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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1923
Page
4
The Evening Star lists Barry Flood Byrd as publisher and notes the paper is a second class matter at Win Virginia. It details association with Morning News and Weekly Mirror and provides subscription prices for one year six months and three months, with carrier and phone details.
The text argues that higher income taxes push wealthy individuals to invest in tax free securities, creating tax dodging. It claims the number of Americans paying taxes above 100000 fell from 3600 to 2300 in a year, urging politicians to end the incentive by lowering or reforming tax policy.
Economists from Federal banks colleges and farm stations met with Department of Agriculture officials to discuss the wheat market. They blamed expansion of wheat growing and weak Western European demand for the slump with farmers receiving about 80 cents per bushel while bread prices rise about 10 percent.
An analysis in Washington breaks down dollar expenditures into categories. Interest on debt and the sinking fund receive large shares, followed by veterans pensions, Civil and Spanish War veteran pensions, naval and army maintenance, public roads, tax refunds, Shipping Board expenses, and overall government activities. The piece highlights the heavy burden of the public debt and sinking fund.
In a historical reflection the Roanoke Times notes claims that a bond issue for roads in Virginia would not raise taxes, while highlighting that 37.6 cents of every dollar in national taxes funds interest and sinking debt.
A historical report explains that rigid pavements such as concrete slabs and cement grout blocks cannot absorb heat expansion. Excessive heat causes these slabs to lift and explode, endangering pedestrians and drivers, prompting a shift toward flexible asphalted surfaces that absorb expansion and contraction.
In Pushtown, zephyrs scatter printed dodgers clogging streets and frightening horses while a pink and green car is jammed with sale notices. The speaker condemns the drugstore billboards as poor advertising and rails at the pill pitches filling his taxi.
Hogue Creek notes from Mt Olive Va recount Rev J H Brunk preaching to a large congregation and Rev S R Ludwig delivering a Sunday School talk. Visitors include Emma Bowman and Miss Marion Cooper family social visits continue as Holmes Pingley improves. A Willing Workers Bible Class yard party July 28 funds hymnbooks.
Dr Bland of Toledo argued that the ten commandments existed before Moses and that the first five books of the Bible plus Joshua form a hexateuch. He claimed early Israel history is mythic rather than factual, to the surprise of Bishop Cannon who spoke at the conference in Lake Junaluska North Carolina.
The Erie Railroad Company must repay every employee who lost pay after wage cuts to crossing watchmen flagmen and trackmen in violation of Rail Labor Board decision No 147. The board ruled the carrier violated the transportation act and its order against contracting out in the case brought by the American Federation of Railroad Workers.
The dispute covers labor classes contracted to Lincoln Engineering Company at hourly wages 5 to 10 cents below the present wages of similar railroad workers on other lines, as set by decision No. 147 of the board.
The Philippine Independence Commission voted to send Manuel Quezon to the United States to carry protests against Governor General Wood and to President Harding. Quezon led the cabinet and state council in resignation and has led the non cooperation movement against Wood's administration.
Major Draper M. Daugherty son of the United States Attorney General was found in Chicago working as a coal salesman. He had recently left Stamford Hall Sanatorium Connecticut and had been missing, saying he would lead a new life in Chicago.
Washington reports the United States and France renewed their treaty of arbitration for five years without change. The pact, first signed in 1908, has been renewed at five year intervals. Secretary Hughes and French ambassador Jules Jusserand signed the renewal.
State Department notes exchanged at signing indicate if the Senate approves US participation in the world court the two governments will discuss an agreement to refer disputes under the treaty to the court for settlement.
Rear Admiral Charles Dwight Sigsbee dies of heart disease in New York at 78 after a long decline. He commanded the Maine during the Havana Harbor explosion and planned burial at Arlington next Monday. He was famed as a naval leader, inventor, and writer on naval affairs.
Local wholesale market prices list wheat spring chickens creamery butter and flour in mixed figures. Entries include local flour barrels and sacks, corn meal, cotton seed meal, sugar, and other staples with varied prices per unit or weight.
Market notes show corrections across several lines as the closing prices are adjusted. Wheat prices appear unstable while dairy and livestock quotes drift amid thin trading, with lambs and sheep listed alongside day-end numbers.
Lumberton North Carolina July 19 the case against Mike Lawson Jule Brogden and Johnson Hedgpeth alleged Klan members accused of taking part in the hooded whipping of Mrs Hattie Purvis and Mrs Mary Watson on April 14 neared a verdict with rebuttal testimony from Conrad Purvis and Norine Watson. Lawson Fairmonts police chief testified about his movements the night of the attack denying any knowledge of the flogging and asserting no Klan ties Mrs Lawson corroborated her husband brief testimony supported the alibi defense.
A fragment suggests a discussion of the phrase light as a symbol of truth, attributed to or referencing Lowell. The text hints at literary or philosophical exploration of illumination and honesty within a likely 19th or early 20th century context.
At a July 10 1923 meeting in Winchester Virginia the board adopted a resolution to dissolve the company and called a special stockholders meeting for August 2 1923 at 2 P M at the Winchester principal office to approve or disapprove the action. W I Hicks president signs.
County bids invited for installing a hot water furnace at the county jail. Information available from Sheriff Luther Pannett or H B Kline of Vaucluse. Bids must be filed at the County Clerk’s Office before August 6. H B Kline, Chairman, Frederick County Board of Supervisors.
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