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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1918
Page
2
An advertisement extols S. S. S. as the true cure for eczema described as burning and torturous. It claims local salves fail, urges deep cleansing of the blood, and advertises free medical advice from the Swift Laboratory in Atlanta Georgia.
Market reports note daily quotations from local buyers with efforts to ensure reliability. The Sta disclaims responsibility for any errors that may occur. The following prices were offered today by local buyers.
A partial OCR list shows prices for staple goods including winter and spring wheat flour, corn per barrel, cracked corn per bushel, middlings, bran, barley feed, hay, butter, fresh country butter, young chickens, and potatoes. The text is incomplete and some figures are garbled.
Baltimore markets close with prices for butter creamery 41. Virginia and nearby dairy prints firsts 81. Live poultry chickens young 35 old roosters 20 young ducks 26. Corn cob nearby yellow 7.00 spot white 7.25. Hay No 1 timothy 30.50 light clover mixed 28. Prices reflect day preceding publication.
The Virginia plan partners with Ford Son to ship 200 tractors to five counties via Chapman's Auto Supply Winchester. Two tractors per county, no profit, limited to two units per county, delivered before June 15. Each tractor plows eight acres in good soil using kerosene and provides farm power for threshers harrows and other equipment.
Mrs. Effie Be Kleppe of Averill Minnesota writes of kidney and rheumatic pain relief after using Foley Kidney Pills. She says a sanatorium treatment gave no relief, but after starting the pills she felt immediate relief and completed a half bottle which cured her back pain. The product is sold everywhere.
Mr and Mrs Charles W Martin welcomed a baby girl at their Elm Shade farm home on the Gratchen property.
Middletown Virginia notes list residents and visitors returning home from Washington Roanoke Winchester and Washington family travels and gatherings. Several guests visit relatives in the area including Misses Crabill Lodge Larrith and Mrs. Gouchenour family outings mark a funeral trip to Luray and a local job change.
Miss Martha Marker of Iowa Kansas visits her cousins Mr and Mrs H S Fling on East Plcosailly.
Henry Chapman Little, a first year cadet at Shenandoah Valley Military Academy in Winchester, earned the gold medal for general excellence in scholarship at the Handley Library finals. He was ill in Winchester Memorial Hospital and unable to take final exams, prompting the faculty to waive the exam for the first time in the school's history. Little, age 13, is the son of Henry H. Little of the United States Shipping Board and grandson of Mrs. D. B. Colfirad of Winchester.
A terse wartime note urges citizens to join the effort as speakers ask what others are doing to support the national cause and boost morale.
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