Winchester Chamber Review Endorses Road to Washington and Water Street Widening
The Winchester Chamber of Commerce held a nine month review at its meeting with about fifty city leaders. It endorsed building the state road from Winchester to Washington via Millwood and urged Water Street widening. A resolution asked Congress to designate the Winchester Inn as a war hospital.
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Washington
Winchester
Millwood
Chamber
Water Street
Bell’s Corner
Winchester Inn
Chamber of Commerce of
McCormac
W. W. Glass
Bureau of Markets
Red Cross
Campaign Farmers’ Institute
Dairymen’s Convention
Valley Turnpike
Chamber of Commerce
McCarthy
Davenport
Iowa
Washington Highway
Clarke County
Winchester and Western Railroad
Main
W. L. Fultz
Irkunak Falls to German Hands Under Spiraling Siberian War
Telegraph dispatches report Irkudek, capital of Siberia province, captured by thousands of former German prisoners. Germany reportedly organizing a 160000-strong force near Liung. War Minister Oshama says Vladivostok supplies safe. emperor returns as elder statesmen convene a pivotal council.
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Tokio
Irkudek
Liing
Oshama
Siberia
Vladivostok
Japan
Mob Attacks Polish Priest in Tar and Feather Incident
A mob of over 300 people tarred and feathered four men including grocer Theodore Yunker and pastor Father Kovalsky for disloyal remarks about the US government and President Wilson. Yunker and others were dragged from jail and forced to kiss the American flag in the public square. Parishioners reportedly joined in the mob action.
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United States
Wilson
Mre
Theodore Yunker
Henry Pembroke
Herman Weysler
John Kovalsky
Pather Kovalsky
Father Kovalsky
Germans Gain Ground At Enormous Cost Of Life
Reports from London and Washington describe the German offensive in France with huge casualties on both sides. German losses top 160000 killed wounded and missing, British under 100000, as heavy fighting and continued withdrawals test Allied defense from the Oise to the Senre river.
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Wiashington
Dam- Tondon
Cambria
St. Quentin
St. Ag Rasin
Oise
Senree
Arras
Ag Goutta
St Quentin
Germany
Haig
Aovicera
Supreme War Council
Miss Kate Brady Died Visiting Romney West Virginia
Miss Kate Brady sister of Mrs John J Cornwell wife of the governor of West Virginia died Saturday while visiting at the home of her brother I Parsons Brady in Snyder Texas and Romney family members survive. Her funeral was held in Romney at Indian Mound Cemetery with Rev W H Meyers of St Stephens Episcopal Church officiating.
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William B. Cornwell
Romney
W.va
Kate Braily
John. J. Cornwell
Wat ‘Virginia
I. Parsons Brady
Bnyder
Tene
Indian Mound Cemetery
W. H. Meyers
St Stephena’s Protestant Episcopal Church
Mies Brady
Greens Cornswell
Susan Brady
Rom
Ney
Messrs. I.parsons Brady
Snyder
Texas
J. Burr
Ste Lene
Aoe
F Ney
Holy Week Observances Begin With Palm Sunday Services
Palm Sunday ceremonies at 10 30 a m at the Church of the Sacred Heart mark the start of Holy Week. Rev John Jerry will celebrate high mass, palms blessed at late mass, and The Palms will be sung by Donald McPadden.
Washington Star City Edition on Sale Sunday
The Washington Sunday Star will be sold in Winchester by 1 p m each Sunday starting tomorrow March 24 with a special costly arrangement. The edition arrives in Washington around 5 a m containing the latest battlefront and major news up to press time. Middletown and Stephone City will also receive this service beginning tomorrow.
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Washington Sunday Star
Winchester
Washington
Washington ‘Sunday Star
Middletown
Stephone City
Easter Flowers And Corsages From Seal's Music Store
Vivid flower selections including carnations violets roses and lilies. Special corsages and arrangements offered with nationwide delivery. Agent for Blackstone Washington's leading florist Seal's Music Store advertises floral orders available across the United States.
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United States
Blackistone
Washington
Seal’s Music
Baker Finally Joins Federal Service at Camp Grant
Samuel H. Baker, 21, of Brownsville and brother of Henry S. Baker Jr., has finally entered the army after three rejections. He served with the Washington and Lee University Hospital Ambulance Unit in France and will join the engineer corps at Camp Grant Illinois. His slight eyesight defect was waived after a top medical exam in Washington.
