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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1923
Page
2
The U B Church lists Sunday services at 11 morning and 7 30 evening with Sunday school and men’s Bible class at 9 45. Young People meet 6 45. Alson S Hott presides, Iva Mae Boyce leads, Hazel Bailey leads prayer meeting, choir practice after. New officials take places this Sunday.
The Interstate Commerce Commission conducted an official inquiry into the Miller Train Control System. W H Harland reported the device, when properly installed, will function as intended for train control. The system has operated on the Chicago and Eastern Railroad for nine years with success and 49 railroads have been ordered to install it on one engine section, signaling a potential bright future for the company.
Local wholesale quotes cover wheat flour eggs country butter hens and roosters corn meal and mixed feed with values in cents per unit. Retail listings include eggs butter calves steers and hogs with prices shown for various cuts and weights. A separate note mentions Mrs. E Virginia Smith returning from a trip. A literary digest excerpt on jinn and a speed quote from a Boston transcript follow.
Mrs. R. T. Barton and Miss Sophie E. Baker attended the Valley Convocation in Luray Virginia this week. Baltimore visits include Frank N. and Waldo Hack returning from Spring Dale Farm Bartonville. J. George Baetjer visits Baltimore and Philadelphia for two weeks. Virginia guests include Mrs. Bradley Kilgour at the Barr home on West Water Street. The Brodie couple left Valley for Washington. Crawford family departed Kernstown for Seldom Inn near Linden for weeks. Mrs. M. C. Anderson moves to Riverside California after Berkeley fire loss. Mrs. Samuel Baker travels from Washington to Bound Brook New Jersey to join George T. and family. Elsie Rosenberger enters Mary Baldwin Seminary Staunton for term. Martin Williams shows slight health improvement at home. Jennie Flowers departed for Baltimore.
A Richmond meeting on stream pollution drew many business and sports leaders. Speakers included Mayo C. Brown and Thomas B. McCaleb who urged study committees and a possible scientific panel to propose affordable legal and technical remedies for sewage pollution of streams.
Washington reports confirm the resignations of Ambassador Harvey in London and Ambassador Child in Rome, accepted under private agreement with the Harding administration. Harvey will leave around year end. Child has left or will leave Rome and not return. No other ambassadors face term limits.
More than a ton of fruit and vegetables were shipped to orphans by the Cen tenary Reformed Church as part of its Harvest Home appeal. The Sunday program includes a preparatory service for the Lord's Supper and an 7:30 p m picture service titled Abraham the Friend of God and The Migration of Abraham directed by Dr Edgar James Banks renowned archaeologist.
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