Berryville Personal Notes: Visitors and Local News
A brisk personal column from Berryville notes arrivals and departures, theater and music events, and local travels. Highlights include Mrs. Martha Hancock rushing back, Mayor Harry H. Baker traveling to Woodstock, and Polk Miller performing July 3 at the Auditorium. Masters Samuel and Henry Baker visit Wheatland with grandparents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hotel
G. J. Browner
Attt Gwine
Georgia
Polk Miller
Harry Hardy
Lexington
Harry H. Baker
Woodstock
Martha Hancock
Berryville
Masters Samuel and
Henry Baker
Winchester
S. H. Higinbotham
Wheatland
Jefferson County
Wheat Reaped in Clear Weather at Rest
Rest Virginia notes farmers reap ripe wheat amid good weather. Local residents welcome Daniel Wright back from Panama. Benjamin Foster visits Miss Mamie Baldwin. J R Clagett Sr. remains unimproved. Ida M Gordon visits Aspen Shade. Alma and Maud Bishop plan Ripon trip. Marie Feagans guests in Brucetown. Rest Church ladies plan lawn festival July 13 and 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Wright
Panama
Benjamin Foster
Fairmont
Mamie Baldwin
J. R. Clagett
Edward Taylor
Ida M. Gordon
Aspen Shade
Alma
Maud Bishop
Ripon
Marie Feagans
Brucetown
Jobe
Millwood Notes Highlight Local Socials and Visits
A Newsy Letter From Boyce lists visits, travels, and illnesses around Millwood and nearby towns. Mrs Henry Harrison and Miss Isabella visit Pilliedelphia. Adelaide Nelson travels to Baltimore then Hot Springs. Levi ill with appendicitis. multiple shuttling between Millwood Winchester Stephens City and Baltimore as residents host and visit relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sopha Ryan
Millwood
J. W. Sprint
Jolliffe
John Chamberlin
Winchester
Melvin Carpenter
Shepherdstown
Diffenderfer
JT. Sprint
Register Strode
Willie Dunlap
Stephens City
H.L. Pipher
Charles Fritts
Selenger
Henry Stouffer
Pennsylvania
C. A. Ford
Woman’s Friars and Remedies Promoted to Women
A damaged notice promotes Pierce’s Favorite Preservative for women addressing nervousness infertility and barren outcomes. It touts various pills and pellets as safe remedies and advises careful parental examination of claims and products. The piece frames health through gendered expectations and medical promotion of patent medicines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Semenen i
Prin
Leree
Sisters Visit and July Trip Announced
Miss Ethel Rinker traveled to Washington this morning to visit her sisters there. Mrs. G Casper Fries departed for Capon Springs West Virginia and will spend the month of July there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel Rinker
Washington
G. Casper Fries
Capon Springs
W. Va
Friendship Band Prepares for Berryville Firemen’s Bazaar
The Friendship Band rehearsed last evening ahead of a visit to Berryville tomorrow night for the Firemen’s bazar. A large crowd is expected, and thirty five Friendship Fire Company members will represent the town. Rev. Dr. J Horace Lacy will preach at Burnt Church next Sunday afternoon July 1. Read the inside pages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friendship
Berryville
Friendship Fire Company
J. Horace Lacy
Presbyterian Church
Burnt Church
County
Building Boor At Stephens City
A small notice notes a sale offering about one thousand four hundred dollars cash with possession to follow in spring. Local residents Harry H. Painter his wife and child of Philadelphia visit his mother nearby. Several residents from surrounding towns are visiting through the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rd City
Sutie
George Eak
Piecheoe
Harry H. Painter
Philadelphia
Toway
Velma
Mary Weaver
Virginia Page
Front Royal
I. A. Adams
Alice Pauline Simpson
Warren County
Maude Steele
Alice Guard
Mary Crim
Newmarket
Florence Guard
Anna Hopkins
Baltimore
Louise Miller
Nannie Gardner Visits Martinsburg and Local Weddings
Miss Nannie Gardner visits friends in Martinsburg and Miss Sadie Trussel returns home after visiting here. Mr. W. B. Clendenning and Miss Lillie attend the North Sparrow nuptials in Martinsburg. Paul Commandry elects officers for the coming year. A heavy storm brings lightning that strikes a large oak near James Henson’s residence with minor damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bunker Hill
Nannie Gardner
Martinsburg
Sadie Trussel
Jefferson County
W. B. Clendenning
Lillie
T. W. Alexandria
Washington
Paul Commandry
J. F. Slifer
Chas. F. Laise
J. R. Denny, Jr
W. E. Gordon
H. E. Markle
James Henson
Storm Blows Over Immense Oak Tree
Storm damage reports describe the collapse of a massive oak near Bunker Hill, said to be the county’s largest. The old tree stood between the General Boyd farm and the Drinker farm, now owned by O. B. Le Fevre, measuring twenty feet in circumference and expected to yield eight cords of wood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bunker Hill
General Boyd
Drinker
O. B. le Fevre
Loved and Mourned Mrs. Gorstad
The obituary notes Mrs. Gorstad’s charity and influence, with thirty joined the Baptist church through her care. It cites her business success and lands and houses, plus education for her sons and gifts to charities. Valley Home, her residence twelve miles west of Winchester, marks her long widowhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist
Valley Home
Winchester
Market Prices Snapped In Agricultural Notice
The clipping lists farm staples and livestock including corn oats butter eggs chickens old hens and old roosters indicating price or availability details for a rural market segment.
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Berryville St No. 6
Hansbrough & Carter
UN& Bill
Er Building & Loan Po
H. Hansbrough
Miller Supply Co
B. F. Riehthausen
West Lynn
Mass
Julia Faulkner
Moorefield
H. G. Cavernaugh
Hotel Evans
Rest
Boyce
Lula Jenkins
Mary Woolback
Nannie Nelson
Thos. Nelson
Mary
Frank Whiting
Albert Bradford
Dean
Emma Elliotte
Dr. Whitlock
Virginia, Cobb
Powell Cobb
William Garvin
Clay Carr
Robert Goodride
Louise
Clinton Goodride
Fstetn Clark
Jco
Trmest Johnany
Misa Mary
Adam Glascock
Bluemont
A. L. Glascock
Enesses Pure. Food Co
Leroy, N.Y
Woman's Friars
Stechise Rees
Comwear
Horsey & Atwell
Men’s
Frederick County
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
the Farmers and Chants National Bank
Count Court House
Parc
J. P. Haddox
N. Main St
Incohonee Tribe No. 17
Imp. O. R.M
A Cray & Sheetz Opp
Tayler Hotel
Frank M. Castleman
Charles E. Schenck
Ashland
Randolph-Macon College
Edgar Ll. Lemley
Charles E. Weaver
Bunker Sgill
Gorestad
West
S. H. Hable
Water
Huntsberry
W. Piccadilly Street
H. W. Clowe
Telly
Masons
T. M. Barr
Peoples Bargain Store Corner Market
Piccadilly
Read FT
Cecil and
Monmouth
Braddock Streets
Aaa 'Bale
Cather
Lewis
Care C. A. Wen
Vince
Red Stryker
Charles
Deman
Frazer
Uayne Bros
New York
Chicago
Louis
Burnt Factory
Camceea
N. Wilson Davis
The
Electric Power Company
POST
D. R. Eskey
Svret Banar Co
Royas Enginell
Cleartrook
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