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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1908
Page
2
Advertisement lists discounted clothing and home goods with wide price cuts. Items include ladies undergarments, coats, hats, muslin drawers, silks, velvets, linoleum, wallpaper, linens, towels, floor matting, blankets, and toys with marked reductions. Domestic textiles and houseware dominate the sale.
In Bunker Hill West Virginia on November 1 the local school shows larger term attendance. Roots No 1 taught by Prof Zeiler lists 41 enrollment with 37 average. Room No 2 led by Miss Sue Silver reports 35 enrollment and 28 average. Students contribute to a mound fund and observe Arbor Day with seven trees planted.
Marlboro section notes visitors and moves among residents. Mrs. Sowers travels from Marlboro to Winchester then Oklahoma. O R Boyer returns to town from Winchester. Mrs. Edmonia Cherry recovers. D S Brill mills hog feed for market. George Khisley ill. B C Shull threshing wheat. David Ambrose moves into H E Shull’s house and will run the village store. Dr J E Clagett improving after illness.
A marriage license was issued to C Linden Ritter son of James C Ritter and Daisy J Boyd daughter of Robert L Boyd from this county at the clerk of the Weircuit Court office. The groom works in the creamery business.
The General Demand of the Well Informed favors a simple pleasant liquid laxative. The California Fig Syrup Co promotes its Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a known safe option for family use. Buy the genuine manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co from leading druggists. Price fifty cents per bottle.
The Winchester Virginia common council calls a special sewerage bond election for January 7, 1909. Voters decide on issuing up to fifty thousand dollars of sewer bonds at interest not exceeding five percent for twenty years to fund the sanitary sewer system. Ballots label For or Against Sanitary Sewerage Bonds with special marking rules. The resolution requires publication in The Evening Star for ten days and posting at each voting place.
Miss Mary Spott Buchanan of Baltimore arrived here today to visit relatives and friends. Miss Bessie Conrad left today for a several day visit to friends in Baltimore.
Schedule lists daily trains to Harrisonburg Staunton and connections to Harpers Ferry Hagerstown Frederick Martinsburg Chicago Columbus Wheeling Pittsburg Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and major eastern cities. Departures run morning noon and night with arrivals at 2 06 night 9 28 morning 5 55 pm and late night.
The Southern Railway announces a westbound schedule between Washington Of and Bigemont Virginia effective Wednesday February 6 1908. The train numbers include 212k 1st and 13 Ey S8nn Sun Only Daily.
Train times and connections listed for southbound and northbound services including No 1s 903 and No 313 sleepers to Knoxville Roanoke Columbus Cincinnati Gary and Roanoke William son. Routes cover Bristol Bluefield Pocahontas Norton Welch and Shenandoah junction connections to Washington Philadelphia New York and Harrisburg with Pullman sleepers and cafe cars. Rates time tables available from agents Ir & Wity and W. B Bevill M F Bragg.
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