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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1917
Page
4
The Evening Star is filed as a second class mail matter at the Winchester Virginia post office, indicating its official postal designation and processing status.
A wartime poem by Walt Mason reflecting on soldiers young and old and the desires to fight versus being deemed too young or too old. It uses humor to critique recruitment, age, health, and gendered roles in war and homefront duties.
A Madison county Illinois experiment reveals jurors do not bathe. Since a bath tub was installed in Edwardville's new courthouse years ago jurors reportedly avoided washing despite a gas heated boiler kept on around the clock. Going forward jurors must light the gas to heat the bath if drawn for duty.
Poem dated April 24 1917 declares war mood amid border tensions. Narrator vows to mobilize love to force submission and maintain accountability if the beloved harms hope or severs ties.
Company I of the Second Virginia Infantry calls for men with no dependents. Headquarters are in Riverton with officers on duty. Captain Conrad announced locals can leave names at Lieut. Fred S. Anderson’s North Main Street business, and an officer will travel from Riverton to collect enlistment applications.
Four men were injured when a high powered two ton Ap person Jackrabbit roadster crashed into a bank two and a half miles south of Woodstock. Denit and Saul were thrown out as the machine wrecked. Denit unconscious and Geul dazed. They were taken to Woodstock by a passing car and Drs Ford Smoot and later Stuart Boyd were summoned for consultations. Denit suffered a severe brain concussion and left side paralysis with little hope of recovery. He was hospitalized at Memorial in Winchester after slight improvement. Kibler and Saul recovered from the shock. Saul suffered a fractured jaw. Denit, about sixty, was a prominent Roanoke County citizen and former editor of a Salem newspaper. Both he and Saul are Masons. Cassia Lodge members are caring for them. Harry Bull, Noah Kibler’s companion in a prior crash, was discharged from the Second Virginia Regiment and returned home.
An old health note warns daily meat can harm kidneys by forming uric acid that slows elimination. It promotes Jad Salts as a remedy to flush kidneys, neutralize acids, and relieve bladder irritation, claiming it cleanses urine and stops discomfort at night.
Mrs. Freda B. Warde died at her home in Washington D C on a Sunday funeral held at Mrs W M S Hammond residence in Berryville with Rev Edward Way officiating burial followed at Green Hill Cemetery pallbearers named Herbert Whiting W T Lewis Blackburn Smith James W Gaver Eugene Glover and William A Bradford Mrs Warde a native of Switzerland had resided in Berryville for years
A Tennessee woman testimonial recounts relief from left side pain, sleeplessness, and weakness after using Cardui. She credits two bottles with improvement and urges other women to try Cardui, noting years of relief and widespread past use.
By order of the Court the double frame house on S Kent Street and a double stone and frame house on S Kent Street are for sale. Mrs Lucy Barrett died possessed, terms to fit buyers. The property rents well and is desirable. The Wolf on Millwood road now home of Mr and Mrs Blackburn Smith. Mrs Warde mourns loss. survived by husband Herbert B Warde son Wilfred and daughter Miss Alice.
A Martinsburg West Virginia group organized a chapter of the American Red Cross Society with Mrs. Charlies J. Faulkner as chairman. About 50 membership applications were received at the first meeting. Mrs. Stephen R. Snodgniss opened the session and more members are expected to enroll.
A Macon Telegraph quip questions German humor noting their knack for conferring the title William the Faithful on the Emperor as a sly remark about national character.
Richmond woman testimonial says seven bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound ended headaches and hot flashes during the Change of Life. The ad notes warning symptoms and claims the remedy restores normal health, with Mrs Lena Wynn of Richmond cited as an example.
The reserve fund of the Episcopal Church Fund has reached 7.5 million dollars. Bishop William Lawrence announced at an Episcopalian Club dinner that 6.5 million had been raised by March 1 and an additional million has since come in from across the country. The surplus is pledged to aid aged or disabled clergy and the widows and orphans of clergymen. Mrs Elon O Henkel and Martha Henkel of New Market Virginia have been visiting Dr and Mrs A D Henkel on South Market Street.
Dr. Valentine Moft explains spring fever as a buildup of toxic blood from winter diet. He promotes spinach for iron and recommends Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets as tonics and purges to prevent auto intoxication. He notes weekly purges and using herbal ingredients to cleanse the system.
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