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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1919
Page
2
A well known jobbing house offers their entire line of salesman samples at reduced prices. The listing includes Turkish towels plain and fancy Huck towels and roered Turkish towels. Housekeepers can finish their towel needs with this unusual opportunity.
Train timetable details list routes from Berryville to Bristol and intermediate stations, with Pullman car services to Bristol Bluefield Pocahontas Welch and Winston Salem. Connections include Shenandoah Harrisburg Philadelphia and Washington with shuttle sleepers and mixed trains.
Dr. Robert W. Patton national director of the Episcopal Nation-Wide Campaign was placed to lead the preliminary organization. He will direct work authorized by the Joint Commission. The campaign aims to arouse church members and send out 1500 new workers to expand educational hospital and social services at home and abroad. Over 100000 men and women will serve in this effort.
Classified listing notes an eight room brick house with lights and baths for 6500. Also lists six room houses with lights and water at 1800 and 1700. A ten room brick house appears in the fragment.
Washington November 21 1919 Dr H F Byrd Winchester Va letters about pollination and bees in orchards Dr Waite advises four rows as ideal for cross pollination. He notes two rows near a pollinating stripe give full crops while third and fourth rows show diminishing yields. He cautions about bee availability in expansive Winchester plantings and suggests a dozen to twenty hives during bloom to cover pollination gaps while warning of possible pear blight spread via bees.
Mr and Mrs H F Byrd with their two children have returned from a country place near Berryville to spend the winter at the home of Mrs Byrd’s parents on South Stewart Street.
The Tec9 Tynchbiurg Academy of Medicine approves a resolution raising medical service fees by fifty percent from two to three dollars. The change aims to cover rising costs and sustain care. Affected patients are advised to expect higher charges for visits and treatments.
A fragment recounts a Christmas pageant featuring Prad Moline and Seals, suggesting a local holiday display with community performers and festive activities.
An exchange in a Winchester hotel lobby dated December 8, 1919, questions Sunday sale laws and local governance. A guest gripes that obsolete rules unfairly restrict cigars stamps gas for cars and goods while officials are described as narrow minded. The clerk and guest spar over civic committees and the town’s humor.
In police court yesterday George W Kremer, a noted meat merchant, was fined 5 plus costs on two charges of selling uninspected meat. Meat and Milk Inspector J Earl Noonan swore out warrants. The case showed the carcasses were later examined and found in good condition, but the law requires inspection before sale of any part animal.
Mary E Williams colored wife of Charles E Williams a chauffeur died Sunday after a lingering illness from tuberculosis She was native of Rockingham County Virginia her father Thomas Ford now living in Larke County Va Her siblings Susie Norris Carrie Stenson Cora and Elsie Ford Richard and Wallace Ford of Clarke County and T H Ford of Pittsburgh The funeral proceeded to Millwood Clarke County for services and burial this morning departing at 1 clock
Mrs. H. D. Fuller, chairman of the Red Cross lists committee, asks undergraduate and practical nurses to send names and addresses and notify of any address changes so she can place them when service is needed.
Capt L R Fay announced the annual inspection of the company is postponed to Wednesday evening December 7 at o clock. The postponement was authorized by Captain Bethume of Fall Church Virginia who will conduct the inspection.
Mr. Robert Bowers, longtime resident, departed his home in the city yesterday and has not returned. Authorities report he may be headed toward Relimar, and residents are urged to provide any information on his whereabouts.
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation Sparrows Point invites unemployed men to join all shipyard trades. Some positions require no experience and after four to six months workers can earn first class mechanic pay. Discharged soldiers sailors and young men of good character urged to apply via the Chamber of Commerce Examiner.
These tablets target indigestion and constipation by toning the stomach and aiding natural function. They act gently on the liver and bowels to restore a healthy digestive system.
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