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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1908
Page
5
Local merchants quote today’s buying prices for cereals and country produce. Corn per barrel three dollars seventy five cents, date per bushel fifty cents, bale per ton from ten to thirteen dollars. Potatoes per bushel sixty five cents, apples fifty cents, side meat nine cents per pound, chickens alive five fifty nine, dressed chicken per pound ten cents.
John T. J. Siler, aged 80, prominent Berkeley Springs resident and longtime Bank of Berkeley Springs president, died at his home Saturday night. He leaves two children Mrs. H. Campbell of Salem Virginia and attorney J Hammond Siler of Berkeley Springs who married Jessie Castleman of Berryville Virginia. Funeral services were held this morning with large attendance.
Music from Hindostan describes skilled players on small kettle drums called toublabg. The drums are fastened to the body with cloth and struck with fingers. Sometimes single drums with wooden sticks are used to scare away tigers.
Woodstock Va May 5 J D Horney of High Point NC has leased the Geary Hotel in Woodstock and will take charge the first of the month. A guest dinner included town business men as guests. A 15 year old, Willey Misey, was arrested on a warrant. He sold two bicycles for 48 dollars to two young sons of Mr Mowery and kept the money. Prosecution was later dropped. Mr and Mrs William Hite of Harrisonburg and Mr William Keating of Winchester visiting relatives in Woodstock. Miss Madge Shoemaker of Winchester spent Sunday with Capt C N Shoemaker and family.
Bunker Hill West Virginia notes report losses of two valuable horses to grass colic with Mr. Gold Balenger and Mr. Jerry Triggs. Several residents are named with weekend visits including Miss Ella Henson Mabel Bowen Satin Stout Kimble Mrs. Kate Clendenning and Robert Noll. The cold wave arrived Saturday evening and residents fear impacts.
Farmers push spring work with corn planted and crops looking good. Orlie Tabb and wife visited the farmer's mother in Welltown. E D Lamps visited Martinsburg. Jr O U A M invited to Y M C A cornerstone laying in Martinsburg on the 29th. Rev John Douglas preached at Christ M E Church and plans an all day meeting on the 13th. H A Rogers on professional visit Buck Creek Valley. French measles reported with several children affected.
Occasional rain is expected tonight and Wednesday in Virginia with warmer temperatures tonight in the mountain district. Mrs J H Edwards of Weaton West Virginia and two attractive daughters are visiting Miss Katharine McVicar on North Main Street. Miss Maggie M Grim and her son William Thomas Deschon have returned from Hagerstown Maryland after visiting relatives and friends.
A reader recalls cutting coffee linked fainting spells and heart trouble in her husband. She describes learning to boil Postum properly, then praising its effect on health and noting support from the Postum Co of Battle Creek Michigan in a short quoted teaser.
Rail workers report fear of discharge under new B and O enforcement rules. Auditors and spotters multiply as officials tighten oversight, with several conductors and others dismissed. Some note cameras in bars catching employees drinking, while others worry over wrongful accusations amid a broad crackdown.
Notes from Hayfield Virginia dated May 5 report visits by Mrs N Cooper of Middletown to relatives, Esther Bayles as guest of Della Rinker, and social calls by Annie Ramey, Jake Rosenberger, and S L Cooper. Measles confinement of Mrs Ashby Hannum noted. others visiting Chambersville Fremont Trone and Seymour area. A birth announced with the Elliott home hosting a fine boy.
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