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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1917
Page
3
An advertisement invites readers to write for a booklet about blood health and the S. S. S. remedy. It promises information on strengthening the blood and freeing it from various conditions, noting the product’s long history and offering a free booklet from the Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta, Georgia.
The death of Kinsey Kemp near Butler Maryland on July 10 at age eighty five leaves an estate valued over 100000 to be divided among nieces and nephews after deductions for cemetery lots life housekeeper and other charges. He was the last of three Kemp brothers to die within three and a half years. Heirs include Lucretia Fuller S V Kemp H Mitchell Miss S A Kemp Hunter Stine J P Kemp and Grace W Kemp among others.
Page County was battered by a sequence of hailstorms over several days causing thousands in damage. Potatoes corn wheat and garden vegetables suffered across three districts as efforts aimed to boost yields were erased by hail and washouts.
Miss Juliet Carter of Middleburg Virginia announces an engagement to Mr P Bryson Wood Jr a United States Navy pay master and son of the late Dr P Bryson Wood of Baltimore He is a brother of Miss Rose Wood and half sister to Mrs Henry A Parr Jr and Mrs William N Jeffers No wedding date has been set.
Mrs. Richard Evelyn Byrd expresses gratitude to all who aided the charity card party at the Inn for the war relief fund. She acknowledges the cooperation of attending ladies and contributing merchants whose items and presence supported a successful afternoon.
Miss Ella G Agnew state home demonstration agent will speak to Canning Club members in Winchester and Frederick county at Handley Library 2 30 Friday afternoon on home canning role in food conservation. Miss Tresa Murphy county agent arranged the meeting and will demonstrate at Evendale home of J S Haldeman. Canning interest grows with tomato ripening and demand for demonstrations from across the county. Second shipment of canners expected soon at the chamber.
In Nineveh Virginia on July 23 Mr and Mrs Ben White and their family visited the home of Luther Williams and attended a yard party at Fairview. Miss Berties Willis visits Miss Mary Hale and Miss Mabel Dovel visits Miss Olive Painter and Miss Elsie Cave. The Whites of Chambersville spent Saturday night and Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs Robert White. Laura and Selena Marlow of Browntown visit sister Mrs Love Manuel. Barnett Pitcock and family spent Sunday at Mr Robert White's. Rev Collis began a bush meeting near Refuge Friday and will continue through next Sunday July 29.
Chairman Albert C. Brown said Frederick County Republicans will hold a county convention probably mid August to elect delegates and alternates to the state convention. The county has seven votes at Roanoke for the state convention to be held the last of August and may elect 14 delegates each with one half vote.
"Uncle" Henry Malory died at 1 p.m. aged 92, a long time wood sawyer and local preacher who served in the Civil War on the Union side but never enlisted. Born into a fading era he was the last of his family, a kind if unafraid man, buried in Potter's field. He had several marriages and many children who predeceased him, and his life reflects a changing rural economy from wood to gasoline power and finally poverty.
A 1917 U.S. District Court action seeks to condemn 68.04 acres in Frederick County Virginia for a National Forest Reserve under the Weeks Forestry Act. The filing lists multiple parcels and claimants tied to Wake Weeks era land grants, with nonresident defendants and unknown heirs named.
A sharp note on canting in society. Sterne remarks that while hypocritical cant is strong, criticism acts as the most tormenting cant in the world.
United States seeks to condemn land in Virginia for national forest protection of navigable waters. The filing lists numerous nonresident defendants and heirs, describes parcels around Mountain Falls and Big Divide, and sets a September 7, 1917 hearing for commissioners to determine just compensation and award damages. The notice requires publication for four weeks and postings at federal building Lynchburg and Frederick County Court House.
A formal court clerical entry from the Western District of Virginia references official duties and docketing but provides minimal readable detail beyond identifying the clerk and court title. The text appears to be a fragmentary copy test with repeated names and positions.
Close of the Baltimore wholesale market shows wheat quoted at 240 and 2.01 per bushel with local dealers noting steady demand. The report reflects general trends in grain pricing and market activity amid routine dealer observations.
A fragmentary account traces Blücher's life from entering service at fourteen in Rostock to his role in the Napoleonic Wars. It notes his capture by Prussians, later service, rise to lieutenant colonel, and leadership in final battles. It mentions his controversial insistence on executing Napoleon after Waterloo and his death in 1819.
A historical roundup notes theater fires from Shakespeare’s Globe to Chicago s Iroquois theater tragedy. It mentions early fires in London venues Surrey Covent Garden and Drury Lane and a Richmond blaze killing 70 residents including a governor during 18th century upheavals.
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