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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
3
An advertisement notes how marriage and motherhood alter women, leading to pelvic drains and weaknesses. It promotes Favorite Prescription as a safe, alcohol-free tonic and nervine for women, claiming broad medical authority and urging consultation with Dr. Pierce at the Buffalo Institute.
Local grain dealers quote today’s buying prices for cereals. Ear corn sells at 3.75 per barrel and oats at 50 cents per bushel. Baled hay brings 10 to 13 dollars per ton.
Local merchants list current prices for country produce including butter per pound potatoes per bushel and side meat per pound. The fragment shows butter lard potatoes and side meat with values such as 65 for potatoes and 200 for side meat, but the text is incomplete and some figures are garbled.
Whitacre resident Mr Jas N Whitacre drove an iron ramrod into his palm exiting near the first finger causing a painful wound. Visitors include Mrs Mollie Edwards of Martinsburg staying with Mr George Edwards at Cross Junction. Rev Ey Raney and family moved to new work today after weather delays. Mrs H Foreman of Everett Pa visits daughter Mrs Elizabeth Carpenter.
A Notre Dame woman, Mrs. M. Summers of Notre Dame Ind, offers a free home remedy for rheumatism and related pains. The letter claims the cure removes uric acids from the blood loosens stiff joints purifies the blood and restores energy with no climate change needed.
Blaine Busch of Western Enterprise Fipea Company Hagerstown Md fell on a Martinsburg street tonight while attending the Cumberland Valley Firemen’s Convention and broke his collar bone. A physician dressed the injury.
Mr and Mrs Lewis Summelt of Greenspring report a mysterious shork visitation yesterday leaving a prize in the shape of a baby girl. The event centers on the unusual delivery described in local chatter.
Bishop Gibson delivered a council address in Fredericksburg noting 170 sermons and addresses, 2 churches consecrated, 3 deacons ordained, 1 presbytery ordained, 8 ministers received by transfer and 7 lost. Reports showed $10,491.77 raised and $10,586.22 paid out by the Diocesan Missionary Society, with 49 missionaries and 30 in Blue Ridge. An offer was raised for Tidewater work including an abandoned church offered at $875, and the council debated canon amendments and Bible Prayer Book Society changes.
Bliss Virginia May 22 Mt Airy Dramatic Society staged Mine Falls or The Miller’s Daughter a rural four act comedy for the Library Association. Cast included Jonathan Richards Tilden Snapp Ned Reynolds Aaron Bowher George Washington Jones and more. Explosion scene drew applause and the cast was praised for strong performances. Frank H. Whiting of Berryville visited on business.
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