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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Aug 29, 1955

Page

3

Market Quotations Wall Street Opens Higher Amid Gains

New York markets extended last week’s rally with higher prices and active trading. Grain futures were mostly up while several industrials led advances including Reynolds Metals and Kennecott. Anaconda slipped slightly and bonds showed mixed, with uneven action on the American Stock Exchange.

New York Standard Oil Indiana Whitting Ind Colorado Fuel & Iron Westinghouse Union Carbide New York Central U. S. Steel Bethlehem Steel Wheeling Republic Crucible Steel Reynolds Metals Kennecott American Smelting Phelps Dodge Anaconda American Stock Exchange

Live Poultry and Egg Market Report Summary

Agriculture Dept market notes weak broad demand only fair with liberal offerings and receipts. Farm price data for live poultry and eggs includes broilers fryers under three pounds at 25 26 cents per pound and over three pounds at 26 27 cents, heavy hens around 20 21, turkey fryers 30 30 1, heavy hen turkeys 30, and assorted breeder hens and toms with various U S grade prices. egg markets show Grade A White and Brown at 55 cents for large and 45 cents for medium.

Insceta SMO U. S Winchester Egg Market Crean Ae Cy Harrisonburg Baltimore Usis Eastern Shore Eastern Shore Flats Elbertas Hales Eastern Del USDA

Chicago Grain opening prices show mixed early losses on Board

Grain prices slipped across wheat corn oats and soybeans as rains were scarce but showers forecast for the Midwest. Traders priced contracts for Sept Dec and Mar deliveries with slight declines across several grains while soybeans held firmer in some maturities.

Chicago Board of Trade Midwest Lord

Baltimore market reports steady fruit and varied livestock prices

Apple and cantaloupe shipments show mixed demand with steady to slightly higher prices on Maryland Eastern Shore and Pennsylvania crates. Potatoes and sweet potatoes soften while poultry remains quiet. cattle and hogs move with typical wholesale ranges and calf dealer activity noted in Baltimore USDA figures.

Crossword clues for a mixed theme puzzle from a newspaper

Readable crossword clue list includes across and down entries with various definitions. Entries cover biblical names Greek girdle river gazelle man’s name Italian poet question mine entrance sun god native of Arizona loose fit ting sports trousers mature suggests gourdlike fruits perform one’s father or mother back gates erb ium symbol uprising national god of Tahiti firm ruin the shaft of a column arch build ogler social class sacred bull native of Turkey epoch comments seaport muse of lyric poetry transgress plane figure geometry exclam ation thinnest underworld god division of a play back of the neck shaping tools every child loves this insects the cougar or puma biblical poss for for anything worthless slang kind of duck baking chamber iss Saturday s Answer piece of stone a full month merry constellation

Arizona

Front Royal Livestock Market Sale Prices Report

Hogs priced from 15.00 to 26.90 per hundredweight with various grades. Veal and slaughter cattle follow with ranges for Choice to Commercial and utility classes. Lambs and stock feeders listed by quality, while dairy and other livestock include price bands for cows and misc cattle.

Good & Choice Prime Blue Circle Ay Canner & Cutter Utter & Utility

Pigeon Freed After Rescue at Market Street Church

Friendship Rescue Squad attended the Market Street Methodist Church yesterday after morning services. A pigeon was trapped between a window and screen during the service. Frank Kellas retrieved a ladder from the fire truck and released the bird through an opening in the screen.

Friendship Fire Company Market Street Methodist Church Frank Kellas

Haines Service Will Be Tomorrow

Funeral service for William Harvey Haines 75 will be held tomorrow at 2 p m with friends and relatives meeting at Omps Funeral Home for a brief service and proceeding to Fairview Lutheran Church near Gore for final rites. Rev Robert A Whitten will officiate with interment in the adjoining cemetery. Pallbearers are Thomas Swisher John Haines William Moreland Charles Nash and Thomas Pugh. Body remains at Omps Funeral Home until the service.

William Harvey Haines Myrtle Avenue Omps Fairview Lutheran Church Gore Robert A. Whitten Congregational Christian Church Thomas Swisher John Haines William Moreland Charles Nash Thomas Pugh Omps Funeral Home

Mrs Riley Dies in Harrisonburg

Mrs S A Riley died in Rockingham Memorial Hospital after six months of declining health. Born January 1 1882 in Lexington she was married to Samuel A Riley in 1901 and survived by six children plus several siblings. Funeral set for Tuesday at 2 pm at First Baptist Church Boyce with burial Mt Hebron Cemetery Winchester.

S. A. Riley Rockingham Memorial Hospital Riley New Market Strasburg-White Post- Boyce Lexington William Harris Samuel A. Riley William E. Riley Mary Cox Rushville Ind Norman C. Wright Chestertown Fred Smith Covington Guy Abrell Winchester Andrew Riley Elder Harris O. E. Harris Dewey Harris Washington, D. C H. H. Harris Staunton Josephine Harris Lena Harris First Baptist Church Boyce Paul E. Reiter Mt. Hebron Phillip McIntire Floyd Hoff L. E. Clark Robert Devers Richard Reiter Turner Wiley Theiss

Death of Clarke County farmer David I. Ruffner

David I. Ruffner 73 a retired farmer died suddenly at his Clarke County home. Born October 29 1881 in Page County he was the son of Isaac P. and Eliza Ruffner and husband of the late Olive G Wood Ruffner. Survived by five sons two daughters a brother and a sister twenty one grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Jones Funeral Home with pallbearers including five sons and a grandson. Interment Mount Hebron Cemetery.

David I. Ruffner Clarke County Page County Isaac P Eliza Hoslaue Ruffner Olive G. Wood Ruffner Ruffner Rileyville Jones Funeral Home

Flash Flood Kills Chinese Schoolchildren in Hong Kong

A flash flood that swept over a group of picnicking Chinese schoolchildren in Hong Kong has raised the death toll to 24. Unofficial reports said about 20 more are missing as rescue efforts continue.

Hong Kong

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