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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1916
Page
5
Train schedule notes May 28 1916 for Cumberland Valley. Includes daily and Sunday service times with departures and station details. Official supervision by Superintendent and general agent referenced.
Mrs Catharine Goodling of 138 El King Street York Pa reports extreme weakness and suffering eased after using Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound. She says she no longer needs frequent medical visits and now has a bright baby boy. The ad urges other suffering women to try the remedy and contact Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass for guidance.
A special term of the Federal Court will begin in Martinsburg on September 12 for the hearing of Jeff Harrison charged with holding up a Baltimore and Ohio express train at Central West Virginia last October. About $600,000 in unsigned bank notes were taken. Secret Service agents rounded up the bandits and Harrison in Texas. Practically all the notes were recovered though over $100,000 in signed notes remained in the express safe.
Fauquier County held its annual horse and colt show at Grafton Hall Upperville on Friday after a Thursday postponement. Exhibitors included Mr and Mrs William F Hitt Dr Cary D Langhorne Henry T Oxnard A P Gardner Mitchell Hargison Brooke M Baker H Rozier Dulany and others. William Corcoran Eustis of Washington and Virginia judged hunting and jumping events. R Hunter Dulaney presided as association president with John R Buchanan as assistant secretary.
Franklin P. Neville as administrator of the Rebecca Barr Neville estate offers a brick house with modern conveniences a large back lot and splendid stabling. For terms and particulars contact P O Box 696 Roanoke Virginia through administrator Frank B Neville.
Frank Moseley of Moore's Hill Indiana reports relief from constant side and back pains after the first dose of Foley Kidney Pills. He notes that within 48 hours all pain left and claims the pills restore kidneys to health and stop sleep disturbances. Sold everywhere.
Public advertisement offering a money making cut‑out trial package from Foley & Co. Chicago. Readers are instructed to send a slip with name and address to receive Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound, Foley Kidney Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets for bronchial coughs colds croup and stomach relief.
Rockbridge county obituary notes the death of Wilbourn a traveling salesman long known across Augusta Rockingham Shenandoah and Frederick counties. Surviving relatives include his mother two sisters and two brothers with relatives from Raphine and Staunton contacting mourners. The funeral is planned for Raphine.
Andrew Rutherford a 19 year old of Kearneysville was arrested in Martinsburg and will be sent to Charlestown for a hearing. He is charged with stealing a bicycle three watches 25 dollars in cash a revolver clothing and other items and with threatening to burn several houses at Kearneysville. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has a warrant for him for cutting air hoses on several cars at Kearneysville.
Circuit Court Judge Woods in Charles Town upholds the eleventh clause of the late Wim. W. Rouss will. The Milton Rouss Charity Fund will use interest to aid the Charles Town Hospital’s poor patients needing board lodging and care, with Henry C. Page as trustee determining who qualifies.
Preparations are underway in Charles Town West Virginia to entertain delegates from the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South for the Epworth League convention to be held July 6 9. Many pastors of churches will attend.
An old newspaper item advertises placing a want ad in The Star with contact and pricing details, inviting readers to submit notices for classified placement.
F Headley of Shenandoah county was driving toward Winchester when his three year old son Robert fell from an open door at about twenty five miles per hour. The child sustained scalp lacerations and a bruised hip and leg.
Western Union Telegraph Company teams with a large manufacturing firm to supply high grade shoes to messenger boys at prices below current levels for similar footwear. The move aims to save money for the company’s employed messengers. The piece includes a patriotic cadence excerpt listing lines from well known American songs.
The Corporation Court of Winchester Virginia orders a public auction for the Lewis Calvert building lot at 616 East North Main Street on June 24 1916 at 11 am. The lot fronts 60 feet 6 inches and extends about 200 feet to an alley. Terms require one third cash with the balance in two equal annual installments secured by deed of trust and insurance. Auctioneer M M Lynch to conduct with bond and security approved by clerk J B Beverley.
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