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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1920
Page
7
The Star lists corrected markets with wholesale quotes for butter, live turkeys, oats, hay, and grain, plus retail prices for flour, corn meal, screenings, dairy butter, scratch feed, molasses feed, and livestock. No. 1 Timothy hay and clover values shown, with cattle and calf prices noted.
Public auction to be held at 11 oclock Thursday December 28 1920 in front of the County Court House Winchester Virginia for a brick residence on the west side of South Stewart Street. The deed of trust to Agnes Virginia Reily and husband dated July 26 1920 secures $11985 with six percent interest, terms require one third down and balance in two annual installments. James P Reardon trustee.
Washington November 26 Millions of bushels of grain fruit and vegetables and a large amount of cotton were lost to plant diseases last year per figures from the plant disease survey of the agriculture department. Losses arose mainly from delayed measures of control. The survey cites 112 million bushels of wheat 50 million oats 80 million corn 60 million potatoes 40 million sweet potatoes 196 thousand tons of tomatoes 50 thousand bales of cotton 5.6 million bushels peaches and 16 million bushels apples.
Government storage figures show November 1 stock of apples at 3,256,355 barrels in storage up from 3,108,246 a year earlier while boxed holdings total 2,716,734 boxes, a drop from 4,244,246 last year. Combined barrel and box totals reach 4,161,933 barrels, rising to 4,522,994 in November 1919 from 3,752,342 in 1918.
Winchester Memorial Hospital acknowledges with thanks the receipt of $12.02 from the Union Thanksgiving services held Thursday at St. Pauls A M E Church. The collection came from the colored churches of the city led by Rev. J C Parola.
Miss Mary Miller spent time in Baltimore this week. Mrs. William Smith of Winchester visited local friends. Mrs. Anna Silvers of Winchester called on friends in Albin. Mrs. J. W. Baker and Mrs. Lela Janney spent Thanksgiving with Dr. and Mrs. W. M. Janney. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Glaize visited Berryville. Mr. Harry Blanchfield is out again. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Bunentter hosted many friends.
Brucetown Virginia notices greet readers with visits and health notes. John Ware of near Rippon hosts a sister and Mary Ware returns healthier after a Rippon visit. Local hunters, social events, rummage sales, and family visits mark the week. Andrew Whitacre remains home with quinsy.
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