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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1928
Page
4
Old Winchester newspaper notice lists subscription prices by mail and by carrier. Rates shown include annual, semi annual, quarterly, and monthly options with advance payment and different pricing for mail versus carrier delivery.
Brief exhortation urges parents to have children memorize daily Bible selections as a priceless heritage. It cites Proverbs 16 32 on restraint and notes victory through Jesus Christ in prayer.
The piece critiques a flashy promotion tying aristocratic names to a failed New York scheme. It notes George II of Greece and other prominent social figures lent their titles to attract investors, promising status and profits, but the venture collapsed, leaving them with little more than their reputations.
Critics blast the high court for freeing Remus, a bootlegger in Chicago and Cincinnati, after a brief asylum detention for killing his wife. The case highlights the jury system and calls for expert sanity determinations by state officials.
Morton Prince of Harvard reflects with Willis Abbott on how sustained peaceful discussion on a newspaper’s front page may foster global habits. He argues such education creates common viewpoints and emotions guiding a world will toward peace and a shared international outlook.
The text urges approaching all international disputes through peace rather than war, arguing that public opinion at national and community levels shapes this mindset. Without a shared world consciousness and will toward peace, world peace cannot be achieved.
The Boston Post notes a rise in counterfeit signs mimicking highway warnings. Advertisers use the imitation to lure motorists to tea rooms hot dog stands and gasoline stations, undermining official alerts and posing a nuisance to drivers. Officials should act to remove such misleading displays.
The Yale faculty report on college motives shows many students seek social recognition athletics and friendship. Rockefeller Jr said many youths would do better in useful hometown work, yet diligent students press on. The article notes parolee nationality shows Caucasian races respond best to leprosy treatment.
On June 7 1928 in Frederick County Circuit Court Mary Susan Stickley sues David Coffman for damages from a Buick accident. The claim seeks eleven hundred dollars and attachment of a Nash Sport Model Roadster motor 239759. Coffman, nonresident, must appear within ten days after publication.
In Frederick County Circuit Court Virginia Lyon Ts. Katherine Stine et al the court appoints B P Harrison as Special Commissioner to identify devisees heirs the life interest for Walter Stine and his children assess values determine compliance with the will and advise on partition or sale with debts. A notice sets July 5 1928 at 10 AM at 14 Rouss Ave Winchester Va for execution of the order of reference.
In Winchester Virginia on June 4 1928 the court ordered reference to a Master Commissioner to take accounts of Emma Tocas deceased personal and real estate holdings. The commissioner must convene creditors identify heirs determine shares describe property location and rental value and report pertinent matters. A public proceeding is set for July 9 1928 at 45 West Boscawen Street with further adjournments as needed.
Executor D K Drake deceased offers real estate in Stephens City on Main street plot 45 plus furnishings. Property features two story seven room dwelling, outbuildings, well, cistern and 83 by 182 feet lot. Sale July 14 1928 at 1 PM with real estate terms one third cash then two annual installments plus bond deed of trust and fire policy. Personal property sold for cash. Auctioneer C I Brumback. Clerk G W Lemley.
Public auction to offer two farms owned by G L Haun in Frederick County Virginia. First about 42 acres with a six room house and water from a spring and artesian well. Second about 94 acres adjoining the first with woodland and a never failing stream. Sale set for July 7 1928 at noon in Winchester at the county courthouse. Terms require one third cash and balance in two annual installments with deed of trust and insurance.
By deed dated June 14 1926 and a writ ten request the undersigned will sell at public auction in front of the Winchester Court House Virginia at 12 M on Saturday July 28 1928 the Luther E Ash farm of about 125 acres in Back Creek District adjoining George Hulver Isaiah D Wright and others One third cash on day of sale balance in two equal annual installments with interest from the date of sale and paid on the property plus a policy of insurance M M Lynch Trustee Duvall Dunn Auctioneers 62%4nks
Local note advertises lunches fountain drinks confections ice cream and soft drinks at Potts Confectionery next to B40 depot. Patronize home-town friends. H Russell, proprietor, 118 E Piccadilly St. Also a clipped quote about tennis from John L. Sullivan.
Clarke County Virginia July 2 when the grand jury meets July 23 the following cases will come before it Maynard and Gordon Orndoff and Amert Whitlock all of Winchester charged with breaking into the shack on the Shenandoah river belonging to Pat Dunn and Lee Lamp Walter Tracy colored who was caught transporting four pints of liquor Melvin and Carroll Patton of Winchester who collided with the truck of A J Radford of Floyd county Thomas Walker colored familiarly known as Hard Times who took the car of Page Stephenson Enoch Newlin aged 60 employed on the farm of Edward Allen who was found recently lying in a pool of blood on the side of the highway with his skull crushed and a part of it lying on the road about ten feet away is improving steadily in Winchester Memorial Hospital The supposition is that Mr Newlin was struck by a hit and run driver who so far has made good his escape.
John and Melvin Howell face charges for stealing three lambs from the Herman Huyett flock south of Charles Town. Lee Boyd, a Rippon area farmer, swore out a warrant after nine lambs vanished in June. Evidence against the Howells included testimony from Dr. Grubb of Winchester meat market and two assistants who bought nine lambs that morning.
Special Commissioners announce a public auction in Winchester Va on July 14 1928 to sell the S Dean Rogers Tract in Frederick County consisting of 179 acres and 15 acres bound by F S Tavenner and Charles Lupton. Property includes a frame dwelling barn and apple orchard not yet yielding. Terms require one third cash and the balance in two annual payments with six percent interest secured by deed of trust and insurance. Bonded purchaser bears homestead waiver.
In June two men delivered lambs to Winchester with three in a side car and six in an automobile. One witness identified the Howells as the men who brought the lambs to market. Payments were by checks issued under fictitious payees. Each accused man posts $1,000 bond for September court terms.
OPEQUON Va June 30 Mr Alonzo Snapp remains critically ill but is improving slowly. Paxtons Chapel held its children's day last Sunday with a successful service despite showers. Virginia and Maude Bywaters of Winchester visited their home here. Mrs Paul Ritter attended at Mrs Ella Ge last week. M O T Dunn spent Thursday evening with her mother in Winchester. Lizzie Penn visited sister Ellen Penn near Fawcett Gap. J R Shappe visiting friends at Stephone City this week.
Floyd Flickinger son of the Rev Dr Flickinger of Centenary Reformed Church received a University of Virginia graduate fellowship carrying 500 dollars the universitys top financial award funded by a four million dollar endowment this is the first time the award has been made Flickinger a Lafayette College graduate class of 1927 now doing summer work at Charlottesville prior to pursuing advanced study
Capt. Ermilo Carranza of Mexico and Abelardo N. Martinez boarded Lindbergh's Ryan motroplane at Curtiss Field New York at 12 07 p m for a trip to Detroit. Col Lindbergh accompanied Carranza aboard a Curtiss Falcon craft.
Mr and Mrs H B Whiting and son Beverly Whiting of Berryville left yesterday by car for Norfolk Virginia to be guests for ten days of Dr and Mrs James Jett McCormick.
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