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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1918
Page
4
The Evening Star re enters at the PasOffice in Winchester Virginia as second class mail matter. The merged editions include the Morning News Weekly News Weekly Times and Weekly Mirror in a regional consolidation effort.
The text lists pricing for subscriptions: one year in advance three dollars, six months in advance one dollar fifty, three months in advance seventy five cents, and one month in advance twenty five cents.
Poet Walt Mason notes wartime fatigue as he recalls a theater visit, a baseball game, and daily routines while lamenting the overshadowing conflict with Kaiser and the Hun. He rejects politics and art, urging unity until the war ends.
Good news from W V on June 28 reports Emmett Omps and Gorenza Puffinberger leaving for Camp Lee in Virginia. Roy Stotler and Ben Moore have been discharged from military service and returned home. Mrs Frank Catlett remains ill near here while Edward Catlett of Berkeley Springs visits friends.
Carpers Valley Virginia residents announce the Carpers Valley Sunday School will hold its annual children's program Sunday evening June 30 at 8 30. Mr and Mrs Earl Carper hosted kin visiting from OpEQuon Winchester and Bridge. Lucy Carper visited Gertrude Hart and Miss Gertrude Hart. The note also mentions local families I H Carper J Canper and W Carpenter with greetings from residents.
An old fashioned mother and child health ad urges giving California Syrup of Figs for constipation and related symptoms. It promises swift relief in hours by cleansing liver and bowels with a pleasant taste and notes full directions on bottles. The message warns buyers to ask a local druggist for the genuine product from the California Fig Syrup Company and beware of counterfeit syrups.
J W Stinespring, a 79 year old man, says after suffering five weeks bedridden with rheumatism and joint pains he used two bottles of Dreco. He now walks unassisted sleeps well and eats heartily, praising Dreco for restoring arm use and improving stomach and kidney health. Dreco is sold by local drug stores including Miller's Drug Store in Winchester.
Retail prices show winter wheat flour $11.50 and spring wheat flour $11.50 per barrel. Oats, hay and butter categories list varied figures. Baltimore markets include butter around 41 cents, poultry prices for chickens and ducks, and corn at 7.50 spot for nearby yellow cob.
Oregon Indiana resident Mrs D M Alters reports her six hundred chickens and daily farming duties improved after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for a glandular and organic trouble. She credits the remedy's effectiveness and recommends it to others suffering similar symptoms.
Travelers in the Orient recount a sharp street theater of birds in India. A hawk seizes a small prey, two crows feign distraction then attack. A third crow strikes the hawk’s tail, sending it tumbling. The titbit is seized by the first crow as the pair vanish with the prize.
The author argues that fitness is a personal and national duty extending beyond soldiers. Training should be universal, as modern warfare relies on industrial efficiency. Business workers face wear and tear, and sufficient vitality and nerve strength are essential to endure any emergency.
A New York writer criticizes physicians and readers for mispronouncing words ending in itis with a short i. He argues the correct form follows English-Latin rules, with itis pronounced ice like appendicitis as appen-dis-i-tis. He links mispronunciation to German influence and urges adherence to standard pronunciation.
An elderly colored woman explains she collects for a missionary society and is unpaid, saying she only gets what she collects. Harris Dickson notes she was wanted for housework and questions Mandy about payment for collecting.
Community thrift push highlights wartime economy and civic duty. Local volunteers organize sales to fund relief and promote saving mindset as wartime pressures continue. Citizens urged to donate items and shop for affordable goods to support national efforts.
By virtue of two deeds of trust dated March 12 1915 of record in Frederick county clerk's office the trustee offers for sale at public auction in front of Winchester Court House at 12 noon on Saturday June 29 1918 that 13 acre tract with a residence young orchard and good well seven miles northwest of Winchester near Bethel Church adjoining Fries Stettler and others owned by J D Oates Possession given immediately one third cash on day of sale and balance in two equal annual installments secured by bonds and deed of trust with insured buildings.
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