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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1918
Page
5
An advertisement urges readers to stop using calomel and try Dodson's Liver Tone a vegetable liver medicine. It claims calomel is mercury and harms bones while Dodson's Tone cleanses the liver and bowels without salivation with a money back guarantee. It promotes use for adults and children alike.
In Boyce Virginia on Friday a Winchester Home Guard unit organized a company with over fifty attendees. Officers will be elected and members enrolled at the June 14 meeting at 8:30 PM, with a required sixty four men for full company. ages 18 to 45 only.
Stuart Hall adds new teacher Miss Mary Atkinson Whittle to the staff for the coming session. Whittle is a Stetson University BA, an MA from Columbia, and serves as head of the intermediate department. She is the granddaughter of the late Bishop Whittle and niece of Mrs. Alexander T. Jones of Winchester.
Ad urges recognition of kidney and bladder warning signs from age forty onward. It promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as a long trusted remedy imported from Haarlem Holland and available in three box sizes at druggists.
The notice lists sermons at Relief at 11 a.m. Macedonia at 4 p.m. and Calpers Valley at 8.30 p.m. It also mentions a first quarterly conference at the Patsonagé on June 18 at 2 30 p.m. and urges official members to attend. Mr Floyd R Brewer visits Baltimore and Miss Madge Keller returns to Dayton Virginia after visiting friends in Winchester Toms Brook and Mount Jackson.
General E W Nichols, superintendent, says more than 600 young men have enrolled in the VMI summer training camp with some placed on a waiting list. He notes applications were unusually high and expects space for slightly more than 600, forecasting a great summer program.
Ex Attorney General John Garland Pollard of Virginia urged American volunteers in France to speak for their state. He pressed for Virginians to step forward, but none did until a single soldier admitted two Virginians were present in the battalion yet both stood in the guard room.
Risity Boggs died at home of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Henshaw near Middleway Jefferson County West Virginia Sunday evening about 7 o clock aged seventy seven years seven months She had lived with the family since 1856 and was last of her family The funeral was held Tuesday morning June 11 at ten o clock conducted by Rev J C Siler of Dufields Interment at Stones Chapel Clarke County Virginia Pallbearers were L A Huyett W S Hiett N L Snyder John Fishpan William Grubbs and John J Ridgeway
Mr and Mrs E L Algier of Millwood Virginia and Mrs William Chapman of Lynchburg Virginia have returned to their homes after visiting Mrs Fannie Chapman in the city. Mrs Chapman came here due to the death of her father Captain Dilmon Estep in Millwood.
The text urges keeping Chamberlains Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy at home to treat stomach and bowels pains, colic and diarrhoea when a physician is unavailable. It claims prompt use can prevent suffering and even save lives, noting it is sold by all dealers.
By decree of May 2 1918 the Frederick County Virginia Circuit Court orders the sale at public auction in front of the Winchester courthouse at noon on Saturday June 15 1918 of twenty shares of Cuatotolapam Sugar Company stock par value one hundred dollars each The company operates a sugar plantation and factory in Vera Cruz Mexico Cash on confirmation Receiver R Gray Williams and Clerk Phil H Gold certify the bond is executed May 28 1918
German alien females must register at local registration places from June 17 to 26, excluding Sundays, under penalty for noncompliance. All females over 14 must register. American women who marry a German may also need to register. In Winchester, Chief M A Doran leads at Police Headquarters, open daily 6 AM to 8 PM.
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