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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1908
Page
3
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. Price 25 cents.
Miss Grace Cornelia McKown and Miss Katy of Gerardstown visited the Hensons. Mrs. Annie Henson and son welcomed Mr. Gold Balenger in Martinsburg. Mr. Sutton, Cumberland Valley Railroad agent, at Chambersburg. J N McCune moved near Pittsburg. Ed Stewart of Morgantown visited his father Will Ashwood. Mrs. Virginia Griffith died in Hagerstown. An old iron bridge was removed after flood damage. Rev R A White preached at Presbyterian Church. W B Clendening attended quarterly meeting in Darkesville.
Rev Dick Wells known as Parson Wells appears in a fatigue coat with brass buttons and a upside down merry widow handkerchief while supplying lunches to Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers between Winchester and Middletown. He buys a Thanksgiving turkey gob for dinner as inquisitors question him.
Market activity was light with offerings limited and prices steady. Oats and flour showed quiet but firm demand, while feed and hay sold steadily under light receipts. Eggs held to the late decline, butter and corn steady, with modest trading in ducks and turkeys and prices shown for ear corn, oats, hay, and potatoes.
Thanksgiving observance will affect Winchester postoffice with altered hours. General delivery and stamp windows close 11:30 to 12 noon and reopen 1 to 2 pm. letter carriers make a morning and early afternoon run. no rural free delivery service on that day.
A young woman calling herself Margaret Buckley an actress from New York was arrested in Harrisonburg on a charge of stealing a watch from Mrs. Alie Beam. She claimed to be on tour with a show and to have traveled from Winchester with a companion. The watch was found to be of little value and not taken from the owner directly. she paid a five dollar fine and agreed to depart the town. City Attorney R Gray William left for Baltimore on legal business. M Lohr Capper spent the day on his Jefferson county farm.
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