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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1909
Page
5
Advertisement for clothing made to measure guaranteed to fit and for cleaning and alterations. Services include scouring French dry cleaning repairing altering and pressing. Located at Burh phones 128 S Main St.
On Tuesday August 24 1909 stock from the late Robt R Smith will be sold at Rippon starting 11 o clock. The sale features 60 short horn cattle including breeder cows and bulls plus three breeding herds. two registered Percheron stallions and several mares. 42 Shropshire sheep with ewes and bucks. and 2 Poland China boars and 7 sows. Bidders may pay over 12 months with interest and can request a catalogue. Richard B Smith Adm y Wickliffe VA B F Yahns Clerk.
The Cumberland Valley Railroad offers an eleven day Ocean Grove excursion beginning Friday August 7 1908. Tickets are priced at 7 dollars 59 cents for the round trip and may be purchased at Winthrop Hotel for the train leaving at 7 30 p m. from Ocean Grove Station. Tickets are limited to 100 aboard and valid through September 5 1908.
REVANCE Aug 19 Mrs Anna Garrison injured Tuesday when her buggy horse stumbled and fell pitching her onto the ground. With daughter Jennie Widmeyer’s help she returned home, suffering likely fractured bones and internal injuries. The accident occurred while en route to Stephens City.
William C Ritter son of R H Ritter of Millwood selected as principal of the Virginia State School for Deaf and Blind Colored Children in Newport News. Ritter, a printer and newspaper man, is regarded as a bright, capable deaf mute educator. The new school opens its first session in its Newport News building on September 8.
A dance at the Baylis home in Hayfield Virginia honored Miss Esther Baylis. Guests included Bertha Coe Willetta Coe Bessie Boyce Fannie Snapp plus many Baylis relatives and friends. Refreshments at midnight followed by dancing until 2 am. Inclement weather kept others away.
Ezra Bowman, English landowning farmer, travels to America with plans to marry his daughter to a nobleman’s son. He tries to buy Mark Evans’s farm for far less than its value by a staged sale scheme. Evans traps him with a fractional payment plan, forcing Bowman to pay $26,214.20 for 180 acres and the marriage bargain is dropped when Hilma agrees to wed the farmer, with Nellie Edna Curtis as the narrator.
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