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Samuel H. Baker
Henry S. Baker,Jr
France
Washington and Lee University Hospital
Army
Baker
Civil Engineering
Pennsylvania Railroad
Brownsville
Camp Grant
Rockford
Inl
Engineer Corps of
Washington
Northwestern Turnpike toll renewal dates listed
For the year April 41 1918 to March 3 1919 tolls will be collected at Gate No 1 Winchester on March 28 29 and at Gate No 2 Gote on March 30. Patrons wishing to renew tolls must apply on these dates as no other time will be named. BOARD OF MANAGERS Northwestern Turnpike Company.
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Northwestern Turnpike
Winchester
Gote
Northwestern Turnpike Company
Nine room house with bath and electric lights
Real estate notice lists a nine room house with bath and electric lighting terms. Attorney M. M. Lynch represents the transaction. Details remain limited in readable text.
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Bath
M. M. Lynch
Wes
Box Social Postponed to March 26 at Valley School
The box social, postponed from March 14 due to the storm, will be held March 26 at 7 30 p.m. at Valley school on Martinsburg Pike. A number of speakers will address the topic Our War Problems, and the public is invited.
Nurses' Death Rate Low in France Says Red Cross
The Atlantic division of the American Red Cross reports the death rate among Red Cross nurses on duty in France does not exceed one in a thousand. More than 7,000 Red Cross nurses are currently engaged in service. Also an advertisement seeks a capable married man to run a small furnished farm with exceptional home surroundings for immediate possession, address "Z" care of Star.
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New York
Red Cross
France
Atlantic Division
American Red Cross
Easter Monday Supper Benefit for Lutheran Graveyard
Old-time supper planned for Easter Monday at McCarty's hall Stephens City to raise funds for the Lutheran graveyard. Also notes cheaper lime sulfur solution from Mo S Solenberger Co and a special Saturday sale on toothpaste and toothbrush at Asco Drug Store 139 N Main St.
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MO. S. Solenberger & CO
McCarty
Stephens City
Old Lutheran Graveyard
Doctor Alten to Report for Duty After Knoxville Wedding
Dr Lewis M Alten formerly at Winchester and now in Clarke county was ordered to report for duty. He will go to Fort Oglethorpe Georgia next week or after attending the wedding of his brother in law Kenneth Gilps and Miss Tyson in Knoxville Tennessee this afternoon.
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Lewis .M. Alten
Winchester
Clarke County
Fort Oglethorpe
Kenneth Gilps
Tyson
Knoxville
Moore Insurance & Realty Co Seated in Charles Town
A long standing Moore Insurance and Realty Co operates in Charles Town West Virginia for over fifty years offering furniture and undertaking services from a historic local location.
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Moore Insurance & Realty Co
Charles Town
How Jeffersons Were Deprived of Their Home
A fragment from a historical column recounts Martha Jefferson Randolph and Monticello. It notes Monticello’s sale in 1820 to Uriah P. Levy and the later Supreme Court like dispute, with Levy bequest to the people failing. It covers Andrew Jackson’s devoted wife and political slander.
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Paris
Madame LaFayette
Martha
Tom Randolph
Sonon
Patty
Eppes
White House
Jefferson
Monticello
Commodore Uriah P
Levy
Dorothy Dix
Good Housekeeping
Randolph
Charlottesville
Uriah P. Levy
Captain Levy
United States
Thomas Jefferson
Mrs. Randolph
Andrew Jackson
Martha Jefferson Randolph
Arave
Renewed Italian Front Activity Reported On Piave
Rome dispatch says German and Austro Hungarian artillery shell Italian positions across the Piave river while enemy patrols expand activity along the entire front, according to advices from the battle zone dated March 23.
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Rome
Piave
Soldier reports good treatment at Camp Lee
Thomas Tapscott describes his visit to Camp Lee noting courteous officers, satisfactory food, and camps made as homelike as possible for the soldiers.
