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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1918
Page
3
State Food Administrator H. Sprool urges AW Mills and other mills to buy all possible wheat. He notes that even mills with no ground allotment should purchase up to 60 percent of wheat to ship to the grain corporation. Wheat is described as essential as ammunition and guns amid a likely new crop.
Prof Charles G Maphis of the University of Virginia speaks for the second war fund Red Cross drive directed by the Potomac division with headquarters in Washington. He will end a two week tour Saturday and return to arrange the summer school opening June 17. He has spoken to large audiences across Virginia West Virginia and Maryland.
Red Cross Chapter urges liberal patronage at Branson's School House on May 25 to aid service members overseas. Donors are encouraged to give generously, promising faster aid to the boys serving abroad.
Grower members of the Potomac Fruit Exchange at Cumberland estimate 218 205 bushels or about 450 carloads of peaches and apples will ship from orchards near Keyser Hancock Town Creek Sandithsburg Leesburg. The rate is well below last year as apples are dropping due to adverse early April weather.
Mr L L Bell accompanied by his young son of Winchester have returned home after visiting Mrs Eva Bell of South Bariten street Martinsburg Journal reports the trip and reunion with family.
The Winchester Chamber of Commerce outlines an early June election for new officers. A public meeting will include a banquet and speakers to educate and energize Well Wishers of Winchester. New secretary M Bramiee reports growing optimism and a flourishing chamber amid community cooperation. Canners start next week with Martha Dinwiddie and Ma Bel Haynes visiting county clubs to discuss canning work and surplus product sales at favorable prices.
Spring wheat flour retail at 11.69 per unit and winter wheat flour etal. Corn per barrel price listed, cracked corn retail per bushel, middlings per 100 retail, bran retail, barley feed price, oats price, timothy hay price, butter fat rate, creamery butter wholesale and retail, fresh country butter, young chickens price, hens price, potatoes retail per bushel. Prices shown reflect local market activity with multiple agricultural commodities listed.
Markets in Baltimore show revised figures closing on the day before publication with adjustments noted. The correction reflects updated prices and indices as reported by local exchange sources.
Squeeze juice of two lemons into three ounces of orchard white to make a quarter pint freckle and tan lotion. Grocers have lemons and drugstores offer orchard white for a few cents. Massage daily on face neck arms and hands to fade freckles and blemishes and improve skin clarity. Harmless.
German alien females in the United States will register under the president's proclamation starting Monday June 17 and continue through Wednesday June 26. The process mirrors the registration plan used for German men.
The coal committee directs all local fuel distributors to accept questions and deliver responses directly to producing oil companies, signaling a shift in how inquiries are handled in the fuel supply chain.
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