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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1923
Page
2
A partial market listing shows wholesale quotes for wheat flour and corn meal, with figures for eggs butter and various feeds. Retail notes cover creamery butter country butter and fresh livestock values, alongside Baltimore wholesale closing prices for corn and young chickens.
In Brucetown Virginia on October 27 Mr and Mrs Claude Helvestine and their relatives from Berryville and Winchester called in the village. Misses Mary and Nellie Moling from Winchester spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Julian Snapp. Church ladies plan a Halloween supper at the town hall to aid the Sunday school room repair. Mr Andy Whitacre was in Winchester Wednesday. Cecil O Connell has moved to Pittsburgh for his new home. Charles Fiddler of the Navy is home on furlough.
Bartonville area social and farming updates note Mr and Mrs P C Petrie and child visiting relatives, Miss Blanche Smith and Miss Hilda Flowers weekending with Miss Birdie Lam, Mrs Charles Borum staying with her mother, and workers packing apples at Woodhull Baker’s orchard. Mrs Howard Staples and child stayed with sister Alen Legg, Colfelt visiting William Henry, Smoke brothers nearing completion of a new farm residence, farmers seeding grain, and Wallace Sam and Birdie Lam visiting W Huber.
Governor Trinkle orders a statewide 1923 vote on road bond authorization to be held November 6, with polling at Neffstown Brucetown White Hall Albin Ashton Dolans Bakers Mill Gainesboro Yeakley Gore Lamps Russells Dry Run Old Forge Middletown Stephens City Canter and A Given precincts in Frederick County. Sheriff Luther Pandett announces notice dated September 10, 1923.
Premier Poincare in Compigny declares France will not strip the reparations commission of its functions or replace it. He opposes re ductions in Germany's debt and calls for US representation on the committee while keeping Japan Versailles treaty terms. He warns against an international conference with unclear powers.
Howard J. Pullum of New York, VP of West Indies finance corp, bought the Isaac Bowman place on the Valley turnpike from Raleigh B. Davidson. The 67 1/2 acre farm sold for 12000 dollars. Pullum, descendant of George Bowman, plans to make the home and may raise race horses on the property.
Sheffield metallurgists propose chromium electroplating to produce stainless metals. The method uses less chromium than stainless alloy and suggests a thin rustless film will protect bright parts of mature and other objects.
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