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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1921
Page
2
Wholesale price lines show erratic quotes for eggs butter flour and live stock with figures for local markets in Maryland Baltimore and nearby regions. Listings include corn buckwheat flour eggs creamery butter and chickens with varied per unit and per barrel costs and rounded year-era market terms.
Large crowds attend Sunday evening public service at Centenary Reformed Church planned for 7 p m. Two films tomorrow night titled Gods Great Outdoors and The Holy City to accompany music by the concert orchestra. Previous orchestral concert praised. congregational singing noted as inspiring. public invitation extended.
Tulip Region local note: Ridings Church Ladies Aid to hold a Craig Hud at Highview School on Saturday night December 17. Mrs Carl Grim and Jesse spent Sunday with friends in Warren. Mrs J B White improving after illness. Albert to visit H E Kline near Stephens City. Pauline Gramdel visits relatives near Middletown. Mattie Barrow returns home after week with sister Mrs Guard in Stephens City.
A large crowd at Boyce High School heard Mr. R W Stake district manager of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company speak on The Romance of The Telephone assisted by Mr H F Boyle from the Winchester office. The talk was instructive and enjoyed. A follow up lecture is planned at Boyce next Tuesday December 20 with a cash prize for the best telephone essay.
Miss Esther Ridgeway from Woodstock visits her Ridgeway parents over Sunday. A. B. Speck visits his daughter in Cherry Run and Mrs. Kline in Martinsburg. M. T. Kibler family and Carrie Speck shop in Martinsburg for Christmas. Di Shanholtz sells half of flour mill interest to James Chapman and returns home. Paynes Chapel Friendship Bible Class held annual oyster supper for the children. Mrs. W. M. Ashwood recovering from grip. Bertha Kline spent several days elsewhere.
Mr. G W Coyle spent Sunday with friends at Inwood W V Miss Nannie Morrow visited friends at Binkert Hill on Sunday Snow and butchering seem to be all the go in the village at present.
A 1921 Winchester communication from Harry F. Byrd urges Virginia fruit growers to meet rising competition. He notes Northwest competition shipping via Panama Canal and calls for cooperation, asking local growers to mobilize and inviting further contact.
Rev. Robert B. Nelson chairman of Winchester Frederick County Red Cross visits Dr. John J. Tigert at the U S Office of Education and Dr. H H Moore of the Public Health Service Bureau of Social Hygiene to secure federal cooperation for establishing a county health unit with Red Cross efforts.
The preliminary census statement shows Virginia had 1 748 868 people aged ten and over in 1920 with 833 177 employed, or 47 6 percent, compared with 50 3 percent for the United States.
Sunday school at 9:45 features The Close of a Victorious Life. Mr. E B Luttrell preaches at 11 and 7:30 with a 6:30 Christian Endeavor led by Mrs Clyde Siebert. A Christmas program titled Christmas.At.Golden Glutch will be given Thursday evening for public enjoyment.
The Rev. Dr. J. E. Booker of Hampden-Sidney Virginia visited Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Beverley in Winchester at their West Clifford Street home. He came to see his sister Mrs. William P. DuPuy and left for Staunton Virginia the following day.
Miss Miriam Talbot a student at the Ogontz School near Philadelphia arrived last evening and will stay at her parents home Mr and Mrs Walter R Talbot on South Washington Street during the Christmas holidays.
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