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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1919
Page
5
Daily market report lists wholesale prices for Wheat Corn Timothy hay milk and butter with figures for New potatoes young chickens and roosters. Retail section shows local flour cornmeal middlings soybeans screen figs and country butter with unit prices.
The listing shows prices for farm items including eggs, butter, hay, hay mixes, shoats, steers, and calves. It notes corrected figures as of the prior day and provides a range of prices for each category.
In Kernstown Virginia on July 16 several families host visitors and relatives. Mrs Massel Moore and her Pittsburgh child stay with her parents Mr and Mrs Phillip Barrick. Miss Elizabeth Chapnalian visited cousin Miss Edna Lafollette at Nero West Virginia. Myrtie Carper from Hagerstown Maryland visits aunt Mrs A R Lichliter. ESS Ockuwelee Triplett shows illness. Richard Metz, VPI Blacksburg alumnus, visited then went to Philadelphia. Ed Lafollette of Nero WV spent the weekend with relatives.
Mr Afi Mire Howard Chaps magn and Mrs Robert Rodgers and son of Pittshureh Pa visit sister Mrs Fannie Turner while Joe Baker shows a remodeling project Ethel Coverstone returns from Martinsburg W Va Mrs Campbell summers with her son Rosser Campbell and Mr and Mrs Scott Larrick of Nayfield visit Arthur Cooper and family.
The prospect is that the American people will be subjected to a further tax of 15 to 20 percent in transportation costs before or after the government surrenders the railroads. Many railroad executives fear the tax could rise to 25 percent if some systems avoid receiverships.
Ten limestone farms offered for sale range from 100 to 310 acres with improving orchards and running water on many. Prices per acre vary from five to one hundred fifty dollars, plus city properties including a 7 room brick house near a hospital. Additional suburban homes, timber tracts, and grazing land are listed with Bailey Bros. Store acting as agents.
An advertisement touts a vegetable blood medicine named Swift Specific that claims to purify blood and restore vitality. It urges readers to buy bottles at drug stores and offers free medical advice from the Medical Director at the Swift Laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia.
The will of the late John Henshall of near Stephenson is probated. He leaves to his son John W. Henshall one dollar and divides the balance among his widow and children. The wife is to have life use, then the estate is to be sold and proceeds split among Benjamin I. Henshall Grover G. Henshall Mrs Mary P. Davis Margaret V. Henshall Bernice Henshall. Grover G. Henshall gets five hundred dollars for farm work and serves as executor with bond of fifteen hundred dollars. Will dated February 21 1910.
Augustus Carr of Detroit with his wife and daughter headed from Winchester to Detroit and Buffalo in a motor trip last week. He was joined by William Striker who aims to recuperate from illness. Sergeant George Harford leaves for Washington to visit relatives before Denver and Wyoming. Violet Ellwell of Clarksburg visits her aunt Mrs. C E Owens in Martinsboro after a motor trip to meet her on Monday.
Mrs. J. M. Unger died Monday night after two weeks of illness in Whitacre Virginia. Funeral services were held, interment completed. Surviving children come from her first marriage to Benjamin Strother including Mrs. Lafe Puffinburg, Mrs. Joseph Sargeant, Mrs. Dave Crouse, and Mrs. John Omps. No children survive from her second marriage to Mr. Unger. Misses Hilda and Josephine Barrow visit Aunt Mrs. Troy Dirk at Unser’s Store. Weekend lawn party receipts exceeded 100. Miss Margaret Funk of Stephens City visited town last week.
The park crowds surge with visitors from Baltimore and beyond seeking July and August stays. Hotels and cottages report capacity reached and many guests turned away due to full accommodations for one or two weeks.
Train times announced for June 22 1919 including Bristol Roanoke and Bluefield routes with Pullman parlor car service to Bristol and sleeper connections to Philadelphia New York and Washington. Services list trains No 183 No 1212 No 27 No 14 and No 2 with connections at Shenandoah Junction and Harpers Ferry. W C Saunders and W Revill note as General Passenger Agent and Passenger Traffic Manager respectively.
The will of Mrs Elizabeth W Steck who died near Opequon provides 500 for each grandchild Elizabeth M Steck Jr Susan Co Mary Virginia Steck and John M Steck Sr and directs jewelry and personal property be divided among them. The estate includes bank accounts debts and a Greenbrier property. John M Steck Sr posts bond to administer the estate set at 25000.
A New Committee reports America's baby crop will be the largest in the country. Births are expected to exceed deaths by about 2,180,000 in 1918 due to epidemic and war conditions. The computation uses figures from officials in 167 of the largest cities. Mrs. Robert Lewis in Camden, after weeks with Miss Yeat Kent, accompanied Ethel Yost home from camp after closing a millinery season with Hirsch Brothers.
Winchester resident James M. Pangle reports back pain and kidney trouble eased by Doan’s Kidney Pills. He states the relief began after using the product and he has continued to find it effective over several years. He notes the pills cost 60 cents at dealers and endorses the remedy.
Virginia farm listings offer 181 acres with 100 in creek bottom and 8 room house plus timber value and outbuildings near a station for 8000 dollars. Another 56 acres with 40 in cultivation and fruit, a large barn and railroad proximity priced with 2400 dollars terms. Broad note of bargains in all sizes with Southern R R access near Clifton.
A fragment hints at War Savings Stomps encouraging the public to invest in defense stamps for financial support during wartime, urging effective participation and money saving.
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