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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1923
Page
2
A fragmentary report notes beavers building two dams across a swamp stream, flooding the area and driving deer from their homes. The passage also mentions Philippine dialects and languages divided into Malayan and Aeta or Negrito classes, reflecting regional linguistic diversity.
Dr and Mrs Hunter H McGuire were honored at a large dinner hosted by L Marshall Baker with forty guests named. Miss Louise O Zirkle heads to Handley High School faculty after San Francisco studies and a Berkeley arts program.
Mrs. Joseph F. Moore visits her mother Mrs. John F. Rixey in Norfolk as Roy G. Mitchell and John S. Goldsmith motor to Washington. Several individuals travel for weekends and weddings, including Miss Hilda Scheuer from Mt. St. Agnes College, Warren ton and Roanoke Rapids wedding details, plus frequent visits among Washington, Richmond, Front Royal, Hagerstown and Staunton residents. The piece lists many relatives, guests, and neighborhood movements with short trips and social events.
Sixteen steamships with about seven thousand aliens wait off Ambrose Light awaiting midnight orders for quarantine and possible deportation. Officials anticipate heartbreak as many face forced return to Europe. 20 ships are set to enter port tomorrow and Monday, with Greeks facing the harshest quota.
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, assails President Harding’s labor speech delivered in Helena. He says labor demands more than words and credits unions with saving the day despite official acts and advisers. He denies any desire to destroy unions and criticizes the administration’s officials.
In New York on June 30 the stock market showed slight gains in a few issues but the overall trend remained downward. United States Steel fell to a new low for the year and closed heavily after roughly 450000 shares traded hands.
Misses Marie and Aileen Purcell and Ellen Lamb, visiting the Keatings on South Main, plan to return to Washington tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. A L Rosenberger and family travel to Baltimore to see Edith Pannett at Johns Hopkins, returning with Mrs. Jessie Cox and Sidney Cox of Trenton. Mrs. E D Laws returns home near Culpeper after visiting the Kinzel siblings and T Y Kinzel. Mrs. George T Baker is due from New Jersey to be with her mother, Mrs. J Reilly Grimm, bedridden on South Braddock Street but improving. Miss Marian Talbot returned today.
On July 4 the Winchester Golf Club will hold its inaugural handicap tournament at the new course on the old Coe place. Play starts at 1 PM with prizes for best scores. Members may enter by notifying Dr. W. D Myers or E. M. Pendleton. The course has drawn wide interest since opening, with the clubhouse nearing completion.
Beaumont Texas June 30 A heavy gas fire at Ches son well No 10 has spread to neighboring wells threatening a large portion of the field.
A line asserts matches could be produced cheaply with one pound of phosphorus enough to head 1,000,000 matches. The fragment also notes a statement about underground depth and temperature, claiming it remains cool at midday as at midnight.
Sune 30. Turkish authorities have informed the allies that all Greek ships entering Constantinople will be seized, per an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Constantinople today.
Schedule in effect June 17 1928 listing trains to Roanoke Bristol Shenandoah Hagerstown Philadelphia and New York with Pullman parlor car sleeper dining car connections. Contact agents H H Burks Berryville VA and W C Saunders Roanke VA for fares schedules reservations and information.
An advertisement for Triumph Pills claims they are safe and dependable when irregular or suppressed. It urges requests for "Relief" and particulars from the National Medical Institute in Milwaukee Wisconsin. The text also mentions stone buildings and implements with superior workmanship in the American Stone Age.
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