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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1918
Page
4
A critical poem laments postwar excess and wasted resources. It condemns luxury, boastful spending, and hollow loyalty while calling for real sacrifice and work to aid the needy. It contrasts opulent habits with plainer living and urges action over empty rhetoric.
Winter wheat flour retail priced at 11.00 dollars per unit and sogyd wheat flour at 13.00. A barrel price for corn listed as 8.00. Retail per hundred units for oats noted but unreadable. Timothy hay baled at 30.00. butter wholesale 44 and retail 7. Prices for butter substitute and chickens given in fragmented terms.
Market listings for Baltimore corrected as of the prior day. Nearby creamery at forty one Virginia region noted with dairy prints firsts on the market.
Prices show 35 ald roosters and 20 young dicks with CORN-Corn at seven dollars on the spot. Cob for nearby yellow priced at seven dollars and twenty five cents. Hay No. 1 timothy seven eighty? plus 30.50 and light clover mixed at 28 dollars.
In Stephenson Virginia on June 8, Katharine Hottel of Winchester Mosars and guests Gerald Matthews of Borgy, Ohio and Fernando Faxias of Cuba visited Miss Magdalene Zinn. Mr S W Allen leaves for Harrisonburg for a US Court appearance. Mrs J W Ebert of near Baltimore visits M M Obert home. Mrs Hollis Snapp and daughter of Hagerstown stay with Ashwood family. J K McCann improves after illness as district Sunday School convention gathers at Rest Church. W O Zinn family attend Massanutten Academy finale near Woodstock. Willie Rush visits relatives near Brunswick. MES ERB Figh:
A list of items purchasable with one thrift stamp is shown, including silk trouser laces, toothpaste, garters, shoe laces, legging laces, a knife or fork or spoon, gasoline for vehicles, buttons for garments, navy socks, towels, handkerchiefs, hairbrushes, soap, tobacco, a pipe, toothpaste, and yardage for uniforms or patches.
By decree of May 2 1918 in Jefferson Syrup Company v C O Freeman et al the undersigned will sell at public auction in front of Winchester Virginia Courthouse at noon Saturday June 15 1918 twenty shares of Cuatotolapam Sugar Company stock par value one hundred dollars per share. Principal office in Winchester with sugar plantation and factory in Vera Cruz Mexico. Sale for cash on court confirmation. R Gray Williams Special Receiver Phil H Gold Clerk.
The sev enth annual Shawnee District Sunday School Association meeting met May 29 at Round Hill Presbyterian Church in Opequon Virginia. Rev. Dr. Lacy led services with Rev. Brubaker delivering the address.
The Shenandoah Valley Academy graduation exercises were held at the Handley Library hall with ten graduates receiving diplomas. Certificates to college, medals and scholarships were awarded as war restrictions trimmed festivities. Major R. H. Pope led the program with Rev. Dr. J. H. Lacy giving the address.
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