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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1917
Page
4
A Chicago Tribune piece contrasts Northern and Southern race attitudes. It quarrels with Northern hypocrisy and notes Southern familiarity with Black people alongside a color line. The author suggests true liberty is tied to white superiority tempered by sympathy.
A humorous verse by Walt Mason satirizes a youth eager to enlist in wartime but rejected for reasons that mix physical quirks with expressing a desire to battle. The speaker mocks systemic or petty obstacles to recruitment and defends the idea that fit men should be allowed to join the scrap.
Grimes Virginia notes report Mrs John Dick on road to recovery after surgery in Winchester Memorial Hospital. Several residents visit relatives in Winchester Staunton and Middletown while others relocate for work in Elizabethtown Pa. Dr Edgar B Smoke returns greatly improved after months of treatment at the hospital.
J M Pangle stationary engineer of 128 South Market street states his back pain and kidney trouble improved after using Doans Kidney Pills. He notes that the pills relieve kidney discomfort and make it easier to straighten after bending. Price 50c at all dealers. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y endorses the remedy.
The court orders a Master Commissioner in Chancery to report on fealty and property, beneficiaries, division feasibility, creditor accounts, unpaid taxes, and other pertinent matters in the William A. Evans deceased estate. Notice by weekly Winchester newspaper publication for four weeks. A. J. TAVENNER, Commissioner in Chancery, June 15, 1917.
Terms of sale require one third cash on day of sale with the balance in two equal annual installments. Deferred payments secured by two bonds from the purchaser payable in one and two years with interest. Payment secured by a deed of trust on the property and a policy of insurance on the buildings. Maurice M. Lynch, Trustee. Wm. M. Bowen, Auctioneer.
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