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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1950
Page
7
Wanted refined high school boy to work in store after school and on Saturdays. Apply in person at Lovett's Dress Shop 156-158 Nudoun. (B-21-21)
The family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy shown during their bereavement for mother Bessie M. Fiddler.
Market dull for apples and pears with various fall and potato quotes listed. Cattle hogs and lamb prices at Baltimore Chicago New York show mixed activity with ranges for feeders, cows, bulls, sows, and yearling lambs. Auto stocks lead New York trading with broad gains across major names.
Chicago grains opened calmly with steady quotes across wheat corn oats and soybeans. Prices listed include Wheat Sep 2.23 3-4, Dec 2.27 1-4 3-8, Soybeans Nov 2.44 1-4 43 3-4 and corn Sep 1.52 52 1-4, Dec 1.44 1-2.
John Taylor Paxton age 68 was found dead in bed Saturday morning at the home of John William Costello southeast of Stephens City. Officials say death due to heart attack after Friday night illness. Paxton born December 22 1881 was reared in Lexington Virginia and had lived with the Costellos recently. Body rests at Omps Funeral Home. Sheriff Robert DeHaven's office and the funeral home seek information on survivors.
The Agriculture Department reports today’s market prices for tomorrow. No. 1 quality eggs sold for XX at farmer producer farms. Live poultry and turkey prices list braced by grade and weight, including Red broilers, Leghorn broilers, young bronze hens and toms, white hens and tom turkeys, ducks, and old guineas with price ranges per pound in the Winchester area.
Winchester fire companies brought home two hundred dollars in prize money from the Greencastle parade ending the Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen Association convention. The Charley Rouss Fire Company won seventy five for second best uniformed company with music and fifty for best apparatus. Friendship Fire Company earned twenty five for second best rae equipment. South End Fire Company led with fifty for best ladies auxiliary. Potomac Fire Company of Westernport Maryland claimed one hundred fifty for best uniform company. Harrisonburg’s Harrisonburg Fire Company No 1 took fifty and a hundred for greatest distance. Band prizes went to Veterans Band of Harrisonburg with seventy five and Moose Drum and Bugle Corps of Hagerstown took seventy five for first. Second prize fifty went to Charles Nitterhouse Drum and Bugle Corps of Chambersburg. Westphal Hose Company No 5 of Martinsburg earned second best ladies auxiliary as rain delayed the start. A heavy downpour paused the parade for an hour before it moved under a drizzle amid cheering crowds.
Daily corrected market listing shows prices for flour corn meal various weights and colors, wheat and barley feeds, egg mash, broiler mash, cracked corn, and wholesale butter and butterfat. Prices include per pound and per hundredweight notes with typical retail and wholesale items.
During an early Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in London a soldier carried the American flag to the arena and offered it as a symbol of friendship. He paused before the royal box where Queen Victoria and her entourage rose, saluted, and bowed as the flag was dipped three times.
The Department of State decides to grant or withhold a passport. An American citizen abroad may request a passport, but the department is not obliged to issue one automatically.
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