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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1920
Page
1
Herbert Hoover states in a letter that he has no campaign and is not seeking public office. He notes clubs advocating his nomination have sprung up but questions their resources and openness while urging full publicity and proper restrictions on campaign spending.
A large meeting of firemen last night in the city courtroom reviewed the association’s plans for the Cumberland Valley Firemen's Convention to be held in August. Secretary Jacobs was invited to visit Winchester on April 16 to finalize convention details. The resignation of Secretary Fred Forney was not accepted. a special committee will urge him to reconsider.
Paris dispatch reports Odessa, the Black Sea port, occupied by Ukrainian forces under General Pavlenko, per the Ukrainian mission in Paris. Auction notice follows: public sale of house and kitchen furniture set for Tuesday March 30 at 7:00 AM at 108 East Leicester Street, items listed by auctioneer Swan Son.
In Mayfield Kentucky March 27 night riders attacked western Graves county tobacco farms with torches. About 200 to 300 tobacco pioneers from the northern Graves county visited Mayfield tobacco and set fires in protest of falling prices. Dozens of growers organized to withhold sales and prevent warehousing. Earlier 20 McCracken county growers threatened Paducah bound tobacco trucks with shotguns to turn back.
Congratulations flow to Mr and Mrs Goodwin on the March 25 birth of a son named John Gravatt in Richmond. The notice notes the family's joy and identifies the parents connected to Clvist Protestant Church and its rector.
Evangelist George Wiley spoke at the Baptist Church last night focusing on Christian love as essential for faith and church progress. He warned against jealousy envy and evil speaking hindering the kingdom and urged love as the starting point for faith. He announced Sunday school at 9 30 a m and youth service at 4 p m with further talks on The Greatest Thing In Heaven and In Earth and The Unpardonable Sin at 7 30 p m inviting all.
Special services will be held at Christ Church during holy week. The Rev. Robert A. Goodwit will lead daily sessions with 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. gatherings, 5:00 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, and Holy Communion on Friday and Saturday. The cantata The Crucifixion by Sir John Stainer is set for Friday evening.
WYVILL offers painting and finishing work with latest designs for hangings and floors. See fine designs in stock and prompt service. Phone 135 W. Terms mention Water Street area.
Local Scouts from the council of Boy Scouts of America join President KR T Barton Vice President B M Hostel Councilman V Vernon Iddy and Scout Commissioner OL euaker at the national council gathering in the Pennsylvania Hotel New York sessions feature Herbert Hoover Maj Gen Leonard Wood Gen John J Pershing Theodore Roosevelt and Mortimer Schiff among hundreds of delegates Over 1600 guests expected for the tenth anniversary banquet tonight.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Timper and others with vague references to seeds and water. no clear event date or context. Unable to determine a coherent news item or identifiable organizations or persons beyond Timper.
The Naval and Military Quartet of the Salvation Army arrives in Winchester for a campaign at the court house auditorium tonight and tomorrow. Ensign Ernest Holz will lead the events, with an 8 pm musical and a film The Doughboy and the Doughnut Girl. Open air concert at 7 30 precedes the grand musical. Tomorrow 3 30 mass meeting with Holz, then a 7 49 pm night service led by Captain Victor Wright.
A Grace Lutheran Church notice says the Men’s Bible Class grew from a few men to 1416 in under a year. It meets every Sunday at 9:30 AM and invites attendance to see the class’s fine spirit firsthand.
Congress man T. W. Harrison secured 41,800 dollars for a new post office building in Front Royal Warren county Virginia. A supervising architect representative visited the site this week to arrange detailed drawings. Local citizens are urged to supply lime lumber sand stone and other building materials at cost. Harrison had pushed the Front Royal funding for over two years but wartime delays held it up.
Mrs Carolyn S Fahnestock of Washington DC and her daughter visit Winchester to arrange a monument honoring Colonel Snowden Andrews of the Confederate Army. The land deed transfers on the John Stephenson farm where a Civil War action on June 15 1860 or 1863 occurred. The $8000 to $10000 sculpture will sit on a 64 by 158 by 73 by 4 foot plot at the Jordan Springs road and Martinsburg Pike intersection.
