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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1916
Page
3
A market column lists CORN Spot and June prices, hay values for timothy and clover, and sheep, lambs, calves, and pigs prices by weight or head. It notes Baltimore market closings and includes a brief aside on a dye discovery by a Japanese scientist related to yeast and beer.
Monday September 4 1916 a legal holiday banks will close. Paper maturities due that day may be paid Tuesday September 5. John W Rice cashier Shenandoah Valley National H D Fuller cashier Farmers and Merchants National Bank see RooGRIM cashier Union Bank of Winchester.
Armel Virginia residents report visits and moves with local families. Guests include Homer Malone and H T Cornwell from Washington and Charlestown. A yard party at Macedonia benefited the church. Bertha Grim returns from Boyce. Willow Brook notes mention local visits, camp meetings, and sickness in the Gordon family.
Mr W O Johnson and family from Yellow Springs West Virginia attended with Mrs L L Carpenter and child. Mrs Mary E Carpenter visited her daughters. A lightning strike at W H Oates barn caused extensive fire losses partly insured. Tom Mekhee and a guide enjoyed a very small brook fishing tale ending with a three inch fish.
Hodge Perliss, faded in looks and care, hosts Lily Sears who arrives with a bold plan to revitalize his life. The encounter rekindles memory of Lily and reveals Hodge’s need for energy and a wife, as past choices crumble and a future asks to begin.
Aug 28 report lists visits by Mrs Albert Slonaker and son Hugh to Whitacre VA. Louis A Robinson of New York called at Maple Shade. Mrs William Hulbert and EP Price attended Ridgeway camp meeting with sister Ebert. Other locals include Fred Hottle of Cincinnati visiting Guy Lind family and Carl Solenberger returning from Pennsylvania. Also W S Peckman family and Kathryn Hess visited Fries. Anna Russell from Reliance stayed with niece Mrs Warren Anderson. Edith Pannett visited sister-in-law Mrs Claud Kline in Stephenson.
Miss Mintie Warrick of this city left Saturday to visit friends at Capon Bridge West Virginia.
Mr and Mrs Peckman and their young son Harry Peckman of Chambersburg Pa return home after spending a couple of weeks with her brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs John Myers.
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