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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1926
Page
4
Publication details list subscription prices by year half year and quarter with rates for mail and carrier delivery. The notice notes Winchester Virginia operations and consolidation with other local papers.
Election notice lists candidates for the first and second wards. First Ward contenders are Fred W Forney Herman H Hable and J Henkel Henry. Second Ward candidates include R Frank Barr J George Baetjer and W W Dellinger.
An editorial laments waning youth baseball in Winchester amid scarce playgrounds and few senior games. It urges civic clubs to organize interclub contests with Kiwanis Rotary and Lions, and proposes joining the Blue Ridge League to boost participation and curb crime, citing Mayor Dever’s remark.
Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch looks back at Gen. Rufus Ayres a former attorney general and constitutional convention member. It notes his 1914 congressional race loss, his contempt finding by Judge Bond, his eventual pardon by the US Supreme Court, and a statewide ovation. The piece hints at Virginia debt settlement politics and the Readjuster era under Mahone Cameron.
The dispute over old state bond coupons for tax payments led to Federal Judge Bond restraining Virginia officials and arresting General Ayres for contempt. Habeas corpus actions followed with notable lawyers including John Randolph Tucker and Roscoe Conkling. The U S Supreme Court ordered Ayres’s release, affirming state rights. The episode underpins Virginia’s credit recovery and Rufus A Ayres’s legacy.
At least twelve Omahans feel a personal interest in Byrd’s first airplane flight over the north pole. They rode in the plane in Omaha last October during the Ford reliability contest when it was piloted by its designer Anthony H. G. Fokker. Riders included Mr. and Mrs. Victor Roos Mrs. Victor Dietz Gould Dietz Mr. and Mrs. Ceccil W. Grange Charles Beaton Fred Metz Ballard Dunn E A Wurster and C N Dietz.
A prose piece traces the adoption of chevon as the name for goat meat, noting its aristocratic connotations and history from 1849 Turkish nudges to 1901 U.S. Agriculture approval. It mentions Missouri’s law elevating goat meat beside lamb and veal, and lauds the Associated Goat Raisers for promoting the term.
A verse dialogue entre Christopher P Crowder and a narrator critiques sleep aids and drug dependency. Crowder laments sleepless nights and reliance on powders, while the speaker warns of escalating use and decline, urging quitting to avoid ruin. The piece ends noting copyright.
An advertisement offers a free trial of a breathing method for asthma and hay fever. It targets long standing and recent cases, including chronic asthma and hay fever, and claims to relieve wheezing and paroxysms without requiring payment or postage. It urges immediate action and mails a coupon.
Governor Byrd announces the reappointment of Henry G. Shirley to chair the state highway commission. The Lynchburg News notes the move will be welcomed in Virginia with near unanimous approval, despite minor opposition from a few critics.
Sheriff Pannett reports an inmate named Peter or Robert Thompson from Frederick County died at Western State Hospital Staunton. Hospital officials said he had no known visitors or prior committal records, and no local kin could be identified.
Shenandoah Valley National Bank of Winchester Virginia advertises readiness to pay redeem and retire bonds of Northern Virginia Power Company per published notice in the Winchester Evening Star. It details redemption of first mortgage five percent bonds by Winchester and Washington City Railway Company, second mortgage six percent bonds with a one percent premium, and six percent Improvement Bonds with interest to presentation date.
The body will be buried in Staunton unless friends or relatives come forward today to claim the remains. Thompson is believed to have been an inmate of the Staunton asylum for many years and, if any relatives in Frederick county had existed, they may have died, leaving him forgotten in long incarceration.
The annual horse show at Carter Hall Grove Millwood has shifted its advertised date from May 22 to Saturday July 3 following a death in the families of key organizers.
Physicians endorse purification as Nature's foundation for health. Try Calotabs a thorough course, taken once or twice weekly for several weeks, to purify the system. Calotabs claimed as the best purifiers, with full directions, available at drugstores for 35 cents.
Today George H. Burwell secretary of the club issued a correction to a Berryville news item. The revised date indicates the event now ends on June 4.
A flower sale listing shows Rose bushes and Delphinium available from SMALTTS at 440 National Ave with items labeled by numbers 5 12 14 17 19 21 51 indicating catalog references.
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