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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1915
Page
5
Floyd Banner Ball, nine, son of a School Field cotton mills operative in Danville Virginia, died after drinking half a pint of whiskey found in the house. He was found drunk and deteriorated through the night before passing away. Parents say there will be no police investigation.
In Hayfield Virginia Joseph Orndorff, operator of a large lime plant near Berkeley Springs, has moved to a southwest Frederick Shenandoah County site to mine manganese and ship ore to Pittsburgh. New York capitalists may buy mineral lands for 60 000 dollars and a future B & O Railroad branch line to the mine is planned. The article notes widespread mineral finds and anticipated extensive mining in the region.
In McDuff Virginia Mrs J B Whittaker says Black Draught relieved her family’s sick headache and stomach trouble for ten years. The vegetable laxative claims to regulate weak stomachs aid digestion relieve indigestion colic wind nausea and similar symptoms. It has over 70 years and more than a million users. Your Srinsis sells it for 25c Get a package today.
The report describes Jeffers, a McCausland farm tenant south of Leon on the Kanawha river, killed after a dispute over a horse team. Samuel McCausland allegedly struck Jeffers with a shovel from behind, crushing his skull, following a heated exchange Friday evening. Jeffers left a wife and four children.
Martinsburg reports Miss Alice E. Hoffman daughter of S. M. Hoffman Sleepy Creek will marry Frank G. Diver formerly of Rochester now based in Winchester. The couple plan a morning ceremony at the bride’s home followed by a wedding trip to Rochester and a future home in Winchester. The bride is a former superintendent of nurses at City Hospital and the groom is active in the evaporating business with multiple plant connections.
The injured Baltimore and Ohio Railroad brakeman Joseph Kelly, hurt at Strasburg Junction, is now able to be about his home in Brunswick. He is expected to report for duty soon and may join the family Christmas dinner to carve the turkey.
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