawnee Sunday School convention featured papers by Joseph M. Snapp and Rev. W T Walters on improving Sunday school work. Committees were named, resolutions adopted urging pastors and teachers to advance Sunday school efforts, and officers were recommended to serve another year. Attendees filled the large church with a luncheon break and afternoon sessions on reverence, timely attendance, and teacher training. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McCartney from Hagerstown Md visited relatives in Shawnee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph M. Snapp
J. H. Haley
Middletown
W. H. Sampsell
United Brethren Church
F. A. Shryock
Walters
W. D. Smith
W. Spott White
Our County
God’s Church
Sweet Corn Pests and Garden Insects
The Cutworm can be controlled with poison bran mash or by hand picking. The Earworm is hard to reach, but fall or winter soil turning reduces moths that lay eggs on silks. Planting corn early helps mature before worms peak. late corn suffers more. Many other garden pests affect onions, celery, asparagus and other vegetables.
Raise More Grain Practical Suggestions by a Pennsylvania Official
Pennsylvania dairy and food commissioner James Foust argues for modern farming to boost grain and feed. farmers should raise more grain per acre and increase dairy cows. He notes foreign fertilizer use yields far higher outputs, and urges keeping food production money at home to support farms and reduce milk and butter costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
James Foust
Dairy and
Germany
Great Britain
United States
Mr. Foust
Ordinary Whitewash Preparation Process
The article describes making whitewash by mixing about ten pounds of quicklime with two gallons of water. The lime is placed in a pail, water poured over, then the container covers with cloth and sits about an hour. Insufficient water scorches lime. excess water slows slacking. Scorched lime is lumpy and transparent, so proper water amounts are essential for a brushable hydrate.
Seed Corn Tester You Can Make at Home
The drawing shows a simple seed corn tester easy to make and handy. Cut a two inch plank four feet long one foot wide bore ten one inch diameter holes quarter inch deep across the plank.
Grain tester construction tip from Missouri Ruralist
George Gross explains a simple grain tester using four grains per ear in each hole, covered with cloth and soaked with sawdust. Seal with four inch boards around the edge, moisten for four to five days, and the tester holds about three bushels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Gross
Missouri
Lice Prevention for Hens and Chicks
The article advises dusting sitting hens with lice powder before nesting and weekly during incubation to prevent lice footholds. It also recommends keeping nesting material clean and washing dirty eggs in lukewarm water.
Apple Pie Filling and Hotel Evans Registration
A home recipe uses apple and arrowroot with salt cinnamon lemon juice rind and water. Instructions note cook ten minutes strain and adjust lemon juice. The report adds Mr I S McNeill of Harrisonburg Virginia registered Saturday at Hotel Evans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. S. McNeill
Harrisonburg, Va
Evans
Four Farm Tracts Sale in Frederick County Va
Special commissioners will sell in front of the Winchester County Court House on June 26 1916 at 10 o'clock a m four real estate tracts near Star Tannery Frederick County Va. Tracts include 56 acres dower land with dwelling, 71 acres adjoining, 26 acres with an orchard, and 108 acres with a house barn and orchard. One third cash with two equal yearly payments secured by deeds of trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelson Ashton
Frederick County
Cour House
Winchester
Gainesboroe
Frederick Grade
Bethel Church
John Lauck
Circuit Court
W. C. Cooper Et Als
B. F. Orndorff
Farmers and Merchants National Bank
S. L. H. Orndorff
People’s National Bank of Strasburg, &c
Mary L. Orndorff, &c
Mary L. Orndorff
W.C. Cooper
Mary B. Orndorff
Mary Ll. Orndorff
Fertie M. Orndorff
L. H. Orndorff
Silas B. Pifer
E. D. Newman
M. Steck
T. R. Cather
H. S. Larrick
M. M. Lynch
B. Guyer
C. I
Also Mentioned on This Page
Etta
Annie Grin
Seka
M. “'M. Lynch
Wm. M. Bowen
C. R. Shubbs’ Meat Market
Harry Schindler
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
S. A. Jordan
Brunswick
Baltimore & Ohio Free Labor Bureau
Camden St
Baltimore
Wood’s Seeds
Wood
T.W. Wood & Sons, Seedsmen
Richmond, Va
Zu Zuto
Hell
National Biscuit Company
Baltimore & Ohio
Niagara Falls
Brill & Bitter
Tiddleberger & Pickey
Strasburg, Va
Voine Dept
Berryville
Wash & Harris
Bunker Hill
Inwood Supply Co
Inwood
Virginia
County of
Frederick
Eudora Orissa Keyser
Elizabeth , Keyser
R.H. Cline
R. L. Stickel
Lawson Hockman
John Camp
Bell
W. R. Hardesty
Joseph McCartney
Hagerstown, Md
Mary and
Elizabeth McCartney
North Braddock Street
Grove Bros. Department Store
Union Bank of Winchester
Inclus
Foley & Co
Chicago
Ill
Foley
South Main Street
Joe Patton
D. L. Wyndhaw’s
G. C. Shepard
Park Ave
Yvus
Tfiomas & Messer
Baltimore St
Primar
Fort Loudoun Seminary
FT. Loudoun Seminary
Jordan
White Sulphur Springs Health and Rest
Fred. H. Winkfield
Stephenson, VA
Ladies’ Aide Society
Beneft
King’s Daughters
Minnie Wood Chapel
Capon
Ranch Rades
S. Fletcher
Wey
Gordon Springs
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