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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1928
Page
4
Daily Bible selections urged for parents to have children memorize as a priceless heritage. Merciful conduct benefits the soul while cruelty harms the self, quoting Prov. 11 17 and calling on the Lord for mercy.
A World article discusses death by own action and the death pact in the Campbell case. Cecil Campbell and his wife planned suicide and murder after hardship, leading to a second degree murder verdict with a strong recommendation.
The Norfolk Virginian Pilot notes Representative Reid as flood control chair praising the bill signed by the President last Tuesday as a landmark enactment. It credits extensive congressional effort and warns against censorship of exaggerated claims while stressing engineering work to make flood control a reality.
Senator Capper told the New Jersey Women’s Republican Club that those involved in Teapot Dome betrayed a party and defrauded a government. He added the Republican party must purge itself of the oil smudge, a pledge readers may interpret as a prophecy or commitment.
A Baltimore Sun piece notes a Hindu soothsayer who correctly predicted Kaiser abdication and Russia's revolution now forecasts a Democratic dark horse winning the next U S presidency and violent U S earthquakes in 1929. The article adds that the sibyl did not reveal a meaning and comments on the opaque nature of such prophecies.
The article offers practical tips on soil and crop management. It covers soil sweetening with lime, timing sowings for carrots beets lettuce radishes and peas, storing potatoes, overhauling tools, and using fertilizer for asparagus. It also suggests consulting seed houses for beans and staggering plantings for succession.
Parishioners listened as the congregation gathered following a notice of the meeting read in Greenway documents. Attendees described the event as a community gathering sparked by information seen in local notices.
Alizon's Patsy, last of a famed Irish setter line developed by Otto Pohl, died today at the home of F W Pingley Frederick County game warden. The strain traced to Donegal's Morty Oge and Donegal's Alizon, built with a large investment to revive a premier field dog.
The Turner Ashby Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy held its May meeting at Mrs William Sniders home on North Cameron Street. The Rev Murray D Mitchell of Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church South accepted the invitation to speak on June sixth.
The chapter invites members and friends to place flags and flowers on graves at Stonewall Cemetery on June 6 Confederate memorial day. With over 2,500 soldiers buried there the task requires many volunteers. Invitations are issued to military companies schools and town fire teams to join the exercises. Stonewall Cemetery has become beautified by trees shrubs and flowers and is visited by hundreds daily.
In Baltimore on May 21, Mrs. Isabelle M. Stewart pleaded not guilty to the murder of her husband Thomas R. Stewart Jr. The trial began in Criminal Court as five jurors were selected in the first half hour. Prosecution avoided discussion of the death penalty during jury questioning.
The case concerns a man killed by a heart wound from a bread knife in an incident linked to a quarrel with Mrs. Stewart. She told police she picked up the knife after he allegedly slapped her, and her counsel indicated self defense would be pleaded before trial.
John Burns, 20, one of two escapees indicted for the February killing of Deputy Sheriffs Wallace and Grove, was arrested at his uncle’s Lafayette home. He denied involvement and said he had not seen the officers since the incident.
Samuel Baxter 19, who escaped with Burns, recounted that Grove and Mc Clure were killed by three unknown men. The trio reportedly hijacked the deputy sheriffs’ car transporting Burns and Baxter to the Indiana reform school on February 7, engaging officers in a gun battle. The officers were found dead on a Danville farm, having been shot to death. The suspects fled with Baxter to St Louis and then Oklahoma.
The Christian Endeavor Society held a special Anniversary program at Greenway Church Double Tollgate led by Mr Funkhouser. Nineteen youths presented Christian Endeavor in Fairyland with recitations and a three girl trip. Rev Dr J H Brunk Martinsburg W Va gave a talk urging church involvement and closing benediction.
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