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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1925
Page
4
Winchester Virginia based Evening Star notes its editor and post office filter. The paper is published daily except Sundays by Evening Star Publishing Co. and consolidated with Morning News Item and several weekly titles.
Rates are listed for various advance periods with figures: one year $3.50, six months $1.76, three months 90 cents, and one month 30 cents. The text includes garbled repeats and partial digits, reflecting OCR corruption on pricing. The main details show yearly, semiannual, quarterly, and monthly options.
The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to republication of all AP credited or uncredited dispatches and all local news published in this issue dated Tuesday August 4 1925.
A brief devotional note quotes 1 Timothy 6 6 7 8 on godliness contentment and having food and raiment as great gain. The message urges contentment with basic needs as spiritual wealth.
A devotional line of praise expresses gratitude to God, affirming that with God all needs are met and abundantly provided.
The Baltimore Sun cites the National Industrial Conference Board noting fourteen billion dollars in tax exempt securities now exist and threaten investment in commerce and industry. Tax-free bonds yield higher after tax income for high earners, prompting demand for taxable issues to match. Agriculture’s improving outlook, per Geo B Roberts of National City Bank, signals broader prosperity as farmers' incomes rise and debt pressures ease. The piece argues the farm sector’s revival could underpin sustained national growth and balanced, lasting prosperity postwar.
A Clifton Forge Virginia paper decries mail waste by individuals and firms, urging cessation of unnecessary use of the mails to save postage and conserve paper supply for important communications. It argues that curbing frivolous mail could keep costs down and preserve resources for essential needs.
A study of lobby mail shows most letter mail lacking a two cent stamp receives little consideration. Much remains unopened or unused in post offices while delivered items fail to impress recipients. Advertisers doubt mail piece effectiveness without worthwhile offerings, urging reconsideration of postage, paper, and clerk costs.
The Cumberland Times notes that public interest runs high in the Scopes evolution dispute and related debates. It argues that Americans favor frothy amusements over serious discussion while recognizing widespread engagement with fundamental questions of religion and science.
Poet Walt Mason riffs on money fear and urban misers. A playful verse contrasts shareable humor with paring riches and social withdrawal, ending with a guarded, reflective stance on wealth and community.
Funeral services were held in Hyattsville Maryland for Mrs Sally Robinson Bushong age 53 wife of Dr Daniel B Bushong who died Sunday after illness following an operation. She was native of Summit Point a Robinsons daughter and step granddaughter of Col W M Clements former B and O Railroad manager. She leaves her husband her father a brother P Robinson and a daughter Janie Kitchen. Burial was in Edge Hill Cemetery Charles Town West Virginia.
Oranda Virginia reports a beautiful countryside after last week’s rain. Winchester visitors attended the show yesterday. Pearl Headley of Winchester visits local friends. Wyona Saum returns from Charlottesville normal. J N Mitchell of Landover Maryland visits daughter Mrs W D Hall. Martin Wisecarver visits Inwood West Virginia. McCune Stickley and family visit Cedar Bluff farm. Russell Racey departs for carpenter work in Washington.
Mrs. Caroline Lentz of Kingsport Tennessee, guest of Mrs. Henry Schneider on South Braddock Street, departed this morning for Capon Bridge to stay a month with her daughter Mrs. J. N. Frye before returning home.
Richmond VA Aug 4 Rev Henry B Lee Jr rector of Trinity Towson MD has been invited to Monumental church to replace Rev George Mayo who leaves Sept 1 to resume Blue Ridge industrial school supervision. Native Virginian and great nephew of Gen R E Lee and John Marshall descendant. Lee has led Trinity since 1918 and previously served Weston WV and St Thomas Baltimore. He is married with two children.
The county clerk's office in Frederick county issues three marriage licenses. Abner Fauver, a farmer from Mount Williams, and 15 year old Madeline Pitcock, daughter of L. M. Pitcock. S. M. Dalton, 22, and Ina Ritter, 21, daughter of C. B. Ritter from Middletown. Walter Mathyer, 29, of Warren Pennsylvania, and Johnetta Wright, daughter of George Wright of Wadesville Clarke county Virginia. The groom is a National Cash Register Co. office worker in Lynchburg Virginia and is a son of Albert Mathyer of De Pa. and a young postal clerk.
Mrs Horace McKinster, a milliner with Emmett's, departed this morning for Pittsburgh to select a new fall millinery line for her firm.
Read This Girls: Freckles Melt Away In Four Days Next apply this wonderful cream and in four days your freckles are gone. The ad promises clearer skin and a youthful look. Baker's Drug Store offers a money back guarantee if Flyte fails.
Train times issued February 22 1926 run from Berryville to Roanoke and beyond with Pullman sleepers to Bristol Gary Hagerstown and Philadelphia dining and parlor car services. Connections at Shenandoah Junction Was and Hagerstown with checks and reservations through agent contacts.
Washington report says Helen H. Gardener, former Civil Service Commissioner, willed her brain to Cornell for study but Dr. Sullivan declined removal and the body was cremated. She advocated women’s equality in civil duties and authored a book. Funeral lacked religious services per will.
Mr. Joseph Shirkey and his wife with their three children stay with Mrs. William Ramsey, sister of Mr. Shirkey, in New Jersey as guests.
An old remedy of buttermilk and cream is revived as a facial treatment. A new concentrate, Howard's Buttermilk Cream, is sold by Baker's Drug Store and other druggists with a money back guarantee. The product is massaged around the eyes and mouth to reduce wrinkles and pallor.
Mr H R Davidson of Cumberland formerly of this city is a visitor in town. He is seen meeting local residents and touring landmarks during his stay.
A high speed crash on Martinsburg Pike left two cars smashed beyond use. Fred Scott and Ollie Clark, both unidentified in age, were involved near four miles from town. Scott says Clark lay across the road, forcing him to slow, but both escaped injury. Sheriff Pannett investigated.
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