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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Apr 22, 1927

Page

5

Brucetown Dinner Guests Visit Local Families

BRUCETOWN Va April 27 Mr and Mrs William Jobe and daughter Ruth Jobe guests of Miss Belle Jobe and callers at Mr and Mrs S J Swimley home Also Horace and William Jobe Jr of Gladstone and Miss Jobe of Woodstock Miss Sadie Snapp visited Stephens City guest of Miss Mary Fisher Billie Boden improving after flu Little Billie Boden is improved after illness Mr S J Swimley Sr spent Wednesday at Bunker Hill with her

Brucetown William Jobe Ruth Jobes Horace and William Jobe, Jr Gladstone Miss Jobe Woodstock Belle Jobe S. J. Swimley Sadie Snapp Missary Fisher Stephens City Ahiere Billie Boden J. Swimley Bunker Hill

For Sale and Rent Notices mix in small town ad column

A jumble of sale and rental notices lists items from a Marseille counter pane to antique mantles, rugs, furniture, a 15 h p Case traction engine, baby chicks for May, and rooms for rent. Several entries include dates in 4 11 11 4 15 101 style and multiple locations such as 402 National Ave and 126 N Washington St. Edinburg Hatchery and Watt Plow Co are named along with a few phone or business notes. The page reads as a classified ad section with mixed offerings and contact hints.

Local Socials Span Virginia Weekend Visits

Drughter and family joined Mrs. Albert Clendenning at Middletown to visit Mrs. Legg. Andy Whitacre and daughter Rhodelle spent Easter with his parents in Whitacre Virginia. Mrs. Janney McKee and son from White Hall called on Mrs. McKee’s sister Mrs. Robert Smith. J T Bradshaw of Summit Point visits sister Mrs. Swimley. Russell family member returns from Rev J D Russell parsonage. Corrie Swimley and A J Clendenning of Bunker Hill with Virginia Gold Clendenning shop in Martinsburg.

Greenbrier Cadet Band to March in Winchester Parade

Special to The Star Lewisburg West Virginia April 22 The Greenbrier Military School Cadet Band will march in the Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival parade in Winchester next Thursday The band last year drew favorable comment from spectators though the cadet corps was not sent this year due to exam time Capt W H Beardsworth bandmaster indicates the student musicians will participate to help ensure a grand festival in Virginia city

Lewisburg W. Va Greenbrier Military School Winchester Virginia City W. H. Beardsworth

Eczema Sufferer Praises 8 8 Remedy Over Years

An advertisement testifies to relief from a chronic eczema using 8 8, claiming over twenty years of itching ended after six bottles. The promo touts the product as purely vegetable and root-based, sold widely in two sizes and marketed to sailors and soldiers.

Jeophas Sailora Quincy

Students to tour Civil War music artifacts in Virginia trip

About thirty boys will ride by bus from Greenbrier to Winchester stopping in Staunton to view original Stonewall Brigade Band instruments. They will perform for Harrisonburg State News College students before continuing and being hosted by the Winchester festival committee.

Ter Greenbrier Winchester Staunton Stonewall Brigade Harrisonburg Statenews College Bkon

Ingenious Origins of Salary and Invention Highlighted

The text notes that salary derives from Latin salt money given to Roman soldiers. It adds that Sir Humphry Davey demonstrated electricity for illumination in 1808 and quotes the Dearborn Independent about the Bible never being out of print.

Humphrey Davey

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Doron Revier Thomas Ricketts ART Acord Marseilles National Ave Jos. Hodgson Star Office Tub Loudoun St John Hockman N. Washington St B. M. Sullivan Woodstock Lane S. Cameron St The Watt Plow Co Richmond Ee Yee Edinburg Hatchery, Inc Edinburg Shenandoah Valley Grand Union Tea Co Washington, D.C G. W. Say- Main St Pennsylvania Autocrat Motor Ol Autocrat Erie Boston Electrolux Electrolux Servel National Board of Fire Underwriters Consumers Utilities CO Winchester Gas Co Dearborn Independent Jcpenneyco Court House Kratzsch & Rhodes S. Loudoun St Winchester, Va
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