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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1915
Page
4
A $200 tractor from Henry Ford is hailed as a potential boon for small farmers and orchardists. The New York World editorial argues a cheap, versatile machine could cut costs, boost yields, and advance economical scientific farming for the average farm.
Dispatches from Charleston claim political leaders will push repudiation of the debt West Virginia owes to old state creditors. The report suggests long standing gangs of politicians have cowardly avoided the debt and pressured actions against it amid Supreme Court rulings.
The poem ponders wartime urges across nations and the mars of human toil. Walt Mason laments growing aggression and gore while imagining a royal restraint, questioning why leaders seek bloodshed and why communities abandon productive work for armed conflict.
The text argues exaggeration is a natural trait in reporting from fishermen and others. It notes the length of a snake or bank gains can be inflated and then toned down to fit the truth. It claims the exact figures matter little to others.
Gov. Hatfield says the U.S. Supreme Court debt ruling does not justify a third legislative session this year. He sees no reason for an extra session unless new developments require it. Officials have not disclosed how West Virginia will meet its share of the debt.
Governor Henry C. Stuart appointed two Frederick County boys Charles Branson and Reginald Duvall as delegates from Virginia to the Universal Exposition in San Francisco on August 5 and 6. Branson won a silver cup last fall for the best ten ears of white corn and Duvall took first prize in the juvenile division for the same exhibit.
Stephens City VA June 21 Garson Steele returns from Port Military Academy Charleston Mrs Albert Bush visits two daughters in Towson MD and Bloomfield PA Martinsburg group spends Friday evening in town Lightning hits Mary Lindamood home slight damage no injuries Evelyn Heath Stickley in Winchester with Virginia Silver Ella Cadwallader visiting friends in Winchester Grove and Worrest family in Lancaster PA Ridgeway leaves for New York auto engineering course Samsell Front Royal visits town Mitchells from Charleston summers with Col Baker Grove family occupies new cottage Lime Kiln Ave Chipley visits with two children Adams returns from McKeesport PA Mamie Carver Winchester visiting friends Florence Guard Mount Jackson VA to Charlottesville for six weeks at University of Virginia William White family tour of Maryland Hartley Mason Town WV Emma Rimer Martinsburg WV guests for Hilda Doggett Alice McCarty Elsie Miller visit Chester Hansbrough Winchester Ed Padgett Winchester weekend with A M Smith.
A Harrisburg couple, Mr and Mrs T B Carpenter aged seventy, report complete kidney trouble cure after using Foley Kidney Pills. They claim they are as vigorous as thirty years ago and note relief from sleep disturbance, backache, rheumatic joints and restless bladder.
Authorized by non resident client to offer a small farm in Shenandoah County about two miles from the railroad station in a good neighborhood close to schools and churches. For terms and further particulars call or write.
In the east of Notre Dame de Lope the Battle of Hill No 119 ends with only ten alive after a stubborn assault. French forces hold the slopes while the German line crumbles. In Alsace French advances toward the Rhine and Munster flames signal evacution. Northern France sees a major French push squeezing German troops into a seven kilometer front as British forces restart operations in La Bassee to hinder German relief efforts.
A testimonial touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as helping a Missouri woman after years of nervous symptoms and failed remedies. The ad urges others to try the remedy for displacements irregularities cramps and bearing down sensations, claiming thousands of women benefited.
Four executors orders public sale at I N Conner residence in Vaucluse Frederick County Virginia on July 21 1915 at 10 oclock a m. Described property includes two good work horses five head of shoats four broad sows two heavy farm wagons and one good 6 21 m spring wagon.
Public auction to sell two properties in Winchester Virginia under a Frederick County circuit decree. Items include a brick dwelling on West Water Street and the Shenandoah Hotel on North Main Street with specified lot lines and bank-rights. Terms require one third cash at sale and balance in two annual installments with 6 percent interest. Commissioners and trustees oversee the sale.
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