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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1921
Page
5
The opening night of The Kid drew a large crowd and rapturous laughter and sobs. Charles plays a man who raises a baby into a boy with excruciatingly funny methods, presented as a comedy with pathos. Two shows tonight at 7.15 and 9.00, with a Saturday matinee and night.
The cantata ends with Pilate and crowd scenes from Before Pilate and Behold Your King as soloists Dr Asee Osborne and Albert Kerfoot perform. Mrs Nelson Page leads a moving Droop Sacred Head with organ by Mrs Fuller. Choirs and many local figures from Winchester Berryville and Perryville praised. Cantata to be repeated Good Friday by same choirs.
The Red Cross outlines common school skin ailments scabies ringworm and pediculosis capitis. It warns against spread by contact and emphasizes exclusion from school until treated and hygiene measures applied to clothing bedding and personal items. It also covers treatment cautions and prevention strategies.
The clipping shows wholesale price quotes for butter eggs chicken and grains with scattered figures and a closing note listing Miss Virginia Henkel of Goucher Dove Chapter Royal Arch Masons and her reception into membership by John. The readable items include butter creamery butter wheat corn No 1 timothy hay straw and various livestock prices.
Public auction at the late Joseph W. Bowles residence near Winchester begins 10 A M Tuesday April 5 1921. Items include Chalmers 1920 Ford horses mules cattle chickens farm equipment harness furniture and household goods with six month credit on amounts over ten dollars and notes with endorser and six percent interest. Proceeds go to executor Lee R Giem and guardian WwW Bowle with Duvall Dunn as auctioneers.
Local column records residents moving assignments to farms and homes in the area. Mentions include John Swartz, Charlies Roberta, George Busey, Walter Maltate, George Pitzer, W. H. McDonald, and M. H. Arme to various properties. social visits to Martinsburg and Winchester. Reverend D. B. Grove begins a week of meetings at the Methodist Episcopal Church. old tailor shop being weather-boarded. several local families visiting relatives and enjoying blooming fruit trees amid weather concerns. Harry Bowen returns to activity after illness.
Light fresh barrel apples arrive with quiet trade and ample poor scalded stock. York Imperial and Winesap show strongest prices while smaller box offerings struggle. Northern Spy and Baldwin vary by quality with wide price ranges and mixed demand.
Notice of a public sale at 123 South Main Street Friday April 1 at 10 am. Household furniture includes beds, mattresses, dressers, tables, chairs, rockers, carpets, quilts, cooking utensils, lamps and more. Terms cash. Thomas L House conducting sale.
The Rev. William J. Meredith of the Sacred Heart Church returns from Richmond where he joined most diocesan priests for solemn Holy Week services in Sacred Heart Cathedral. Dr. Delaunay of the Catholic University preached as the high mass commemorated the institution of the Eucharist. A vigil and Tenebrae followed with chants of psalms and Jeremiah laments as candles were extinguished.
A plaintive plea echoes for mercy as a blazing candle is lit to symbolize Revelation shining in darkness since Christ the Word was born flesh, a ritual underscoring the season's sacred message.
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