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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1907
Page
2
All first class authors and best titles 12 1 2c Books for boys cloth bound large type good paper 15c Poems and fiction in Special fine cloth bound 1948 Gunter's books all 75c books for 25c 75c boys and girls books by Henry Alger and others for 21ic Fine leather bound books 50c and 75c worth up to $1 50.
Paper items include box paper at 10c and fine box papers up to 20c, with sets priced up to 75c. Linen paper 20c per pound, 10-piece toilet sets 3.25, 6-piece sets 2.00. Children's fleece-lined skirts 9c, outing gowns 30c, outing dresses 25c, embroidery silk 2c per skein.
Readily priced waist bargains from a department sale featuring white madras and rich embroidery. Notable items include waists worth 1.25 to 2.00 now reduced to 1.00 with odd Madras and sateen options highlighted. Sale highlights value and fabric variety for smart shoppers.
Special offers on women's tailored suits in wool serge broadcloths and Panama cloths at 8.75 dollars. Free umbrella stand valued at 4.00 dollars with each suit. Boys pants 0.59 to 1.00 dollar per pair. Children's ready-made dresses from 1.00 dollar. Floor oilcloths 0.22 dollar per yard. Linoleums 0.85 dollar. Damaged 2-yard wide floor oilcloth 0.30 dollar per yard, normally 0.80.
A Chicago mother praises Cooper's New Discovery claiming it cured her fourteen-year-old daughter's seven-year parasite infection. She says the medicine expelled tapeworms and improved digestion, attributing the child’s recovery to the remedy and endorsing it to others with similar health issues. Franck Baker & Son endorse as local agents.
Richmond column notes Commissioner G W Keiner has recruited 500 to 600 immigrants to Virginia with savings totaling about 16000. He aims to attract home seekers mainly from Scotland and England to farms, expecting several thousand more laborers as legislation supports immigration work.
Special to The Star. Refuge Va. December 6 Mr Joe Orndorff living near the Dunkard Church split his knee open with an axe and suffers much pain and inconvenience from the injury. Mr W T Pifer butchered two large porkers totaling 506 pounds. Orndorff's new house near here is near completion with plastering by Arthur Ritter last week. G E Pifer of Armel visited his mother nearby. Alvin Shade returned to Canterbury after visiting relatives. Hollie Lee Pifer of Boyce Clarke County was calling on cousins at Honeysuckle Dale on Sunday. Mr and Mrs J W Clevenger and children spent several days with relatives in Clarke county.
Rock Springs December 6 Mr Isaiah Good ill with pneumonia improving slowly Mrs Dr Burden of Capon Bridge attending physician her being the first woman physician known to practice medicine in this section Also visiting are Mack Hook wife and little daughter near Bloomery W Va and others at nearby farms Hunters report Bunting day and game such as rabbits and birds Also Mr and Mrs Champe Shepherd of North Mountain W Va spending a week with John Smoke near Mount Williams Trespass notices 5c each at Star Office.
Wholesale and retail dealers in grain and country produce report quotations for wheat butter chickens potatoes corn rye oats and side meat. Prices vary by item with cattle and millfeed noted and regional wholesale figures reported.
Edward Lucas of Page County operates a local saw mill near Port Republic. He cut a pine tree that produced 20 logs with 40 to 700 feet of lumber. a cannonball from Stonewall Jackson’s guns struck the top, reducing potential output from 4,000 feet to 3,300 feet.
On the S S Thomas farm now leased by A W Bryan and known as Glenowen near Berryville Clarke County Virginia the property belonging to A W Bryan will be sold. It includes four horses three of which are bar shear leaders one four year old, one cow, one two year old steer three Superior drills one new disk drill two McCormick binders one Deer ing mower one new disk harrow one spring tooth harrow one double corn planter three cultivators three Oliver chilled plows three double shovel plows two single shovel plows one broad tread wagon and bed one two horse wagon on bed two sets hay frames one two horse carriage two buggies two sets single harness two sets of breechings one sets of lead gears six sets of plow gears one riding saddle and one wagon saddle fodder to be fed on the place a lot of single double and triple trees a lot of picks shovels and other farming implements one iron roller one horse rake a lot of household and kitchen furniture and about 25 barrels of short corn
The annual meeting of the stockholders will be held at the office of W. Roy Stephenson on Saturday December 7 1907 at 10 o clock to elect a president and five directors. Secretaries note signed W E Branson Sec.
For sale by owner agent 300 acres of well improved slate land farm three fourths mile from Kernetown depot. Contact S. Haldeman for details and price.
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