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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1928
Page
7
The Star lists wholesale pie sale prices and livestock values with notes on chicken, butter, cattle, sheep, and hogs. Prices shown include chickens at 2.60 to 2.40, butter at 0.6, cattle and hogs with varied ranges, and hay and feed costs mentioned in context.
Local market notes show price listings for butter and related dairy items. Values are partially garbled but indicate a barrel price around 2.20 and a creamery butter line near 2.70.
Markets corrected at close of prior day list items for men 610 eggs and related products with unclear OCR text. Entries include pricing fragments and product notes from Baltimore wholesale channels.
Mrs Ed gar Spiher 65 died at her Vandergrift Pennsylvania home after a long illness. Her daughter Mrs Vernon Haines of Winchester was at her bedside. She leaves husband two daughters Mrs Vernon Haines and Mrs Earl Yolton and four sons A B Spiher G M Spiher Grant Spiher and Stanley Spiher all of Vandergrift.
Mrs Kate L Snively widow of John L Snively died suddenly at her daughter’s Keedysville home after a brief illness. She was 87, survived by son John J Snively and daughters Mae Ling and Lillie K Line, with 16 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Funeral Monday at 2 30 pm led by Rev Albert Klingler.
Heavy weekend profit taking interrupted the rise on the New York Stock Exchange today after more than forty issues had reached new highs. Early gains ranged from 1 to 6 points amid enormous volume. The close remained firm with total sales about 1,500,000 shares.
The forecast from the Associated Press notes mostly fair weather for the North and Middle Atlantic States after Monday with showers confined to northern New England portions. Temperatures near normal Monday and Tuesday, slightly below Wednesday, warmer Thursday, then cooler at week’s end.
Special Commissioners and Trustee announce a public auction of two parcels at the Frederick County Virginia courthouse steps in Winchester. Parcel one hosts a store room occupied by EH A Gordon, parcel two holds a steam flouring mill beside the B and O Railway at Stephens City. Sale is at noon on September 15 1928 with one third cash and balance in one and two years secured by bonds, deed of trust, and insurance. plot available after August 23 1928 at the offices of Reardon or Kern.
The trustees offer privately the KR G Vance property two miles from Winchester on the Winchester Berryville turnpike. It includes two acres, a substantial building used as a gasoline filling station, and an electric light plant. Cash or favorable terms available. Signed by R Kern and Harrison.
Word has arrived of the death of Frank H. Rouss aged 60 in Florida this week. He was a son of the late Capt Milton Rouss of Jefferson county West Virginia and leaves three daughters and three brothers Milton A H Rouse of Jefferson County Georgia? and George W Rottgs of Wton DC.
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