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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1908
Page
5
Mrs. Harry Strother hosts Euchre and Forty-two at Maple Street with twelve tables and an elegant meat course. Evening events include a Ladies' and Gentlemen's Club lunch and servants. Numerous visits and illnesses are recorded among local residents and visitors, with evangelist Chapman mentioned and a new cottage being built on Buckner Street.
Miss Lizzie Taylor of Kansas City Missouri visits the Brown-Proetoria Hotel to manage property interests in the area. Mrs R P Broadhead of Kingston Pennsylvania also stays at the Brown-Proetoria. The hotel has hosted many traveling merchants the past week displaying spring clothing styles to local merchants.
Berea Kentucky firemen battle a large forest blaze near the college in the Forest Reserve area known as Narrow Gap. Dr. Osborne, Berea treasurer, suspects incendiaries while seeking bloodhounds from Captain V G Millikin who is on a Lexington jury but unavailable.
Mr. D. B. Scobee manager of the Auditorium Skating Rink proposes a five dollar skate book prize for the best name for his highly bred yearling trotting colt by Searchlight. He will choose the winning entry from names submitted to the Auditorium.
The Winchester Roller Mills promotes home flour quality, claiming Kerr Perfection and White Pearl flour as unmatched. The notice highlights the longtime county institution and its superior products.
A compact note presents Watts warning that idleness fosters ill deeds and learning through doing nothing, emphasizing moral caution and self discipline.
An advertisement outlines prices for new waist fashions and a range of fabrics and accessories. It highlights plain and bordered flannelettes, gloves, voiles in various widths, broadcloths foreign and domestic, tailor suiting, shadow stripes, wool batiste, and satin by the yard with multiple price points. The shop invites patrons to visit to view this season's offerings.
James H. Baldwin, a local house mover, was trapped when a folding bed closed on him. He was found in a headstanding position with a crushed left arm and a broken collarbone, narrowly escaping suffocation until family members freed him. The report also includes misc. comic notes and quotes.
Scarcity of red salmon in the Alaska pack will no doubt revive the pink catfish industry in the south.
FOR SALE Fine French Telescope Closed 10 inches drawn out 29 inches New tripod Everything complete A bargain Call up old by telephone No 161 WANTED SEWING I am prepared to do all kinds of sewing Ladies shirt waists and childrens dress making a specialty Call at 234 S Highland street MRS J C LARY 10-19-1mo WANTED Good second hand man s saddle Apply this office 10-23-21 WANTED People who have rooms to rent board for sale or who want help to advertise in this column 10-2-tf
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