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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1923
Page
4
A satirical exchange from a 1923 newspaper column mocks Seacock-Sage and the Highbrow Club. The speaker detests pretentious literature and declares culture tripe, while attacking readers who praise or imitate the critic.
The Star lists corrected local prices for staples with figures for eggs flour and canned goods. Prices shown include eggs at 1.29% and 1.85 to 1.90 for various can sizes, flour around 12 pounds at 0.60 to 0.65, and other staples with multiple quoted amounts.
A short note extends greetings to Brother and Sister Ridgeway in their home in the land of flowers and wishes them happiness and prosperity amid the community.
An advertisement touts Joint Ease as a remedy for swollen joints across ankles knees hips elbows shoulders and spine. It claims relief within two seconds of topical rubbing, with the product said to penetrate skin and flesh to the bone. The ad urges readers to buy through Boyd Drug Co., Franck Baker & Son, or any reliable druggist.
William Sargeant died in Whitacre this county last Tuesday and his funeral was held Thursday at Redland Church. Rev. P J Lawr ence officiated and many friends attended. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were Jackson Place H C Reynolds Ervin Pugh Ford Gardner Edward Brown Charles Pearl.
Rosewood still tense after seven killed in recent racial disturbances. Jesse Hunter, a Black man wanted for allegedly assaulting a white girl in Sumner, remains at large. Police and citizens’ posse efforts led to the destruction by fire of 12 houses in the area, forcing Black residents to flee into nearby woods.
Dunn Woolen Company selects a site west of the railroad near Bunker Hill cemetery for a 36 by 200 foot reinforced concrete factory housing a twelve room plant. Excavation begun, contracts awarded for concrete and wood work, operation expected in February with about twenty five workers. looms will produce items for state institutions. Plant at Brucetown to close as lease cannot be renewed and equipment will be sold.
United Russia students in a carnival protest staged a grotesque mockery of major religions by burning effigies of Christian Muslim Jewish and Buddhist deities during a large night parade. The event featured a snake dance around an oven fire and parodied church carols amid revelry following a football victory.
Investigators in Bastrop Louisiana pause for a state holiday as Attorney General Coco leads a team reviewing scientific and physical evidence. The probe targets two men tortured before death in the Morehouse parish kidnappings and slayings, with federal and state officers gathering material for many future trials of alleged black hooded band members.
A Jefferson circuit court order transfers the Rouss Charity fund to Logan B. Schutt as trustee. The will named William W. Rouss’s brother as the fund’s original administrator, with T. T. Perry to succeed, but Perry declined. The court grants Schutt authority over two funds, including supporting indigent patients in Charles Town Hospital.
John W Huff a Civil War veteran died December 29 at Mt Falls Virginia aged nearly 85. He served 1862 under Captain Pierce was wounded at Brandy Station and a former prisoner of war in Ohio. He lived with Mary McIee and left a daughter Mrs Charley Lane of Middletown. Funeral held at Grave Springs Church with Rev J C Dugger.
Jan 10 to Mar 16 listings show buyers and sellers in Berryville and nearby towns. Entries include stock, implements, feed and occasional hogs or cattle notes with dates and names such as J. W. Larrick Jos. Jackson Amos Cochran H. W. Sowers C. Wright and L. M. Allen among others across Berryville Green Spring Summit Point and nearby districts.
A short terse notice notes a remark about the moon’s ring prompting a girl to attract attention and a reader to head home, as published in the Richmond Times Dispatch.
The narrator recalls taking his nephew to a film where a hero confronts a bull. Dickie breaks the silence by asking if the man will kill the cow, a moment that reveals a child’s blunt misunderstanding of the scene.
A witty remark by a Frenchwoman echoes youth and age. A dramatic critic asserts Jallet’s role is unmasterable until she is too old to fit the part.
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