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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1900
Page
3
You can travel far for a better wash goods stock but our store claims the best prices and quality in every dry goods line. Fine jaconat dimities and printed Manila cards, lawns and dimities priced from 5c to 12c per yard, Windsor percales from 9c to 10c, all under Robinson Bros new store management.
Latest market reports list wholesale prices for eggs butter apples potatoes dried cherries and dried peaches. It also includes figures for chickens old and spring corn oats and related grains with multiple unclear entries and values.
A Kansas City Star article quotes an old musician on how many players lose hearing from constant vibration. It notes brass players are especially affected, with many quitting before full deafness drops in. The piece links ear damage to long hours of daily practice and loud orchestral tones.
A Charles W. Hardy in the county is not the same as the local Postmaster Chas E Hardy. Palestine Commandery Knights Templar of Martinsburg will likely accept Winchester Commandery’s invitation to participate in the cornerstone laying at Rouss City Hall on May 15.
A public sale of six houses and lots will be held on May 19 1900, under the estate of John Lillis with M M Lynch as executor. Also noted are church services by Rev E B Jackson and preaching plans by Bishop Chandler in local churches, plus local commercial and street improvements and a cheese sale at Slusher’s.
A March term decree of the Frederick County Circuit Court directs trustee and commissioners to auction Mary J. Royce estate real estate in Winchester Virginia. Parcels include a Main Street store front 31 feet, a Main Gerard Street vacant lot 49 feet, and a Main Street dwelling 26 feet by 116 feet 6 inches with a 14 feet 6 inch alley. The properties may sell together or separately with the alley deeded for joint benefit if sold separately. Sale starts 11 a.m. on court day.
May 8 1900 terms of sale require one third cash with rest in one and two years secured by deed of trust and purchaser bonds. Insurance of 750 to benefit trust and split between store and dwelling. Special commissioners Byrd Kern Lynch certify bond. Court deputy clerk Kiger signs notice in Frederick Virginia circuit court.
An executor to the estate of John Lillis offers six desirable houses and lots for public auction in front of the Winchester Court House at 11 o'clock a.m. The sale follows a decree from the March term 1900 of the Corporation Court of Winchester Virginia against John Lillis devisees et al.
Saturday May 19 1900 bids invited on six city parcels in Winchester Virginia including Brad dock Piccadilly corner West Peyton Kent Marker North Market Braddock streets. Terms require one third cash day of sale with balance in two annual notes secured by deed of trust and insurance policy. Ex or John Lillis estate. Auctioneer E L Hopson.
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