Railroad Schedules Cumberland Valley Time Table June 27 1915
Train arrivals at Winchester from Cumberland Valley station listed with daily and exception times. Superintendent HA RIDDLE and General Passenger Agent are noted.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1915
Page
3
Train arrivals at Winchester from Cumberland Valley station listed with daily and exception times. Superintendent HA RIDDLE and General Passenger Agent are noted.
Norfolk and Western timetable lists No 13 9 18 am to Bristol and intermediate stations with Pullman sleepers and dining car to Roanoke Parlor Car to Roanoke and Bristol No 1 2 27 am to Roanoke Bristol Bluefield Pocahontas Welch Norton intermediate stations Pullman sleepers Gary and Winston-Salem cafe car Shenandoah and Gary connects at Roanoke with Memphis special for points South No 27 6 38 pm to Shenandoah intermediate stations No 28 9 32 am to Hagerstown Harrisburg Philadelphia New York Shenandoah Junction for Washington No 14 7 04 pm to Hagerstown Pullman sleeper to New York No 2 12 54 am to Hagerstown Pullman sleeper to New York and Philadelphia
Westbound trains from Strasburg include No 2 daily at 7 30 am to Harrisonburg arriving 9 30 am No 49 daily at 12 25 to Harrisonburg arriving 2 40 pm No 21 daily 7 59 pm to Morrisonburg arriving 10 15 pm Buffet Parlor Car. Eastbound trains include No 14 daily 8 25 am limited to Washington arriving 5 10 pm No 24 daily local from Harrisonburg to Strasburg arriving 7 30 pm. C W Westbury Gen Agent Washington DC.
A passage extols Dr. Alderman's UVA leadership, noting revival of a thousand students and a bright era ahead. The piece contrasts founding momentum with present progress and calls for service to life duties. A separate note discusses marriage rings, citing weddings held with nontraditional rings such as church door keys when gold rings are unavailable.
Freight brakeman Joseph Kelly of Brunswick Maryland sustained severe hip and head injuries when a baggage truck left near the track struck him while he held the grab iron to disconnect a mail car at Strasburg Junction on the Baltimore and Ohio line. He remains at home and cannot resume duties soon. Dr. Crawford, railroad surgeon, assisted and accompanied him to Brunswick on the eastbound passenger train.
The ceremony at the United Brethren Church on North Avenue united Maude Love Boyd, daughter of the Boyds, and Harry C. Miller, son of the Milers, with Rev. George W. Stover officiating. The couple, witnesses many relatives, travels to Baltimore and Washington after the wedding and will reside in Winchester. Miller works in the B and O freight office. A second item notes views on national spirit through song, contrasting American progress with Germany.
Miss Mary E. Heist longtime Winchester resident died at 1:30 am at her sister Mrs Margaret Baker 218 South Braddock street after a lingering illness in the seventy ninth year. She is survived by sister Mrs Baker and brothers Dr G Kenton Heist and Edward T Heist. Funeral at 2 30 pm Monday at Mrs Bakers residence conducted by Rev Dr J H Lacy with burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery.
Dr. Edwin A. Alderman president of the University of Virginia was honored with a small reception after his speech at the Empire theater. The event at Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Barton’s Washington street home was limited to university alumni with many ladies in attendance.
Prices offered today by local buyers include White Corn at 2.50, Yellow Corn 2.40, Cracked corn 0.90 per bushel retail, Timonthy hay 16.00, Mixed hay 16.00, Oats 0.50, Seed eastiee 0. KU Flour retail 5.76, Middlings 1.70, Bran 1.40, Creamery butter wholesale 0.28, Country butter 0.18, Store packed butter 0.30, Young chickens live 11 per lb, Oldens 11, Turkeys live 0. Tele potatoes 0.70–0.75 per bushel, retail peck 0.20.
Harvard sends one million dollars in gold and a medical mission to Europe. Thirty doctors and thirty six nurses depart from New York aboard the Noordam, forming Harvard’s second Red Cross unit bound for a frontline French hospital near Loos under British coordination.
A fragmentary report discusses Saloniki and the Balkans, noting Shorks once Tidheron and a broad European conflict. It mentions the allied Anglo-French card of aid to Serbia and alleged motives of the Veni zel os government and assurances about not restricting liberty.
Saloniki stands as a major southeastern European port with 130,000 residents and an annual trade near 18 million dollars. It links Bulgaria, Servia, and northern Greece via rail to Nis and Monastir, hosting a vital harbor and rail routes central to the Allied war effort.
A concise remark notes that whatever the mind chooses as its object it can achieve. It emphasizes the power of determination and mental focus to realize personal goals.
Mrs Albert Blosser of Lima Ohio touts Chamberlains Cough as the best medicine for colds and croup with many others agreeing. The claim notes the remedy is obtainable everywhere.
The town lists multiple churches with service times and leaders. Centenary Reform on Cork Street led by Rev T K Romer offers morning and evening sermons with a Sunday school, while Christ Protestant Episcopal on Water Street led by Rev W D Smith conducts services midday and evening with choirs and a Sunday school. Other churches include Sacred Heart at Main and Cecil with masses and vesper services, First Baptist on Cork Street with morning service, First Christia on Heidrock Clifford Streets with two services, Grace Lutheran on West Water Street with morning and evening preaching, and Methodist Episcopal at Market and Cork with morning and evening services and a Sunday school.
South Braddock street Methodist Episcopal with Rev. W. O. Talbert announces 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. services and 9:45 a.m. Sunday School led by W. B. Snider. Presbyterian on South Main St led by Rev. J. H. Lacy with 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. services and 9:30 a.m. Sunday School. Highland Avenue Presbyterian holds 8 p.m. service and 8:30 p.m. Sunday School with Thursday prayer meeting. United Brethren on North Braddock street led by Rev. G. W. Stover with 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. services, 9:45 a.m. Sunday School, and Young People’s Society. Midweek prayer 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The article highlights Queen Maud of Norway binding books as a hobby and Queen Victoria of Spain traveling through her realm with little ceremony. It mentions Prince Leopold of the Dolphins and a boy named Theogar of Russia with references to Russian peasant life and soups like borscht.
Over 40,000 women belong to the Garment Workers union in New York state. Forty one of every hundred marry between ages twenty and twenty five. Detroit waitresses may work up to fifty four hours weekly. New York trade union membership fell ten percent in the last year. Zionist colonies in Palestine show women in forty settlements, the first founded twenty five years ago.
In the Clerk's Office of Circuit Court of Frederick County a deputy clerk certifies that Erbert Larrick has given the bond with approved security in the penalty required by the decree, conditioned according to law. J. W. Baker, Jr., Deputy Clerk, Circuit Court Frederick County Va. 12-9-4.
New York apple prices for grade A fruit listed by variety. Jonathan Baldwin Winesap Ben Davis Greening York Imperial and Gano show firsts and seconds with per barrel or per dozen hundred weight pricing. Prices vary by variety and quality.
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