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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1919
Page
4
A short reflective piece by Walt Mason critiques complacent professionals in towns where minds have stagnated. It laments diploma displays and rote lawyers and doctors while urging continual study, doubt, and the pursuit of fresher knowledge despite aging theories and worn methods.
Mrs er of Charlestown visits daughter Ellen Loutha of Berryville with Mr and Mrs W T Williams. W H Williams and son host Miss Katie Burkhart’s visit. Mamie DeHaven from Florida stays with A B Fau family. brother Private Silas Fau dies in service. influenza claims a sister. Edward Payne visits. C L Peer visits W Himelright. Mrs J M Orndorff and Mrs I N Wallace spend day with Mrs Brewer. G F Moore visits daughter H W riff. B R Clows er and Iee visit Charles Smith parents near Chambersville.
Bloom Virginia on June 28 Mr and Mrs S Cooper announce the birth of a baby boy named John Randolph Cooper at Wild Brook The boy honors grandfathers John Himelright Star Tannery and the late Randolph M Cooper Martinsburg area activity noted with visits by Joseph F Bean Winchester and relief from Martinsburg City Hospital involvement by Mabelle Schaffenaker Cap Izentary details reflect local family and community ties
An old advertisement touts Swift’s S. S. S. as a superior blood purifier for eczema and skin eruptions. It claims the medicine cleanses the blood, removes impurities, and offers personal medical advice by mail from the Chief Medical Adviser in Atlanta, Ga.
Miss Mae Clowser is suffering with mumps. Misses Hester and Janet Richard visit sister Mrs. Paul Glynn. Mrs. O S Gettys and children of Connellsville and Mrs. Grover Rudolph of Lebanon Church visit Mrs. Thomas S Cooper. John H Clowser family and others visited on Sunday. John Y Himelnight of Star Tannery visits daughter Mrs. Thomas Cooper.
Mt Pleasant Virginia notes report an all day meeting led by Rev Sampsell with strong attendance. Visitors include Moses Lochmiller from Illinois and niece of Star Tannery staying with Asa Racey. Local residents hosted and visited relatives across multiple households on Sunday.
Miss Louise Pangle underwent appendicitis surgery at Memorial Hospital and is recovering well. News notes list visits and travels among local residents including Mrs Emma Shull, James Mitchell, J M Gordon, James Boggs, Ellen Campbell, Clara Clowser and S C Fisher with Shulls and family tied to Winchester Painter's Hill Mountain Falls and Baltimore connections.
Mrs. James Sine led a party from Shenandoah County towns Woodstock Fishers Hill and Strasburg to Winchester on Sunday in her touring car. Guests were entertained at South Kent street by Mr. and Mrs. Jacob H. Hillyard and enjoyed local motoring with the hosts.
Mrs. Jack Smith and her son Ed win Harold Smith of Brooklyn New York visit the former's parents Mr. and Mrs. E H Diffenderfer at their home on Braddock Street south.
An assortment of grocery items with prices appears under LOCAL RETA MARKETS. The ad mentions Country butter common and creamery butter, eggs, young chickens, roosters, new potatoes, bacon, flour, corn meal, middlings, cracked corn, screenings, and potatoes per peck, with various price notations and shorthand annotations.
Baltimore wholesale market prices list spring chickens old hens and roosters with various weights and items. Eggs butter corn hay sheep lambs shoats heifers and steers show wide price ranges reflecting market activity and quality grades.
Frederick William Wise, former Northcliffe rep in Berlin, says the German signature on the peace treaty is worthless. He claims Scheidemann Melchiors Giesberts and Count Rantzau are the real leaders and that Germany will plot vengeance once the ink dries. He warns eternal vigilance is needed for allied safety.
Chicago reports government coal production figures warn of the greatest coal shortage in history next winter unless production is raised by 25 percent or more. PF S Peabody, chairman of the National Coal Association committee, says one in eight industrial plants could shut down due to coal shortages.
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