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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1921
Page
4
The fragment describes postal delivery details for Winchester Virginia and subscription rates by mail and carrier. It references Associated Press usage and directs communications to The Evening Star Publishing Company and affiliated individuals.
The ticket lists BE Lee Trinkle for governor J West for lieutenant governor John E Saunders for attorney general B O Tambs for secretary of commonwealth Charles A Johnson for treasurer Harris for superintendent of public instruction George W Koiner for state corporation commissioner Berkeley Adams for House of Delegates Boyd Richards for treasurer J L Maphis for Commonwealth Attorney James P Reardon.
Clarke county farmer John M. Fishpaw reports middle west conditions showing high real estate taxes and personal property levies. He notes Ohio and other states tax land at full value with rates up to three to four dollars per hundred, making farming cash poor and forcing cuts on weed control and hay quality.
The article warns that delinquency and unpaid local and state bonds for road projects threaten financial strain. It cites misguided efforts to burden taxpayers and notes Virginia’s large areas are swampy and thinly settled, reducing land value and increasing risk for bondholders.
A letter criticizes the State Highway Department for delaying a permanent bridge on the Valley Pike at Fishers Hill after a fatal accident. The damaged bridge remains a danger two years later despite surveys and funds from the Valley Turnpike Company, with risk of further loss of life blamed on the department.
The State Highway Department let contracts for bituminous macadam roads at about 21 000 dollars each mile and 20 miles for grading and draining at roughly 11 200 dollars per mile. Stone costs another 20 000 dollars per mile. The speaker calls for lower costs and a thorough investigation at the next General Assembly meeting to enable general Virginia road improvements.
The page lists corrected local markets with butter, eggs, poultry, grains, and other staples, including prices for cow butter, creamery butter, chickens, hams, shoulders, bacon, corn, oats, barley, and flour. Baltimore wholesale markets show updated quotes for corn, butter, fat cattle, lambs, calves, and other commodities. A furniture ad notes a 3 piece parlor suite and related items at 41 South Market Street.
The article explains a sun dyed marking technique where a perforated design is pasted on apples before coloring. As the fruit reddens the exposed areas take the printed pattern, which is later removed to reveal the design. Origin traces to Hood River Valley and a New York cafe, with French roots and steel die labels.
Judge Whiting of Clarke County Circuit Court schedules September 29 hearing in Berryville on a petition by Chapel and Greenway taxpayers to set aside the May election that approved a $200,000 road bond. Petition filed by Richard Evelyn Byrd. bond advocates represented by Joseph Moore.
Misses Anna and Eleanor Hedrick daughters of Prof and Mrs H B Hedrick of Washington spent their vacation at their Hayfield cottage and shopped in Winchester today. Anna is a Vassar graduate and Eleanor a student who will resume studies at Vassar next week.
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