Personal Notices and Visiting Residents in Winchester
Personal notices list residents visiting or visiting in Winchester. Names include Henry Baetjer, Mr John Campbell, Miss Amy Gosnell, Miss Bertha Shearer, Miss Katharine Steele. Also mentions Miss Katharine ill with typhoid, and others visiting families or traveling to McKeesport and Washington. Watermelon Race and Eating Contest scheduled at Market Street Rink tonight with Ladies free Piccaninny eating contest.
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Cat Market St
Ladies Free
Piccaninny
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Two New Jobs At Postoffice
The local civil service board conducted exams at John Kerr Public Schools for substitute clerk and substitute carrier positions at Winchester post office. Applicants included Carroll, Willis, Walter Cooper, Carl Cather, and John Seal. Results will be sent to proper authorities and announced soon.
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Winchester Post Office
Negotiations Closed on Middletown School Site
Negotiations for land for a new high school and agricultural school in Middletown have closed. About 8 000 was subscribed locally and 13 000 overall will be available from Middletown and nearby sources. The school improvement committee was reduced to three members: James, J. Larrick, BE. M. Funk and C. B. Edmondson.
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Middletown
Messrs. James
J. Larrick
BE. M. Funk
C. “B. Edmondson
Market quotes and commodity prices listed today
Market quotations show prices for corn oats hay butter and eggs with figures per bushel and per ton. The excerpt lists various grains and livestock items with unit prices though some text is garbled and hard to read.
Prof Settle Lectures on Agriculture at Court House
Prof Settle, chair of weet, spoke at the Court House hall before teachers and townspeople as part of the State Summer Institute series. He covered soil formation, plant life, and illustrated with photos alongside Prof N D Cool, with next lecture scheduled for Friday at 8 o'clock.
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Settle
Weet
State Summer Institute
Seagton
Court House Hall
Wi Lder
Miss Hayes
Fairfax Lord Fairfax Claim Proceeding in Lords
London July 18 The House of Lords has begun formal steps to recognize Albert Kirby Fairfax of Virginia and Maryland as Lord Fairfax. He may deposit proof while the privileges committee reviews it. Fairfax, a Virginia native, is described as the only American with the English title, having inherited it through his great uncle Thomas Lord Fairfax of Clarke County. In February he moved to establish his claim, with the king directing the petition to be considered.
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London
House of Lords
Albert Kirby Fairfax
Virginia
Maryland
Committee On Priviledges
Fairfax
Thomas Lord Fairfax
Clarke County
Lord Fairfax
Cameron
Scotland
Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Better Pay For Justice Of Peace Raises Magistrate Fees
New legislation effective July 1 increases magistrate pay from 50 cents to 1 for issuing warrants and judgments in civil cases. The magistrate also receives 1 for preliminary felony hearings while demesne case fees stay at 50 cents. Mrs. W. Al Davison and son of Middletown head to Greenville to reside, and Edmund and Stuart Hoper return to Washington after a weekend in town.
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Middletown
Greenville
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Eliza Diffenderfer
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Mr. H. EB. Guyer
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Bertha Shearer
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Katharine Steele
John P. Sartele
Corie
Mary Swimley
Brucetown
Maury Middleton
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Emma Heflin
William Heflin
East Cork Street
Frank Gordon
McKeesport
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H. G C. Stouffer
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