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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1924
Page
4
Notice outlines publisher Barry Flood Byrd and newspaper mail rates, location Winchester Virginia, daily except Sunday, affiliations with The Morning News Item The Weekly News The Weekly Times The Weekly Mirror, and Associated Press rights for republication of news.
President Coolidge vetoed the postal salaries bill warning a $68 million appropriation would raid the treasury. He urged reducing government expenditures and taxes amid rising living costs, arguing for restraint over broad pay raises for postal clerks and carriers.
A Roanoke Times analysis notes Robert T. Smail’s World News dispatch declaring Henry Cabot Lodge’s political fall. It argues Lodge betrayed Wilson and Coolidge, lost influence, and is now a powerless delegate under instruction, in a bleak judgment of his career.
Fragmentary local notes record names such as Norman Jones, Ruth Miller, Mrs Knee, and Frances Mowery with mentions of a state Democratic convention in Norfolk and a birth announcement for a child of Mr. and Mrs. J. Keeler. The text references Aunt Ruth Miller of Vodatock and Mrs Bertie Jamis in unclear context.
Berryville Virginia residents elected mayor John B. Goldsmith recorder Dr. George Hardesty and councilmen Walter Wisecarver L N Glover a L Jones and E G Er amid a pig pen issue that drew a strong yes vote of 80 to 13 in favor of keeping pig pens in the corporation.
On the third afternoon of the Senior Class Popularity Contest the Empire Theatre run event, Miss Louisa Hollis and Capt Wilbur Riley remain in the lead. Paul Dunham remains strong for second place while Miss Viola Riley closes the gap toward Miss Mildred Richards who holds second. Voters fill the theatre lobby as bright color slides by C Fred Barr and Wm Miller light the display.
Four armed bandits entered the Clintonville bank and shot Frank Buchanan, a stockholder, when he resisted robbery. He died as the bandits fled, with no money taken and the cashier returning fire.
Fragmentary notices show President Millerand resigning in Paris on June 11. The remaining items recount local social visits and events in Winchester and Cedar Grove including funerals, family visits, Confederate memorials, and school activities.
A noon fire on the H. L. Keen farm six miles south of Bluemont Loudoun County Va destroyed a large barn. About 69 nearby men saved an apple packing shed and kept flames from the Keen residence. Hay corn and farm equipment were lost along with one hog. insurance covers about half the estimated 5000 loss. A saw mill on the property may supply lumber for a new barn.
Crop and weather conditions during the weeks ending yesterday show Virginia warmer and favorable but farm work slowed by showers. Corn planting and tobacco plots progressed. corn mostly planted in southern and central Virginia. Late cotton coming up but requires replanting. Truck crops improved. pastures and meadows excellent.
The Douglas School will hold field day exercises on the North Kent street grounds tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock. If rain stops the event it will be rescheduled to the next clear day. No admission is charged and the public is invited.
Residents return home from travels and schools with families from White Post and nearby areas. George Lee and siblings come back from St Christopher's School Richmond to summer with their mother Mrs J C A. Rev John F Coleman returns from Alexandria with two Seminary exercises. Sophia Sommerville returns to spend summer with Mrs H C Sommerville. Local graduates from Boyce agricultural high school include Virginia and Louis Baker Elizabeth Maunt Win Clay Carr Jr Lawrence Garber Leroy Hughes Eunice Carper Lola Funkhouser Katherine Funkhouser. William A Dearmont Jr wins pony race at Remount Station event riding Bob White. George C Meade returns from Winchester hospital where rheumatism treatment helped. Mrs Ina Meade visits Mrs W M Bell in Westminster Maryland. Airey Fritts home for summer after Marion Virginia studies. Susan Mary Sommerville Evans Johnston attend Remount horse show. Marguerite Elliott visits Mary and Mildred Thompson and attends Boyce high school finals.
An AP summary reports first aid guidance from National Electric Light Association expert Wills Maclachlan at the AMA convention. It urges continued artificial respiration for hours, describes safe current removal, positioning, and kissing of life through prone back pressure and rhythmic breathing, with steps for cooling, ammonia, and moving the victim if needed.
Prof H N Cole of Western Reserve University told the AMA convention in Chicago that cosmetics are instruments toward skin ills and homeliness, not beauty. He deplored rising cosmetic use and cited statistics on consumption and poisonous substances in common beautifying agents.
New York on June 11 reports that investors broadened buying as the long side of trading grew more active. Rail stocks led gains with their average at a new high for the year and call money renewed at 2 percent, seen as a boost to operations.
During the illness and death of my husband friends and neighbors were kind and sympathetic and expressed kindness with flowers and many other ways We extend our sincerest appreciation to them Mrs JT C Adams and children
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