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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1919
Page
3
Property for sale in Georgia and nearby areas lists orchards with prices from 600 to 32 000 dollars. Several 20 to 150 acre tracts, building lots near Handley School, stores and store properties, and houses priced to 2 100 dollars. Bailey Bros. & Co. advertise at their Bailey Store location.
Local notes from Wistarce Virginia dated December 17 report community members tied to the Whitacre family and friends planning a Christmas program led by Miss Ollie Sargeant on December 21. A sermon at the Primitive Baptist church and a forthcoming church meeting are noted along with regional telephone line connections extending service toward Morgan and Hampshire counties. Miss Warren arrives from Mary Baldwin Seminary to visit relatives.
An advertising claim asserts rheumatism is a constitutional disease needing systemic treatment. Hood's Sarsaparilla is promoted as the blood purifying tonic that corrects blood acidity and provides lasting relief, with Hood's Pills offered as a vegetable laxative if needed.
In Warm Springs California on December 17 dairyman Pas qualifies Silveri reports that running apple cider through a cream separator yields a liquor with about 3 percent alcohol. The device spins cream away, collecting alcohol separated from milk.
Berryville Virginia reports a successful Friday and Saturday dinner and bazar at Winston Hall for the Lloyd Williams Post American Legion. Miss Mary Washington tests for Chicago winter, Miss Frances Neville returns home from Airlie after visiting Miss Nancy Williams, daughter of Brig General Wendell C. Neville. Red Cross Christmas seal sales exceed 106 dollars in four days with continued sales through stores and by school children.
Mr J R Edmonds of Hagerstown Maryland a Stark Nursery Company representative spent the day in Winchester on business. He states fruit trees will be scarce for several years and today he is one of the largest orders he has sold since operating in this section. Mr Alva C Richards is the purchaser and the order covers 54000 trees of commercial varieties to be planted in Berkeley or Frederick county.
Public sale of three properties in Winchester Virginia follows a chancery decree. Trustees offer 1024 and 1020 South Main Street parcels and two corner lots at South Market and Bond Streets for sale December 1919 with one third cash and balance in two annual installments secured by bonds and deed of trust.
The Virginia Telephon Company organized under Virginia law with principal office in Winchester seeks consent to dissolve. It will file with the State Corporation Commission to wind up its assets. signatures include P.M. Funkhousee, Trest Secretary, dated November 1.
At a meeting of the Western National Bank in Baltimore Donald N. Gilpin was elected a director. The vote solidifies the board as it looks toward the annual stockholders meeting. Gilpin is the son of Mr and Mrs Henry B Gilpin of Baltimore and Clair County Virginia.
In White Post Virginia Det J oMES FP reports residents and visitors during Christmas season. Louise TG Merde, Licie Merde, Eva Massey, Marge Elliot, and others travel to Hagerstown Front Royal and Winchester for shopping and social events. A wedding between William Le Gender and Jane Hessinger is noted as held at the United Brethren Church.
An old fashioned health blurb extols remedies for backache and kidney trouble. It promotes drinking water, a laxative style product, and claims a grand tonic will stimulate kidneys to normal activity. It mentions a medicinal salt product and urges readers to consult a local druggist.
Readers are told catarrh is curable with constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is advertised to act from the blood to the mucous surfaces, building strength and aiding nature, with a $100 reward offered for proof of failure to cure. Testimonials promised. address F. J. Cheney Co., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by all druggists for 76 cents.
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