30 Aug 1917
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
1
The committee, unable to reach an agreement, votes to pass the matter up to President Wilson for final decision. The move highlights continued stalemate and the need for executive resolution.
City Hall flag, raised after war declaration, now tatters from continuous exposure. Pole construction prevents night removal of the national emblem, leaving a faded remnant visible above the town clock.
The wheat price committee, in its third day of talks, plans to present recommendations to President Wilson. Producers and consumers may issue separate statements, risking two prices and a possible broader inquiry led by the President. If unresolved the matter could require appointing new commissioners to investigate.
Advertisement offers employment at a new cold storage plant with pay at 1.75 dollars per day for ten hours daily, nine hours paid on Saturdays, and a 0.25 dollar daily bonus if workers stay until Monday, September 24. Board and lodging cost 0.50 dollar daily. Apply to Foreman on grounds.
A high power electric wire broke near South Market and Water streets around 9 p.m. and spluttered as rain-soaked ground charged the sidewalk. Policeman Massie kept pedestrians away until the current could be shut off as street lamps went dark for hours amid an electric storm. Moonlight partly aided visibility.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company began laying track to a new cold storage plant. The line will be finished in time to handle a large apple shipment.
One hundred fifty two cadets were graduated from the United States Military Academy early due to officer demand. The class would have finished next June but were sent into the field ten months ahead of schedule.
The Berryville Turnpike Company closes a contract with Reed Construction Company to build solid concrete bridges over Osborne's run Dog run Carlisle's run and the mill race at Weed's mill. The bridges will be twenty feet wide with concrete railings.
For sale at Bargain Buick iM 25 light six and sedan top by Hicks Motor Co. Reward offered for tortoise shell spectacles in case left between doctors H H and Wm P McGuire’s office. Star office offers reward. 30-16-21.
In Scranton Pennsylvania Joseph M Stephenson secretary of the Agriculture Preparedness League reports success with a tomato potato graft on one plant. Five tomato and five potato plants were grown together and produced 30 large tomatoes and a cluster of potatoes on a single plant. He plans to offer plants for sale next season to try double crops on the same ground.
Washington August 20 the biggest game of chance in dollars and cents began in the United States Senate. Stakes run from 3 to 4 billion dollars as war profiteers face the American people over the revenue bill. Supporters seek to take one billion of the profits, while opponents push to take most of it to ease war financing for the poor. A near high outcome is expected with a gag rule suspended against opposition led by La Follette and Johnson.
Job notice seeking carpenters for light work. listing shows age 42 and pay 90 cents per hour for 9 hours. contact J. P. Reardon for details.
More than 25 000 khaki clad New Yorkers marched from Fifth Avenue to the trenches in France as a vast military review unfolded. Governor Whitman and Mayor Mitchell led the procession while Wall Street closed for the holiday and thousands watched mothers sisters wives and sweethearts bid farewell.
Harrisonburg residents, health officials and doctors failed to cooperate in stamping out infantile paralysis. State health commissioner Ennion G Williams spurred action after delay. town council allocated $1000 to enforce sanitary laws amid heated opposition from outspoken locals.
Secretary of War Baker states the President will not decide which industries are essential for military needs during the emergency. Provost Marshal General Crowder is told that, aside from retaining administrators or mechanical specialists, the current draft should not materially affect labor supply in nationally considered industries.
Wanted a car of dairy cows either fresh close or springers. Both phones listed. Contact L. C. Hoffman in Bunker Hill West Virginia for arrangements.
Petrograd reports the Russian government, meeting in Moscow, has decided to restore the death penalty in the army immediately. Premier Kerensky and advisers act on General Korniloff on the grounds that strict front discipline requires it, after abolition following the czar’s overthrow.
A notice calls all drafted men to a drill at Frederick Plaza tonight at 8 oclock sharp. Participation lasts one hour and punctuality is requested.
A marriage license was issued in Hagerstown yesterday to Cecil H. Loy and Miss Lola F. Pingley both of Winchester.
Henry Catlett alias Wartose Catlett, serving hard labor in Warren county, escaped from a labor gang yesterday while guards were distracted. Sent from Winchester by Justice Fultz on July 9 for beating his wife, Catlett had 90 days. he returned briefly to Winchester, collected clothing, then fled town. Police were alerted to the escape.
Seven men were killed and several injured when a farm wagon carrying fourteen people was struck by a locomotive at Short Lane on the Gvent Railroad near Aberdeen Maryland. The victims, corn pullers from Baltimore, included Thomas Rightson Lee Cassidy William Shaffer Frank Lannig and three unidentified men with bodies so mutilated they were hard to identify.
George A Kerr, longtime Lynchburg chemist, arrived in Winchester for a brief visit with relatives. Yesterday he left with Mrs Kerr for New York to sail to Paraguay for an extended business trip, to supervise the erection of an extract works and meat packing houses as an Inter... representative.
Public sale of personal property at the residence of Mrs Annie E Cooper one mile north of Mountain Falls on Wednesday September 6 1917. Lot includes cattle cows horses farming implements and household and kitchen furniture. See sale bills.
The city manager A M Field announces a major street project in Winchester to tar and surface all principal roadways. Preparatory repairs precede tar coating and stone topping, aiming for dustless smooth thoroughfares within about a year.
Charles E. Haymaker, a prominent Armel citizen, died this afternoon at age 79 from paralysis after a long illness. The funeral will be held from Macedonia church at eleven o clock Saturday, with burial in the churchyard graveyard adjoining the church.
Ramsburg Auto Supply Co offers a new seven passenger Studebaker car for hire with phone contact 225 and listing ip 2t.
Mrs Williams greatly improved and steadily recovering after appendicitis surgery at Memorial Hospital. She has returned home on Amherst Street, moved from hospital several days ago. Also noted, 30 head Black Poll Angus cattle to be sold at Marker's sale in Opequon Virginia on September 3.
The Wat Relief Society acknowledges a five dollar contribution from Mr. John M. Steek of Winchester. Miss Hilda Dean has returned from a trip to Atlantic City and visits with friends in Pennsylvania.
At public auction doors window door frames and second hand lamber will be sold at J Mack Noonan s Livery yard at 1 o clock Saturday Sept 1 1947 Coleman Dunn Auctioneer 30 1p 2t
British ships losses rise but U S Admiral Sims reports American destroyers proving most effective anti submarine craft. Navy plans force draft to build more destroyers for next spring amid winter conditions.
Enlisted men of the National Army National Guard and Regular Army will be given opportunities to fit themselves for commissions. Government policy after the second training camps calls for no more officers from civil life. An officers school will be established for each divisional training camp. Men from the ranks with special qualifications will be sent to these schools.
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