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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1917
Page
6
The program features three Keith acts and a Pathe serial The Double Cross plus The Butcher Boy comedy with high energy from start to finish. A late Pathe News is included and the show is priced at 11 5 cents upstairs and 20 cents downstairs. Do not miss this riotous double bill tonight.
Margaret Ridgeway, 76, died at the home of Mrs. Sallie Oates in Cross Roads Virginia after long illness. Funeral services were held at Fairview Church with Rev. Burl officiating. Cousins included Mrs. Rebecca Oates of Winchester and Mrs. Aliie Spaid of Hampshire County. pallbearers were Arthur Whitacre Edward Sirbaught William Sirbaugh Fenton Sirbaugh Walter Nelson and Allen Miller.
A meeting of the National Board of Registration in Winchester convened at Mayor J F Ward's office where registrars were named for First Ward Friendship Engine House and Second Ward City Hall. The governor was notified the city is prepared to carry out the President's registration proclamation for ages 21 to 30. Penalty for nonregistration is imprisonment with no option to pay a fine.
For sale private sale of a four story brick dwelling with metal roof, large porches, furnished option, electrical, water, gas, furnace, and fifteen acres of attached land with outbuildings and garage in western Winchester Virginia. Includes four acres of orchards and grapes. Also farm at Gaylord four miles north of Berryville with barn, apple orchard, woods, water, fence, tenant rights and growing crops reserved. Terms available through M. M. Lyrich attorney Winchester Virginia. A R Pendleton.
No trials of southeastern county men occurred as scheduled for today for alleged violations of state fishing laws. Deputy Armel said residents were summoned to Justice Tavenner at 2 PM for gigging in the Opequon. Game Warden Skull noted gigging streams tributary to the Potomac is legal if no fish are caught.
The piece warns flies spread deadly diseases and urges immediate eradication. It notes flies carry germs, fuel typhoid fever in summer and fall, and that cleaning premises helps reduce populations. It emphasizes communal effort and killing individual flies to curb the nuisance.
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