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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1917
Page
4
An executive committee of the Frederick County Sunday School Association formed a committee to organize a county wide drive for better Sunday schools. The August 23 and 24 campaign will send teams of three speakers to ten centers with two meetings per site.
Detroit News recalls Harry Lauder at his son’s grave on the Bapaume road. He pauses among weary soldiers, weeps, and vows to sing to the living that afternoon, while crosses bearing Soldier mark the dead and a mother’s hope keeps courage alive.
Fragmentary verse from a frontier scene where a conversation unfolds about war and courage. A lone seer laments the mask of merriment among climbers and shepherds, asking if hearts and purpose have vanished in pursuit of pleasure and spectacle.
Mr Kimmel died at age 63, burial in Green Hill Cemetery. He was born near Winchester and lived in Martinsburg 40 years. Survived by widow Annie Scarlett, two children Nell Miller and W W Kimmel, three brothers George John Blake, and one sister Mary Striker. A steer incident at Brunswick last year left him badly injured. Mrs Joseph E Stegner returned to Newark after visiting relatives. Mr Harry Lantz returned to Frederick after a stay here. Carl Kneeling departed for Baltimore on business.
Mr William Jobe of Brucetown Frederick County has been named an inspector of textiles in the quartermaster department of the United States Army and will report to Jeffersonville Indiana to begin duties. His family will remain in Brucetown for now. He is a son of the late William Tobe who ran the Tobe mill at Brucetown for many years and is active in local affairs and public life. His departure is noted with high regard from the community.
Winchester reports the death of Carrie Pinkney colored aged family ties to local history. Funeral at 10 am tomorrow from St Paul AME with Rev J Oliver Wing officiating and burial in Orrick Cemetery. She was born in Winchester and was sister to the late Chris Garrison. Passed husband Rev Dr W D Smith currently away to Washington. Church meeting planned at Paxton Chapel on Thursday night August 28 urged for full turnout. E W Brubaker pastor.
Master Commissioner J. Horace Lacy Jr will convene creditors of W R Brown deceased and report assets liens and fair attorney fees. A distribution scheme will be prepared and notices run weekly in Winchester newspapers before August 10 1917. All parties and lien creditors must appear at his Winchester office to proceed with the reference order. Ward and Larrick pa.
Despondency and recurring female suffering are linked to derangements of feminine organs. Lydia B. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is praised as a remedy said to restore health and happiness to many women. Do not wait for worsening symptoms.
A marriage license was issued in the county clerk’s office to Robert Clayton and Washington and Mary Belle Washington, both colored, from the Middletown area of the county.
Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr formerly of the Rhode Island Naval Militia and Mrs Byrd spent the weekend in town with relatives and friends and have now returned to Washington where Commander Byrd is stationed.
Brucetown Virginia Aug 21 Miss Edna Williams age eighteen daughter of Mr and Mrs James Williams formerly of Brucetown but now of Martinsburg West Virginia died suddenly Saturday morning at City Hospital Martinsburg of acute diabetes. She was born and raised in Brucetown attended local school and was well liked by friends. Funeral services were held yesterday morning and she was interred at Mount Hebron Cemetery Winchester.
Appeals to Winchester readers to donate tobacco for soldiers in France with contributions to Miss Augusta F. Conrad and the Commercial and Savings Bank. Includes a Virginia court notice about selling a house on West Hart Street in Winchester to distribute proceeds to the heirs of William Robinson, with non resident defendants ordered to appear.
The dispute between Secretary Daniels and the Navy League over war policy will not stop women nationwide from knitting for sailors. Winchester's Comforts Committee plans to continue sending finished garments directly to ships, despite the national disagreement. Members and friends will press on with the patriotic work, ignoring the dispute.
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