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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1900
Page
3
You can find no better wash goods stock than ours and you would not locate lower prices. Our aim is to excel in dry goods with satisfactory price, style and quality. Printed Manila cards, jaconat, lawns, dimities, and percales offered at 5 to 12 cents per yard. Roberts brothers new store under Rufus C. Robinson management.
Left Over from Yesterday reports Mr. 8S. R. Atwell visiting Woodstock to inspect Horsey and Atwell branch. Editors Capt. J. H. Grabill Shenandoah Herald L. T. Stoneburner Edinburg Sentinel and Sheriff Daniel Spiker Strasburg attend M. E. Church South district stewards meeting in this city. Guests Eli Sibert Mrs. John Kilmer and Mrs. John Reach of Martinsburg stay at Evans Hotel. Fletcher and Harford head to Cumberland. Fletcher formerly with Byrd Fletcher at the Palace Bar now closed.
The text outlines the Winchester Common Council rules for laying taxes and council procedures. It covers president selection, chair rulings, appeals, written resolutions, speaking limits, voting methods, adjournments, addresses by non-members, ordinance reading, limits on appropriations, journal entries, conflict of interest, meeting order, standing committees, rule suspension, and repeal of prior rules. It also notes the council as a continuous body and the timing for appointing standing committees.
On Sunday May 13 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will start the Sunday excursion season with a Winchester to Baltimore trip priced at 1 dollar round trip. The train leaves Winchester at 7:00 AM and returns from Baltimore at 7:30 PM likely drawing a large crowd.
Mr. Thomas Wood of Pennsylvania has been appointed stenographer to Census Supervisor Jno. M. Steck. He has arrived in Winchester and begun duties of his office.
Miss Mollie C. Barrow was appointed postmistress at Tulip in Frederick county Virginia succeeding Miss Emma J. Barrow who resigned from the position.
The baccalaureate sermon for the young ladies of the Episcopal Female Institute will be preached at Christ Episcopal Church on Sunday June 10. Rev. Edward Wall from Berryville will deliver the sermon, an eloquent minister expected to give an excellent message.
Thursday night May 3 at 8 o clock the Friendship Fire Company will meet at their hall for important business. Captain J. P. Happox presides.
On May 19 1900 M M Lynch Executor of John Lillis deceased will sell at public auction six desirable houses and lots. See advertisement in another column of this paper.
The piece notes the first seasonal deviled crabs at Noonan's Cafe. It lists wholesale market prices for produce and grain including eggs butter apples potatoes dried fruits turkeys chickens geese ducks and grains. It also mentions a local lodging offer by Mrs Mary E Bavuser Man at 109 South Market St in a short brokered notice.
A statement to the City Council shows the Handley Fund trustees received 50646.67 from John Handley executors and from bond interest, with 75500 spent on century bonds and a balance on hand in the bank.
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