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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1917
Page
4
Rates shown for one year, six months, three months, and one month in advance. The Evening Star is entered at the Winchester Virginia post office as second class mail matter.
The New York World argues the U S must spell out concrete aims for German terms to end the war. It states a credible peace requires a democratic Germany answerable to its people, with clear conditions for safety and governance. The piece urges bluntly defined goals to avoid misreading America’s wartime aims.
The discussion argues that only the President can clearly define the Democrats’ war aims and end. It stresses the necessity of removing speculation to provide definite direction for the administration’s public stance.
A neighbor named Noah Count, bedridden by rheumatics, laments the world and blames government. The piece argues work as the cure for sorrow, praising labor over complaint and idleness.
A Confederate youth, guided by his mother's Bible, survives a Union raid that captures generals Crook and Kelley. A Federal cavalryman fires, but the Bible protects his heart. Later he escorts the captive generals to Richmond and earns polite thanks from one exchanged general who visits his mother in Baltimore.
A note from Charles A. Ford of Front Royal Va reports the Shenandoah Baptist Association meeting is canceled this year due to infantile paralysis in the region. The Browntown church decision followed last Sunday. The event was planned for August 29 to 31.
The government plans to equip no new forces for a period while existing units use available uniforms rifles. Amish conscientious objectors are assured exemption but may be drafted to work behind lines without carrying arms. Paris hosts an extensive compressed air network powering shops cooling rooms and some elevators. Capt. and Mrs. Gray depart for Washington Atlantic City then Newport News to visit son Garlin Gray.
Messages from Winchester say the Second Virginia Infantry now in Roanoke plans a ten day hike to the Tennessee line near Bristol before entraining to the training camp at Anniston Alabama. Packs weigh about sixty pounds and men expect to cover around fifteen miles daily. Bristol lies 135 miles southwest of Roanoke. Also noted: Mrs Henry H Little of Norfolk left yesterday for Baltimore.
In Barryville Virginia on August 23 Lieut. Philip H Powers Jr of the Signal Corps earned his first lieutenant commission before boot camp and is stationed at Little Silver. Capt John Winn formerly Berryville, now Boston, earned a Coast Artillery captaincy through Fortress Monroe training and is visiting old friends. Miss Suella Moore of Alexandria visits cousin Mrs Elizabeth Horsey.
In the court of Frederick County Virginia the W R Browns Administrator suit against Elizabeth Brown et al. is ordered to a Master Commissioner. He will convene creditors, report assets and liens, assess attorney fees, draft a distribution scheme, and report other pertinent matters. Notice by weekly newspaper ad. May 10 August 1917. J Horace Lacy Jr Master Commissioner. Ward Larrick PA.
A Manitoba nurse discovers three emaciated children in a remote shack near Whitemouth. The four to six year olds, left parentless after a father's drowning and a mother's death, were brought to Winnipeg and placed with the Salvation Army after rescue.
Burlington Kan two weeks of blindness ended for Mrs McCullough after giving birth to twins. A few hours after the birth she awoke from sleep and began to see faint light. Since then her sight has gradually returned.
Raymond Capone aged twelve hanged himself at home in Eden New Jersey rather than obey his stepfather's demand to wash dishes for his mother. The death is ruled a self inflicted act and is being investigated.
A vintage ad promises a hundred dollar reward for catarrh cure and touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a blood cleanse that heals mucous surfaces. It asserts rapid health improvement after use and offers testimonials free, listing F. J. Cheney & Son of Ohio as sellers via druggists nationwide.
Public sale of two hundred fourteen acres in western Frederick County Virginia near Gore Post Office. In Preston L. Anderson heirs case the sale will occur at Winchester on September 8, 1917 at 11 a.m. Terms: one third cash, balance in two equal installments with bonds and deed of trust, insured buildings, special commissioner Robert M Ward. Deputy clerk J W.
The Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company in Winchester Virginia announces its annual stockholders meeting on Friday September 7 1917 at 12 15 p m at the counsel office to elect a president and board of directors and conduct other business. C W Woolford secretary.
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