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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1917
Page
2
The court orders referral to a Master Commissioner in Chancery to inventory real and personal property of William A Evans deceased. It must report on assets liens heirs and division options. Notice for interested parties to attend the July 14 1917 proceeding in Winchester Virginia is required.
This mild indigestion is caused by eating too fast or overeating or unsuitable food. Eat slowly and chew well, eat little meat and skip supper to avoid sour stomach without medicine. If sour stomach appears, take Chamberlain's Tablets to aid digestion. For sale by all druggists.
A speaker urges households to rely on local production and conserve food. Home canning of surplus perishables and drying of additional surplus would reduce demand on transportation and free factory outputs for other needs.
Daily market prices list by the Star covering winter and spring wheat flour butter corn hay and poultry. Also included are Virginia area butter live poultry cattle sheep and lamb quotations with prices and notes on corrections and timing of publication.
A city Common Council meeting is announced to be held tomorrow afternoon at four in the municipal stone quarry east of Winchester along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks. The notice says the session will be an important one and notes it as the first ever meeting of the grave councilmen in a quarry on a hot summer day.
A London social tale reveals a sugar shortage with granulated sugar scarce and brown refining quality. An American club tea ends with a guest serving washing powder disguised as sugar, later revealed as five pounds of Epsom salts, provoking unease and a hush about the incident.
William Balfour of Bisbee Arizona met two strangers who promised big race winnings and won $40 from him after he bet $2. He warned the police after they returned with further betting suggestions.
In Majestic flat district an angry coyote attacked Walter Brunton while pruning, sending him into a tree. J P Filburn fled to a tree as the chase continued. help arrived, shots were fired near Cr W Cobb place, and Cobb finally killed the mad animal after a third volley.
Dennis Secally rose from bed on one of the coldest nights and walked 25 city blocks downtown in a nightshirt. He complained of cold feet upon returning home.
Readers urged to subscribe to The Star as city circulation campaigns gain momentum. Community groups promote subscriptions to support local reporting and access to breaking news.
The Wigginton Bridge Grafting method claims long term success for saving girdled trees and boosting fruit yields. It touts a $100,000 guarantee and notes multiple Winchester Virginia adopters with trees bearing merchantable fruit for three years.
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