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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1924
Page
6
Special to The Star reports Benja Green, a 40 year old tailor in Richmond Va, died by suicide in his shop after a man connected a gas tube and died with a rubber tube in his mouth. The coroner notes the motive is unknown.
In San Antonio Texas the sixty fourth general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States meets. A separate thirty sixth general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America gathers in rapids meb. The split stems from a Civil War era division across presbyteries south of the Mason Dixon line.
Little Willie asks about El Whitney who invented the cotton gin, described as the hooplegger in a playful local exchange.
The Rev. Emmett P. Gallagher assistant rector of the Church of the Sacred Heart resumes parish duties in Winchester after a health-related hiatus. He spent his vacation at Blue Ridge Sanitarium near Charlottesville and later at Lansford Pa. where he had been staying awaiting his return to the city.
Masses will be held Sunday at 7 30 in the morning and 11 o clock. Father Gallagher will officiate at Sacred Heart while the rector Rev Thomas A Rankin will fill the Front Royal appointments on the same day.
May 22. President Coolidge spoke at a national conference urging unity of interests across nations and cultures. He described recreation as a force for solidarity and democracy while battling a cold that weakened his voice and forced brief pauses during a five minute address.
Ben Randolph of Clarke county was sentenced to three months on the state road force in police court for larceny of $16. The money was found in an insane white man’s bed in the county jail where Randolph was confined on liquor transport charges and alleged to assist a colored girl in nocturnal robberies. A series of findings and denials followed before Randolph was proved guilty.
Mrs. M. W. Almond of Jacksonville Texas reports six weeks of illness ending after taking Dr Thacher’s Liver and Blood Syrup. She credits the remedy with restoring strength and appetite and urges others in Winchester to seek it from local druggists including Franck Baker and Co.
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