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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1925
Page
2
April 28 lists Geo M Dansen Apple Ridge Clayton Farm with horses hogs and implements. April 29 features Shorthorn and Polled Ester breeders association at nes Purebred Shorthorn.
Norfolk and Western and Virginian Railway directors agree to a lease of the Virginian line, subject to stockholder and Interstate Commerce Commission approval. The deal, about 3.5 million annually in stock and debt servicing, ties assets around 550 million and signals strategic moves by Pennsylvania Railroad with potential regrouping of eastern lines. A. C. Needles said the two roads serve different lines and do not compete as coal carriers.
A mob of several hundred armed men advanced on woods outside Carthage North Carolina pursuing Dock Roberts a Black man charged with attacking a young white girl. Law officers were outnumbered and the mob voiced intentions to administer punishment without legal process.
Chicago April 21 Permission to proceed with an improvement program costing nearly 2 million dollars was granted today to the receivers in the bankruptcy proceedings of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Company by Federal Judge James H Wilkerson.
The item lists residents and visitors in Nineveh and nearby towns, noting Easter gatherings and illnesses. It mentions Misses Irene McCartney and Elisabeth McCartney, Captain Johnston illness and Culpeper return, J M Jennings funeral with distant attendees from Roanoke Gary W Va Carroll County Maryland, and various local movements and entertainments.
The annual congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution adopted a resolution urging the establishment of Shenandoah National Park near Shenandoah County Virginia. It called for early action by the President and Congress to preserve forest and natural scenery for public use and benefit.
Scene set at Woodbine's Scientific Farm in Arcady during Old Home Week in early July. Characters include Handley Senior students and Village Girls led by Prudence with a Sinopsis of Music Act I. Overture opens with a chorus praising learning, followed by recitations and songs about farming and science including The Tim Only Mistress of the Past and The Scientific Farmer with a duet You Have Something on Your.
Staunton April 21 Robert et Cash an 85 year old tinner died at 3 40 this afternoon after plunging through an opening in a Churchville road house roof to the basement. He had worked 18 years for Flavin and Watson and left a wife and six children. He stepped on tar paper thinking rafters were beneath and fell into the empty space.
Mount Pleasant Va April 18 local social roundup lists Thurston Renner and family visiting Will Lamp. Ed Carpenter and family with Mollie Spillman at George Ryan. Miss Mamie and Goldie Rosenberger with relatives at Ridgeway. Maggie Milhon visiting sister Thurston Renner. Annie Ritter and Vernie Cadwallader calling on Mrs Harry Lamp. Harry Lamp and granddaughter Geraldine Lamp with Russell Carpenter in Winchester while their child was ill. Gen ie Boyce Emma Pitcock and Delia Cochran visiting John Perry. Charlie Shaniebrook and Guy Lofton families at Easter. Clarence Cochran with Levane Barr.
The Society of Virginia in Washington DC plans a caravan tour Sunday morning via Upperville and White Post to Winchester to view fog blossoms. They invite other state societies to join and request directions to the nearest large orchards, noting they cannot attend the festival day due to work. Cordial regards from H. O. Lak.
Miss Thelma Lewis arrives from Charles Town and will be the guest of Miss Katherine Yost at her home on North Kent street for a social visit.
By virtue of two executions against I and Painter and Lloyd Connor the sheriff will sell at Cedar Creek lime kiln on Friday May 1 at 10 a.m. items include air compressor and drill gasoline engine pipe and hose rock crusher separator bins Peerless traction engine and Ford truck cash terms.
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