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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1920
Page
5
The Department of Justice moves to prosecute all who sold beer since the Volstead Act’s passage on October 28. Cases against makers of higher alcohol beer before the act were dropped, but retailers and makers who dealt in beer afterward are to be named as defendants soon.
Announcement of the marriage of Miss Bessie Patton to Mr. Clayborne L Hoover on Monday December 29 at the parsonage of Market Street Methodist Church. The bride is the Pattons daughter, the groom the son of Walter Hoover of Frederick County. They spent their honeymoon in Harrisburg and other eastern cities.
Services will be held tomorrow Sunday at 11 o clock in the Farmers and Merchants National Bank building on the second floor.
Chicago retailers announced a 66 cent per ton rise in coal prices today. Dealers said the increase is needed to cover operating costs that exceed gross proceeds, risking suspension of business if not applied.
The Star announces higher subscription rates due to sharp rises in paper and inputs. By January 1 mail subscriptions rise to 4.00 with a 0.25 advance-payment discount, net 3.75, and Windesteb carrier rates adjust to 4.50 yearly or 0.40 monthly. Newsprint costs have surged from 2¢ to 7–8¢ per pound, justifying the change.
A fragment urges readers to pluck up good things from sentences by pruning reading digesting musing and laying them up in memory for future use. The passage frames learning as a careful gathering process for lasting retention.
A campaign appeal urges support for world prohibition by 1930 and enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment. It calls Virginians to donate 25 million dollars, with a targeted collection in late October, and promotes a national anti alcohol effort led from Richmond Virginia by the Anti-Saloon League.
The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey announced a 1 cent per gallon increase in gasoline and kerosene, effective January 5, for both domestic and foreign trade, due to higher crude oil costs. Dealers in Winchester were notified of the change.
The ad advertises wheat screenings as cheap chicken feed with recleaned screenings at 3 cents per pound while available. It also lists No. 1 wheat priced at $2.55 per bushel.
report notes a price hike with gasoline selling at 28 cents per gallon and coal oil priced at 20 cents per gallon in local stores, signaling higher household energy costs.
A newspaper ad touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as curative for catarrh through constitutional treatment. Proponents promise to destroy the disease's foundation via the blood and mucous membranes and offer one dollar if it fails to cure. Sold by druggists with Toledo, Ohio contact details.
Rosenberger notes record Fred Lentz and daughter Elizabeth returning to Washington after visiting James N. Frye. Mary Rinker of Fort Loudoun Leary visited grandparents J. T. MeKwee for Christmas. E Edison Fawcett of Fawcett Gap recently visited relatives in town.
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