Advertisement notes Ford prices at Overland Sales and Services Co located at Cor Main and Water. Contact phone 492 for fitting or purchase details.
George Evans a well known colored cabman died at his North Kent street home after a long illness. He was struck by an automobile while driving his cab and suffered injuries that led to his death. He was fifty six and left four brothers and a sister. The funeral will be Monday at 2 o clock from his house.
Delivery information for Winchester Orchard Supply Co with phone 315 and address 30 No Market Street. Service details and contact options implied by the fragmented text.
Fragmented lines mention products and firms including Blue Stone Sulphur and Black Leaf 40. It lists Cooper & Bons and references Senate Liga Lite and Sulphur. The text appears as an advertising scramble with car and line references and lacks clear narrative.
Bromley's Garage advertises one new Essex touring car for sale. Miss Edith Cochran has gone ont
Congressman Thomas W. Harrison of the Seventh District opposes compulsory military training in peacetime noting it would burden taxpayers and take needed labor from farms. He warns a large peacetime army would require vast annual costs and compulsory service. He has introduced a bill allowing federal convict labor on public roads and referred it to the judiciary committee.
Announcement made of the purchase by Mr Fred 4 bie of a brick two story building in Grove fronting 25 feet. The price paid was about 12000 dollars. The buyer has not indicated plans for the property or any changes. The building currently houses Harper and Smith automobile dealers.
A rural ad offers a two bedroom bungalow with air feature cellar two porches and land. It includes a barn stable shed tent house chicken house and farm facilities for raising stock. Located about 2 miles from town with terms $500 cash and $25 per month from Gro B Chapman agent.
Limestone farm of 108 acres offered by T J Cooper & Sons. Apple land noted. Legal notice references Larricer as attorney for owner. Also advertised items include lime products and belt onion seed from Millers Drug Store. Car shipments of lime and sulfur materials promoted.
Four Atlantic Refining Company employees died and 19 were injured when a passenger train collided with a bus near Philadelphia. The incident involved company workers and occurred at a crossing, with several other people reported injured.
Two fires severely damaged the American linen ship near Southampton and another steamer New York is suspected of incendiary origin. Virginia Herrkel, a student at Centerville College in Baltimore, visited her parents in South Market Street.
Dharma Shand of Rooney Indimnee will lecture Sunday at 11 o'clock in Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church on religious life and customs of his country. Ten others in traditional dress will join the program. The event is part of a series and will feature instrumental music by the Salvation Army Naval Military Quartet and a Wesleyan Bible class led by Rev. H. G. Spencer.
Flagerstown resident Mr. Flugh of Stehe rt Whighecter Maryland went to the city in regard to settling the estate of his father N. W. Richardson and his brother John Richardson. He qualified as administrator for both estates to receive payments from blocks of Valley Turnpike Company stock liquidated before being turned over to Virginia authorities. Read Moline and Seal’s Spring opening ad.
The Flower Shop opposite the old depot announces early orders for Easter flowers and blooms. Shop invites customers to reserve bright arrangements and poinsettias for holiday decorating and gifts.
John J. Sloat presented Charles D. Stoat's will for probate but the order states he died owning no real or personal property. The estate appears to pass to widow Mary E. Sloss. she died since, leaving no estate to administer.
March 26 dispatches report workers from the government forces retook ground near Wesel after shelling. Lippe Castle fell about a mile from the observer, with government troops asserting insufficient numbers to hold the line. Guns discovered across Berlin area align with treaty enforcement reports from Paris.
Reported by exchange quotes a March dispatch stating the 87 government was removed from Warsaw to London. The fragment notes Thorn and Pocen as names mentioned in the uncertain text.
Fragmentary note reports Mr. Thomas Byrd returning from Richmond after several weeks away. The readable text is incomplete and lacks clear dates or full context.
A young banker named Ea Mitte 3 Henke of South Market reportedly suffered an attack of ag zn that left him unable to sleep and sent him to bed. Officials said the injury was not serious and the incident was under investigation.
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