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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1930
Page
3
Social notes by Miller and Teabale record community updates and personal notices amid crime reporting. Names and places are partially obscured, with terse summaries of gatherings and acquaintances in the region.
Mrs Mary Louise Ryan attended the funeral of her grandmother Mrs Mary Catherine Redmon widow of Tilghman Dangerfield Redmon who died at 102 years in Fauquier county Va Burial was in the family lot at Marshall Mrs Redmon survived by two children 24 grandchildren 50 great grandchildren and five great great grandchildren.
Miss Margaret Andy of Washington visits for vacation with Miss Anderson. local entertainments include several guests at the Kenney home. Guests Sunday include Mr. Robert Kenny Mrs. Naomi Kidwell and daughter Helen and Leslie of White Post Va. Various residents and visitors are listed as spending time in the area, with travel to Lynchburg and Bristol for studies noted.
The Winchester football squad will meet tonight at 8 in the Sign-Kraft Shop East Boscawen street to form the 1930 team. Practice is at 5 30 this afternoon at the Handley High School grounds supervised by coach Mr Trimble former Princeton halfback. More players are urged to join starting this afternoon.
The Trustee under a July 21 1924 deed of trust will sell at public auction in front of the County Court House Winchester Va on Saturday September 27 at 12 o clock noon. Lot 21 on Gray avenue West side 40 by 120 feet bounded by Glaize and Carter Harriett Ritter. Terms: one third cash day of sale, balance in two equal installments with bonds and six percent interest, secured by a head of trust. Joseph B Newlin Trustee.
The funeral of Jered B. Merryman was held at 10 30 this morning at his Water Street home. Rev. James A. Johnson and Rev. John A. Wood conducted the service. Interment followed at Queens Point Cemetery. Survived by wife Eula Ritzell, a daughter, three sons, two sisters, and a brother. He was born in 1853 in Winchester.
The Greenbrier Club hosts the Second Annual Autumn Intercollegiate Tennis tournament starting October 6 at White Sulphur Springs West Virginia. Thirty one colleges invited with entries from Virginia West Virginia Washington and Lee and others. The Greenbrier Cup and Greenbrier trophy will be awarded for singles and doubles with UVA last year’s holders.
The 1816 frost year brought near famine as wheat, corn, and fruit failed. People crowded to the Shenandoah River for fish, game dwindled, cattle suffered, and hogs fed on nuts. Subsequent years saw mixed harvests with droughts and good crops interspersed. 1820 marked a peak with abundance before later shortages.
The record details yearly crop outcomes from 1855 to 1891 noting wheat and corn yields and periods of good or poor harvests. It highlights years with cholera impact on hogs and chickens, hay shortages, and long recall of changing seasons back to 1290.
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