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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1926
Page
4
The Evening Star is published daily except Sundays by The Evening Star Publishing Co. in Winchester Virginia. It is consolidated with Morning News and the weekly papers The Weekly News The Weekly Times and The Weekly Mirror.
Advertising rates list payment terms by Mall and Carrier plans ranging from one month to one year with various advance amounts. The Associated Press holds exclusive republication rights for all news dispatches and local news published in the paper.
A devotional prayer card quotes Nehemiah 6 3 and urges steadfast focus on the king s work. It prays for God s strength to resist temptation and remain busy with sacred tasks.
Senator Elijah B White of Leesburg, Virginia, a financier, breeder and state lawmaker, died Saturday. He led in farming, stock breeding and served as Virginia food administrator during the war. White was president of the Percheron Society and earned wide respect as a steadfast public official.
Paris designer Jacques Worth notes skirts will still be worn short though not above the knees. He observes fashion shifts from standing to seated measurements and predicts many color combinations among outfits. A coat of many colors for the young sheik is cited as a contrast to the new skirt varieties.
The Petersburg Progress-Index notes the 26th anniversary of transatlantic wireless links and recalls Marconi’s early effort at St John’s Newfoundland and a pushback by a telegraph company. It cites his move to Glace Bay Nova Scotia with Canadian government support and frames modern radio’s growth against historic attempts to curb new communication methods.
A Trenton hearing on revising New Jersey Sunday Blue Laws features Rev. Firman Demaris of Asbury Park arguing for stricter morality even by banning Sunday activity. The case questions whether government or church should regulate conduct and cites a New Brunswick rector's illicit affair as an example of limits to moral regulation by law.
A summary of early ideas about life's origin traces imagination in myth and philosophy. From Gea and Greek myth to Celtic soil spirits, ancient writers, Aristotle, Ovid, Virgil, Paracelsus, and Kircher discuss spontaneous generation and attempts at artificial creation, illustrating curiosity and speculative science through eras.
Hollins N Randolph announces the creation of the Children's Founders Roll for Virginia with Mrs Edwin J Nixon as chair and Agnes D Randolph as vice chair. District chairmen are named across Virginia as intensive enrollment of 83 536 children is planned to aid the Stone Mountain Memorial sculpture central group of Davis Lee and Jackson under Augustus Lukeman.
Word has been received of the death of John W. Cooley, aged 76, at Savage Maryland last Friday. His wife Margaret W. Cooley died years ago. Funeral services were held this afternoon at Grace Methodist Episcopal Church South in Savage with interment in the adjoining cemetery. The Cooleys were former residents of Warren County Virginia.
An advertisement touts Creomulsion as a two fold medicine for persistent coughs colds and throat troubles. It claims creosote plus healing agents soothe membranes inhibit germs and aid recovery with refund offered if not relieved after use.
The Fraser evangelistic group concluded a four day revival at the American Legion hall on North Loudoun Street drawing large crowds. The congregation voted unanimously to invite the Fraser party back for a return meeting early next year after a 14 week campaign. A woman who had not walked unaided for eight years was anointed and left the hall with crutches on her shoulder. A woman blind in one eye was also involved.
Friday evening prayers were offered as a speaker reported improved vision from a defective optic. Several attendees with various infirmities said they felt better after being anointed, according to reports from the gathering.
The funeral of Clementine Garner wife of Jack W. Garner who died Thursday at Bristoe near the Shenandoah river in Clarke county was held Saturday morning at Millwood with the Rev George Rter officiating. She leaves her husband and two sisters Gertrude and Martha Parker of Harrisburg Pa.
The Rev. James W. Hammersley, a clergyman of the Baltimore Conference, is noted in this brief notice. Additional details in the clipping remain unread.
Two Frederick County farms near Nails Station Winchester are to be sold by trustees under deeds of trust for Jacob I Crabill and wife. The 143 acre tract features a residence orchard and several outbuildings with two artesian wells. Auction set for November 20 1926 with terms: one third cash and balance in two annual installments secured by deed of trust and insurance. Sale postponed to December 4 with extended terms. further postponement to January 1 1927 noted.
Word reached here that the Rev Hammersley son of the late Rev James W. Hammersley and Mrs Anne W. Hammersley of the Methodist Episcopal Church South died Saturday in Baltimore.
Mr. Earl Spiker of this city spent the past weekend in Bunker Hill West Virginia with his parents.
Frank Huyett Swimley named postmaster at Brucetown to fill the vacancy left by his father Samuel J. Swimley who had served as postmaster there for many years.
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