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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1916
Page
5
Cumberland Valley timetable lists daily train arrivals at Winchester with morning and evening runs and Sunday exceptions. Supervisor B H A Ripple and general manager P A mts noted the schedule details for trains from stations at 9 20 am and 7 22 pm daily, with Sunday variations.
Train notes describe dining and sleeping cars including Roanoke to Bristol routes. Intermed connections at Roanoke with Memphis line and cafe car offerings mentioned. No. 27 schedules Fort Shenandoah and inter station connections listed.
Trustees and commissioners by decree of the Frederick County Circuit Court on June 20 1916 in The Jefferson Copper Co versus N Conner et al announce a public auction of I N Conner property in front of the county courthouse Winchester Virginia.
On Saturday October 14 1916 at 11 a m the four tracts near Stephens City Frederick County Virginia will be offered. Tract 1 contains about 73 percent acres with a grain and bank barn. Tract 2 comprises about 93 percent acres adjoining Tract 1. Tract 3 covers about 2 acres 8 poles adjoining Tract 1. Tract 4 includes about 130 acres with a frame dwelling and barn on the Valley Pike road. Crops on all tracts are reserved. Terms require one third cash, balance in two equal yearly instalments secured by bonds and a deed of trust and insurance. Trustees Herbert S. Larrick and Geo M. Beltzhoover.
A compiled list of books by diverse authors including Lafcadio Hearn Peter Mac M Terman G W Mead Frances Wilson Woodrow Wilson Ethel Howard H C Potter A C Gardiner T B Bat az chelier F Molloy Pierre Loti A F Baker H A Franck John Burroughs and H J Fond covering travel biography religion politics and literature with varied global perspectives and eras.
Fred O Blue state tax commissioner says two years of prohibition cut crime by 50 percent and drunkenness by 7 percent in West Virginia. Based on reports from 50 municipalities, arrests dropped from 18 667 before the law to 9 956 in the first year and 3 357 in the second year.
A six pound black bass, 23 inches long, was caught Friday in the South Branch of the Potomac two miles from Romney. Present were A. Miller, cashier of the First National Bank. S. M. Scott Jr. of Terra Alta. and Parley De Berry, superintendent of the West Virginia Institution for the Deaf and Blind, Romney.
The new general revenue bill takes effect Saturday ending stamp taxes long paid by merchants. Internal Revenue Bureau rules remove taxes on telegraph and phone messages bonds stock transfers and many others. In seven months the emergency revenue law raised over 23 million dollars.
A selection of new acquisitions at Handley Library features diverse subjects. The list includes The American Short Story by C Alphonso Smith and Architecture of Colonial America by H D Eberlein among others.
Executor offers for sale at public auction in front of Winchester Court House Virginia on Saturday Sept 30 1916 at 12 oclock noon a large three story brick building at 160 North Main Street, owned by Oscar Barr decd. Bidder to pay one third cash with balance in two annual installments secured by deed of trust and insurance policy. Possession given immediately. Auctioneer A G Swanson.
Public auction in Winchester Virginia on September 30 1916 at 12 o clock noon offers 26 acres near Chambersville Frederick County with a four room dwelling outbuildings and an 11 year old apple orchard. Property lies near a graded school and streams with immediate possession and bonds of purchaser due in six to eighteen months secured by deed of trust. For more details contact J W Fisher Strasburg VA.
Mountain View Nursery Co of Williamsport Maryland shows attractive nursery stock at the Winchester fairgrounds with a representative present all week inviting visitors to view fruit and shade trees at their tent.
Fragment notes Timothy as a large figure in a humorous blurb from Young's Magazine. The piece references a half sheepish, half amused tone and mentions a Want Ad in Thester. No clear event or date is provided.
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