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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1933
Page
9
Chicago cash grain quotes for May 10 list No 2 hard wheat at 73 1 2 cents, No 1 mixed at 73 1 2. Corn prices show No 2 mixed 43 cents, No 2 yellow 44 cents, No 2 white 44 1 4, No 3 white 44. Oats No 2 white 26 1 4, No 8 white 25 26 1 2. Rye No 2 at 57, barley 38 60, timothy seed 2.25 60 per cwt.
Market notes from Baltimore and Richmond show steady prices across produce and meats with receipts liberal in Richmond. Wheat in Baltimore steady with No 2 winter at 91 for May and 92 for June. New York poultry and butter also quoted firm with modest gains.
Send for Marian Martin Pattern 9646 to make a chic gingham organdie dress with a detachable ruffled bib and puffed sleeves. Sizes 12 14 16 18 20 30 32 34 36 38 40 require specific yardage. catalog and pattern brochures available for coin or stamp payment from the Winchester Evening Star Pattern Department in New York.
Regional egg markets show receipts from New York to Baltimore with generally steady quotes and minor declines. Chicago and Lancaster livestock data indicate steady to slow conditions with modest price ranges across cattle hogs and lambs and noted regional variances.
The Virginia State auto license office reports 1933 license sales in Lynchburg up to 3,372 passenger car and 556 truck plates, near the 1932 pace of 3,505 and 591. Total receipts reach $70,608.95 with $29,016 collected in the last week of April as the rush for old tags approached the May deadline.
T P Fishel is held on a warrant for forging the name of Miss Grace Forney to a $150 note. He was arrested in Martinsburg and returned to Winchester by City Sergeant C Lee Barr. He awaits a preliminary hearing before Police Justice Donald L Weems.
Cross Junction notes report visitors to area residents over the weekend including Harold Hobday and family from Berkeley Springs at J. Braitwaite's home. Mrs. Guy Reynolds returned to Martinsburg after visiting her ill mother Mrs. Sarah Collins. Frank Donelan and children of Washington, D C., visited C. G. Baker. The Braithwaites hosted Edward Hottle and others. Fred Holsinger and Nell Morris were mentioned with Gerald Braithwaite and son staying with Holmes Adams at Gainesboro.
Local wholesale and retail markets list shelled corn dairy feed screenings cracked corn mixed feed and middlings with prices around 1.30 to 4.75 for various commodities. Items include creamery butter country butter calves chickens and scratch feed with regional price ranges and note of potential typographical errors.
Clarke county residents gathered at the Barton residence for a Pink Petals event with Rev. B. Duval Chambers Mrs. Kennedy Fadsall and guests from Cambridge Mass. and Winchester among those listed. Attendees included the Burwell Jones Gilpin and Randolph families, War Renton Hunt participants, and visiting artists Madame Tartone and portraits by Pierre Tartone.
Galilee Church of Christ in Grimes will hold baptismal services Sunday morning after the preaching. Rev. F. B. Sapp, the minister, invites the public to attend this and all church services.
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