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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1917
Page
4
The piece humorously critiques repeated public speaking through a narrator who jokes about timing and grand remarks. It depicts a speaker watching the clock, stifling his voice, trimming content, and finally walking away with a chew of gum as the crowd tires.
Miss Lucy Russell reports new donations to the Ambulance Fund for the Second Virginia Regiment aimed at purchasing an automobile ambulance and equipment. Daughters of the Confederacy urge timely gifts to reach Winchester's $100 quota and support Company I in Winchester.
Simple funeral services for Miss Nina Shepard were conducted yesterday afternoon at three oclock in the Presbyterian Church by Rev. Dr. J. H. Lacy. Delegations from the Women's Civic League the District Nurse Association and the Navy League attended and flowers were sent for the casket. Interment followed in the Mount Hebron Cemetery family plot with pallbearers named as Vernon Eddy W S. and Godfrey Miller.
Liberty Loan subscriptions totaled 3 035 226 850 dollars, oversubscribed by nearly 52 percent. More than 4,000,000 persons bought bonds with 93 percent of subscriptions from 3 960 000 people in amounts from 50 to 10 000 dollars. Some 21 subscribers sought 5 000 000 dollars or more. Winchester residents subscribed about 800 000 dollars and Frederick County residents contributed generously.
Open competitive civil service examinations will be held on July 7 to recruit eligible men for first grade or clerical posts in the customs service internal revenue service and other government departments. The Civil Service Commission conducts the exam and any U.S. citizen may apply. Information is available from the Secretary of the U.S. Civil Service Board at the customhouse or local post office. Exam sites include Abingdon Alexandria Charlottesville Danville Fredericksburg Lynchburg Newport News Norfolk Petersburg Richmond Roanoke Staunton and Winchester in Virginia.
William Hottel, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hottel, is home on a five day leave from the Navy. Four years of service end soon, and he plans to reenlist. He recently moved from the Mayflower to the Erickson torpedo boat with headquarters at League Island Navy Yard, Philadelphia.
Inez Cubbage a sixteen year old girl appeared in police court before Justice Fultz on a charge of disorderly conduct filed by Mrs. Bette Cave. The court imposed a five dollar fine plus costs with part paid and security given for the balance.
Real estate ad offers multiple Fauquier plots with detailed acreage and prices from six to five hundred plus acres. Locations include near Warren and macadam roads with houses, barns, orchards, and a 515 acre state quality tract. Other Loudoun Culpeper options include a fruit farm with 160 247 acres and thousands of trees.
Florence Murphy of New York travels to Claymont to visit her mother and sisters before sailing for France to serve as a Red Cross nurse in an army hospital. She plans to depart about August 1 and may become Jefferson County’s first representative on the European front.
Mr. Clark T. Fawcett and daughter Eva Fawcett of Fawcett Gap returned home Wednesday after visiting relatives in Sharon Pennsylvania and Salem Ohio. While in Salem they attended the Fawcett reunion held on June 16.
Miss Anna Harrison returns yesterday afternoon from a trip visiting Chambersburg Pennsylvania and Winchester. Harrisonburg News Record notes the home town connection and confirms she traveled to and from the two cities.
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