Hellers Market Reports and Price Quotes
Local grain dealers post today’s cereals prices and live stock values. Retail and country market tabs show bids for hay, corn, bide meat, and feed per hundred weight with varied per unit figures.
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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1908
Page
2
Local grain dealers post today’s cereals prices and live stock values. Retail and country market tabs show bids for hay, corn, bide meat, and feed per hundred weight with varied per unit figures.
Valuable property formerly the home of Dr. Wm Davison deceased at Middletown Virginia offers a dwelling house office and outbuildings on 8 acres of land selling at a bargain ideal for a physician with Middletown openings. Inquire on the premises of Co B Guyer Attorney for the Owner Strasburg Va.
Auction notice for a farm sale at Stephenson's Depot on Tuesday February 25 1908 at 10 o clock a m offering well bred three year old Percheron colts sired by King Noble two year old Percheron colts from White Post Company's imported stallion plus 30 head of pure short horn cattle 39 head of Poland China hogs 43 ewes and a pure bred thoroughbred buck Terms cash on sums up to and including 9 dollars credit nine months with interest from date by J M Williams and others
House for rent offering four rooms a cave a stable and other outbuildings with a large garden to the rear. Contact O M Gibbens Tia for details.
One of the essentials for healthy homes is verified products from world-wide approved sources. The Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, an ethical remedy, is recommended by physicians and trusted by the Well-Informed of the World as a wholesome family laxative. Buy the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product from leading druggists.
NOTES FROM BEST VA Feb 18 The thaw eased farmwork as feed limits constrained stock. Major Carl Best and others visited, farmers sold corn to dealers or shipped it. Several residents and visitors moved about with illness and social visits noted. Quarterly conference set for Arden Feb 22 23.
An advertisement claims Hyomei kills catarrhal germs and soothes inflamed mucous membranes in the nose throat and lungs. It touts no digestive side effects and says a pocket inhaler delivers healing balsams to remote airways. Franck Baker and Son offer money back if unsatisfied. complete outfit costs $1.00.
The 1907 08 catalogue lists 468 enrolled at Washington and Lee University under Prof Walter Conte Stevens editor. Academic 257 and engineering 1283 are shown with 200 first year and 142 second year students, 28 states plus the district of Columbia and two foreign entries. The university awards endowed and university scholarships each year.
A Winchester woman Mary Virginia Rainsburger credits Doan's Kidney Pills with curing chronic backache and kidney symptoms after use in 1903. She urges others with kidney complaints to try the remedy sold by Franck Baker & Son in Winchester Virginia.
Farmers and Merchants National Bank will be closed Saturday February 22 for a holiday and maturing papers can be paid Monday February 24. Shenandoah Valley National Bank and Union Bank of Winchester also observe the holiday with payment extensions noted for respective dates.
Mr and Mrs Thomas Holland visiting relatives in Winchester were hosted by Mr and Mrs Joseph Darlington on West King Street several hours this morning before continuing to Piedmont sources Martinsburg Journal
Mr a f Correll visits Baltimore for business matters noted in a brief item. No further details on purpose or outcomes are provided.
A Boston crowd reports dramatic results from Cooper medicines at Jaynes Drugs Store 50 Washington St. A Jamaica Plain woman claims twelve years of deafness ended after a week of use hearing street noises and conversation for the first time. Her husband’s lifelong constipation also cleared. Public confidence grows despite skeptical doctors.
The 9 month old son of Mr and Mrs Luther Kern died at home Sunday night after a brief bronchial pneumonia illness. He was a grandson of C W Weaver and this marks a second family death in three weeks, as another grandchild from Mr and Mrs William Ritenour was buried recently. The funeral is set for 2 PM Wednesday at the parents home with Rev E E Northen of the First Baptist Church officiating. Interment will be at Mount Hebron Cemetery.
Increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight with snow or rain in the interior early morning. Wednesday brings more rain and rising temperatures across the region.
Miss Rudolph, visiting her sister Miss Hilda Rudolph Correll, left Winchester this morning for Baltimore. She is described as a very pretty and charming young lady with many friends and admirers in the city who regret her departure.
Relatives and neighbors invaded the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Stotler near Cross Junction to toast Mrs. Stotler on her 36th birthday. A later note reports Rev. C J Racey of Mt Olive and Mt Pleasant receiving a large community gift as he moves on to new duties. Barthol Dick of Dayton Ohio visits siblings in Sir John's Run, Va., after attending his sister-in-law’s illness.
Cedar Grove Virginia February reports include Mr. and Mrs. J Grant Clark visiting Mr. L V Trarlington's home last Sunday. Miss Effie Miller spent time with her cousin Mrs Ella Abshire near Gerrardstown. Mrs Belle Marpie has gone to Pittsburg Pa. Ernest Shade, a popular schoolteacher, took his school to Greenspring for flag raising. Rev A P Funkhotser and Mr William Sailey of Winchester dined with Mr J W Sells on Sunday.
The article notes the death in 1765 of a Fil d the eminent lawyer of Fil mington Delaware who left a large estate to his wife Rebecca Hedges. The will lists slaves silverware china mahogany furniture and real estate in Delaware South Carolina and England. England property was left to William Hedges by his grandfather from Swafford Oxfordshire. The bequest, settled in the deceased’s lifetime, underpins rumors of a Hed ge fortune for heirs abroad.
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