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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1923
Page
5
Market notes show wholesale and retail quotes for wheat flour chickens butter hay and corn meal. Prices vary by item with local wholesale ranges and Baltimore wholesale figures listed for comparison. Strong activity for feed grains and hogs noted amid broad fluctuation across dairy and poultry items.
Former Virginia Representative C Bascom Slemp has been offered and accepted the role of Secretary to President Coolidge. The White House announced the appointment after Slemp's hour long conference with the president. Slemp cannot assume the post until after Labor Day as he winds up personal affairs, with George B Christian Jr stepping in meanwhile.
The article notes Campbell Slemp, longtime Virginia Republican figure and former congressman, will become Presidential Secretary to replace the late President Harding era appointee. Christian will stay briefly to ease the transition before retiring to private life.
Washington August 14 the budget bureau started apportioning estimates for funds to run the federal government during the fiscal year.
Director Lord of the budget says total expenditures for the coming fiscal year, starting July 1, 1924, would hit 1.7 billion dollars excluding postal service and debt. He notes possible 300 million reductions to fit the figure agreed by the late President and the Budget bureau, with cash withdrawals from the treasury around 3.5 billion. He warns adjustments may shift ordinary expense allotments to avoid waste while maintaining essential needs.
Richmond dispatch reports Standard Oil of New Jersey officials ordered a two cent per gallon reduction in wholesale gasoline, dropping the price from 21 1/2 cents as military conflict continues.
Richmond Aug. 14 President A M Wigging of Hartsville S C urged applying science to merchandising at the Southern Retail Merchants Convention. He said the science is unattractive laborious and a matter of hard facts while the art brings in customers and increases trade. Irving S Paul Hoover representative spoke on Commerce Department efforts to remove non essentials in commerce.
Governor E Lee Trinkle will invite President Coolidge to Virginia for a September visit. The highlight is a September 20 reenactment of the Battle of New Market by U S Marines and V M I cadets with a following football game and joint review at Lexington.
The State Coronation Commission voids its July 26 order granting Brent Bowman a certificate for an extra car between Harrisonburg and Staunton. Official information cited by George N. Conrad, counsel for J. A. Towns, indicates the August 13 order annulling the prior grant.
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