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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1908
Page
6
Wholesale market reports firm prices across grains and commodities. Wheat closed stronger with a slight advance while corn and oats rose, hay and vegetables stayed steady, poultry eased slightly, and eggs remained firm. Prices for barrel corn and bale hay per ton were noted along with potato per bushel figures.
Mr. Lewis Pidgeon of Wadesville spent today in the city on business.
Jessie Fothergill’s widely read novel The First Violin has been dramatized and is presented as a season event. Acompany features singer Ella May Fitch as the English singing girl. Performance set for Wednesday night November 18 at the Auditorium.
Mrs. Charles W. Heater of Middletown returned from New Market where she visited her brother Dr. C. C. Henkel who had been ill but is now improving. Mrs Heater and five sisters joined in a reunion dinner hosted by Mrs. I. P. Crickenberger.
Judge E. D. Newman of Woodstock J W Rhodes of Harrisonburg John J Ridgeway of Ridgeway and Charles E Clevenger of Stephenson joined the board of directors today for the Farmers and Merchants National Bank meeting.
Mrs Anderson who has been stopping with Mrs Calmes on North Market street for some time past left this morning for Louisville Kentucky.
Mr. R. A. Gray of Greensboro North Carolina is in town on business and Mr. W. W. Jameson of Philadelphia registered at Hotel Evans this morning.
A marriage license was issued yesterday in Hagerstown to Bugste d Carter and Willie Ethel Brown both of Winchester.
Miss Elizabeth Bowen of Clarke county Virginia visits Mrs Charles Reid of Park avenue and leaves today for Washington where she will spend the winter.
Mr. N. Mendelsohn of Cincinnati stops at Hotel Evans while Mr. W. E. Auld of Somerset Pennsylvania registers, signaling a busy period at the inn with guests arriving from multiple locales.
An early 20th century advertisement praises Gowan’s Preparation as a cure for inflammation and ailments including croup and pneumonia. It urges readers to keep a bottle at home and lists prices 25¢ 50¢ and $1.00 available at all druggists.
A public sale at the V R R depot in Winchester Virginia is set for Saturday November 14 at 10 am. The listing includes 19 New Columbia farm wagons in various sizes with nine months credit offered. Organizer O H Purcell notes the sale date and terms. A separate note advertises Miss Martin hairdresser offering sham pooing singing bleaching dying hair and hair switch services at 23 N Braddock St in town.
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