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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1920
Page
2
Divisional engineer W H Davis and others discuss improving the Winchester Martinsburg turnpike with asphalt mixture. References to St Clair Keyser, general highway plans, and a 1920s era project context appear in fragmented notes.
An oath by Frank J. Cheney of F J Cheney & Co appears in Toledo Ohio listing Hall's Catarrh Medicine. The document notes the medicine to be taken internally and claims systemic blood action. Notary public A W Gleason attests December 6. Ball's for constipation is mentioned.
Over ten thousand people attended two performances of the Hagen Beck Wallace Circus in this city yesterday. No arrests or accidents occurred amid delightful weather as the crowd, including families, enjoyed the show before the troupe left at midnight for Harrisonburg Virginia for two performances today.
Miss Mabel Haynes urges readers to heed a USDA article warning against preserving powders and canning compounds sold with fancy names. The department says boric and salicylic acids are dangerous and that safe preserving is achieved through heat processing without additives.
Middletown Va August 5 multiple short notices list residents and relatives visiting family in nearby towns. Annie Henretty and daughter Virginia visit Irvin Hottle in Pittsburgh. Clara Booth visits sister May Booth. many others visit relatives and attend normal courses in Harrisonburg Charlottesville Leesburg Culpeper and Washington with familiar surnames such as Rhodes Guthridge Larrick Reely Hammack and Wright.
Shenandoah County will host a tractor demonstration inviting farmers from the upper valley to view modern tractors in operation. The event will feature morning demonstrations, side by side plots, on site lunch, and judges to enforce rules with plowing, disk harrow, and cultipacker sequences. The location is four miles north of Mount Jackson on the middle road with signs from Shenandoah Valley pike.
Local notes list visitors and guests in Kernstown and nearby towns. Entries mention Bessie Lichliter and Lucille in Ashland Kentucky, Elizabeth Chapman in Hagerstown Maryland, Viola Cooper in Winchester, and Kate Barrick in Washington. Families share travel and hosting updates.
In Relief Va on August 5 Miss Pauline Cornwell returns to Baltimore after visiting parents. Mrs Daniels and children of New York visit Mr and Mrs Ginn. Methodist Sunday school yard party planned for August 21. Misses Mary and Mildred Massie return from Washington. Mayor meetings held at United Brethren Church each Wednesday night. Lester Braine of Washington visits family. Harry Hicks returns from Connecticut. Miler Crater and family recovering from illness. Mr and Mrs Benjamin Massie and daughters Genevieve and Emily motor to Warren. Walker and Butts join Mr B J Hicks and family for weekend.
Berryville notes list regional visitors guests at local homes including Eustace Williams and son from Louisville Virginia staying with the Smiths at the Knoll. Richmond guest Edward McGuire and Mrs. McGuire visit Misses McGuire. Norfolk’s Stribling family hosted by Mrs. E M Stribling. Mary Clowser visits from Washington. Frances Wolfe returns from Richmond. Conrad Kownslar returns from Craig Healing Springs. Portia Baldwin visits nearby Norfolk.
Jesse Williams, colored, of Winchester has been arrested in Staunton, Va., on two charges of robbery alleged to have been committed by him in Shenandoah county, Va. on last Friday night the store of James Bageley, at Strasburg Junction was entered and $75. worth of goods were stolen. On Saturday night the store of Frank Line, at Maurertown was broken into and several watches and some money were taken. Williams had been seen loitering around both places prior to the robberies and acting in such a suspicious manner as to attract attention to himself. He was traced to Harrisonburg, thence by way of the Valley bus to Staunton where he was arrested. Later he was brought to the Woodstock jail.
Robert Millison of Winchester attends funeral in Three Churches West Virginia for his brother Charles who hanged himself at a Springfield area gate post last Friday night. Millison suffered nervous strain. he was 44 and survived by two brothers and two sisters.
A child of Floyd Osborn in Duncannan Virginia suffered bowel trouble until Notary Public Chamberlain recommended Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The remedy quickly cured the child and Osborn called it the best he ever used.
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