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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1926
Page
4
Evening Star printing and distribution notes appear with publisher Ray Flood Byrd and listing of subscription rates. Prices shown for terms like one year six months three months and one month are included, with Associated Press rights reserved for republication of news dispatches.
The notice names candidates for the First Ward FRED W FORNEY HERMAN H HABLE and HENKEL HENRY and for the Second Ward R FRANK BARR J GEORGE BAETSJER and W W DELLINGER as listed officials or nominees.
The Winchester meeting highlights the Black Bear Trail as a key link in an international highway from Quebec to Miami. Winchester stresses its highway center role with six major routes converging there and strong, hard surfaced roads boosting tourist traffic and regional prominence.
The piece praises Governor Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia for walking tours and direct engagement with voters as an uncommon but commendable leadership style. It lauds his progressive stance, devotion to state welfare, and willingness to travel across the state to speak with citizens and seek practical service. The writer frames Byrd as a genuine Virginian upholding old Dominion traditions while pushing forward.
The speech celebrates postwar unity in Virginia, praising Governor Byrd and statewide leaders for ending sectional divides. It notes improvements from mud roads to hard surfaced highways and envisions a shared effort to advance prosperity and return Old Dominion to its former prominence.
A nostalgic verse vignette recalls a mid western town once famed for gunfighters gamblers and Bill Hickok. The poet contrasts violent past with present peace as locals discuss quiet town life and civic virtue.
Beverley Osborne Cary aged three son of George and Mamie Cary colored died yesterday at home No. 12 Gibbons street from whooping cough. Survived by one brother and one sister. Funeral services led by Rev. H. C. Walker this afternoon followed by interment in Orrick cemetery.
Presiding Elder Harry V. Wheeler will preach at 8 p m Sunday June 6 and lead quarterly conference at 10 30 a m Monday June 7 at Wesley Chapel. It is the first quarterly conference of the year and pastors urge full attendance of official members. H W Lindamood, Pastor.
Public notice requests all key holders to surrender their keys at once specifying Jenkins and Dunlap as the responsible parties. Dated June 2, 1931.
An old advertisement touts a purifying product promising flawless health and improved vitality. It urges readers to use the tonic weekly, promising benefits across the body and family well being, with full usage directions and a price of 85 cents at drugstores.
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