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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1927
Page
2
Irene, former Follies beauty known as Mary in Chicago, died after swallowing poison. Police say suicide likely due to love affair disappointment. The report notes she had not regained consciousness since ingestion and died this morning.
Mrs Laura Dailey and daughter Meryl of Siler and Mrs Elizabeth DeHaven of Washington visited relatives in Whitacre. Mr George Omps is indisposed at his Hinckle home. Norman Whitacre of Pennsylvania visited May 30 with his parents. Will Fletcher’s son Robert fell from a wagon injuring his head but not seriously, taken to Dr Offutt for treatment.
New Orleans reports rush of relief to 300 to 400 people in Woodside and Odenberg areas after a Baton Rouge flood alert. Food runs low for two days as Atchafalaya waters rise and Morgan City mouth of river shows higher levels. Breaux Bridge and St Martinsville near flood end. New Iberia says flood receding. Hotel de ville note included.
At a Winchester meeting leading bus firms arranged lease of a southeast corner building opposite the post office Handley Library and Elks Club for a new city terminal. The terminal will open June 6 with waiting rooms and conveniences. H Russell Potts is named manager to oversee services by several lines, though not all operators have joined the cost share.
Checks totaling 212000 are being mailed from the office of Virginia State Auditor C Lee Moore to Confederate widows and former servants who served with masters in the Confederacy. The payments cover the quarter starting June 1, and are slightly smaller than those issued for the March quarter due to a recent law reducing March payments.
The article notes an annual balance reallocation with a March 1 distribution of $255,985. John H. Johnson, pension chief clerk, cites a General Assembly law from a recent special session affecting many reapportionments and funds.
The measure adds widows previously ineligible to the Confederate pension roll. It sets eligibility for marriages before January 1, 1800 and closes the date to January 2, 1886. The act lacks an emergency clause and takes effect July 18.Annual pensions total about $1,000,000. The rest mentions scurvy remedies and a peculiar note on tubes eaten raw as a health tip.
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