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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1916
Page
3
The page lists prices for corn, hay, butter, chickens, roosters, potatoes, bacon, and dairy items. It also provides live poultry bids, corn types, hay grades, sheep and lamb values, calves, and pigs with per unit and per head figures. The data reflects market conditions with noted price ranges and grading terms.
At 8 o'clock this afternoon No. 2 red wheat was quoted at 1.0823 dollars and corn at 84 cents.
The list shows unclaimed letters for the week ending June 24 1916 at the Winchester post office. Recipients must pay one cent per letter. names include Miss Almer Barrett Mrs Edward R Batson Ralph M Bowman Thomas W Brook Charles W Douglas Arthur E Dunlap Lee Frenkel Capt W A Graves John ONeill C A Saum J W Sibert Postmaster.
An advertisement touts Resinol as effective for burning and unsightly skin conditions. It claims thousands have found regular relief and urges readers to buy the product from all druggists.
Gaithersburg resident Mrs. T. W. Walker visits sister Mrs. A. J. Brubaker on North Main street. Guests include Mrs. John Guyer and granddaughter from Belfontain Seva and Mr. H. E. Guyer with Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Swimley and children from Staunton. Mrs G G Baker from New York joins Winchester Inn stay with daughter Miss Mary Bruce Baker from Lansdowne Pa arriving for summer. Miss Mary Robinson returns from Washington visit. Mrs. Fred Fawcett of West Virginia, visiting Washington friends, arrives to spend time with relatives.
The West Side Enterprise erred by naming a song at Olivet Church as The Little Brown Jug in the Vale instead of The Little Brown Church in the Vale. The Cedar Rapids paper issued no adequate apology and offered regrets to the congregation.
Misses Edithe and Pearl Koontz of Marksville Virginia are guests at A. D. Henning's on South Stewart Street. They attend the Henning Lowry wedding set for Wednesday evening as Miss Florence Elizabeth Henning marries Ernest Basil Lowry of York South Carolina. A number of guests will arrive today and tomorrow for the event.
Vintage advertisement offers a cutout promotion sending a trial package from Foley & Co. in Chicago. Readers are asked to mail name and address for samples of Foley Honey and Tar, Kidney Pills, and Cathartic Tablets. The promo targets bronchial coughs colds and croup and items are marketed as comforting to stout persons.
Mrs. J W Stryker of 115 S Main St Winchester says Doan's Kidney Pills eased her backache weakness and housework limits after kidney issues. She reports quick relief from a few doses and recommends the product. Price 50c at dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
Substituted Trustee in the Crisman deed of trust lists sale of a 100 acre Frederick County farm four miles south of Winchester on Front Royal Road. Auction at Winchester Courthouse on Saturday July 15 1916 at noon. Terms require one third cash, balance in two annual installments with bonds bearing 6 percent interest and homestead exemption, secured by deed of trust and fire insurance. Auctioneer W. A. Bowen. date 6-14-41.
A historic comparison of celery culture contrasts the old trench method with a modern flat-bed approach. It explains soil preparation, trenching, manure placement, seed starting in flats, transplant timing, and disease avoidance by keeping soil away from the heart of the plants for better heart development.
A gardener achieves straight, evenly spaced rows with a simple homemade marker. A 2 by 4 inch or lighter wood strip is spaced, with wooden plugs sharpened to dull points inserted into auger holes. Plugs on one side are spaced differently, guiding alignment without costly equipment.
The passage argues that a farmer must have fruit gardens and well equipped houses and barns. It claims that those without home fruit supplies cannot be considered up to fate farmers. It emphasizes fruit variety as essential to a proper farming life.
Mr Henry Y Otto of Williamsport Pennsylvania spent several days in town on business visiting local offices and meeting contacts.
Public sale will be held in front of the Winchester courthouse at noon on Saturday June 24 1916 for the house and lot at No 124 on the north side of W Leicester street adjoining William T Barr and others. The property fronts 24 feet and runs about 111 feet deep. Terms: one-third cash day of sale, balance due in one and two years with interest, bonds and deed of trust secured and insured buildings. M M Lynch trustee. William M Bowan auctioneer.
In the Clerk's Office the Court of this county enters a decree to sell 165 acres in Wick County Virginia tied to Elmer Elsworth Keyser. The action seeks to satisfy a prior judgment with interest from 1915 and to protect unknown heirs of Elizabeth Keyser. Publication and posting timelines are set for four weeks.
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