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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1939
Page
10
John Crockett settled Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay in 1686 with eight sons and their families, largely of Cornish descent. Today about a third of the island’s residents trace Crockett ancestry, with Dize, Parks, and Pruitt among the prominent surnames.
Classified ad notes a five room house for rent by G. T. Dunn in Kernstown Virginia. Also lists furnished apartment at 423 West Clifford with date 9 1 31 and apartment with garages at 1378 Loudoun dated 5 14 tf and an apartment at 411 North Loudoun Street dated 1 31 tf.
The County Board of Agriculture and cooperating agencies announce a sequence of meetings across Frederick County to plan a unified agricultural program for the next year. I. Fred Stine and local educators will lead sessions at nine sites from September 5 to September 14, targeting farmer needs and demonstrations.
Frederick Circuit Court will hear an appeal over ownership of a landlord’s share of a wheat and barley crop. Carrie and Dewey Brown claim the share from the J. T. Hott heirs farm purchased last spring. B. Taylor, former renter, is defendant. Trial found the grain belonged to the Hutt heirs with a two fifths share due. 666 bushels wheat and 261 barley, totaling 208.74 dollars before expenses. After harvesting costs 16.76 dollars, 191.98 dollars remains to be paid to the rightful owner of the two-fifths share.
Funeral services for John Henry Luttrell 76 of Cross Junction Frederick County will be at 2 tomorrow. He died at home in Collinsville after declining health. He served as Gainesboro District magistrate postmaster and a teacher and farmer. He was born November 22 1862 in Morgan West Virginia and survived by many children grandchildren and siblings.
Fauquier County investigators search for an unidentified man after a nighttime holdup at the New York Cafe in Middleburg. He, about 25, medium height, slight build, forced owner L C Diamos to surrender 53 dollars after buying cigarettes. The robber fled in a Virginia-licensed car toward Route 50 and Washington. Diamos says the cash comprised most of Sunday receipts.
The note proclaims fast, adequate coverage support and references an establishment date of 1882. It emphasizes speedy service availability and a long-standing commitment. The message is brief and lacks additional named entities or concrete events.
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