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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1921
Page
7
Markets report daily price quotes from local buyers with corrections disclaimer. Wholesale price list includes items and figures read from today’s market activity.
Local market notes list creamery butter and country butter as best quality. Included are barley, straw, local flour in barrels and 12 pound sacks, spring wheat flour, corn products, middlings, screenings, bran, cracked corn, and standard middlings with various crude price markers.
Baltimore wholesale markets list prices for corn barley and poultry with small changes. Mr E F Brown of United States Tire Company based in Richmond visits town for several days of business. Mrs Alexander Barrie heads to Philadelphia and Atlantic City for a visit with relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held at 1st Pauls Lutheran Church Strasburg for Jesse Pugh Fry a Confederate veteran who died at eighty. Survived by a widow and four daughters two sons two brothers and one sister.
In a quiet ceremony May 28 at Rev. A. H. Clark’s home in Strasburg, Clarence Ritenour and Miss Gladys Booth, both of Strasburg, were married. Mrs. Ritenour is daughter of Mrs. Charlies E. Lantz and the late Oscar Booth. Mr. Ritenour is son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ritenour of Brunswick. The couple plan to live in Strasburg.
The Sunday school begins at 9 45 with adult classes on Making the World Christian and a men’s Bible class. At 11 a child day program is offered. Christian Endeavor at 7 p m with the topic Out and Out for Christ. Evening service at 8 with The Only Way. Pastor C A McDanfiel invites all to attend.
Wesleyan Bible class tomorrow morning will study Christian Patriotism and International Brotherhood. Rev. Mr. Depp will teach the lesson and the class will join the children’s day exercises at 11 o’clock. Members and friends are urged to attend.
The First Baptist Church announces services tomorrow including Bible School and Men's Class at 9 45 a m worship at 11 a m with the sermon The Go of the Gospel Young People's Union at 7 p m and an Evening song service and sermon titled A Confession in Five Words All are invited to attend.
Envoy and Mrs McNeill and Captain Sherwood returned from Baltimore after a major Salvation Army gathering. Evangeline Booth spoke on The World's Romance outlining the army's work from infancy to today. Large crowds donated funds, with checks ranging from 590 to 1000 as gifts to support the army's mission.
The Rev. J. Lewis Gibbs of Staunton Virginia will conduct Sunday services at Christ Protestant Episcopal Church at 11 o'clock. Next Sunday June 19 the services will be led by the Rev. Robert Nelson and guests Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Little of Norfolk Virginia who have stayed with Mrs. D. B. Conrad for the finals of Shenandoah Valley Academy and travel to Lexington Virginia where their son Daniel Conrad Little attends the Virginia Military Institute.
Salvation Army slum settlements in major cities care for more than 48,000 children last year and serve thousands of families. Workers wear plain clothes to connect with neighbors while providing food, medicine, and nursing. nurseries charge five cents or free, teaching cleanliness, decency, and Americanism. They run Sunday schools, mothers meetings, and activities to keep youths away from street life and foster citizenship.
The piece urges that fruits and vegetables are vital to family health and that even vegetables with modest food value contribute to well being. It advises growing a wide variety of produce in every home garden this year to maintain health.
The article notes building costs depend on fluctuating material prices with lumber now sound and available at reasonable rates. It warns that price shifts occur across materials and urges builders to investigate current possibilities, citing Glaize & Bro. as a source.
Mr. E. Aulick Jr of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute Blacksburg plans six weeks this summer at Fort Monroe Virginia to take a coast artillery course with fellow Po Pot students.
Frederick County owners and breeders invited to watch The Christian, a standard bred horse with a 2.05 record by Andrias, race weekly at Winchester Fair Grounds on Fridays and Saturdays until season end. Mahogany bay, 1100 pounds, good conformation and disposition. Reference via R. M. Henry. Staub & Brother, Inwood, W. Va.
Mrs J W Wheeler of Elizabeth New Jersey and her sister Miss Inez Conner who have been visiting their parents Mr and Mrs Edward Conner expect to leave tomorrow New Jersey. Mr George D Crone long time assistant station master at Camden Station Baltimore now retired who has been visiting relatives and friends near town returned to Baltimore today.
Miss Rosalie Cox daughter of Walter Cox left Baltimore this morning to spend 94 months visiting friends in Strasburg Virginia. Attorney Charles B Guyer of Strasburg was in town on professional business yesterday.
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