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C. Eet Eee 2
Regate
Thomas Tapscott
Camp Lee
Young Mother Is Called By Death in Middletown
Funeral services were held for Evelyn Manuel Shrum at Progressive Dunkard Church in St Luke. She died at home near Middletown in her thirty second year leaving husband Charies H Shrum two children and four sisters and one brother. A separate classified ad seeks a strong boy 17 or 18 to learn candy making at Beck's Bakery.
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Middletown
Dunkard
St. Luke
Wiseman
Evelyn Manuel Shrum
Charies H. Shrum
Evelyn Manuel
W. W. Shirey
Dalesville
Ind
Flora Griest
Oskaloosa
Iowa
B. L. Lemsey
Stephens City
Robert Brannon
FW. Manuel
Oranda
Beck’s
Ginn Brother Near Death In Oklahoma Home
Former resident Joseph D Ginn of East Piccadilly Street learns from Newalla Oklahoma that his brother Moses Ginn is seriously ill at his home in Newalla and not expected to recover. Moses is a son of the late James Ginn of this county and moved to Oklahoma 45 years ago.
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Joseph D. Ginn
East Piccadilly Street
Newalla
Okla
Moses Ginn
Ginn
James Ginn
Thin County
Oklahoma
Miss Carter Conrad Returns From Southern Army Camps
Miss Carter Conrad has returned from an extended visit to several army camps in the south visiting her brothers Lieut Col Bryan Conrad at Camp Gordon Atlanta Ga and Capt Robert Y Conrad at Cass McClellan Anniston Ala Colonel Conrad is now in Winchester visiting at his mother Mrs Holmes Conrad on North Market Street.
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Miss Carter Conrad
Bryan Conrad
Camp Gordon
Atlanta
St Pauls Church Services Tomorrow
Tomorrow at St Pauls A M E Church preaching at 11 00 am by Rev G Oliver Wing Sunday school at 2 20 pm and preaching at 7 30 pm by Rev Walker Carter Members asked to pay annual dollar G Oliver Wing Pastor Castle Halls Cigars 2 for 9 cents Asco Drug Store 139 N Main
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St. Paul A. M. E
G. Oliver Wing
Walker Carter
Castle Halls
Asco
N. Main
Birth of Nation program to aid Sarah Zane fund
A benefit event titled Birth of Nation will be held at the auditorium with proceeds supporting Sarah Zane. Public notices invite attendees and announce ticket options at general admission prices.
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Beneft
Sarah Zane
Rest Neighborhood Knitters Hold Busy Meeting in Virginia
REST Virginia March 23 The Crosa unit arrived in the village and met at the home of Mrs Ralph Whitmore one evening. The Ladies Aid Society served lunch with proceeds totaling 3280 dollars. Several local residents visited ill relatives and returned home last week. Variou s families hosted gatherings and the community enjoyed a busy week with members traveling between Winchester Brucetown and Sumint Point.
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Rest
Crosa
Hor
Ralph. Whitmore
Ida “Bogert
Nab
Anne Baves
Bachester
Lucy Brown
William Crim
F. T. Pine
Brucetown
Harry Flowers
Harry Feag
Kenneth
Indiane
Virginia
Hera
Will
CR. Anderson
Winchester
Harry Mouldin
J. Ww. Somerville
Near White
Randolph Colston
Sumint Point
Sandee
Fae Schlack
Miss Sipe to wed soldier in formal announcement
Announcement lists Miss Mire Patt Sipe, daughter of Mr and Mrs Geores Sipe of Parannee Ug ta Tien, Qennte, Brest U. SoA, and notes her engagement to a soldier. The bride's father is a prominent local attorney in Sonburg.
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Sipe
Mire Patt Sina
Geores Fo
Sitpe
Pareann
Brest
U. Soa
Alexeniria
Miex Rine
Promissonburg
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Pranklin
Frye
Honethard
Fred L. Glidze
Washington Star City
Episcopal Church
William Cabell Brown
D. D
Diocese of
Congregation of
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church
W. D. Smith
Bishop Brown
Colored Episcopal Mission
H. N
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Mountain Road
Howard Chapel
Mt. Carmel Church
BOX Social
Asco Drug Store
N. Main St
Goreng
Mrs. Hirsch
Mayor Candler
Ben
Franklin
Nemo
ST. Paul's
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