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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1920
Page
7
For sale 100 acre Clarke County farm on Win Creek with good buildings. Also an 817 acre farm and timber tract featuring an 8 room dwelling and essential outbuildings. Includes 800 bearing apple trees.
In the Clerk's office of the Corporation Court Winchester Virginia issued June 7 1920 Jas P Reardon administrator of Emma Kohlhousen deceased seeks court direction in estate administration and creditors. Defendants B F Kohlhousen Roy Kohlhousen Lester G Kohlhousen Laura Kohlhousen William Kohlhousen Luther Kohlhousen non residents with unknown potential heirs must appear within ten days after publication to protect interests. Copy to be published weekly four weeks in The Winchester Evening Star and posted at courthouse front door before next rule day.
Miss Ella Marable fell on a missing step leaving Eagle's Meat Market on South Main Street and sustained a fractured right hip along with other injuries. She was taken by ambulance to Memorial Hospital where doctors reduced the fracture and she rests under care. The injured woman, aunt of Mrs. Harvey Canter, has lived with the Canters and previously resided in Stephens City and Lynchburg Virginia.
Flowers and a pillow of roses marked the grave of Mrs Addie Deshon as many visited on June 5. Her son Harry Deshon of Johnstown Pa sent the tribute. Deshon led the children in the parade and helped secure abundant flowers for the 2500 Confederates in Stonewall Cemetery.
In Virginia municipal elections on Tuesday J Walter Bailey won the Woodstock mayoralty over two opponents one a Democrat and one a Republican. Bailey is a Democrat and is married to Helen Solenberger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Solenberger of the city, a well known local figure.
Two single men aged 21 to 35 are sought to travel with a crew for an advertising proposition. Work with a well established corporation, require references. Apply W. W. Tyree before 7:30 this evening. Also includes 1920 divorce suit notice: Grace Orndorff vs Milton B. Orndorff for divorce on cruelty and fear of bodily harm. defendant to appear within 15 days. notice to be published in The Evening Star and posted at courthouse. Court order details.
Rev. Smith, newly appointed pastor of Frederick circuit Methodist Episcopal Church South, will preach at Lamp’s Memorial and Pate ton Chapel next Sunday with services at 11 am and 3:30 pm and at Round Hill at 8 pm. The quarterly conference meets at the parsonage on the 12th at 2 o clock. Smith, a Randolph Macon College graduate, served in the navy during the war and is noted for leadership in college activities. He hails from the Eastern Shore of Virginia and is unmarried, though parsonage preparations hint at a possible change.
Beverly Lockhart, 318 Highland St, Winchester, says a cold settled in her back and kidneys causing severe pain and dizziness. After using Doan’s Kidney Pills she recovered quickly and now keeps them on hand for kidney troubles, price 60 cents at all dealers. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y.
Washington June 9 Relief for the sugar situation is in sight says Howard E Figg special assistant attorney general in charge of the high cost of living campaign He cites rising imports from Argentina Peru Czechoslovakia Belgium and Holland as offsetting the Cuban crop shortage and potentially lowering prices He notes American sugar demand is drawing in world supply and domestic canning season may benefit with luxuries curbed to favor essential industries and households
The markets section lists wholesale wheat at 2.90 per bushel and prices for timothy hay 28.00, crude butter fats and creamery butter around 40 to 58 cents, with spring chickens 55 per dozen and roosters about 20 cents. Baltimore wholesale figures include fat steers 11.00 to 12.00 and lambs around 88 per hundred.
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