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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1919
Page
2
Public sale of city property by authority of an ordinance of the City of Winchester commissioners to offer at public auction for cash in front of the County Court House on Saturday June 28 1919 at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
The twenty sixth annual Virginia Conference Christian Endeavor Union met at Verona Augusta county June 6 to 8 with opening and closing services. Reports showed growth and local progress as Reliance, Mt Pleasant and Winchester earned banners for Bible study. Seventeen joined as life work recruits. funds were pledged to Sin Lam mission Shenandoah Institute endowment and Kingsley Funk memorial.
A Nerv Worth customer from Lucasville near Portsmouth describes stomach trouble and sleeplessness improving after using Nerv Worth. She bought a sample at Fisher and Spread Pharmacy and three bottles helped her. she urges others to try it with the promise of a dollar back if it does not benefit. Miller's Drug Store sells Nerv Worth in Winchester.
An advertisement from the National Medical Institute of Milwaukee Wisconsin promotes Triumph Pille as a safe option for irregular or delayed contraception. It claims steady supply at drug stores and urges avoiding other brands.
The Agriculture Department outlines irrigation based field crops for hog production in the western states. It cites alfalfa plus a 2 percent grain supplement, compares corn barley and milo, and notes hogging corn with field peas boosts gains. Sweet clover useful where alfalfa fails. overall efficiency improves with suitable crops and pricing.
Special commissioners announce a public auction of a half acre lot with a substantial brick dwelling one mile from Frederick County courthouse in Winchester on June 16 1919. Terms: one third cash with balance in two equal installments bearing interest, or all cash. Possession September 1 1919. W Roy Stephenson and T Russell Cather, commissioners. Esther L Ridgeway Dep Clerk certifies bond execution.
Ten limestone farms offered for sale range from 100 to 310 acres with prices from 65 to 150 per acre. Listings include apple ridge plots with orchards and water, an 18 farm slate area, a 215 acre tract with timber and bearing orchards, and 16 city properties including a 7 room brick house near a hospital. Other offerings feature 6 room frame houses, suburban homes, timber tracts, and several grazing tracts.
A compact classified note offers various fast printing services from Neca job printing. It promises quick turnaround on all kinds of printing tasks.
The article notes that 409 pounds of corn are needed per 100 pounds of gain when feed is not combined with forage, alfalfa pasture, or rape. Alfalfa pasture is favored as an adjunct to hogged-down corn, especially on irrigated lands for its cheapness abundance and reliability.
The ad claims few escape a cold in winter and says Chamberlain's Cough Remedy helps with quick, safe relief. It asserts the remedy's merit is proven and widely used by families for years with the best results and is offered for sale.
The article outlines two poultry feed mixtures. One uses three parts cornmeal to one part beef scrap. A second ration combines bran and middlings with beef scraps and corn meal in specified fractions. It discusses practical ratios for farm use.
In selecting chicken breeds for the home flock, give priority to those raised successfully in the community and avoid breeds not locally important unless advised by adverts. The guidance emphasizes practicality and local suitability for backyard farming.
The passage describes measuring by revolutions or half rods, using painted spokes to count each turn. It notes that counting is easy as the painted end returns, with handles joined by a strip to track revolutions and multiply by the distance per revolution.
The keeping of farm cost accounts requires considerable thought and painstaking attention. In their recording summarizing and interpretation they are well worth it to the farmer who wishes to know what he is doing.
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