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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1925
Page
4
Garry Flood Byrd is named as publisher in the Winchester Virginia Evening Star. The notice records second class matter status and post office entry at Winchester.
A consolidation announcement notes merging efforts among Morning News Item The Weekly News The Weekly Times and The Weekly Mirror to streamline coverage and reduce duplicate reports across editions. Local editors indicate continued community focus with shared features and syndicated content.
Rates listed for one year six months and monthly payments with amounts in advance. The text shows multiple figures including three months and one month options, though some lines are garbled. Intended to convey subscription pricing and payment intervals.
The passage notes Associated Press copyright and republication rights for articles credited to AP, with local news published daily by The Evening Star Publishing Co. in Winchester Virginia, except Sundays.
North Carolina officials report a revenue bill advances to the printer. It proposes sharp increases in inheritance, license and privilege taxes on railroads and telephone firms, a higher income tax, and a gas tax hike amid a large deficit.
The writer argues threats to punish state officials for not backing Senator Mapp are improper. He says the will of the General Assembly should not override constitutional voting rights and condemns coercion during campaigns.
A humorous reflection on past feuds between two men Fitz James Adolphus Chee and the speaker. After years of bitterness a Christmas gift, a finely knitted necktie, softens anger and entertains the notion that gifts can heal long held grudges.
A farmer shares experience testing milk output per cow by weighing milk for several days each week to judge feeding. He notes varying responses to added oats or bran, stresses feeding according to individual cow needs, and suggests 6 pounds of dairy feed daily with 20 or 24 percent protein when home grain is scarce. He invites other farmers to respond to Agricola.
Winchester Virginia reader Henry Steere urges voters to back Harry F Byrd for governor citing California's bond debt and high taxes. He argues Byrd's opposition to a 50 million dollar Virginia highway bond shows prudence and fiscal restraint, predicting Virginians will choose a governor who protects taxpayers and keeps expenses within budget.
A Woodville Virginia guide letter from January 25 1925 urges Virginia Democrats to nominate a governor candidate. It praises Senator Harry F Byrd as a self made farmer editor and orchard owner opposed to child labor and bonds, in favor of gasoline tax and pay as you go road building, recommending him as the man to vote for.
The Virginia State Corporation Commission granted a permit for Virginia Transit Company to run a motor line between Winchester and Washington via Paris Upperville Middleburg Aldie and Fairfax. Two new 20 passenger Pullman sedan coaches will be ready within two months with a three and a half hour Washington Winchester schedule.
A dated note from Mabel Rodgers of Martinsburg West Virginia, January 31, 1925, encloses three dollars to renew a one year subscription to The Star. She expresses the newspaper as a home comfort and essential.
Miss Rebecca Cooley of Stringtown Virginia spent the weekend with her cousin Thelma Cooley. Mrs Q B Vaughan has been ill with pneumonia at the home of Mr Vaughan’s mother near Linden. Mrs W P Dandi ker hosted supper on the 24th for Buddy Dandicker’s seventh birthday. Mr and Mrs Fred Willey entertained on the 24th for their daughter Freda’s sixth birthday. On the 23rd Miss Thelma Cooley hosted a gathering with late refreshments and a pleasant evening. Miss Minnie Kirkpatrick is in Lynchburg nursing her sister in law Mrs Tom Kirkpatrick.
A special grand jury has been called for February 16 by officers Doran and Bo fan foo in the Seed Jury Wowra matter. The February term of the corporation court will address the Wowra case along with several other matters as the grand jury reviews bail and appearances.
An old-time grocer advertised eggs so fresh that even the hens would not notice them being gathered. The claim evokes a playful, hyperbolic sales pitch from a historic storefront. The item captures local commerce humor and the era's marketing flair.
Richmond on January 30 reports Virginia officials were confident that relief for the state's oyster industry was imminent with the arrival of unidentified aid or measures.
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