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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1920
Page
7
Daily market rundown shows Creamery butter at 0.0655, roosters 0.65, bacon 0.35, barley 1.25, rye 0.35, shelled corn 1.65, flour barrel 2.00, flour 12 lb sack 0.75, screenings 3.00, bone meal and horse feed noted. Prices reflect today’s quotes and are not guaranteed by The Star.
The listing shows prices and lots for cattle and calves including cows heifers calves steers and lambs. Prices range with fat steers around 7 to 16 dollars and lambs near eight dollars per hundredweight, reflecting a mixed sale.
An old advertisement touts Calotabs as a nausealess calomel tablet that cleanses the liver. It claims one bedtime tablet with water yields a tasteless, gentle purge, morning energy, and no dietary limits, with a money back guarantee and thirty five cent price in sealed packages.
Cedar Grove notes report Levi Fries ill with acute indigestion. Little Mountain school opened October 4 with Theodore Fries as teacher. Arthur Clark installed a house telephone. A W Adams and I Miller families visited Byers Shanholtz at Whitacre. Luda Lynn bought a Winchester house and moved from her farm. Annie Carson wed Mr Grubbs in Washington last Monday, leaving a wide circle of friends.
The women of Harrisonburg and Rockingham county will hear Miss Mary Pidgeon of the University of Virginia speak on woman citizenship at 9 o clock next Wednesday night October 13 at the New Virginia Theatre with Congressman Thomas W Harrison. The event is organized by the local Democratic committee to inform all voters about campaign questions and showcase Miss Pidgeon a prominent figure in Virginia's public affairs.
Major H. G. L. Opie of Staunton and Captain Ewart Joanson of Winchester spoke at the second annual reunion of Company L of the 116th Infantry, 29th Division. About sixty local veterans and guests from Alexandria Baltimore attended the Meuse campaign anniversary banquet at the Virginia Hotel in Lynchburg.
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