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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1922
Page
3
Seeds of peppers should be sown in a hotbed or in a box in the house about B weeks before setting the plants. The plants are tender and should not be transplanted until the ground is warm and frost danger passes. Set plants 15 to 18 inches apart in rows 2% to 3 feet apart. Pepper cultivation and treatment mirror that of potatoes and eggplants. There are a large number of varieties including sweet kinds and hot peppers.
A home fruit plot combines strawberries raspberries blackberries gooseberries currants and others with vegetables to provide healthy year round supplies. Planting guides cover space soil climate and layout, recommending tree spacing 40 to 48 feet for apples and 20 to 40 feet for peaches pears and cherries, with rows of small fruits between larger trees and occasional use of semi dwarf varieties.
The page lists wholesale prices quoted by local buyers for chickens butter hay flour and corn. Entries include spring chickens hens young chickens creamery butter and various flour and grain offerings with per unit costs and weights.
An advertisement urges readers to try Dr Orths Stomach Remedy for indigestion dyspepsia gastritis belching gas heaviness and distress. It claims instant relief and stomach strengthening so it can digest any food, offering a money back guarantee if not satisfied. The 75 cent box is available at druggists.
A reader reports relief from health pains after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The testimony describes severe discomfort and a lump that diminished, enabling resumed work and daily tasks. The letter implies the medicine helped prevent further serious trouble.
In Frederick County Virginia the Circuit Court directed that a Master Commissioner in Chancery report on the estate of Giles J. Smith deceased including real and personal property values and priority, identify creditors and settle accounts of executor Harry Hiett. The notice sets June 8 1982 at 47 West Water Street Winchester VA for proceedings and states adjournment if not completed.
In Capon Bridge West Virginia on July 1 excitement rose as an airplane landed near J M Frye’s field foreshadowing a new era since the first automobile twenty six years ago. Local residents paused work while the plane rested and a spell of public interest followed.
Winchester residents report relief from dull back ache and distressing urinary disorders after using Dean's Kidney Pills. Jacob Randall, a retired Marine, endorses the remedy citing his improvement and recommends Doan's as used by his family. Manufactured by FosterMilburn Co Buffalo NY. Price 60 cents at dealers.
Twelve hundred thirty two of the 1647 enrolled alumni of Virginia Polytechnic Institute attended and took part in the alumni day program marking the golden jubilee celebration in Blacksburg Virginia on June 1.
Advertisement lists an 11 acre limestone farm with eight room dwelling, barn outbuildings and a 10 acre orchard priced around 13000, plus 38 acre plots with dwelling and small barn and 160 fruit trees priced about 2509. A 5 room dwelling is offered at 1200. Contact VOD CORPANL for buying or selling. Also notes wall paper patterns and window shades from S Thomas Menpex CNET at 1016 W Balto St Baltimore.
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