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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1925
Page
4
The Evening Star Publichinder Harry Flood Byrd operates from Winchester Virginia with post office publication as second class matter. The paper lists connections to Morning News The Weekly News and The Weekly Mirror as part of its isolated regional press network.
Public notices show various advance rates for subscriptions and carriers. The Associated Press dispatches are credited, with local coverage listed for Monday May 25, 1925. The text outlines year and month terms in advance pricing and newspaper distribution details.
A Richmond speech signals a clean campaign stance with leaders Byrd Mapp and Handley funds sparking debate. The Southern Planter and Southern Virginian Pilot attack Byrd’s finances, while Byrd denies wrongdoing and pledges forthright rebuttal. The piece lauds Gilbert Grosvenor and the National Geographic Society’s mission to expand knowledge, noting Virginia figures on its staff and a forthcoming feature on the Old Dominion.
A speaker mocks a neighbor obsessed with keeping a gleaming boat and perfect paint. He contrasts his worn old wreck that runs reliably in all weather with the other's constant care and anxiety over specks and rust. The car’s rough charm and speed beat meticulous vanity on rough roads.
Harrisonburg News-Record reports that the National Graphic Magazine has begun engaging in a photographic survey. The development could affect coverage plans and photo assignments for Virginia readers and local events.
The fourteenth annual Shawnee district Sunday schools convention will convene at Opequon Memorial Presbyterian Church Kernstown on Thursday May 28 from 10 am to 4 pm with lunch at noon. Sessions include devotional rites, addresses by Rev T H Daffin and Rev Dr Frank T McFaden, reports, demonstrations in primary work, and method talks by Casselman and Good. Attending schools listed include Bartonsville St Paul Carpers Valley Greenwood Round Hill Jubilee Opequon Union Cross Roads and Evendale Union.
Local ad lists chestnut staves with prices and further particulars available at Bailey Bros Box 294 Luray VA. Contact Bailey Bros for rates and quantities.
Rosemont offers quarter to five acre tracts on limestone soil with elevated views over the city. Each building site fronts a fifty foot street, providing attractive home sites for prospective buyers.
A white woman about seventy in Greene County is jailed on manufacturing charges after authorities seized a fifteen gallon still. Across the state inspectors report multiple moonshine operations, including adults and a minor, with eight stills and thousands of gallons of mash seized.
Daily corrected market summary lists local wholesale prices for flour, corn meal, butter, creamery butter, country butter, hens, spring chickens, bran, flour middlings, mixed feed, straw, stock feed, cattle and calves. Prices include a local flour barrel at $10.00 per unit and a line of items with units and values.
In the Stephens City Virginia residence of Lillian Barnes Hardesty a cash sale offers removal of a dining room suite kitchen furniture stoves tables couch desks cooking utensils feather beds pillows an antique wardrobe clock organ and other items from the old Barnes home.
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