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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1917
Page
6
Mrs. Katie Forney returned home after ten months in McKeesport Pa where she nursed her step-daughter Louise Forney through a severe typhoid fever contracted in this city. Miss Forney, once precarious, is now learning to walk again though very weak.
Dr. Stuart McGuire of Richmond has received his commission as major of the medical corps in the Officers' Reserve Corps. He is well known in Winchester and is a nephew of Dr. William P. McGuire of this city.
Tomorrow is Decoration Day a nationwide legal holiday with memorial services for soldiers and sailors buried in National cemeteries. Winchester banks Handley Library and post office hours change with general delivery from 11 to 12 and 1 to 2, no rural routes or money orders.
Public auction in Winchester Virginia at noon June 30 1917 offers for sale a lot at 557 N Kent Street fronting 55 feet and extending 165 feet adjoining Harriet Ritter and others. Improved by a height room house partly brick and partly frame with stables hog pen and vegetables reserved. Terms: one third cash and balance in two yearly installments secured by bonds and deed of trust with insurance. Maurice M Lynch trustee. William M Bowen auctioneer. 5n29-4w
The Martinsburg and Witchester Turnpike Company has let contracts to rebuild the highway linking Martinsburg to Winchester and connecting with the Shenandoah Valley pike. Three miles north from Winchester will receive an asphalt binder roadway, with work starting at Fort Hill in Charlestown and extending northward in stages.
The War Relief Society requests old linen cotton Marsail les counterpanes and clean linen scraps in small sizes. Send to War Relief rooms care of Mrs. Holmes Conrad Winchester. Rooms on West Piccadilly Street open Tuesdays and Saturdays from 10 30 a m to noon for members to obtain worsted promptly.
Bertram Chesterman assistant state bank examiner resigns from the State Corporation Commission effective June 1 to join the Comptroller of the Currency as national bank examiner. He will assume duties Friday in northern New Jersey. Chesterman is noted in banking and newspaper circles and has served with CC. C. Barksdale for several years.
Rev. Dr. W. O. Fries of the United Brethren Church Dayton Ohio spent yesterday with his sister Mrs W V Hodges on West Piccadilly street. He preached the baccalaureate sermon to the Shenandoah Collegiate Institute graduates at Dayton Va. Fries edits the Sunday school literature for the United Brethren Church.
Mr. Benjamin Grim of Philadelphia visits his parents Mr and Mrs Hugh Grim in this city. He has long served in the Philadelphia police department and this marks his first return visit here in several years.
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