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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1918
Page
6
Amusing week’s play Alma Where Do You Live is moved to Saturday night to accommodate large patrons. The act features a 14 member company with three full songs and special scenery, priced 10 15 25 cents matinee and 15 25 35 cents night plus war tax. Pickett Juvenile Trio also appears at the matinee.
Chief M A Doran in Cumberland Md received a telegram from C A Lofton asking him to inform Lemuel and James Lofton that their mother is dead in Cumberland. Funeral services will be held at Asbury Md on Friday.
Franklin Hawkins Charles Sma and Thomais Shanholtz were acquitted in police court by Justice Fultz on charges of stealing 70 dollars from Mrs. E. A. Ashley's grocery in northeast Winchester. No evidence linked the boys to the theft. the money was taken while Mrs. Ashley briefly left the store.
Martinsburg West Virginia May 16 completed records show Dir S G Tonkin Republican candidate for mayor defeated Mayor P W Leiter Democrat by 179 votes. Republicans also elected four of five councilmen giving control of all branches of government. Total mayor vote was just over 2300 from a 3300 registration.
There will be preaching at Relief at 11 a.m. Macedonia at 3 30 p.m. Carpers Valley at 8 p.m. Miss Ida Orndorff visits her brother Mr Lee Orndorff at Hayfield Virginia.
The Empire features the four act drama Mother with a vaudeville interlude by the Pickertrenile Trio between acts. Admission is 16, 25 and 86 cents plus tax, with doors at 8:30 tonight.
Local markets list daily prices for winter and spring wheat flour at retail, corn and cracked corn per barrel, middlings and bran retail, oats hay and butter values, fresh country butter, young chickens, and potatoes per bushel. The report notes price reliability and that the sellers offer today’s quotations.
Corrected as of the day prior, prices shown include Butter Nearby at 41, Virginia and nearby dairy prints 31, poultry items 32 for young chickens and 20 for old roosters, corn cob yellow 8.50 spot white 9.00, No. 1 timothy hay 32, light Clover mixed 30. Mrs C M Gardiner and daughter and Mr and Mrs John Lee visited the city yesterday.
Catarrh cannot be cured by LOC applications and must be treated internally. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is claimed to work through the system and is prescribed by leading physicians. It is said to combine tonics and blood purifiers to aid catarrhal conditions. Send for testimonials. F L Hall & Co, Toledo Ohio. Catarrh remedy also marketed for constipation pills.
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