Winchester Touted as Possible Blue Ridge League Member
At a Blue Ridge Baseball League meeting in Hagerstown on Tuesday, Winchester is named as a potential replacement for Gettysburg. Martinsburg World notes Winchester, a small town near Martinsburg, has a history of strong teams and could be a valuable addition if the league considers packing towns.
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Blue Ridge Baseball League
Hagerstown
Gettysburg
Battlefield
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
York
Winchester
Virginia City
Martinsburg
Sandy Baker
Farmers urged to support Liberty Loan drive
The article cites confidence in farmers’ generous contributions to the Liberty Loan. It notes the first loan favored cities, and the second campaign should empower farmers and their organizations to back the government’s financial program, framed as the peak expression of Americanism in this critical hour.
Baldwin Neill joins Marine Corps in World War I era
Berryville Virginia resident Lieut Baldwin Neill son of Mr and Mrs John B Neill passed the Marine Corps officer exam finishing sixth in a class of six hundred He trained at Paris Island earned a sharpshooter medal and is on furlough with his parents before reporting to Quantico next week
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Berryville
Clarke
Sam
Baldwin Neill
John B. Neill
Neill
United States Marine Corps
Parise Island
S. C
Public Sale In Romney WV For Farm Livestock
Draft horses and cows to be sold on the farm Ridgedale near Romney West Virginia. 76 pure and high grade Angus cows 18 draft horses and colts 126 Shropshire ewes 175 hogs including pure bred Berkshire and Duroc animals. R M Washington Jr announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. M. Washington, Jr
Open Season For Hunting Shows License Need
With hunting season opening November 1 the new game law requires all shooters to have a license except on their own farms. The law is seen as protecting game, reducing pot hunting, and there have been violations but overall it works. A separate game commissioner is favored to manage the department funded by license income around 100000 dollars. Legislation may create this post with Roanoke’s R H Willis pushing the bill.
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Game Department
Board of Fisheries
Tidewater
Appalachian Game and Fish Association
Virginia Game and Fish Association
Farmers’ Institute and
Farmers’ Union
Marriage of Miss Mary Calvert Leach and Dr W W Koontz
The record announces the marriage of Miss Mary Calvert Leach of Front Royal and Dr W W Koontz of Spring Creek Va. The wedding occurred Wednesday October 3. Dr Koontz hails from the Lacey Spring area and has long resided there.
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Mary Calvert Leach
Front Yal
W. W. Koontz
Spring Creek
Koontz
Lacey Spring
Public Sale of a Valuable Limestone Farm in Virginia
The executor advertises a public auction of a 203 acre limestone farm near Berryville Virginia on October 29 1917 at 1 30 p m. The property lies along the Charles Town Road within a mile and a half of Wadesville and seven miles from Berryville. The sale offers whole or in two parcels with specific acreage and improvements, crops reserved, possession March 1918, and two installment payment terms secured by a deed of trust and insurance.
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Apple Ridge
C. W
Shenandoah
Clarke
Loudoun
Frederick
West Virginia
Co. P. Bailey & CO
Berryville
Virginia
Sturday
Jacob H. Rinker
Charles Town Road
Wadesville
John M. Pishpaw
Erryville
Local Social Notes From Capon Bridge and Nearby Towns
Mrs Newcomer of Petersburg visits Mrs Frye in Capon Bridge W Va. Mrs M C Jackson returns from Romney. B A Giffin mall merchant travels to Baltimore for winter goods. Dora McKee visits Romney and returns married to Benjamin Lockhart. Mrs Conrad Oates visits sister Mrs L C Haines. Ed Oates and Lou Tompson visit Trone. Sadie Fletcher visits Romney area. Fred Oates and wife visit Mrs Ed Oates in Winchester. Dr Oates and family visit from Martinsburg. Mrs B A Giffin and Garson Swisher visit Winchester. Lou Tompson visits Mrs Lou Giffin at Trone. Frye suffers a gathered finger. Mrs N W Baker ill with rheumatism improving.
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Capon Bridge
W. Va
Newcomer
Petersburg
Frye
M. C. Jackson
Romney
Dora McKee
Benjamin Lockhart
Conrad Oates
L. C. Haines
B. A. Giffin
Elizabeth
Garland
Ed. Oates
Lou Tompson
Cat Trone
Sadie Fletcher
Fred. Oates
Winchester
Garson Swisher
Lou Giffin
Trone
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Detroit
Neel Motor CO
N. Main
H.W. Ebert
N. Main St
Bell Phone
United Phone
Huntsberry
Clinton E. Chrismore
North Market Street
Winghester
Marine Corps
Penses
R. H. Willis
Roanoke
House of Delegates
Paris
Bolivia
H. K. Green & Bro
Years
Capon
N. W. Baker
D. L. Wyndham
West Water Street
A. B
Care Star Office
M. Adams
Stephers City
Moling & Seal
Just
R. M. Swimley
G.F Hetzer
Mountain View Nursery Co
Williamsport
Maryland
Strickler Wagner
Miller
E. Omps
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