Cumberland Valley May 24 Railroad Schedule
Rail timetable lists Cumberland Valley schedules and numbers for May 24. Some entries show times, station codes, and train identifiers in a compact listing.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1915
Page
5
Rail timetable lists Cumberland Valley schedules and numbers for May 24. Some entries show times, station codes, and train identifiers in a compact listing.
The November 22 1914 schedule lists Westbound trains from Strasburg to Harrisonburg with No 23 daily at 7 30 am local service arriving 9 30 am and No 49 daily at noon arriving 2 30 pm with buffet car. No 7 89 pm daily local service to Harrisonburg and arrival listed. Eastbound trains include No 14 daily 825 am limited to Alexandria and Washington arriving 11 50 am with buffet car and No 28 daily 510 pm local to Washington arriving 9 15 pm with buffet car. Also No 24 from Harrisonburg to Strasburg arriving 7 30 pm. C W Westbury Gen Art Washington DC.
Northbound and southbound timetable entries list routes from Norfolk and Western. No. 13 918 a m to Bristol Roanoke and intermediate stations with Pullman Sleepers and dining cars to Roanoke Parlor Car to Roanoke Bristol No 12 27 a m to Roanoke Bristol Blu eld Pocahontas Welch Norton and intermediates with Pullman car Winston Salem cafe Shenandoah Gary connects at Roanoke with Memphis special for points South No 27 638 p m to Shenandoah intermediates No 28 9 32 a m to Hagerstown Harrisburg Philadelphia New York with Shenandoah Junction connection to Washington No 14 7 04 p m to Hagerstown Pullman sleeper to New York No 2 12 54 a m to Hagerstown Pullman Sleeper to New York and Philadelphia
Vienna reports a hesitant start to hostilities while frontier fighting occurs yesterday. Moscow and Berlin say a major battle looms in Poland with Russian forces gathering near Warsaw Ivangorod and Lublin as German allied troops fortify. Berlin claims a Russian northern wing defeat near Shavn. French war office cites German attacks between Arras and the sea repulsed. British navy says submarine E-4 sank two Turkish gunboats and two troop transports during a Maramara Sea raid.
Mr. W. EB. Warman of Orlando left April 18 on his own bicycle aimed at New York and San Francisco then Florida for a prize. He tours to sell souvenir cards to cover costs. His companion H. P. Lee was injured after a hill crash on the Valley pike near Fishers Hill and remains recovering. Warman expects to catch him in New York.
Miss Ruth Russell daughter of Mr and Mrs Bruce Russell left North Kent Street home this morning for Frederick Md to join Frederick City Hospital as a student nurse She was accompanied to Brunswick by her brother Rich ard Russell who will stay a day or two before pursuing work with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad again
An unnamed fireman from the Lusitania crew died heroically saving two women and a baby. A naval patrol report says seven more Lusitania victims were recovered. The fireman was found with a baby under his belt and two women clutched to him. None of the bodies are identified.
An 19th or early 20th century ad touts Dr Wells Syrup Pepsin as a mild laxative that aids digestion without griping. It claims quick relief from constipation, priced fifty cents to one dollar, and cites Dr W B Caldwell in Monticello Illinois as a reference.
Mr C B Steele and Miss Annie Smith of Purcellville Virginia traveled to Winchester to spend time with their aunt Miss Maggie Shiner at her home 102 South Kent Street yesterday.
Trustees offer the William Pannett Home Place a 154 acre limestone farm near Frederick County Virginia for sale by public auction in Winchester on May 22 1915. The estate includes a nine room house, a large bank barn, 18 acre apple orchard and other out-buildings. Terms require one third cash with the balance in two annual installments secured by a deed of trust and insurance. Auctioneer Roy P Duvall.
The sale event has been postponed and will now occur on Saturday. no new time or location details are provided in the fragment.
Telegrams report John Dupuy underwent an appendectomy at the Atlanta Hospital around 10 o clock last night and is listed in serious condition with possible complications. He is a Birmingham businessman visiting Atlanta for the weekend with friends. Miss Nan L Dupuy and likely her mother plan to move to Atlanta tonight.
Court ordered public auction in Frederick County Circuit Court to sell two properties in Winchester Virginia the first a brick dwelling on West Water Street fronting 183 feet the second the Shenandoah Hotel on North Main Street with access passage. Sale scheduled for June 15 1915 at 11 am with terms one third cash and balance in two equal annual installments secured by bonds deeds and insurance. Officials Robt M Ward H R Kern I M Steck and Herbert S Larrick served as special commissioners and trustees.
Lee French of the Cumberland division, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, recovered after two blood transfusions at the Church Home and Infirmary Baltimore. Blood donors were his brothers in law Thomas L Meyers and Peter E Berry, both risked their blood to aid the anaemic executive. Dr W T Willey led the operation, lasting under three hours and deemed successful.
The Rumseyan Society met in Shepherdstown West Virginia on Friday to choose the memorial site for James Rumsey inventor of the steam boat They voted to keep the memorial on the original site atop the bluff above the Potomac where Rumsey demonstrated his achievement A ground purchase from Norfolk and Western Railway will allow a park to be built with the memorial
John L. Livers superintendent of the Charlottes ville and Albemarle Railway Company and his brother C. B. Livers of Grottoes Va. join a party of electric light men traveling by special train to the Panama Exposition. They will inspect electric light plants across the west and northwest stopping at major cities and returning via the Canadian Pacific after about 30 days.
A valuable horse owned by A. P. Stine was killed after running into a wire fence and tumbling down a steep hill. The animal died that evening despite veterinary efforts. Several other horses escaped injury in the incident, which occurred in a field near Star Tannery Virginia.
Mrs. W. A. Rowlands formerly Miss Pleasant Howard of this city has returned to Blaine after visiting relatives and friends.
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