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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1908
Page
3
Market report lists cereal buying prices for wheat corn oats and bran, with per bushel figures for oats, corn, and potatoes, and per ton figures for baled hay. Also shows eggs lard and meat prices from local merchants and notes overall market rates for country produce.
A forger posing as a preacher defrauded victims in Winchester Leesburg and Westernport Md over the past five days. He enters banks to open accounts with drafts and later cashes checks bearing the names of prominent church officials Rev Carey Rev B V Regester and Rev M F B Rice, using them as presiding elders.
A cloudburst overturned a stage coach on a treacherous ford near Williamsport Grant county causing the driver and several passengers to drown. Horses were lost and others swept away. Earlier Keyser New Creek Valley flood surged four feet on Water Street forcing evacuations and urgent rescues.
Farmers and Merchants National Bank Shenandoah Valley National Bank Union Bank of Winchester announce Saturday May 30 as a legal holiday and say paper maturing that day may be paid Monday June 1. The closing affects all institutions and notes cashiers H D Fuller MO W Rice R Grim. The text also mentions an ovation for Willie McGuire and Miss M B Anderson in a Winchester event with Henry Neville Stephenson and prompter W S White.
The Home Literary and Musical Society hosted an evening at Sunny Side the Hawthorne home in Berryville Virginia on Friday. Performances included a German song by the Pierce brothers with Mrs Byrne on piano a recitation by Clifton Wyrne a paper reading The Clover Leaf edited by F H Pierce a four member quartet led by A J Kimmell Miss Carmen Pierce and Mr Noble Pierce plus a banjo solo Georgia Coupmeeting by B V Pierce and piano by Miss Carmen Pierce. Guests enjoyed refreshments and warm hospitality despite bad weather. A lost blue coat with light blue trim from Northwestern Grade is reported at Winchester Memorial Hospital Pomporial Hospital. 5204
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