Wilbur Price
Berryville farmer whose plan to divide automobile license taxes equally between the state and the counties, endorsed by the Berryville Local of the Farmers' Union, passed the House of Delegates in 1922.
What the sources support
The Clarke Courier of January 5, 1922 lists Wilbur Price among the Berryville Local's delegates to the county convention of the Farmers' Union. Its issue of March 9, 1922 reports that the plan for the state and counties to divide automobile license taxes equally, proposed by Wilbur Price and endorsed by the Berryville Local of the Farmers' Union, had passed the House of Delegates as a bill and gone to the State Senate.
See the source and its limits
The Clarke Courier of January 5, 1922 lists Wilbur Price among the Berryville Local's delegates to the county convention of the Farmers' Union. Its issue of March 9, 1922 reports that the plan for the state and counties to divide automobile license taxes equally, proposed by Wilbur Price and endorsed by the Berryville Local of the Farmers' Union, had passed the House of Delegates as a bill and gone to the State Senate.
What the source supports
That Wilbur Price proposed the plan to divide automobile license taxes between the state and the counties that passed the House of Delegates in 1922.
Uncertainty
Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The January list prints "Wih bur Price." The March item reports no action by the Senate. He is not linked to the released record of Mrs. Wilbur Price, since neither item names her.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The January 5, 1922 report of the Berryville Local.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., January 5, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-01-05 (publication)
Locator: Page 1, report of the Berryville Local of the Farmers' Union
Relevant passageThe Berryviile Local clecte 1 [elected] the folowing officers for the ensiling year: ... Delegates to the County Con j \ ention [Convention]—Wm. Crampton, Qlias. j H. Levi, \V. W. Smallwood, Wih bur Price,,Wilbur Gaunt
Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The March 9, 1922 item.
Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., March 9, 1922
Clarke Courier · 1922-03-09 (publication)
Locator: Page 4, item "Wilbur Price Idea Impresses Legislature"
Relevant passageWILBUR PRICE IDEA , IMPRESSES LEGISLATURE! ... The plan for the state and' comities [counties] to divide the auto license taxes equally (the state to use its share for state highway construction and thc“"counties to use theirs fot [for] feeder roads), which ] was proposed by Mr. Wilbur 'Price, endorsed l>y [by] the Berryvile' :'Local. Farmers' Union and presented to the General Assembly, j ' has been passed as a bill by the ( House of Delegates and now goes to the State Senate.
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Open sourceSource family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
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