Local Market Prices Across Steady Trade
Prices in the local markets today show steady trading. Readouts list poultry including old hens and roosters with tentative price ranges, alongside grain and other items though the OCR text is garbled.
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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1906
Page
4
Prices in the local markets today show steady trading. Readouts list poultry including old hens and roosters with tentative price ranges, alongside grain and other items though the OCR text is garbled.
Geo E Jenkins longtime tobacco merchant and cigar maker and former ward magistrate and city council member dies. He aided Masons since before the Civil War and knew President McKinley. his funeral plans are set with Blue Lodge pallbearers tonight and burial at Mount Hebron.
A brief promotional note highlights No 5 as a place offering the purest whiskey and the coldest beer.
The sixth annual Shenandoah Baptist Sunday School Convention opened at First Baptist Church Martinsburg with about 100 delegates. Officers elected for the coming year include Rev. W. W. Wodd president, Rev. T. S. Dunaway secretary, and L. H. Thompson treasurer.
May 29 report notes Rev. Fox preaching at Nineveh Presbyterian Church. Local residents report injuries and losses from a recent storm with lightning. Cattle killed by lightning. others ill or recovering from health issues. various residents visiting relatives and recovering from operations.
Advertisement touts Hyomei as an effective treatment for catarrh through inhaled medicated air. Fran ck Baker & Son report high demand in Winchester and broad customer satisfaction. The ad claims cures from childhood cases and cites J B Nugent praising the product. A complete outfit costs $1 with extra bottles priced at 50 cents.
Very valuable Clarke County farm for sale privately 240 acres more or less located seven miles from Winchester and two miles from Boyce on the pike. For information apply to W. H. Baker ex’or of James Ginn deceased.
Includes social items and visits with names such as Mr N E Daugherty Mrs William ZL Clark Jr Miss Piarenad Wurdeman Miss Katie Haddox and Miss Mae Cunningham. sales of livestock at Robert R Smith near Wickliffe VA. references to Fred Fugitt Clarence Hoover Ollie Johnson and Fred Goss in Winchester. mention of the Shenandoah Baptist convention Martinsburg and a pension pursuit for a Spanish American War veteran Mr Isaac Arnold.
A Shetland pony belonging to Mr. J. W. Bowles near town broke its neck Sunday after a headlong dash across a field and a collision with a mule. The incident occurred as the animal reared and charged, collapsing instantly. Pay your water taxes before June 1 to avoid penalties mentioned with a 5 percent rate.
Miss Evy Tucker McGuire left this morning for Richmond to serve as bridesmaid at the wedding of her cousin Miss Margaret McGuire and Mr. Gordon. She will attend the Mason Tucker wedding at Lexington on June 12 and later visit in Sai Teas.
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