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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1921
Page
4
Fruit growers fear an abnormal and long winter chill will cause premature bloom and heavy crop damage. In the last two decades frost hit 1913 and 1915 with apple tree losses percent around seventy five in older trees, while younger trees suffered more. The blooming period around May exposes buds to danger as frost returns after initial bloom.
A fragmented meditation warns against crime and hypocrisy, urging honest toil and self discipline. The speaker condemns those who rob or mock decent living, contrasts bleak streets with a call to moral endurance, and laments the erosion of joy and calm.
In London, Prime Minister Lloyd George outlines Allied assessments of war damage in Northern France. The figures show extensive destruction to railways, factories, ships, and infrastructure, with thousands of components and kilometers of lines ruined.
The Handley Board selects Retin and Boice Inc of Harrisonburg to build the Amelia concrete dam project along the Seah River, naming the lowest bid as the basis for the award after bid tabulations and contractual steps.
Virginia bank statement lists total liabilities 2 773 326 93 with contingent items 25 800 00. It notes loans on call none and time loans none in New York City. January 1921 salaries total 629 16 for officers and 995 50 for other staff. Notary Frances Beverley sworn Feb 28 1921.
In Harrisonburg the bid from Betts and Roice Inc was accepted as the lowest for laying several miles of brick street. Local labor is preferred. outside workers only if local labor cannot be found on fair terms. Handley Board urges local labor and invites bids for the building when advertised.
Miss Whitmore directs a music appreciation course at John Handley High School. A book based syllabus covers folk and patriotic songs and great composers with an illustrated textbook. Students compile notebooks with covers, headings, inserts, and full page art. An exhibit of 75 notebooks is on display at Rice's music store window for a few more days.
L. P. Kniffen of Wilkes Barre Pa is spending a week with O. T. Ritter. He plans to leave tomorrow for Atlantic City for several weeks before returning home.
The Common Council holds a special meeting tonight at eight to elect a Handley Board of Trustees member to succeed the late John W. Rice and to discuss the water situation.
Executors offer for sale at public auction in Winchester Virginia on March 26 1921 at 12 oclock pm a 200 acre farm home of the late Giles J. Smith with two story eight room house good barn and other buildings near Gore Frederick County adjoining William E. Smith Mrs Annie V Fries and others. About 76 acres creek bottom land in high cultivation 50 acres timber and 31 acres in wheat and rye with half to purchaser. Tenant may harvest this summer. Immediate possession. Terms one third cash day of sale and balance in two equal annual installments secured by purchaser bonds deed of trust and fire insurance. H E Hiett M Garvin executors. 3-5-1921
March 9 W. P. Madigan near Canterbury March 9 P. I Bumgradner and Mrs P N Kibbler Refuge Church March 10 Magnus Leach Nineveh Va stock implements and household goods March 10 W F Bragg Wadesville two horses nineteen cattle twenty six hogs fifty bushels corn
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