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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1922
Page
8
Ward parties socials and picnics feature ice cream from Jones' Creamery by W M Fletcher Prop. Prices urged to check before buying.
Winter is coming the ad claims new roofs with cement material from BF Arthur Jr distributor Winchester Virginia offers a ten year guarantee and cites 500 customers as proof of quality. Contact phone 2005FT1.
John Marker of Opequon backed his Buick touring car into a ditch dug by Winchester Gas Co. at Market and Clifford streets. The right rear wheel dropped into the two foot deep hole. after engine start attempts failed, twelve men lifted and pushed the car free. Marker said he looked left and did not see the ditch.
Woodstock Virginia enforces Sunday closing after mayor Herbert Trotter orders all open shops shut on Sundays. The move aligns Woodstock with Newport News Staunton Harrisonburg Luray Winchester and most Virginia towns enforcing the Sunday observance law.
Businesses run by Hebrew faith will close from 6 p m Friday September 22 to Monday, in observance of Rosh Hashanah. A day of fasting and atonement, Yom Kippur, falls Sunday October 21 at 6 p m with fasting through Monday and no food eaten by followers.
The Bureau of Public Roads and USDA plan to distribute millions of pounds of picric acid this fall for agricultural explosive use such as stump removal. The system will charge farmers only 7 cents per pound for drying and cartridging plus freight, with details available through state agricultural colleges.
Greenfield Indiana Hancock county officials condemned ultra stylish dress rouge and tobacco use by teachers as the county board of education went on record at a recent meeting opposing such practices.
A man about 25 attempted to raise cash by selling a Saxon touring car and, failing that, a watch as he aimed to get away.
Richmond dispatch reports former Virginia governor Henry Carter Stuart injured in a bathtub fall at Jonesville while with George C. Peery. Stuart advised his former private secretary Alexander Forward that there is no serious damage though pain and inconvenience persist. He plans to leave Norton soon and continues to support Democracy in the Ninth District race.
Police constable detains a nervous man in Martinsburg West Virginia who claimed to be a Washington post office employee. The man had rubber stamps and several large fire-crackers in his pockets and said he was on vacation to Staunton. He is described as highly nervous and has chewed his fingernails to the flesh.
Figures received by the Department of Commerce indicate increases in the production of passenger cars and related goods, signaling improving industrial activity and potential effects on employment and auto markets.
Smithsburg Fruit Cooperage and Evaporator Co announces the opening of its evaporator in Boyce Virginia on Monday August 28. Peel ing apples wanted as part of the operation.
The eighteenth annual meeting will be hosted by Grace-Covenant Church in Richmond on October 12 and 13. The auxiliary is the church’s oldest female organization with over 17,000 members and raised $182,576 for church causes last year.
Mr. W. H. Bosserman of the wholesale dry goods department of T. J. Cooper and Sons is in New York on business and is registered at the Pennsylvania Hotel.
Pauline Beatrice Rutherford known as Pauline Frederick will receive nothing from the estate of Richard O. Libby whose will was admitted to probate in Norwich Connecticut. The will dated June 6 states I give and bequeath to my daughter Pauline Beatrice Rutherford nothing, and I mention this omission to show that the same is intentional and not made by mistake.
Hay farmers expect to bale hay soon as Runkle and Co of Woodstock Virginia offers to haul timothy by carload. The note mentions using a few cars for straight timothy shipments and indicates readiness to supply hanite or hay transport services.
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