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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1914
Page
2
A sales listing offers deep cuts on cut glass items including fern dishes bon bon dishes bowls and other pieces with prices from 10c to 50c plus markdowns on coats blankets and woolen goods. It promotes hats shirts waists and various accessories with discounts and claims to cut profits. Names of several girls appear at the end as store staff.
58 acres of limestone land one mile from Boyce with a barn ice house meat house coal house carriage house hen house wood house sheds a good tenant house nearly 14 acres of bearing orchard apples peaches pears grapes a lawn a good well and cistern dwelling has 9 rooms upper and lower hall unusual opportunity to get an attractive measure ham a.
Winter brings risk of pneumonia as germs circulate in healthy people until exposure weakens the body. The advertisement urges using Amyl-Kijo and Kijo-ine to prevent pneumonia, cure germ diseases, and claim they save lives. It recommends nightly use and baths with the products.
Mr WW R Lucas owner of Hotel Evan travels to Richmond for the annual Southern Hotel Association meeting where he serves as secretary. He helped coordinate most preliminary convention details and is expected to bring many hotel owners and managers from the south with their wives. A T Moore of the Augusta Hotel Staunton VA is president and will preside, indicating strong Shenandoah Valley Virginia influence.
Washington dispatch reports changes to federal quarantines on foot and mouth disease. Livestock may move into modified areas for all purposes and out for immediate slaughter under inspection, with some counties still restricted and requiring pre shipment inspection and certification. Further modifications are anticipated.
In Trone Virginia on December 14 Master Russell Triplette visited with his grandmother Mrs. Sarah Triplette. A severe sleet storm last week caused extensive damage to fruit trees with many completely demolished. Mrs. Richard Pletcher remains at home as butchering continues. porkers have been killed in places while others await better weather for operations.
Mrs. Nettle Brill, Mrs. Mollie Bentley and Miss Sarah Kenner have been visiting friends at Mountain Falls. Vive Stella Himelright left Saturday for Capon Bridge relatives. Miss Atha Cochran of Chambersville is visiting Mrs. Lizzie Orndorff. Guy Brill left Sunday to visit his parents near Zepp. Paul Raymond of Wheeling took stock cattle to his Wardensville farm. Miss Gertie Peery of Opequon is visiting relatives here. Albert Stine, long employed near Opequon, has returned home.
An old advertisement extolls Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a natural remedy for indigestion constipation and sick headache. It claims gentle effective relief and notes availability in drug stores with a free trial offer from Dr W O Caldwell Monticello Indiana.
Weekly unclaimed letters remaining at Winchester Virginia post office include Miss Jessica Alword Mr HA Gaither Mr A J Miller Reed Reilly Miss Bisa Roop D K Smith Miss Viola Thompson Mr Harry Weath Mrs Jennie Wisp. Each letter requires one cent paid for retrieval.
Berryville Va merchant J D Bart reports relief from kidney strain with Doan's Kidney Pills. He recommends the remedy and says he still uses it occasionally as a preventive. Price 60 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Miss Virginia Chamberlayne visiting Rev and Mrs Wall has returned to Richmond. Mrs Cyrus McCormick went to Washington and Alexandria. Miss Evelyn McGuire left for Richmond to visit Dr Edward McGuire. Mrs Archibald Cummins spent days in Washington. Mrs John B Stannard went to southern Virginia for the winter. Rev Edward Wall spent a day in Washington. Miss Annie Moore visiting friends in Baltimore. Miss Elvira Moore returned from Baltimore. Miss Annie Washington of Alexandria has returned home from Norfolk Reynolds at Northwood.
Funeral services for Mrs. Rachel Tewalt 61 8 10 were held at 12 30 Thursday at the Lutheran Church St Johns with Rev Frank Gilbert in charge. She died at her home near Bloom Va after a long illness and is buried in a nearby cemetery. Surviving are her husband Joseph H Tewalt two sons Elkana and Hilly three daughters Mrs William Cave of Tavalt and two at home and one brother Richard Frye of near Bloom.
An old time mail order style promotion offers Foley products in exchange for five cents, promising a free trial package of remedies. The snippet also notes Mr Shirley Carter returning from Stainton after a Board of Directors meeting at Western State Hospital and Mrs E Virginia Smith returning from Washington after visiting friends.
The onion is a major U S vegetable crop adaptable to both immature and mature storage. It stores well for long shipments and rough handling, extending market reach year round. Cure in beds or corn cribs up to three to four inches deep, with air flow essential to keep onions from spoiling.
A Wyoming Farm Bulletin contributor explains how to select good cabbage for storage and keep apples in a cool place. It covers sand storage for beets parsnips carrots and turnips, leaving parsnips in the ground, rehydrating shrunken produce by soaking, and proper squash handling for winter keeping.
Indoor plants need fresh air proper temperature and ventilation. Watering frequency varies from daily to every two days based on pot and plant. test by tapping pot for hollowness. Do not repot in winter. repot in spring. Coal gas impedes growth. even small traces hurt new leaves.
Mrs B Perkins and her daughter Miss Perkins departed Saturday afternoon for a short visit to friends in Washington.
An amateur gardener is advised to root geranium and nasturtium slips in a sunny window glass of water before transplanting. The piece shifts to a curious note on ant colonies, describing slaves, door-tenders, hard heads, password-like interactions, and ants farming a mushroom diet.
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