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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1915
Page
5
Train timetable fragment shows arrival times at Winchester stations with daily, Sunday, and holiday variations. Indicates arrival at 7 28 pm and 20 am patterns, listing Tower, Suyt, and Rippie as officials or stations. Details appear garbled but reflect a periodic rail service schedule.
Schedule details show routes between Washington and Harrisonburg via Strasburg and Alexandria on November 22, 1914. Includes daily locals with morning departures, mid day services, and evening trains with arrayed arrival times at Harrisonburg and Washington. Parlor car service and limiteds listed with prices and stop patterns.
Remains of the late Mr. Roszel were interred in Charlestown Jefferson County West Virginia after services at the Shenandoah Valley Academy and Charlestown Zion Protestant Episcopal Church. The funeral cortege traveled by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with cadets from the Shenandoah Valley Academy and a large group of family and friends attending both services.
A sequence of numbers includes 1 000 00 2 600 00 203 600 00 130 110 51 fe 131 010 581 16 680 00. The text reads as a miscellaneous numeric list without clear context or identified entities.
A late Saturday crash one mile south of Harrisonburg on the Valley Turnpike involved an automobile driven by Henry Johnson of Staunton striking a horse being led behind a buggy owned by John Mullen. The horse died. the car, lightly damaged, was towed to Harrisonburg. The vehicle’s owner is H. H. Philpott of Staunton.
John Marshall High School of Richmond defeated Harrisonburg High School 6 to 1 at Lambeth field in Charlottesville on Saturday afternoon to claim the state high school championship. The game was briefly delayed by a thunder shower and Woodberry Forest withdrew from the elimination round. John Marshall ends the season with seventeen wins and two losses.
Strasburg Va May 25 Luther Kremer was struck on the forehead by a stone from a blast at the Powhattan lime kiln. The stone passed through the rim of his hat, cutting a gash over two inches long. The injury, while painful, is not serious.
Trustees announce a public auction of the William Pannett Home Place, a 154 acre limestone farm in Frederick County near Welltown Road and Apple Pie Ridge. The sale on May 22 1915 in Winchester requires one third cash with the balance in two annual installments secured by a deed of trust and insurance.
In Strasburg Virginia on May 25 a late life marriage surprised many friends as Mrs Polk Funkhouser of Lebanon Church and Mr Pete Hinkins of Middletown wed Thursday. Rev James Kern officiated at Fairview with both partners older and with grown children. Notable visitors included M W Richards and P Smith of Washington while Miss Christie Crabill is reported critically ill.
Austria responds to Italy declaring war by attacking Italian seaports from the air and striking at Ancona. Italian naval forces and forces along pre-Rome dispatches are noted.
An advertisement extols Hood’s Sarsaparilla as the reliable remedy to purify the blood and improve digestion, claiming it dries and clears eruptions caused by humors and strengthens the whole system. It urges readers to ask druggists for Hood’s and to rely on its unique efficacy.
A fragmented reader note references eugenics ideas tied to fruit stores and horticultural practices, indicating historical discussion of eugenics in everyday commerce and plant selection.
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