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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1922
Page
8
Robert E. Ludwig and H. L. Ludwig and wife of Washington spent the Christmas holidays with their parents Rev. and Mrs. S. R. Ludwig.
State Prohibition Inspector P. O. Nance seized a 300 gallon copper still near Leesville and a 300 gallon galvanized iron still on Wolf Creek in Bedford county. A 40 gallon copper still was found in the county. Inspector H. D. Brown captured a coil and three 600 gallon fermenters in Powhatan county woods.
Nina Glyn Anderson requests a council inquiry after she and her son were denied entry to the county jail on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. She details phone assurances, guard refusals, and a confrontation with jail staff, urging that prisoners have visiting rights on Christmas.
The column lists visits by Mr Herbert Linebergy and Mr O L Bowley with local families, Miss Hilda Lockhart returning from Forest Glen MD, Miss Pearl Moore visiting Forest Glen, and Mr George Hulver on a Charles Town trip. Also a brief feature notes cavalry horses quickly learning bugle signals.
The Star lists wholesale prices for wheat and various poultry and dairy items, with figures for leghorn chickens, hens, turkeys, ducks, guineas, roosters, butter, hay, straw, flour, and mixed feeds. Notable values include wheat around 1.30 per unit and country butter near 0.45, with hay at 16.00 and standard middlings at 1.80 per unit.
Mountain Falls Va December 28 Farmers here take advantage of mild weather to begin spring plowing. Mrs Jeanette Morran of Keyser W Va visits relatives in town. Mr William Richards and Mr and Mrs Clarke Richards from Washington spent Sunday night with Miss Mollie Richard. Mrs Peyton Bucher is ill.
At the Ludwig home a complete radio set arrived as a Christmas gift for Rev. and Mrs. S. R. Ludwig. The pastor spent several days coaxing the set to work before messages began, including a first greeting from San Francisco, California.
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