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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1930
Page
9
Texaco Stations become branches of Western Union linking highway points nationwide. Telegram transmission from remote stations will be immediate, normalizing direct telegraphic contact with major cities and improving speed and accuracy of service.
Brucetown notes report on I H Russell family from Charles Town and Nellie Kline, Julian Kline moving to Frostburg. Mention banquet by McCormick Co. in Baltimore and various local visits and illnesses. Court notices list estate claims and creditor meetings with specifics on attendance and deadlines.
The Clerk's Office in Frederick County on October 17 1930 issued a court order in a foreclosure action to enforce judgments against lands owned by L. J. Hook. The Federal Land Bank of Baltimore Panther Oil and Grease Mfg Co Creel Brothers Motor Tool Specialty Co Duco Co A B Farquhar Kellogg Geiser Rogers Ernst Reich and Commercial Credit Co are non residents and must appear within ten days of publication to protect their interests. Publication to occur weekly for four weeks in the Winchester Evening Star with service of copies to named defendants.
M. M. Lynch as executor seeks a court order to construe the will of Margaret Cecelia Strother and administer her estate. Defendants Harry L. Davis Mary V. Lewis Cecelia Lee McKay and The Home of the Aged and Orphans of the Methodist Episcopal Church South at Gaithersburg are warned to appear within ten days after publication. Publication runs in the Evening Star Winchester Virginia for four weeks, with a copy to be mailed to each defendant.
Winchester merchants were warned by the advertising committee for the Virginia State Firemen and Cumberland Valley Firemen's Association convention next August to avoid out of town publications not tied to the local event. They urged support for the official program.
A historic ad copy touts Johnsons Anodyne as clearing the head and banishing the cough. It promises immediate improvement or a full refund if no benefit is observed, urging readers to try a bottle at their local druggists.
Saturday Oct 25 at 10 o clock a farm known as J. E. Nelson farm one mile southeast of Capon Bridge off road to Winchester 175 acres with 150 arable 25 acres timber. Improvements include a two room house foundation for a nine room house good spring and personal property such as two Percheron mares harness cow four shoats corn hay plows and more.
Public auction in Winchester Virginia on Saturday November 15 1930 at 12 noon offers a four acre Frederick County property with a six room house and outbuildings. Property sold by M M Lynch executor with immediate possession and a payment plan of one third cash and two annual installments secured by deed of trust and fire insurance policy. Auctioneers Duvall and Dunn.
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