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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1923
Page
4
The Evening Star operates from Winchester Virginia with circulation through Win Brigeter and consolidations with Morning News The Weekly News and The Weekly Mirror. The paper carries Associated Press dispatches crediting AP for republication locally.
The notice lists subscription rates for different terms in advance including one year three six and monthly options. It also shows a publication date of Thursday August 16 1923 and mentions a weekly issue.
Democratic primary results indicate strong anti bond sentiment in the Petersburg region with Senator O Conor Godrick losing to an anti-bond opponent by about 400 votes. Across districts bond supporters are defeated while anti bond arguments gain force before November highway referendum.
In the Democratic primary State Senator Goolrick of Fredericksburg lost to W Worth Smith amid a battle over highway financing. Smith campaigned for pay as you go while Goolrick backed fifty million in state bonds. The result surprised some but aligned with the paper s economic focus in the district.
Danville Register argues the Fredericksburg senatorial primary reflects local sentiment on pay-as-you-go road financing. It contends Godrick’s road advocacy influenced the nomination and warns against nullifying the primary or disenfranchising voters who supported the chosen candidate.
A verse vignette in which a bus rider laments long winded fellow passengers who fill the ride with endless chatter. The poem contrasts quiet rural travel with crowded conversations and mocks noisy talkers, noting the urge for silence during journeys.
Grimes Virginia reports a well attended county election with nominees winning strong majorities. Death of President Harding noted as a sad shock. Local updates include road work, plans for the Winchester Fair, a fall incident injuring Mrs. Constance Clevenger, heavy rain washing roads, visiting relatives of Octavia and Selma Hensel, and early Alberta peach picking beginning in the area.
Virginia and Pauline Hoffman and Lucile Hardesty attended picnics and gatherings with Richard Baldwin of Greenwood. The Burnt Factory 8 8S picnic is planned for Sept 6 as a community event inviting nearby schools and baskets. Moderate rainfall and saturated earth noted.
Members of the Lexington wholesale fruit firm Hurst and Company arrived with trucks and equipment to gather peaches and summer apples in Berkeley County. They are operating near Forest Glen in Wadesville, assisting owner J. M. Fishpaw, a large fruit grower and local social friend of the firm.
Chambersville Va August notes report visitors from Winchester Washington and Gainesboro. Local families host dinners and guests include Mr and Mrs Patterson Mr John Larrick Jr recovers from illness and Mrs J B Lupton faces illness. Memorial Hospital patient Thelman Whitacre shows progress. Kipps and Bayliss family ties noted. Protracted meeting ends with sixteen joining church. Ottie Windle visits Rosenberger family.
The excerpt shows wholesale and retail prices for farm goods and groceries. Items include butter, flour, hay baled straw, mixed feeds, corn meal, shells, and spring chickens with varying weights and packaging, plus standard measures like sacks and barrels and regional price ranges.
Washington moves to submit the two related mixed claims conventions to President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes for approval. The talks aim to guarantee American rights in Mexico and may also go to the American and Mexican senates. Delegates push for immediate just cash payments or restitutions for lands illegally taken and to remove squatters, with expropriation excesses highlighted.
Washington August 16 A quarantine on all fruits and vegetables imported into the United States except from Canada will take effect November 1 The measure aims to keep fruit and melon flies out of the country It allows limited shipments under federal horticultural board permits The action follows months of hearings and consideration to protect American crops from insect pests Insect concerns cited include pests in parts of the world not yet present in the United States No loans or prohibitions on imports from Canada are mentioned
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