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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1908
Page
3
The report lists buying prices quoted by local grain dealers for cereals and country produce. Wheat and corn per bushel, hay per ton, lard per pound, potatoes per bushel, apples per bushel, side meat per pound, live and dressed chickens, live turkeys, and dressed turkeys are shown with varying figures. Some entries are incomplete or garbled.
The marriage of Mr Be Yates and Miss Bettierad Conrad took place at Beulah Church Wheatland on Peabody afternoon with relatives present. Rev George T Tyler officiated as presiding elder of Winchester Methodist Episcopal South. The bride wore a blue traveling suit and carried bride roses. bridesmaids Hdna Yates and Wthel Conrad wore white chiffon with pink flowers. ushers Burns Huyett and Turner J Yates assisted.
A postal card piece is withheld due to lack of signature. Virginia Converse from Harrisonburg spent the night with Marry Allen Capper while en route to New York. Converse will visit her brother Dr. Henry Converse at Davis and Elkins College on her return home.
The note states that paying your subscription in advance during July or January locks in the current price with no hike. It suggests paying in one of those months to avoid future increases.
By decree of the Corporation Court of Winchester Virginia in the chancery case Philip Davis vs Wesley Davis et al the special commissioner will sell at public auction on Saturday April 25 1908 at eleven o clock in front of the County Court House the property fronting forty feet on Wilwig street and 100 feet deep with details of deed and payment terms including one third cash and two thirds by bonds due in two years secured by trust deed. GRAY WILLIAMS dinner CATER Special Commission I Richard & Gray Clerk certify bond filed as required.
Mr George Bierach of Washington seeks his daughter who disappeared after leaving Mrs Boxwell in Bast Water Street. The girl and her sister Dolly Bierach reportedly worked at a knitting factory and sent wages to the Boxwell household until the father arrived to locate her.
A Winchester Va reader promotes Devoe paint in a letter praising its wear resistance and long life. The author argues cost is dominated by labor and gallons used, citing a local house repaint example and noting Geo E Bushnell & Co sell the product.
Four hundred pounds of obsolete Germant pennies of similar copper tin content to early high conductivity alloys have reportedly been purchased by United States manufacturers at 21 cents a pound, cheaper than electrolytic copper.
India’s population remains widely dispersed as over 70 percent of natives till the land, reducing effective cooperation and unity across regions. The vast spread limits centralized power and coordination.
Immense kettle drums travel across Asia on camels' backs as crowds pack trains. Drums are elaborately adorned with trappings and a seat is provided for the drummer atop the camel.
Executors of John H Fries announce a public auction in Winchester for two parcels. The first is a brick house and lot at 522 N Fairmont Ave with eight rooms, fronting a street, and the second is about 150 acres near Round Hill Frederick County with a seven room house and timber. Sale on April 25 1908 at noon with one third cash and rest in two annual installments at six percent, bonds and deed of trust required. Details from attorney J M Steck.
By virtue of a decree the Special Commissioner is to sell at public auction at the Court House in Win Virginia. The suit involves Laure V Eaton and Job D Clark and is set for the April term.
Bids are invited for quarrying crushing hauling and spreading stone on sections of the Berryville Turnpike from Berryville to Shenandoah River Berryville to Opequon Opequon to Winchester for June 1 1908 to May 31 1909. Bids must state price per cubic yard and be in by May 1908 to McCormick Secretary Berryville Va.
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