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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1922
Page
2
Evening gathering with guests Miss Virginia Mc Ilwee and Mr Cummins of Washington. Dr M E Gardner hosted luncheon for Mrs Rankin and Mrs Meclwee on Friday.
Charles Herbert Ott aged 18 son of Adam Ott was instantly killed at the Millville power plant last Sunday while employed by the Virginia Power Company. He reportedly touched the lightning arrester at the sub station and was electrocuted in an accidental fall.
Plans for the Lutheran Summer School to be held August 9 to 18 in Fishburne Military Schools buildings Waynesboro Virginia. The program promises a strong faculty with lectures for Lutherans and others, classroom study in mornings, recreation afternoons and lectures with stereopticon slides in the evenings. Registration costs 3 dollars and open to attendees of any church, with payments sent to Dr. E. C. Cronk Richmond or E. L. Kiser Waynesboro.
The Woman's Missionary Society will hold a yard party on the School House Lawn at Ridgeway Thursday July 6. Proceeds support mission work and community outreach.
Robert Nicholas of Winchester was arrested on carrying concealed weapons after a chase in Hagerstown. Bertha Finchman faced a disorderly conduct charge and was jailed in default of a fine. Nicholas was arraigned before Justice Halm, found guilty, and fined $25 plus $5 for speeding.
Officials of the Southern and Baltimore and Ohio railroads in Harrisonburg Virginia are performing duties of 50 shopmen who struck. At Valley division terminal the remaining workers keep trains ready for departure on schedule with indications that more men will return to duty.
Workers brought in to replace strikers arrived Friday night but left quietly when told they would be strikebreakers. Special officers guard yards and shops while unions picket without clashes. Reports from Strasburg Staunton and Lexington say shop workers walked out and trains remain moving.
In Richmond on July 7 motorists and police officers report the new Virginia road law setting a 30 mph limit in country districts is sensible and unlikely to raise road hazards for pedestrians or increase crashes. Some want a small tweak to curb outskirts speeds, but most believe open country roads can safely sustain 30 mph when no curves are blind.
Richmond July 7. Work on the Virginia Beach state national guard encampment advances rapidly and about 176000 dollars will be needed for completion. A new telephone system and mess kitchens are added. Adjutant General Sale requests more War Department funding. First Lieutenant Rice W. Levi receives federal recognition. Fredericksburg seeks to organize an infantry company but must wait for vacancies.
At the First Baptist Church the Lord's day services include a 9 46 a m Sunday school session with all age classes, 11 a m public worship on The Vitalizing Gospel, 7 p m Young People's Union Bible study on John 1 1 18, and 8 p m evening service on The Supreme Desire. The church proclaims Christ crucified and invites worship. Charles Adey, Pastor.
Mrs. QO. P. Rankin returned to Newmarket, Fenn., after visiting relatives in Winchester and Newport News, Va., and Washington, D. C. While in Washington she was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Mellwee at their home 1632 Sixteenth Street N. W.
From winter quarters the Campbell Bailey Hutchinson Combined Circus and Wild West presents a lavish show with gold leaf scenery and hundreds of acts. The program features the Crimson troupe, Davenport riders, Azuki Japs, performing elephants, Rochetta, 25 clowns and a wild west exhibit The Passing of the West. Two shows are scheduled at Winchester on Monday July 17 with a noonday parade and doors opening an hour before each performance.
Winchester releases a list of Shenandoah Valley League games including home and away dates against New Market Boyce Woodstock Front Royal Strasburg Mt. Jackson and matches set for July through September with times such as 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. officials schedule details show July 4 3:30 p.m. and other dates across the season.
A miscellany of classifieds lists two six room brick houses for sale on South Main St Wasy with low prices, farm and auto ad lines, rent listings at Ft Loudoun Seminary, life insurance salesman wanted with large commissions, sale of wagons and pony harness, orchard proposition near Winchester, new house for sale or rent, old brick awning and frame for sale, cook needed, and extended notes on local residents Mr and Mrs Newcome Sheridan Minnie Miss June Fishpaw and county wardens enforcing dog fines with no deaths reported.
The Burnt Factory Virginia Sunday school was reorganized led by superintendent G. Newcome with officers C. H. Fogle P. E. Williams Mrs S. G. Newcome and several teachers. A wedding at Summit Point was attended by Jonah Ballenger and family as Mrs Ballenger is related to Mr Dick. A baby girl arrived at Owen Crest farm to Mr and Mrs SS G Newcome with mother and child recovering.
Mrs. J. C. Emery of Cumberland sustained injuries when the car she rode in collided with another near Springfield West Virginia. Other passengers escaped unhurt and Mrs. Emery was taken to a Cumberland hospital for treatment.
Firemen from two Charles Town companies fought a blaze at the Luckey farm near Leetown after a box of matches blew into a thresher and ignited straw and outbuildings. The barn and house survived unscathed. Visitors including Mrs. Edgar Stipe and Edgar of Butte Montana and Miss Bertha Carter with Charles of Ridgeway were at Stewart Stipe’s North Kent Street home Wednesday.
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