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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1902
Page
4
Pleasant paragraphs describe visitors and residents in the area. Names include R. W. Hunter Maud Miller W. T. Nelson King and Mrs Breckenridge with travel to Baltimore Winchester Berryville and Pittsburg mentioned along with local shops and goods ads.
Correspondent notes 13 registered voters in Gore precinct out of under 140 eligible. He recalls 141 votes in the last presidential election and estimates about 132 men currently living there due to many relocating. Mr M W Cooper has returned from West Virginia and works for Dr Gover who bought the Richard property with ongoing improvements.
Correspondence reports Rev Brown’s meeting at Refuge still in progress with progress noted and prayers for blessing. Mentions improvements of Miss Effie and brother Albert, visits by Mrs H A Dinges and Miss Thamale, and attendance by Miss Gussie Pitcock. Fairfax school opened with Miss Simpson Cedarville. Fever cases reported at Neveh. Bertha Elkins’ section cheered by a community event.
A fragmented notice touts an asthma and hay fever cure by Dr Schiffmann. It mentions a testimonial by a person from Pleasant Hill and references a 14 year history of symptoms with claimed relief.
Eight year old Ulysses Grant negotiates to buy a colt for 25 dollars after his father suggests lower offers. He buys at 25, keeps the horse for years, later sells it for 20 as it becomes blind, and the animal ends up used on a ferry tread wheel on the Ohio River.
Correspondent notes raindriven energy in Gainesboro Virginia as fall crops near. Families like DeHaven welcome more children and Rev. Herbert Lindamood visits from Hagerstown while the church undergoes roof repairs. Local stock activity shows Hagerstown Fair stock selling at a premium and Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Society stock trading below par.
Enoch Jackson aged 70 of the county lies ill at his residence near Opequon with a severe attack of pneumonia suspected. He is described as one of the oldest residents and a well known man.
Mr. R. E. Boyd, newly owning the Hart Hotel, displayed unusually large potatoes from his Summit Point farm in West Virginia. A potato weighed 26 ounces and another 25 ounces, with 150 bushels of similarly oversized tubers reported.
Mr Charles Kitchen of Clarke county near Winchester is critically ill with pneumonia after two weeks of illness. Winchester police received new uniforms furnished by S H Hable. Mr and Mrs Archibald Oden, recently married, depart Winchester for New York to make their future home.
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