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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1917
Page
3
The report lists prices for winter wheat flour retail, creamery butter wholesale and retail, potatoes per bushel, and hay and live poultry items. It notes markets corrected as of the day before publication with nearby creamery butter at 45 and dairy prints at 35.
The report lists prices for poultry chickens young 24 old hens 24 old roosters 13 turkeys 10 pounds and over 35 old toms 84 corn cob 8 for nearby yellow on spot hay No 1 timothy 29 lent clover mixed 78.50 steers 12.50 to 13.00 good butcher 11.25 to 12.00 choice heifers 9.75 to 10.50 medium 6.75 to 7.76 calves 6.50 to 15 hogs heavy 17.50 to 18 pigs 3 to 4.50 each.
Cold weather and heavy snows hinder operations along the western front in northern France and Belgium. German artillery remains active at many points despite thick weather. Turkish attack near Jerusalem repulsed with heavy losses. General Allenby’s forces advance over two miles. Italians report small successes in raids on the Asiago plateau and trench penetration between Canova and Cosuna.
"Aunt" Mary Field a longtime figure among Winchester’s old-time colored residents died at her home on December 26 due to infirmities of advanced age. She leaves two daughters Mary Fassett and Fannie Assington, no son. Funeral held at John Mann Methodist Church with Rev. Reed officiating. burial in Orrick cemetery. Ernest B. Boyd of Company M 318th Infantry returned to Camp Lee after visiting family in Red Bud and Winchester.
The Rev. H. G. Spencer will not preach tomorrow due to his illness, but the Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday school will meet as usual at 2.15 p.m.
An old classified advert invites readers to cut out the slip and enclose five cents to Foley & Co. in Chicago for a trial package of Foley remedies including Honey and Tar Compound Kidney Pills and Cathartic Tablets. The notice promises samples for coughs colds and digestive relief.
Readable passages recount New England colonial homes and their famous owners plus 1917 war reflections. It notes the Lindens in Salem, Wentworth House, Mount Vernon, and other estates with brief histories, then shifts to war weary musings and a verse about the year 1917.
Reports from Copenhagen and London on December 29 describe talks among Russia Britain and France about ending naval hostilities in the Baltic and joint work to cease mines from Petrograd. Unconfirmed rumors mention possible plebiscite rights for Lorraine inhabitants as part of a broader settlement.
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