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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1925
Page
2
A call to participate in the primary election urges residents to vote on Tuesday August 4. Polls open from 5 a.m. to 7:11 p.m. Local officials emphasize turnout and civic duty in this midterm style advisory.
The Rev. Dr. George Diffenderfer, pastor of Memorial Lutheran Church of Washington, spoke at the Shenandoah Caverns Lutheran reunion and visited Grace Church in Winchester. He praised the new Sunday school annex and its fittings, staying at Hotel Jack during his visit.
A terse campaign style message endorses Byrd and urges registration and voting. It cites bills contracted by the speaker’s wife, Mrs. J. W. Owens, and bears the signature J. W. Owens with a date marker "-1-11".
Public invited to a platform event on Wesley Owens' farm five miles from Winchester on Gainesboro Pike. Hours listed as Wednesday night at seven and Saturday from midnight to noon. Event details appear in a local notice dated August 1, 1931.
Trustees announce public auction of an International Harvester Three-Ton Truck Engine No 2270, used one year and in good condition. Sale at Winchester courthouse on Monday August 3 1925 at 2 30 PM. Cash to cover about 900 dollar vendor’s lien plus sale costs. a sixty day negotiable note with endorser may be accepted.
The regular weekly Rotary lunch at the George Washington Hotel featured visitors Wallace Wilson Richard Gray and others along with John S Brown Winchester playground director who spoke on local playground activities. An August program was outlined including speakers Rev Dr Freed Sir Frederick Maurice and the British Jets. A crippled children clinic in cooperation with Rotary Kiwanis and the District Nurses Association was announced to be held at the Red Cross office.
Come to the Empire Theater Monday August 3 at 8 p m to welcome Byrd home.
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