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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1913
Page
7
Fashion writers urge a white summer with cool white serge and pristine fabrics. Bold colorways appear in new silks and Oriental inspired prints, but white remains stylish, practical, and easy to care for.
A chancery decree ordered sale of a small house and lot on South Market street in Winchester Virginia. Special Commissioner R Gray Williams will offer the property at public auction December 15 1918 at 12 noon at the county courthouse. The 39 by 149 foot lot sits beside Mrs Annie L Murnans home with a two thirds balance to be paid by two bonds.
Best Virginia notes a school league entertainment planned for December 20 at the Branson schoolhouse with a Christmas program prepared for Christmas Eve at the village church. Local residents Miss Annie Feagan returns from Brucetown visit. Fannie Best and grandson West Hoesseltine visit Mrs C Moulden. multiple social visits and a 800 pound champion hog butchered by Joseph Wright. Nimrod Herrell welcomed a baby boy Sunday.
The document presents assets including loans and discounts 878 645 and overdrafts 968 with secured and unsecured items, cash items 118, coin 212 20 and currency 3 548 06. Liabilities show deposits 69 757 6 including savings, certified checks 184% and notes payable 5 000 0G with accrued interest reserves and total assets listed as 93 545206. E E Chiles, cashier, signs the statement dated Oct. 21 1918 from Stephen City Frederick County Virginia.
Augusta County reports widespread hog cholera with many hogs dying and disease spreading led by carrion feeders. Law requires burning of animals from disease, and farmers are urged to enforce this rule for public and neighbor safety.
A terse fragment shows an advertising note for The Star newspaper. It mentions space booking and a prompt publication call but provides no clear names or dates.
The passage surveys forearm jewelry options from white rounded arms to economical filigree silver bracelets and crystal linked designs. It notes silver bands with coral links, engraved bangles in sterling silver and gold, and higher priced snake bracelets in gold with amethyst settings.
Public sale to be held at about six miles from Winchester Virginia on December 20 1913. Property includes a Peerless traction engine class 1T number 15638 with long cab a Peerless saw mill No 6925 belt and tools. lands of Charles Wickhwee near Rosenverger involving the Geiser Manufacturing Company of Waynesboro Pennsylvania. Sale at one o clock by trustee Deardorff withpower of attorney.
Instructions describe using cotton batting between two blankets, tacking edges, and covering with a flowered part silk material secured by colored worsted. The passage also notes Mr. Tuomas Dlagett visiting the Carters and returning to Philadelphia.
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