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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1915
Page
3
Trains arrive in Winchester from the listed stations at 9 twenty am daily except Sunday and at 11 45 am and 7 2? pm daily. Schedule shows arrivals and departures with times like 725 Rit 903 926 945 and 10 10 10 48 11 08 11 20. Superintendent HA RIDDLE and General Passenger Agent are noted.
Norfolk and Western timetable entries show No. 13 at 9:18 a.m. to Roanoke with Pullman sleepers and dining cars to Roanoke and Bristol and a parlor car. No. 1 at 2:27 a.m. serves Roanoke Bristol Bluefield Pocahontas Welch Norton and intermediates with Gary Winston Salem connections at Roanoke to Memphis for the South. No. 27 6:38 p.m. serves Shenandoah and intermediates. No. 28 9:32 a.m. to Hagerstown and intermediates with Harrisburg Philadelphia New York, Shenandoah Junction connection for Was 7. No. 14704 p.m. to Hagerstown with Pullman sleeper to New York. No. 2 12:54 a.m. to Hagerstown with Pullman sleeper to New York and Philadelphia.
In Kernstown Virginia on December 10 Mrs Nettie Wisecarver widow of Isaac Wisecarver aged sixty five was surprised by her children for a birthday celebration at her old home. Family members from Berryville Lebanon Church Kernstown and Stephens City attended along with Walter Walter and Maurice Wisecarver and others sharing a large family dinner.
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A sharp, scattered column comments on censorship, Balkan neutrality, and the uncertainty of editing foreign papers. It notes Servin terrain, Uncle Sam’s crop total of 5.5 billion dollars, and milk at 8 cents a quart provoking Paris as war prices loom.
Advertises a fruit laxative claimed to relieve feverish fussiness by cleansing the bowels within hours. Emphasizes coated tongues as a sign of need and warns to buy only California Fig Syrup Company products, offering a 50 cent bottle and denouncing counterfeit syrups.
A three story restaurant and hotel in Hopewell burned destroying key buildings. Eleven year old Adam Drum rescued a baby and later a second infant from neighboring flames. Fire suspected incendiary with a German suspect linked to nitroglycerin. officials quarantined the town as militia arrived and dynamited structures to halt the blaze.
Public sale by special commissioners under a 1915 Frederick County circuit decree. On January 8, 1916, at 11 a.m., two limestone land parcels totaling 5 and 25 acres will be auctioned separately or together in front of Winchester Court House. Terms: one third cash, balance in two annual installments with bonds and deed of trust.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of Shenandoah Valley National Bank in Winchester Virginia will be held at the banking house on Tuesday January 11 1916 between 11 a m and 2 p m for the election of directors. Cashier WM G Hardy signs the notice.
Prices for corn hay butter eggs and poultry are listed as of the day before publication with figures for retail wholesale and live stock markets. The Washington state county agriculturist program expanded to nine counties with lectures demonstrations bull introductions and farm improvements in Wahkia kum Benton Adan Spokane Walla Walla Douglas Okanogan King and Thurston.
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