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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1926
Page
5
Capt. Henry Steere issues important parade details with division and number assignments. Report times, formation streets, and route to ensure proper placement and smooth marching on parade day.
Virginians have thirty days to register pistols under a new law effective June 1. Owners of revolvers except authorized officers must pay $1 to the treasurer who will record make caliber and number and issue a card. Dealers must require permits to sell cartridges and repairmen must report pistols and require the card.
Obsolete pistols are exempt and former service members who acquired revolvers as souvenirs are not required to register them.
Sgt. Jack Carroll, Martinsburg recruiting officer, announced that enlistments in the regular army have been resumed after a halt that began April 3. The pause ended when the armed forces met the authorized figure set by congressional appropriations.
Sergeant Carroll described the twenty ninth Infantry at Fort Benning Georgia as the largest demonstration outfit in the infantry and the only one kept at full war strength, serving as the home of the army infantry school.
Local market report lists prices for cattle calves sheep and poultry alongside flour middlings mixed feed and cracked corn. It notes closing corrections from the previous day and includes butter eggs and other dairy products with regional references to Baltimore wholesale markets.
Governor Harry F. Byrd received an invitation from South Dakota Governor Carl Gunderson to visit the Black Hills during the governors conference at Cheyenne Wyoming July 26 to 28. Byrd has not decided whether to attend and thus has not decided on the invitation. The Black Hills lie about 300 miles from Cheyenne.
Joe Kirkwood and Tommy Ryan defeated Jimmy Donnachie and MacMasters 3 up with 2 to play in an 18 hole match. Kirkwood posted a 66 to lower the course record while Donnachie shot 72 and kept pace with birdie bursts.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine claims to cure catarrh by a soothing ointment and a blood purifying tonic. The internal medicine acts through the blood on mucous surfaces to restore normal conditions and relieve deafness caused by catarrh. Sold by druggists for over 40 years by J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio.
A New York City company spends time in Winchester with Mr and Mrs Charles Donaway recently moved from Gee Town for a local festival and social visit with friends.
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