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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1917
Page
4
The passage notes 3.00 and 1.50 amounts consolidated with Morning News Item Weekly News Weekly Times Weekly Mirror. The Evening Star is entered at the Post Office in Winchester Virginia as second class mail matter.
Walt Mason laments a homeowner who battles a field of dandelions with seed sowing and spraying. He hires workers to kill the weed yet the yellow invaders persist, leaving the lawn brown and the man humbled as onlookers judge his failures.
Baltimore American urges farm girls to embrace a practical role in rural labor this hustle year. It critiques the Whittier tale and calls for Maud Muller type diligence in farming tasks like haying poultry and crop support while rejecting vanity and glamor.
In Torrytown West Virginia on April 26 Mr and Mrs Derward Busey and Master Clyde Welshouse visited his parents Mr and Mrs Henry Busey. Lulu Morgan and daughter Josephine visited Martinsburg on Tuesday. The Bishop preached at the Episcopal Church in Bunker Hill Sunday at 3 PM to a large congregation. Samuel Morgan visited his uncle Dr Morgan in Gerardstown on Sunday. Rev Myers of Inwood preached at Mt Pleasant U B Church Sunday morning and will return next Sunday at 11. Dr Morgan spent a day with his brother Zenoh Morgan. Derward Busey and his wife visited her father James K Boyles on Sunday. Alva Morgan and Grove Busey spent Saturday evening in Martinsburg.
Cross Junction Virginia April 26 Mary DeHaven of Gainesboro visited Saturday night and Sunday with Mr and Mrs C G Baker. Mr Btermittonsite and family spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs R G Braithwaite. Mr and Mrs Howard S Reynolds of Reynolds Store were guests of Mr and Mrs John Kelley on Sunday.
Miss Lydia Immari and Miss Bertha Immari visit Mrs. Carrie Gunn in Whitacre Virginia on Sunday. Roy Loy and Lula Whitacre drove to Winchester for the chautauqua. Bertha Whitacre and Elmer Whitacre relatives attendances noted. Virginia Gance of Berkeley Springs wed Harry Bageant on April 14. Simon Adams ferries Braithwaites to Piedmont. they plan to live with their son Jeff. Minnie Carpenter visits Whitacre family in town from Pittsburgh. Ellis Haines visits L E Whitacre family with Mrs. Haines this Sunday.
In Cedar Grove Virginia on April 26 a message announces preaching next Sunday morning April 29 at Pleasant Valley by Rev. W H Sampsell with a communion service. He will begin a series of meetings Sunday night. Several local residents and visiting families are listed as having spent the previous Sunday with friends and kin in the area.
The notes mention visits by Miss Ellen Moorman to Winchester, Mr. and Mrs Edwin Barrett visiting Mr. and Mrs W H Crim, and interactions among Miss Hazel Furgeson Miss Cora Alabaugh and Pearl Fries. Ellen Moorman will close her school Friday May 4 and return to Petersburg Va, with scholars hoping she returns next year.
Notice from her husband and children marks the first anniversary of Hattie Carver Hill's death on April 26, 1916. The bereaved speak of rest in peace with prayers for strength, noting she is sleeping free from pain and that parting was painful yet God knows best.
Mr W E Grim of the Wells Fargo Express Company freed about 650 pigeons last Sunday from the Washington Racing Pigeon Association coop. The incident centers on a large release and its immediate result for the racing birds and handlers.
Store ad notes patterns in wallpapers at 8c each gilt at 10c each and window shades at 30c. Thomas and Messer Co located at 1015 West Baltimore Street Baltimore Maryland.
All persons owing the estate of Thomas P. Graybeal deceased are urged to pay promptly to Edith V. Graybeal admx 310 West Cecil Street. Anyone with claims should present them for payment.
A letter from secretary W F Dismer reports many birds returning to home coops by 9 15 am after being freed by Mr Grim. The first arrivals flew about one hour and fifteen minutes after liberation, covering an air distance of roughly 70 miles.
Roslyn resident Harry Cather, former resident of this county, has moved to Jackson Michigan to start a new home. He is the son of the late Clarke and Mrs. Cather of Frederick County. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is endorsed as a helper for colds and lung relief sold by local druggists.
In observance of the first anniversary of her death, R B C and E B H note the life of Mrs Hattie Carver Hillyard. The reflection honors her home filled with love and peace, her husband and children, and the seeds of kindness she planted that bloom in gentle deeds.
A Cincinnati authority says a quarter ounce of Freezone from the drugstore cures corns or calluses without pain by applying a few drops. The solution dries quickly, shrivels the corn, and is touted as safe for surrounding skin.
Trustee sale of Samuel Mason property at 208 Valley Avenue Winchester Virginia in front of the courthouse at noon on May 12 1917. Two story dwelling fronting Valley Avenue and Warwick Street offers plant nursery potential or multiple building sites. One third cash with balance in one and two years secured by deed of trust and insurance policy. M M Lynch Trustee and Wm M Bowen Auctioneer.
Mrs Eliza Clarke and Hamilton Clarke dated December 11 1905 of record seek sale of a sixty acre tract with buildings in Frederick county Virginia three miles north of Gainesboro at 11 am May 12 1917. The land adjoins Harry R Kern Matthias R Loy and others and includes timber. Terms: one third cash on sale day and balance in one and two years with two purchaser bonds secured by deed of trust and insurance policy. Trustee M M Lynch. Auctioneer Wm M Bowen.
Small notice from WA PLAS invites local merchants to advertise spring merchandise and reach customers in a concise classified-style space.
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