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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1922
Page
2
The annual convention of the Winchester Sunday schools affiliated with the Virginia State Sunday School Association will be held at 8 oclock. The Star urges superintendents scholars and friends to attend. State Secretary Diggs will be among the speakers.
The Associated Press reports heavy demand for investment securities as subscriptions for the New England Telephone Company 35 million dollar bond issue opened and closed at J P Morgan offices. The five percent bonds are not callable until June 1949.
The Valley of Virginia Cooperative Milk Producers Association has been granted a charter by the State Corporation Commission. The group may market milk poultry and other farm products and open membership to eligible farmers only. On June 5 Fred Driver will open an office in Harrisonburg to handle deliveries and member inquiries. A bylaw provision expected requires members to market all their milk through the organization.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Snider have returned from Fairport New York after two years there and plan to live in the city going forward. Mr. Snider previously worked with F A Beck in apple growing in the Fairport area.
Daily market listing shows varied quotes for flour wheat creamery butter hogs and eggs. Local wholesale items include spring wheat flour standard middlings screenings cotton seed meal and hog and lamb quotes, with regional notes and typographical errors in places.
A letter from Boyd Wise of Newell West Virginia endorses Dr Orth's Stomach Remedy claiming eight months of acidity cured after one box. The ad states a full refund if no relief, offers 75 cent large box, and lists The Orth Laboratory Co East Liverpool Ohio and Franck Baker and Son Boyd Drug Co as suppliers.
Trainmaster John McCabe of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad coordinated two special trains to move 498 cadets from Staunton Military Academy to the Bushong farm near New Market for the academy encampment. He praised the contingent as among the finest seen and planned return transport to Staunton on June 2.
AlbIn Va May 25 Mrs Russel Cather visits relatives near Harrisonburg Miss Susan B Howard stays with Mrs John Thwaite Mrs R T Lewis calls on friends in Winchester Nettie Spence visits sister Ada Buncutter D S Mattison with sister S B Brown H E B Yeakley calls on village friends Maynard Baylis family visit Charles Reed L J Hartman of Clearbrook visits relatives Floyd Crim visits Martinsburg Edwin Buncutter guests of Martin Glaize W M Janney calls on friends in Welltown
Macedon ia Virginia residents report varied weekend visits including Stuart Jacobs and family from Washington with C J Jacobs, Harry Butler from Winchester with James Smith, P C Petrie from Bartonsville with R L Petrie, and W W Craig in Stephens City. Decoration day at Macedonia church set for the first Sunday in June. Jane Violette returns home from visiting daughter Mrs W H Huber. Lewis Smith of Winchester visits his father James Smith.
The committee announced City Hall Auditorium will be thoroughly cleaned and swept before next Monday night’s world-wide prohibition speech by Pusseyfoot Johnson. The theater, unused for some time, will be spic and span for the meeting.
Banks announce closures on Tuesday May 30 1922 a legal holiday. Deposits and maturing papers may be paid on Wednesday May 31 1922. Signatories include Charles Summers H D Fuller John J Sloat WM Hardy and WM Sloat per respective bank notices.
Real estate ad offers 67 farms from 4 to 850 acres with stone houses and barns priced from 1 500 to 10 000 dollars. Additional listings include 16 city properties, several timber tracts, mills, store properties, and multiple houses with lots in the Bailey Bros store guide for Manchester Virginia.
A Frederick County Virginia circuit court decree authorizes a public auction on May 27 1922 at the county courthouse in Winchester. Four parcels are offered including three downtown lots on West Water Street and a 41 12 acre woodland tract in Indian Hollow with terms: one third cash and two equal annual installments secured by a deed of trust and insurance policy.
Pieter H. Marvin Flinn of Kensington Maryland will preach at Old Salem Parish Church near Boyce Virginia on May 28 at 11 o clock. Services will continue on the fourth Sunday of each month through the year and the public is invited.
The Rev D W Files of Wardensville West Virginia plans to preach next Sunday May 28 at Fairview with services at 11 am and 3 pm Dr and Mrs George H Heist have spent several days in Baltimore and Washington
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