Evening Star entering at Winchester Post Office
The Evening Star is entered at the Post Office in Winchester Virginia, with 2nd class mail matter designation indicating its mailing category.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1917
Page
4
The Evening Star is entered at the Post Office in Winchester Virginia, with 2nd class mail matter designation indicating its mailing category.
A Walt Mason poem dated Friday August 17 celebrates a day of hard work and earned rest. The speaker mocks idle wealth and praises honest toil, imagining smoke wreaths rising as evening settles and peace fills the heart after a productive day.
Community notes from Deerfield Virginia dated August 17 report visits by John Snapp and family Co W Snapp and Frank Beutelle of Ohio to Mrs Sarah Snapp. Social calls include Joseph Richard at sister Lee Pannett and others at C C Bauserman and N E Daugherty homes. Mr J W Miller left for Hannibal Missouri to spend several months with relatives.
Hill from Massachusetts arrived to visit friends. Rev C R Sine of Hamilton Ohio visits his brother Prof B F Sine. The Rev Mr Sine has just closed a successful evangelistic meeting at Capon Bridge. Miss Nettie Franks of Baltimore visits relatives and friends here.
Residents from Cross Roads Virginia and nearby regions visited Ca pon Bridge and Sandy Ridge and stayed with families including the Kelle and Keller households. Attendees included G J Lochstampfor George Canoles and family from Maryland, L B Barrett Ernest Barrett J B White and others.
Refuge Virginia reports social visits across Stephens City and nearby towns. Friends and relatives visit patients many are recovering from illness. church services are announced for Fairview M T Church.
TRONE Va August 17 There will be preaching at Bethel Church on Sunday morning August 9 at its o'clock also quarterly meeting will be held at the same place By Saturday and Sunday following August 25 and 26 fare Messrs E Russell Hook and Harry
An advertisement proclaims S S S as a purely vegetable blood remedy to purge scrofula. It denounces mercury and mineral mixtures and claims fifty years of use with satisfactory results. It invites readers to obtain the product from drugstores and offers medical advice from Swift Specific Co. Dept. F Atlanta Ga.
A vintage advertisement extols the benefits of "Moth ra" and "Mother's Friend" for pregnancy. It claims to ease morning sickness, soothe breast inflammation, and help muscle expansion for easier birth. It promotes a free book from Bradfield Regulator Co and mentions pharmacies supplying the product.
In Carpers Valley va on August 17 Mr Russell Carper and family from Fredericksburg are visiting relatives in Winchester and Frederick County. Mr and Mrs Harvey Carper of Winchester spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Earl Carper. Miss Mildred Kelchner of Washington visits her parents near Carpers Valley. Mr and Mrs Robert Ostell Vaucluse stayed several days at the home of their daughter Miss Isaac Carper near Winchester. Miss Agnes Baecher travels to Hagerstown Md for weeks with relatives. Miss Hilda Harmer visited Miss Lucy Carper.
There will be preaching at Relief Macedonia and Carpers Valley on Sunday August 19. Relief at 11 a.m., Macedonia at 3 p.m., Carpers Valley at 8 p.m. E. W. Brubaker, Pastor. Mrs. E. J. Bunce and children depart today for Calumet Iowa to visit and then Colorado for several months.
Special commissioner to sell a lot with two small houses in southwestern Winchester Virginia fronting on West Fayette Street. Sale set for September 1 1917 at 2 PM at the county courthouse. one third cash with balance in two annual payments secured by a deed of trust and insurance policy. Decree from Milton A. Conner et al vs Mary B. Foltz et al in Frederick County Circuit Court.
Public sale of the Anderson estate realty in Frederick County near Gore Post Office. The 214 acre tract sells at the Winchester County Court House on September 8, 1917 at 11 o clock a m under terms including installment payments and a trust bond with insurance on improvements. Robert M Ward special commissioner conducts the sale per decree entered in Preston L Anderson heirs suit.
There will be no Sunday school at Little Mountains on Sunday until further notice by request of the Board of Health.
A letter from Mrs. Allia B. Timmons of Poplar Bluff Missouri praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for restoring fertility and helping her become a mother. The ad urges other women to write for confidential guidance from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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