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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1923
Page
5
In Keyser West Virginia on July 26 George Kemp discovered a pocketbook missing $285 after failing to recover it at several spots. While recounting his loss at the Farmers and Merchants Bank he felt an object between the stump and the artificial limb and found the pocketbook with the money intact.
An advertisement proclaims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the best remedy to combat female ailments. It links health to beauty, cites symptoms like headaches and depression, and urges women to use the product to restore vitality and complexion.
Social items describe Mrs. Charles L. Bowly hosting guests in Frederick with mentions of visitors from New York and Baltimore, plus hospital recoveries. A wedding visit by Mr. and Mrs. DeHaven of Yarmouth to Frederick is noted, with Edith Heironimus and Mr. DeHaven married in Martinsburg. Howard Swartz served as best man at the Martinsburg wedding of Allen Horner and Jettrye Luttrell.
Mrs. J. Few Brown has beautified the entrance to her farm Anne Brook on the Summit Point pike with a handsome steel gate and stone pillars capped with concrete blocks, the Clarke Courier reports.
The Rev Dr MecFaden of the Presbyterian Church returns from Richmond where he directed packing pig shipments to his home area. He and his family will stay away until later. Also returning are George Miler Paul Hartman Abner Huntsberry Preston Sartelles and George Swartzman who spent a month at Camp Meade training camp. They were among citizens who joined Pershing in a parade in Baltimore last Saturday.
Mrs Maynard Wisecarver and Miss Henry of this city attended a large reception at Pikeside Berkely county in honor of Mr and Mrs Eli Henderson and the latter Miss Bertha Butts whose marriage recently took place.
A large dance will be held tomorrow night at Camp rnwell on Capon where about 35 young people spend ten days as guests of Mr. Marshall Baker. Music provided by the Virginia Syncopaters and invitations have been sent to a number of guests.
Col Wallace W. McCammon left yesterday to join Mrs McCammon and Miss McCammon in Shinkton. Numerous visitors and residents are noted including Miss Buchanan s granddaughter Randolph Taylor at the home of Miss Buchanan and Mrs John S Scully returning from Baltimore.
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