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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1922
Page
8
Staunton Virginia December 1926 Staunton's new hotel will be named the Stonewall Jackson after directors and a committee settled through over 800 suggested titles Three readers from Churchville Staunton and Rev W W Sprouse are among the proposers.
Charles Town December bids show Moore and Leslie of Staunton as lowest bidder at 139442.50 for the first section of the Charles Town to Martinsburg state road. Route runs seven to eight miles via Burlane. County Court and State Road Commission remain to finalize route. Grey briefed the County Court last week with no action taken. State Road engineers worked last week to finish the Berryville turnpike project. The Bolivar to Harpers Ferry concrete road will open Saturday.
The Winchester Virginia post office lists unclaimed letters for the week ending December 23 1922. Recipients must pay one cent per letter to claim, with names including Mack A Shiley B A Abrashkin Harry H Bureges John D Bear Thomas C Barber George Dagwall Elmington Crutchfield D S Chorpenning Alice Callis Lillian Nannie Arthur Theo T French W E Gore H L Genlin C H Harriston Luther J Higgins Monita Hooke Harry L Larrick J H Lane Geo McPherson M Moton Mrs Minnie H B Moomaw E W Orndorff Mrs Susan Powell W M Smith Albert Tyler Mrs A M Fevall S M Wagner Geo O White L May J W Sibert Postmaster
Senator Carter Glass will speak to Virginia Bankers Association group here at Handley Library about noon January 19 on The Federal Reserve System. Gray Silver and George H. Keesee will also address financial issues facing farmers and banking practicalities. About 100 bankers expected with a public seating option and a 2 o'clock luncheon.
In memory of Susan Grubbs born December 25 1922 a message from her husband G M D Grubbs expressing sorrow and a hope of reunion in heaven after a long life shared at home and a final rest above the sky
Dr J J Scherer pastor of First English Lutheran Church in Richmond is considering an offer to be general secretary of the Home Mission and Church Extension Board of the United Lutheran Church of America with Chicago headquarters He plans to visit Chicago in January to confer with officials before deciding The post would oversee founding and expansion of Lutheran missions in the United States Canada and Mexico The position was vacated by Dr H H Weber of York following a recent Surgeons error.
A compact meditation on prayer citing Tennyson who suggests prayer outvalues worldly power. The text contrasts human effort with divine reach and reflects on prayer as a universal bond weaving the world under spiritual authority.
The text references Providence as the first U S city to establish open-air schools. It contrasts a cynical remark about unethical ideas with a heroic notion of honor and Providence as a place of civic innovation. The quoted dialogue underscores moral contrasts in a historical context.
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