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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1920
Page
3
Reader advertisement promotes Swift Specifics Atlanta Gas tonics for cleansing the system and boosting appetite and vitality. Claims include removing impurities and balancing the body with a general housecleaning tonic. Contact Swift Specific Co for more information.
A brief classified notice seeking a position or contract work. The fragment mentions blue ridge mountains and a gentleman's country estate with fifty acres orchard. It requests excellent references and willingness to accept responsibility. It notes an expiration date December 1 and directs applications to Opportunity care The Star.
Fragmentary note references a Swift 5 event involving a person named Nia and a father figure near a pool bin. Details are unclear due to damaged text.
Fractures a little finger and its treatment by Dr Smith described during a local logging incident. Family visits from Winchester and Washington referenced. Evangelistic meeting at Ridgeway delays Little Main preaching until September 12. Mrs David Smith continues bedridden. Mrs Carrie Bennett suffers an hand abscess.
Elizabeth Barrick has gone to Washington to work for the government. Friends in Kernstown host visitors from Hagerstown and Winchester including the Metz, Keyser, Lichliter, and Robertson families. Several ladies and gentlemen are mentioned visiting relatives and attending local church events as the community participates in the canning club.
Dr. William Ebert of Lutherville Md spends weeks with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Martin Ebert in Stephenson. Mrs. Flor Russell returns home to Boyce Va after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cline. The Cline and McCann households were called on by Trip Hardesty near Summit Point last Sunday. Many attended the Winchester firemen’s convention. We Allen visit Hampton Va. Edin and Lena Runion from near Martinsburg WV visit James Finnigan. Fred Hardesty returns to Akron OH after visiting his mother Bettie Hardesty. Mrs. Horace Jacobs and Dorothy Jacobs of Baltimore visit Irvin Zinn’s sister Mie. Mable Cline spends days with Baltimore friends.
The Clean Easy Naptha soap promises simple economical washing. Ten minutes boiling in four and a half gallons of water with a half bar sterilizes and cleans coarse garments without rubbing or scrubbing.
Miss Allen plans to marry Milba ton Jr of Red Bank near Mount Jackson on Wednesday evening. Only family members attend the ceremony followed by a reception with hundreds of guests. Walton and Walton of Woodstock represent the groom's family.
In Rileyville Page county a confrontation erupted when Detective Overstreet tried to arrest Robert Jackson near his Blue Ridge area home. The struggle halted town business as hundreds watched. the detective fired, wounding the restrained man in the leg amid fears of a concealed weapon.
Mr. and Mrs. Garfield Sharer and Mr. and Mrs. 8. D. Manning with a young son spent the weekend with Mrs. Sharer and Mrs. Manning’s parents Mr. and Mrs. D. Finfrock in Clearbrook, Virginia. The gathering included relatives from Philadelphia, Shenandoah, Winchester, Savannah, Cleveland, Winehastery, and Bunker Hill as they plan future moves to Elizabeth town.
Mr and Mrs R D Scott of Claysville Pa visit at the home of Mr and Mrs Mary Cookus on Amhearat street. Mr Scott’s father was a Union soldier who spent time in the Valley during the Civil War. The Scotts plan to visit Dupay and other Valley points.
In order to make room for stock 500 pure bred hens from the Bairon strain are offered for sale. Location is Berryville Virginia at Milton Valley Farm. Telephone listed as 235. 18-2.
The Wa ter Virginia court names J Russell Cather as Master Commissioner to handle the estate of Emma Kohthousen. He will identify creditors heirs and arrange fund distribution reporting fees and issues. A publication notice will appear weekly in The Winchester Star for four weeks. Claims due by August 26 in Chester VA.
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