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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1916
Page
5
Train schedule snippet shows daily routes with times such as 9:20 am and 4 am, indicates service daily with Sunday exceptions, and mentions station duties under supervision of Superintendent and general passenger agent.
Norfolk & Western No. 1398 runs during the afternoon to Bristol and intermediate stations with Pullman Sleepers Dining Car Roanoke Parlor Car and connections to the Memphis special. No. 27-63 runs to Shenandoah and intermediate stations. Northboard No. 278 departs 9:32 a.m. toward Hagerstown Harrisburg Philadelphia and New York with connections at Shenandoah Junction or Washington.
Daily notices show multiple train services with local routes to Harrisonburg and Washington. Times include 7:30 am 12:25 pm 7:50 pm 7:25 am and 5:40 pm. Arrivals listed at Harrisonburg or Washington with small notes on buffet parlor cars.
A grainy ad claims severe illness and headaches were relieved by Black Draught after long use. An unnamed customer states the draught helped with stomach trouble and headaches, and a pharmacist endorses the product as a remedy priced at 25 cents.
Dr B M Roszel Shenandoah Valley Academy Winchester will speak at the Golden Rule Bible Class of Southern Methodist Church at 9 30 tomorrow on How To Improve the Moral Conditions of Winchester. The topic draws broad local interest and a large attendance is anticipated.
Rev. Dr. J. P. Landis of Dayton Ohio held a week long Bible conference at Big Pool Maryland attended by numerous United Brethren ministers from the Virginia conference. Rev. G W Stover of Winchester will preach at 11 am and 8 pm tomorrow with Sunday school at 9 45 am and Christian Endeavor at 7 pm. Preaching also planned at Red Bud at 3 pm.
Catarrh cannot be cured with local applications, as they do not reach the seat of the disease. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts on the blood and mucous surfaces, claimed to produce curing results. Sold by druggists for 75 cents. Testimonials available from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, Ohio. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
By authority of a 1916 deed of trust S M Black pledged mineral rights on a 260 acre Paddy Run tract known as Mineral Ridge in Frederick County Virginia. Trustee Robert Y Conrad will sell at public auction on June 29 1916 at 11 am in front of Winchester Court House. sale is for the whole property with cash terms and includes easements and personal equipment.
For sale an 189 acre farm on Lincoln Highway in Straban Township Adams County two miles north of Gettysburg Pa. Good buildings fencing high cultivation water at house and barn good meadow 72 acres wheat 45 acres grass. Inquiries to G Milton Krug Littlestown Pa Bell 3 R 46 7 mn. The clerk’s office of the corporation court Winchester Va May 15 1916 Buckey divorce suit ordered for appearance and relief.
Large sale of household effects including antique mahogany sideboard sofas chairs dining room table beds clock stove books dishes glassware washstands and more to be sold for cash. No removal until payment. Executor Elizabeth B. Glaize M. M. Lynch. Clerk Robert S. Smith. 14 ti11-6-24.
The document lists numerous students who passed examinations, separating by Grader categories such as second year and first to second year. Names include Eva Jackson Wilda Marin Corrine Thomas Virginia Grammar Stella Clark Bessie Novick Wilbur Cather Virginia Sumption Philomena Laren Marshall McCau ley Herman Barr Paul Postor Rosa Acley Georgia Ghoop Virginia PEa gle Virginia Grim Iva Hook Lillian Jackson Violet Larrick Ester Poston Mary Pearson Curtis Boyles Roy Ritter Leslie Smith Maurice Pifer Othel Spaid Lois Orndorff Naomi Pool Virginia Smallwood Margaret Shank Beulah Trenpary Marie Clark Thomas Swartz and many others with notes To be continued Monday.
An advertisement extols Dodson's Liver Tone as a pleasant vegetable liquid that substitutes calomel without causing salivation or sickness. It claims all ages can use it, promises quick relief from biliousness and constipation, and guarantees money back if it fails to act better than calomel per the druggist.
Miss Evelyn Totty leaves for Laphine Ra phine to visit Miss Irene Hoffman. Elsie Lemsey returns from Marion College. Col J C Baker and Lou Baker come back from Charleston S C after months with Dr and Mrs Mitchell. Colonel’s health improved. Mr and Mrs A C Thomson and family and Ollie Sargeant of Riverton visit Mrs J Guard. Mrs Eina Sargeant of Riverton is in Memorial Hospital. Rev R H Cline returns from Baltimore with son operated on at University Hospital. Mrs S E Fetzer of Moorefield spent weekend with Mrs S B Grove. Mrs T A Stickley of Strasburg visits Dr and Mrs P B Stickley.
Decree of the Corporation Court 1913 in Scott Colvert vs Richard Colvert directs a public auction for the late Lewis Calvert property 616 North Main Street Winchester on Saturday June 24 1916 at 11 am. The lot fronts 2 feet 6 inches on North Main and extends about 200 feet to an alley. Terms: one third cash, balance in two annual installments secured by purchaser bonds payable one and two years from sale with interest, deed of trust and fire insurance. Auctioneer M M Lynch. Clerk J B Beverley certify bond secured. 5-25-4w
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