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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1918
Page
4
A regional consolidation brings Morning News Ivem Weekly Times Weekly Mirror under a single umbrella. The move aims to streamline coverage and reduce duplication across the four publications while maintaining local reporting. Authorities have not announced price changes or staff adjustments.
The Star announces it will reduce space for all communications to fit columns. Signed letters will be preferred and unsigned items may be cut or omitted to maintain timely local news. Readers should expect shortened submissions with authors’ names listed at the bottom.
A wartime verse by Walt Mason pleads for total national support, urging readers to sacrifice comforts and supply food and raw materials to aid soldiers abroad. The poem frames civilian endurance and collective effort as essential to victory, with satirical humor about shuttered pride and shared need.
Mrs John Bright and daughter Mildred left for Washington to visit friends and relatives. Mr Jacob Metz spent in Hagerstown. Mr and Mrs Phil Barrick visited relatives in Shenandoah County. Miss Grace Barrick underwent an appendicitis operation at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Mrs Samuel Fritz and brother Raymond Turner spent days with their mother Mrs Mannie Turner. Mrs Rosser Campbell hosted Miss Katie Evans of Nineveh. Mr and Mrs James B Jones of Gaylord visited their brother in law and sister, Mr and Mrs R Triplett.
Robert Castleman Paul a Winchester native and Confederate veteran died at his home in Mexico Missouri after a diabetes illness. Born April 22 1842 he married Harriett Jones in 1869 and leaves nine surviving children along with four brothers and three sisters. He served as first lieutenant in the Seventeenth Virginia Infantry and later founded R C Paul and Sons grocery in Lincoln Missouri.
The Masons of district No. 3 at a joint Winchester meeting subscribed over 14000 in third Liberty bonds. Lodges from Winchester Strasburg Berryville and Front Royal were represented with about 95 to 100 attendees. Grand Master Cunningham and Judge Duke Jr visited to promote the loan and address the gathering.
A birthday surprise was held Sunday April 14 at Kernstown home for Mrs. Annie Lichliter. Relatives and friends arrived with gift baskets after church service. The dining room featured a full spread as guests extended best wishes for many more birthdays. Attending were Mrs. Mollie Hudson and son Louis of Albins, Mrs. Bernice Carper of Hagerstown, Md., Mr and Mrs William Liehliter and children, and Mr and Mrs Harry Fling with daughter Ilda, among others.
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