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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1924
Page
6
Mrs Harry expresses heartfelt appreciation to patrons friends and the Handley Board for the High School Auditorium and to all who offered help with the operetta despite setbacks. She credits Bryarly and the music class members for their dedication and asks continued effort from the Winchester Me community.
Local Roanoke service to William Roanoke Virginia with a dining car. Sleeper car from Roanoke connects at Memphis with a Hag sleeper. The Shenandoah line and W C Saunders, Roanoke general office, are noted as stops or contacts.
An administrator will auction the estate of Levi G. Opequon at 10 a m on June 19 1924 in Frederick. The sale includes implements plows gears a buggy poultry kitchen furniture beds bureaus stoves and other household items along with antique feather beds and canned fruit. Proceeds go to the estate and payment arrangements are noted.
The Associated Press reports in City on June 18 that London says relations would be broken if Mexico expels Herbert C. Cummins. The Mexican consul-general is instructed to reject Cummins' attitude, and Cummins is ready to leave Mexico upon receiving orders.
Associated Press reports on June 18 that the Minister was notified that Canadian postal workers would strike at 5 o clock this afternoon unless the wage controversy with the government is settled by that hour. The notice emphasizes urgent negotiations and looming labor action.
The first license under the new marriage law raising the fee from one to three dollars was written yesterday afternoon for Jesse D. Jenkins a 23 year old railroad worker and Miss Lucille Strickler both of Stephens City The groom a native of Strasburg Va and the bride a daughter of Frank Strickler
The Associated Press reports Virginia weather and crop conditions for the week ending yesterday. Temperatures favored growth while rainfall was heavy at times, little cultivation occurred, and most corn and cotton were planted. Wheat, potatoes, meadows, pastures good with wheat ripening in the south. fruit conditions good to excellent. cherries and berries plentiful.
In Albin Virginia on June 18, residents note visits by Nellie Foose of Hedgesville and Mrs A J Taverner. George Martin and family from Martinsburg called on friends, Coleman Dunn of Winchester stayed with Edward Bageant pair, George Miller and family from Winchester visited Y Hudson, and Gladstone Crim returned from reopening Salem for a stay.
Miss Selah Shull has returned after spending time in Philadelphia Atlantic City and Washington.
Crowds attend a city auditorium evangelistic meeting led by Rev. Ronk who speaks on breaking up fallow ground to renew spiritual harvest. He cites dry farming as a metaphor, urges repentance, and warns against ingratitude and worldliness as hindrances to revival in Winchester. A later event titled Knicker Knocker and Knocks is announced for 8 o clock.
Martinsburg W Va June 18 Mrs Sara A Diffenderfer aged 72 died at her home 224 South Raleigh street after two weeks illness from heart and kidney trouble She was born in Winchester daughter of the late M and A Forsyth and had lived here since the Jackson era She is survived by one son Walter Diffenderfer Funeral from her home Thursday at 4 o clock Rev W T Hall of First Baptist Church officiating Interment Green Hill Cemetery N an Forsyth of Winchester a niece was with her when she died
A powerful electric storm moved through Winchester late yesterday evening, delivering nearly an inch of rain in the town while areas just south remained dry. Eyewitnesses described terrifying clouds, bright lightning, and thunder, with winds shifting from west to north then east during a twenty minute downpour in town.
Irene Castle announces she is through with the stage, dancing and films to focus on motherhood. She plans to act as a mother and states she will be back in four weeks, carrying a book titled Getting Ready To Act a Mother.
Richmond June 18 Walter Sydnor 28 is being sought after the body of his wife Violet Worley Sydnor was identified in the James River. The couple had been unhappy since discovery that Sydnor had another wife. The wife had planned a final talk with him last Saturday night. both disappeared after that meeting.
Washington reports that Chinese and Russian governments have agreed to exclusive control and administration of the Chinese Eastern Railway. The State Department claims on behalf of certain investors are denied by the two powers.
Muyter Benett Sor Thoro piloting the Bel Gica won the Gordon Bennett balloon race in Brussels on June 3. He landed near St Alban's Head on the English Channel about 600 kilometers from the start, marking Belgium's third consecutive victory.
General John A. Webb, Civil War veteran and former state railroad commissioner, died at his home in Jacksonville Mississippi at an advanced age. He served in Virginia with Stonewall Jackson’s troops and was born near Lexington Virginia.
Mr and Mrs William Flemister of South Kent Street received word of two deaths in the family within a week. The first was their grandson Charles Walker Flemister infant son of C William and Lacy Flemister in Washington. A second message advised the death of Mrs Elizabeth Flemister at 115 Hast penny Baltimore Sunday.
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