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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1922
Page
7
Banks announce July 4 1922 a legal holiday with closings. Shenandoah Valley National Bank Union Bank of Winchester Farmers and Merchants National Bank Commercial and Savings Bank all close July 4 and reopen July 5 with payments due July 5.
In the upper Amazon an intertribal division of work mirrors medieval guilds with distinct crafts. One group focuses on clothing, another on agriculture, and another on weapon construction. Pottery stands out for its range from extremely large thin vessels to small wares nearly as thin as paper. Hard work is touted as the best cure for the blues.
William Creasy of Fort Thomas Kentucky is held on first degree murder charges in the death of Edith Lavoy at her Freeport Long Island boarding house parlor. The defense claims death by own action while the state argues murder.
A string of social items notes visits and travels of local residents and guests. Edward Jones and his sisters stay in the city. Collinsylor of North Carolina arrives. Lou Timberlake returns from Staunton. Colleen Glass travels to Baltimore. William Conner from Cumberland visits. Mr. and Mrs. R Gray Williams go to Baltimore. J Allan Maphis and family visit J L Maphis on North Main. Several others depart or join relatives in Raleigh, Harrisburg, Washington, or Europe.
A garbled excerpt hints at a discussion on love faith and a promised plan. Names and clear events are unreadable, leaving a fragmentary and unclear narrative without concrete details or outcomes.
Representative Thomas W. Harrison, staying at his Winchester home, plans to return to Washington soon and then spend two weeks in the Seventh District. He says he is in excellent health and unperturbed by the Republican actions in the House that he calls a theft of his seat and an attack on the district’s constitutional rights.
Claude M. Grove argues in a competition essay that diversified farming protects against total crop failure, cites frost damage to apples, soil fertility through legume rotations, and year round employment. He urges citizens and banks to support diversification to boost income and livestock, crops, and poultry.
The funeral of Thomas Lillis a 53 year veteran of the Baltimore and Ohio was held at 9 this morning at the Church of the Sacred Heart. Father Gallagher conducted the services attended by old friends and relatives including distant kin from Cumberland Md and Roanoke Va. J Edward Keating from Washington attended briefly. Burial was in the Catholic Cemetery with pallbearers Maurice M. Lynch Bernard Sullivan Dr A D Henkle William Farmer Frank J. Russell and Patrick Murphy listed.
Hugh S Lupton 3d, son of Hugh S and Mildred Lupton, died Sunday morning at home near Clearbrook after four weeks illness of capillary bronchitis aged three years six months. He was their only child and grandson of the late Hugh S Lupton of Winchester. Funeral at 2 30 July 4 at parents home. interment at Friends Meeting House burial ground Hopewell.
The weekly weather summary reports the past week peaked at 96 degrees with a low of 61. Humidity ranged from 35 to 100 percent, and rainfall totaled .78 inches across June 27 to July 1.
An announcement says a mat ted race between a harness horse and a running horse will be held tomorrow afternoon at Winchester fair grounds. Wager proceeds go to the Sarah Zane Fire Company under whose auspices the races will be run. Sam Be Sure in 1915 lowered the track record to 2.10 with splits 1.05 and 1.65. The committee says the event will be highly attractive on the program.
The gypsy moth was released in Medford in 1869 during silkworm hybridization experiments. A few escaped and by the 1890s became a major pest, with Massachusetts spending about $1,000,000 to combat it. The campaign waned but pests resumed after it was discontinued.
A five pound weasel killed at the Walter Stine home on the Fort Collier farm northeast of town after it leaped from a chair and attacked Mrs. Stine. Frederick Md visitor Miss Lora Ekale aided by the family dog subdued the intruder and ended the struggle by shaking the animal to death in the dining room.
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