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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1916
Page
5
Train arrivals at Winch station listed with daily service except Sundays. Superintendent Baribore Cen P. notes timetable details and daily frequency.
Fragmentary timetable notes mention intermediate stops at Roanoke Shenandoah and mid evening connections to Memphis and related sections. The source references No 77 schedule and 638 p.m. timing with parlor car details implied.
An ad urges regular bowel action to aid stomach function. It touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as the best laxative, claims decades of use, and offers a free trial bottle by writing Dr. W B Caldwell in Monticello Illinois.
Woman leaves capital stock of Shenandoah Valley National Bank to husband David S. Glaize for maintaining their burial lot at Mount Hebron Cemetery. Semiannual income to be used for upkeep with any excess funds diverted to adjacent lot. Trustee succession plan includes Mount Hebron Cemetery board if trustee cannot act.
The testator directs the executor to pay five thousand dollars to Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church of Winchester to fund a chime of bells in memory of their son David Brevitt Glaize, to be named The Brevitt Chimes and lit nightly, with the dedication fronting Water Street. Other bequests include three hundred dollars to Mrs. T. C. Williams and twenty five hundred dollars each to cousins Hallie Bryarly Julia Jilkins and Flora Hiett. If any die, their share passes to their children.
By clauses and codicils dated 1914 to 1916 the will allocates sixteen shares of Union Bank stock to Miss Mary F. Affleck and cash plus furnishings to various relatives. Residue goes half to Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church trustees for chimes and lighting and half to Fred L. Glaize, with later codicils altering bequests to Flora Hiett, Fanny Affleck, and others. Executor Maurice M. Lynch of the Winchester bar bonds for $55,000. appraisers named J. E. Cooper, W S. White, G. Casper Fries, C. Ramsburg, W. Miller Fletcher.
Miss Rose Whittington of Martinsburg is alleged to have swallowed a bichromide mercury tablet after a quarrel with her sweetheart. Medical help was summoned and she was rushed to City Hospital where prompt treatment was given to save her from danger.
By deed of trust dated March 1 1910 trustee will sell at public auction in front of the Court House Win Chester Va at 11 a m or Thursday June 8 1916 the land containing 133 acres near Raceburg adj Fries Sells and others conveyed to C M Barrett from Fred L Glaize and wife. Property includes large dwelling barn other buildings and about 1200 apple trees seven years old and 200 peach trees. One third cash on sale day with balance in one and two years evidenced by notes and secured by deed of trust and insurance policy. Harry R Kern trustee. D P Duvall auctioneer.
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