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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1928
Page
8
The Star lists today’s wholesale market quotes for various commodities with figures in dollars per unit. Items include corn, oats, hogs, sheep, chickens, flour, bran, scratch feed, butter, and creamery butter, with price ranges shown for each category.
Mrs. Anna M. Correll 72, wife of Martin Correll and former Wheeling resident, died Monday evening at her son's home in Zanesville after a brief illness from acute indigestion. Born in Winchester Virginia, she moved to Wheeling after the Civil War and later lived with her son in Zanesville. She was a Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church member and is survived by her husband and six children: Lawrence F. Correll, William McFarland, J. N. Correll, Mrs. Joseph Armbruster, Mrs. Zach Jacobs, and Mrs. C. C. Wilson.
The body of a deceased sister Mrs A T Brown from Chanute Kansas arrived Tuesday afternoon and was taken to the home of her daughter Mrs Armbruster at 2323 Chapline Street for burial arrangements.
Dave Baker an elderly man known to county officers was arrested by Sheriff Pannet t on request from Fairfax County authorities charged with stealing a quantity of harness from a farmer in Fairfax. He was jailed and the Fairfax sheriff planned to fetch him for trial. The report also notes muskrat nesting habits in fall with bulrushes rising several feet.
The text remarks that old golds differ from coarse ground leaves and can be picked out with eyes closed even in darkness, contrasting their distinct appearance with lighter or withered foliage.
Constable George Bageant seized a 26 gallon still near Gore with a full moonshiner outfit, gasoline tank, five gallons of gas, eight gallons liquor and cider. A man fled the scene as the officer arrived. the father of another suspect promised to bring his son to town for surrender.
The annual meeting of the Young People's League of Winchester Presbytery will meet tomorrow at 10 AM in the Presbyterian Church at Romney West Virginia. Delegations come from Winchester Martinsburg Charles Town and Front Royal. Singing led by W C Miller with a boys chorus from Highland avenue. Addresses by Rev L A McMurray returned from Africa and Rev A H Clarke formerly of Strasburg.
A Hudson sedan carrying five passengers averaged 16.95 miles per gallon on standard low test gasoline in a two way test run over the road between Winchester and
Horace Browne of Winchester conducts a mileage test using a gallon gasoline jug on a Hudson Essex. Judge Philip Williams records 17.2 mpg, then James P. Rodgers tests 18.7 mpg on the return trip. State inspector H E Shull and others observe a stock five passenger sedan with 500 miles on it.
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