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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1928
Page
5
Chicago September 28 hog prices plunged after a rapid rise. Values fell about 2.50 per hundredweight, over 15 percent in days, with top quotes at 11 dollars versus 13.50 two weeks earlier. Market experts expect a temporary dip and anticipate prices near 12 dollars or higher all winter.
The funeral of Mrs. Elsie Payne Pearson of Orlean Virginia occurred Tuesday at Grove Baptist Church with Rev. Fraer officiating. Interment followed in the family plot at Orlean. Surviving are her husband John Pearson her mother six brothers and six sisters and an infant child.
Cross Junction Virginia notices list Mr and Mrs S H Braithwaite and son Howard along with Mr and Mrs J B.
Braithwaite and relatives spent from Saturday to Monday with kin in Martinsburg West Virginia. Albert Angell and wife visited Mrs Angell's parents the Bakers. Mrs Ray Lewis of Winchester visited her parents the Braithwaites. Mrs Walter Baker and son Frank spent a day with Mrs EB Braithwaite. Mrs Sarah Collins is improving from eye trouble. Fred C Braithwaite resumed studies at Bridgewater College after summer with his parents. J T Funkhouser and family from Capon Bridge WV visited the De Havens. W Erle Edwards and family spent Sunday afternoon with his parents.
Health officials in Virginia urge vaccination amid rising smallpox cases. Clinics in King George and Spotsylvania counties ran Monday through today to enforce state vaccination laws for schoolchildren. Last year 978 cases were reported statewide, mostly mild, compared with 621 in 1926 and 320 in 1925.
Grimes notes show Mrs Weeden Cochran visiting at Welltown while Elizabeth Wright, nurse from New York, stays with her family. Virginia Heiges from Brookline, and Mr and Mrs William Hamock of Hagerstown visit. Residents work at Inwood West Virginia during apple season. farmers report a promising corn yield. John Leight builds a large barn at Middleway West Virginia. local barn raising includes a social lunch.
A compact guide on subject verb agreement with clear rules for singular and plural subjects. It explains how compound subjects joined by and require a plural verb, while or constructions take a singular verb. Examples illustrate collective nouns and the is or are choice.
Dixie Darling Company led by Johnny Mattise packed the venue with a strong tabloid style show. Al Bartee impressed at piano as Black Diamond Orchestra performed popular numbers. Tonight offers a new program with Blondes by Choice on screen and cash prizes for talent at opportunity night.
The Star lists daily corrected wholesale and retail quotes for local markets. It includes prices for wheat flour, cracked corn, corn meal, mixed feed, screenings, middlings, various chicken categories, ducks, creamery butter, butter fat, hogs, and Baltimore wholesale figures with price ranges and notes on market corrections.
138 acre farm 112 miles east of Middletown on public road with large house barn and out-buildings. Additional 61 acre tract of timber land with spring and well. For information contact Strasburg Va care of E H Mammond Mrs Mary C Smith 28 41
In New Haven a collision injured two people. Governor Trumbull's chauffeur and John Coolidge were unharmed. Wilfred Veno and his mother Mrs. Mary Veno suffered injuries and were hospitalized. Mrs Coolidge visits Northampton before returning home.
Chicago officials say ten youngsters may be held at the farm where ten year old Billy Ranieri was kept for ransom. Samuel Hoffman disclosed that Ranieri, freed a week ago, spoke of ten other children residing there while their parents were away on vacation. Investigators uncovered a structured kidnapping and black mail ring operating among Chicago Italians. Two Sicilians are already under arrest.
A district attorney indicated that the parents and the Renieri family may be attempting private talks with the kidnappers rather than filing the disappearances with police. The remark comes as authorities pursue leads in the high profile case.
Mrs S Rosenmyer and her daughter Miss Freda Rosenmyer left Tuesday for New York to visit friends. They sailed today from New York aboard the steamship America bound for Europe where they will spend a year as guests of friends.
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