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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1921
Page
5
The town delays East Piccadilly roadway work as Winchester Gas Company lacks funds to lay the pipeline. Council weighs actions after residents offer to fund $1,500, with Glaize proposing more private backing while awaiting a final decision next Tuesday.
The Pennsylvan ia Railroad managers committee proposed wage reductions averaging about 18 percent for telegraph department employees. The plan affects roughly 8 600 workers currently earning 66 2 7 cents per hour, including telegraphers operators agent telegraphers and other telephony and signaling staff. A recess was taken until 2 pm for representatives to review the proposal.
Sir Paul Dukes, who recently toured Russia, will lecture on Bolshevism at the Winchester Theatre Friday night. He will replay two recorded Lenine speeches on a phonograph and discuss his twelve years in Russia under the Czar. A week later Gregory Zilborg, secretary to Russia’s minister of labor, will speak, offering two first hand accounts of Red Russia.
The Chamber of Commerce urges residents to pursue soft water to reduce soap use and skin and hair wear, improve cooking and laundry results, ease plumbing, cut steam plant costs, aid industrial processes, and lower municipal water operation expenses amid city expansion opportunities.
Myron T. Herrick has decided to accept appointment as American ambassador to France, a post he held at the start of the world war under Taft. His formal nomination will be made soon, and he will go to France in the early summer.
A community fundraiser at the Empire Theatre on Thursday afternoon gathers many friendly elements to support the General Daniel Morgan Memorial fund. Tickets cost 35 and 25 cents with proceeds going to a savings account for the trust, aided by Fort Loudoun Seminary and local figures.
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