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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1919
Page
4
A humorous penny essay urges thrift amid a spending boom. Poemish lines mock lavish living while predicting economic pullback and the virtue of saving, directing readers to heed sages and secure wages before hard times.
Market reports indicate local buyers at Palais Ortées Eris Ccotes for today with limited readable details. The fragment mentions day by day activity but lacks clear names, prices, or venues to specify further.
Local retail markets advertise a range of goods including hay barley potatoes creamery butter and poultry. Items show price points for country butter creamery butter young chickens roosters flour cornmeal and various grain and feed products with notes on sack sizes and weight units.
The report lists corrected closing prices for various farm products. Prices include Spring chicken at 34 cents per pound and Old hens at 52 cents per pound, with other items such as Butter, corn, Timothy hay, clover hay, and peaches showing a range of values.
Mr Carroll D Grim and Miss Ver LA Hawkins were married last Saturday evening by Rev A A Kelly of the Lutherans in this city.
The Rev Dr Stanlon of Tennessee is to preach next Sunday morning at the Presbyterian Church according to a brief notice in this issue.
Whitacre Virginia report notes eight month old child from Crowser family underwent a lengthy two hour surgery at Winchester Memorial Hospital to correct web fingers. Doctors warned healing may risk losing two fingers though the child revived well. Nearby items mention local residents and events including a hay field runaway and other family visits.
In Whitacre Virginia Aug 13 a large youth led birthday gathering honored Rev C W Tinsman of Winchester who oversees United Brethren work here. The event at Broadway schoolhouse drew over seventy and featured music readings and refreshments.
A boastful advertisement touts Calotabs as a home remedy for laziness and blues. It claims a single Calotab at bedtime purifies the liver, with morning wakefulness and improved spirits. Money-back guarantee and sealed packaging emphasized.
Private Charles W. Brubaker of Company 8B, Fifty-eighth Infantry, attached to the Fourth Division, returned home yesterday and surprised his parents the Rev. and Mrs. E. W. Brubaker. He was discharged at Camp Sherman Ohio after training two years ago and was wounded in the foot last summer but has largely recovered. Edith Jenks of Cleveland and Rebecca T. Doll, visiting Martinsburg, also noted in the home setting.
The Hagerstown Mail reports on G Ernet Bantz of Frederick discovering records about Mathias Bartgis, who introduced printing in Western Maryland. Bartgis published the first English German newspaper and almanac, served as a Revolutionary War officer, and helped found the Virginia Gazette and Winchester Advertiser in 1787.
We appreciate the sympathy attention and neighborly acts of kindness shown during the illness and death of our mother Susan G. Garrett for which we desire in this way to extend our thanks Florence C. Hancher Effie A. Sine
Mt Pleasant reports a busy social stretch with J H Rosenberger and family at Gravel Spring picnic and multiple visits among local families. Beulah Lamp Eliza Renner spent time with cousin Mrs Ed Carpenter at Berryville for a colt show. Virginia Smithey of Winchester visits Mrs W H Lamp, while Raymon Racy, v E W Brubaker and others visit Rosenberger and Lamp households.
The readable fragments indicate a note about a Star office printing task in a local setting. Names, dates, or concrete actions are unclear or incomplete in the OCR snippet.
Ashby Scott of Woodstock Virginia and Beulah Coby of Shenandoah County Virginia wed Friday at the Lutheran Church parsonage, officiated by Rev. A A Kelly.
Decree in the 1919 Frederick County Virginia circuit case Booth heirs versus Booth administrator orders reference to Master Commissioner in Chancery. He will determine heirs, real estate, liens, priority, unpaid taxes, and settle accounts of administrator. Notice to interested parties to appear August 25 1919 in Winchester office to proceed.
Mr. H. D. Fuller, vice-president cashier of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Winchester, has gone to Milwaukee to attend sessions of the International Fruit Growers Association. He will learn apple conditions and can provide valuable information to local fruit men.
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