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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1916
Page
5
Trains arrive in Winchester from listed stations at 9:20 am daily except Sunday and at 7:22 pm daily except Sunday. Superintendent B A Rippua and general manager P A oversee service in Mechanicsburg and New York Pennsylvania regions.
No. 13 9 18 a m for Bristol Roanoke includes Parlor Car and Pullman sleepers with cafe car in Sheran and Gary. Connects at Roanoke with Memphis special to points South. No. 27 6 38 p m serves Shenandoah and intermediate stations.
Rail timetable item notes No. 49 Daly at 12:25 noon Local for Har tenonburg arriving Harrisonburg 2:50 p m at the Buffet Parlor Car on the Eastbound run from Strasburg.
In Lee Memorial Chapel at Washington and Lee University on Saturday Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard rose after Gen. Julian S. Carr spoke and questioned Carr’s claim that the Southern army held the best blood while the Northern army consisted largely of mercenaries. Hart recounted his father’s Federal brigade service and defended Northern valor. Carr praised Confederate soldiers and traced secession ideas from New England and the spread of slavery.
A fragmented reminder stresses rural sanitation as health protection for city dwellers and questions education versus typhoid deaths. It cites U S Public Health Service bulletins on infant care, garden exercise, clean water and food, and California's decline in typhoid deaths, while noting rats as costly pests and the vast fly production risk per ton of manure.
A chronology of naval actions from 1914 to 1916. Key events include the August 28 1914 British victory off Heligoland with five German ships sunk, the November 1 1914 German squadron defeat near Chile, the Emden incident in the East Indies, the December 8 1914 British sinking of Leipzig Scharnhorst Gneisenau and Nurnberg off the Falklands, and subsequent Allied engagements in the North Sea Adriatic and Durazzo.
June 5 Carpers Valley Va. residents report visits from Howard Staple and family Upperville Allen Legg Stephens City Cora Carper at J S Carper home. Stover Carper family visited Randolph Russell. Ruth Margaret Kelchner M Curl visited Kater near Winchester. Hilda Harmer stayed with John Copenhaver near Cains Chapel. Carpers Valley Sunday School held children day service at 10. Grover C Carper stayed with Isaac H Carper Jr. Mabel Roe visited Winchester.
Miss Lou C. Jones of Winchester reports back pain relief and regulated kidney action after using Dean's Kidney Pills. She says a full box improved her condition and she feels better in every way. Price 50c at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. props Buffalo, N.Y.
By decree of the Corporation Court in 1913 the building lot at 816 North Main Street Winchester Virginia owned by the late Lewis Calvert will be sold at public auction in front of the Court House at 11 oclock a m The lot fronts 2 feet 6 inches on North Main and extends about 200 feet to an alley Terms: one third cash day of sale the balance in two equal annual installments secured by bonds and a deed of trust with insurance on the buildings Auctioneer William M Bowen and M M Lynch certified by J B Beverley Clerk of Court May 25 4w
Kernstown Virginia June 5 Miss Ruth Fones of Gaylord Clarke county visits Mrs R B Smith. Miss Martha Chandler of Strasburg visits cousin Miss Isabell Crisman. John Bright to Washington for a spell. Mary Holler ill. Earl Robertson and daughter Helen visit Alva Fry in Greenwood. Bettie Jones spent days in Winchester last week.
James Hay Jr a newspaper and magazine writer and novelist and son of Representative James Hay of this district passes through Winchester for Capon Springs to recuperate for two months after a severe appendicitis operation in Washington He is under nurse Maud M Larrick of Washington daughter of J W Larrick of this city Also Mr C B Guyer a Strasburg Virginia lawyer spent Saturday in town on professional business.
Frank Moseley of Moore's Hall Indiana reports relief from constant side and back pains after first Foley Kidney Pills dose. Within 48 hours all pain disappeared and he notes the pills activate kidneys and stop sleep disturbances. Sold everywhere.
A short aphorism urges generous praise over silence and material gifts. It notes the value of encouraging words and warmth, contrasting with keeping flowers in an icehouse and suggesting timely sunshine for plants.
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