Conservation In Cold Storage Urges Food Preservation
The American Society of Refrigerating Engineers passes a resolution urging conserving the greatest quantity of food for winter use and asks cold storage warehousemen to accept small quantities from farmers and gardeners. Charles F. Nesbit named to lead action on food conservation.
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Washington
American Society of Refrigerating Engineers
Board of Trade
Charles F. Nesbit
Committee On Food Conservation
Local Convict Believed to Flee to Morgan County W Va
The report notes a local convict who has disappeared presumed to have returned to his former home in Morgan County West Virginia. He previously faced multiple court appearances and jail terms and is described as a nuisance burdening the community during winter.
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Morgan County
Wva
Winchester Plans Tarvia Roadway Upgrades This Fall
The city will lay about 70 000 gallons of Tarvia on streets including Kent Market Main Braddock Washington Stewart Peyton Amherst Gerard Cork Fairmont National Valley and Millwood road to the railroad crossing. Additional treatments may follow next year to maintain quality as the city aims to make every roadway among the best in the country. Costs were saved by pre purchasing tar and crushing stone locally at the city quarry.
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America
Kent
Market
Main
Braddock
Washington
Stewart
Peyton
Amherst
Gerard
Cork
Fairmont
National and Valley Avenues
Millwood Road
Winchester
Germans Pound British Positions Near Nieuport
Rainy weather slows west Flanders operations as German forces shell British positions around Nieuport on the North Sea coast during the night. The clash marks a heavy bombardment in the dune country near Nieuport.
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the. Star
London
West Flanders
Nieuport
Niewport
North Sea
Captain Moore and Miss Eyster Wed in New York
Captain Charles Moore of the Twentieth Third Infantry and Miss Eleanor Eyster of Charles Town W V were married quietly in New York on Monday evening. The groom is a Virginia Military Institute graduate and hails from Berryville Virginia. He is stationed at Syracuse New York.
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New York
Eleanor Eyster
Charles Town
W. Va
Charles Moore
United States Army
A. Moore
Moore
Virginia Military Institute
Real Y Tiang
Virginia
Twenty-third Infantry
Syracuse
N. Y
General Julian H. Whiting Dies in Mobile at 76
Messages from Mobile announce the sudden death of Gen Julian H. Whiting aged 76 a noted Alabama banker. He served in the Confederate artillery and fired the first shot at Farragut’s fleet near Fort Morgan Alabama. He led the Alabama Bankers Association and was connected to prominent Virginia families including Judge Frank B Whiting of Berryville.
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Mobile
Ala
Julian H. Whiting
Alabama
Virginia
Frank B. Whiting
Berry
General Whiting
Hampton
Farragut
Fort Morgan
Alabama Bankers’ Association
Miss. Lawton
General Lawton
United States Army
James Barron Hope
Norfolk
Mattie H. Chrisman
Jacob Heffelfinger
Hamp
Bishop Browns Son To Wed Miss Meek
Miss Mary Cablese Meek daughter of Mr and Mrs Samuel William Meek of New York City becomes engaged to Lieut John Dorsey Brown United States Reserves son of Rt Rev William Cabell Brown bishop coadjutor of Virginia and Mrs Brown formerly of Richmond, connected with Richmond Trust before military service.
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Winchester
Mary Cablese Meek
Samuel William Meek
Richmond
New York City
John Dorsey Brown
United States Reserves
Brown
William Cabell Brown
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Virginia
Richmond Trust and Savings Company
Middletown High School Opens September 17
Middletown Virginia August 30 The high school department of the Middletown Agricultural High School will open September 17 instead of September 3. The date change came on the advice of the County Board of Health. Announcement made by Prof R R Tolbert principal.
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Middletown
Theigh School
Midletown, Agricultural High School
County Board of Health
R. R. Tolbert
Winchester Circuit Preaching at Several Places on Sunday
The Winchester Circuit lists sermons on Sunday September 2 at Carpers Valley 11 a m Macedonia 3 30 p m and Relief 8 p m with a quarterly conference for official members at the parsonage Tuesday September 4 at 2 30 p m Pastor E W Brubaker stresses the importance of every appointment being represented.
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Carpers Valley
Macedonia
Relief
Wickliffe News Notes Highlight Local Social Visits
Miss Clara Johnston returns home from Bluemont Virginia after a week with Miss Brownie Bell. Residents travel for visits to Philadelphia Atlantic City Bedford City Castleman’s Ferry and Cumberland Wisconsin Iowa and Maryland.
Adams Forks and Knives Dinner Etiquette Through History
A compact note traces dining manners of early presidents. John Quincy Adams adopted fork etiquette in France and reportedly explained it at the White House. Andrew Jackson copied knife etiquette used by Washington Jefferson Madison Monroe, with reference from the Magazine of American History.
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John Quincy Adams
France
Toll on Valley Turnpike Set for August Travel
Valley Turnpike Co announces yearly tolls for pleasure wagon travel during August. Director Shirley canter notes the period runs from Sept. 1, 1927 to Sept. 19, 1918.
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Valley Turnpike
Shirley
Canter
Valley ‘Turnpike Co
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