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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1915
Page
1
Seats are selling quickly for tomorrow night’s Empire theater fundraiser for the District Nurse Association. Lower floor 50 cents, gallery 26 cents. Box office opens at 2 this afternoon and closes when show begins at 1 30.
The Board of Review will review a real estate in Winchester in the council chamber at 8 oclock Monday evening August 30. All persons aggrieved should appear before the meeting at that time. By order of a Board of Review. J. B. Beverley, Clerk.
J L Moore formerly of this county now farming near Saskatchewan Dominion of Canada visited The Star office Saturday evening and brought samples of Canadian wheat. Red Fife stood over five feet tall before cutting Marquis wheat over four feet tall. Can wheat was head heavy and light yellow. Moore is visiting relatives and friends this section. On Saturday Sept 4 at 11 am a farm known as Stony Meade near Opequon Va is advertised for sale.
Aug 30 to Sept 4 events include Grangers Picnic at Wilce Grove with special train connections from regular routes. The excursion to Winchester departs Grove at 6 22 pm with return tickets valid through Sept 4. Tickets on sale all week at reduced rates. Extraneous text notes lost item and a marriage announcement correction from The Star Lelew West Virginia.
Troop M of the Fifth United States Cavalry under Lieutenant John Millikin arrived from Lacey Springs and camped at the Winchester fair grounds. They rode to Leesburg for the heavy draft horse show and will return by Friday or Saturday. Daily drills and cavalry riding will headline the forthcoming Winchester fair starting Tuesday September 7 lasting five days with night exhibitions and fireworks.
The body of B Brooke Kern, son of Mr and Mrs Bentley Kern of this city, died in Ellensburg Washington, arrives tonight via Cumberland Valley Railroad. Funeral tomorrow at 11 at the Kern home with burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery. Ministers Rev A J Gill and Rev H G Spencer will officiate.
The White House dismisses rumors of a split between President Wilson and Colonel House as nonsense. Secretary Tumulty says relations remain friendly and cordial. Rumors concern their stance on recognizing Carranza. Colonel House declined to comment on the report.
The event scheduled for Gore on Saturday August 28 was postponed to Thursday September 2 at the same place. Members of the Charley Rouse tre Company are asked to meet Tuesday at 10 30 a m to attend the funeral of the late B. B. Ern MO H Seal president.
The District Nurse Association will convene in the Council Chamber on Wednesday at 4 p m. All members must attend. This is an important gathering as officers will be elected.
A special exam at session start gives pupils who failed at most two June subjects another promotion chance. Those failing more than two must repeat. Non residents face strict rules. tuition due in advance. Primary north of Piccadilly go Miller building, south to John Kerr. Yard party September 3–4. Harris run. Entertainment for all.
Paris reports German trenches blown by French artillery and mines, while Berlin closes in on Grodno and captures Lipsk. Russia forms a coalition cabinet in Moscow as British ship Sir William Stevenson is torpedoed.
The Strasburg News backs H. F. Byrd for State Senate and advocates a radical revision of Virginia road law. It praises Byrd’s experience with the Valley Turnpike, supports flexible county road choices, a maintenance fund, and local control of funds to improve road building and upkeep. The editorial argues good roads affect farmers and auto owners, and predicts Byrd will aid in solving the state’s road issue.
The notice directs cash premiums to be paid by check at the Treasurer’s window after 3 PM Saturday Sept 11 to exhibitors on the Fair Grounds unless delays occur. It lists corrections to the Premium List including Best crochet table mats premium and Colt under 1 year prizes, and removes a clause about horses in class 79. Signed Daniel W Lupton. Also rental ad for a Fiat from Miller & Anderson.
Postponement announced for the Kernstown yard party at Metz's lawn. The gathering now scheduled for September 4 with updated timing and location details provided.
News comes of the marriage Sunday afternoon at the home of Mrs Haskins Morgan 222 North Gilmore Street Baltimore Maryland of Miss Jennie Taylor to Harry Woodward of Winchester. Woodward proprietor of a West Water Street barber shop and a Frederick native now settled in Winchester the couple plan to reside there after Atlantic City and other Jersey resorts.
Mr. HF Byrd editor of The Star and State Senate nominee writes to J S Haldeman Winchester Va that The Star’s columns are open to him under the same newsworthy conditions. He says the newspaper will publish campaign happenings justified as news. Also a local notice offers reward for a lost cameo pin set in gold wreath between West Water Main street and postoffice.
A R Heltzel prominent business man and landowner in Wardensville West Virginia died at 346 PM Sunday at his home after returning from a Baltimore surgery and a subsequent decline. A retirement from public life followed as he had been ill since last Friday. The Star notes his stature in the community and his recent health issues. The notice also includes an employment advertisement seeking a high grade provisions seller for a Winchester wholesale house with surety bond.
At 3018 Market Street a public auction will be held Wednesday September 1 1915. Items include parlor suite double heater bed room suite fall leaf table antique bedding mattresses and dishes. Auctioneer details not provided.
Roanoke, Virginia man Tayloe Rogers, about 40, a railroad contractor, was seriously injured in a Nashville area auto crash Saturday night. He sustained brain injury and multiple broken ribs. His sister Rosa Rogers often visits Roanoke residents. His wife’s family is en route to Nashville.
A rail excursion run by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad drew a good crowd despite heavy overnight rain. At Winchester station 116 tickets were sold for Washington and 85 for Baltimore, totaling 334 passengers aboard when the train reached Pier Ferry. The return trip proceeded smoothly last night toward Strasburg Junction.
A large portion of the brick pavement between the courthouse and the county building is torn up by order of the Board of Supervisors. A new brick pavement is being laid by Mr. Strother, a Winchester bricklayer and stonemason. The supervisors preferred brick to concrete used on the northern side previously. Mr. Shull is laying a sidewalk but was delayed by rain Saturday night and Sunday morning.
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