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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1923
Page
6
Social and personal items detail Mrs. James Isher and others visiting Chester and nearby towns. Numerous extended-family and business ties are noted with residents traveling to Washington, Atlantic City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore for family matters, conventions, or business.
An advertiser cites a personal testimonial for Allenrhu claiming it dissolves uric acid deposits, relieves rheumatism, and restores health after years of disability. The message urges readers to trust the prescription and guarantees a full pint bottle through druggists.
About ten Men's Bible Classes in Winchester federate after forming a federation. They plan a public joint meeting at 3 PM Sunday October 1 at the Empire Theatre. Rev. D Burt Smith of Philadelphia will give the address. he is tied to Sunday school work and Lutheran Publication Society. The event is men only and open to all local men.
David Hinton Hough aged 65 a Clarke county Va native died suddenly yesterday morning at his Martinsburg West Virginia home. He was a drayman and survived by his widow and three children. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at his house conducted by Captain Lee Foster of the Salvation Army.
Alfred Tucker, a newsboy for the Evening Star, fell at the playground on West Piccadilly Street yesterday, fracturing his left arm near the wrist. He was taken to Memorial Hospital where a doctor set the bone. he is the son of Mrs. Martha Tucker of Manchester, Washington, and plans to return to his routes when healed.
Seismograph readings at Georgetown University trace tremors of notable intensity with the center estimated far to the south. Washington residents Perry Ester and Frances V. Kline marry at Grace Lutheran Church parsonage in a 9 o clock ceremony.
About 45 Handley Foundation faculty members attended a Kiwanis dinner at the American Legion building on North Main Street. Major Barton welcomed guests, Superintendent Duffey spoke, and Mayor Glass closed with bedtime stories as Seals Orchestra provided music. Souvenirs, lead pencils, were distributed as teachers were introduced.
Porter H. Dale secured the Republican nomination for United States Senate in Vermont primaries. Wayne B. Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League called it a great victory for prohibition advocates, saying the result shows continuing prohibition sentiment rather than reviling.
New York trading opened quietly with industrials and leaders advancing while inactive issues showed selling pressure. Call money rose to 5 percent as stocks moved in measured gains.
In Cranham England on October 10 excavators under Dr Thornwell Jacobs unearthed the body of Gen James E Oglethorpe founder of Georgia The plan is to move the remains to Atlanta for final burial.
Four bricklayers were fined $5 each in Larchmont New York for working on the Sabs bath on a Sunday. They ignored the fine and claimed they earned $36 for each Sunday’s labor.
An afternoon blaze at the St. Paul Apartments on Mt. Royal Avenue and St. Paul Street in Baltimore damaged floors up to the sixth and forced forty to fifty families to evacuate to the street. The fire confined to the eighth floor produced heavy smoke but no injuries were reported.
A Baltimore and Ohio passenger brakeman, A Shelton, was struck by a car at a crossing but escaped serious injury. He grabbed a train fender and shielded himself until the locomotive stopped. Miss Yost, who was driving, remained at the scene with others to check on him.
RM A will play Healy Macon Academy Hymne A Friday at 3 o clock in the afternoon at Haddox Terrace field. Handley beat RM A 6 to 0 at Front Royal last year, but RM A is said to be heavier and a close contest is expected this year.
The U S Department of Agriculture outlines high yield seed potato practices including tuber unit methods mass selection and field roguing. It explains removing diseased weak or off type plants multiple times in the season and storing seed and soil prep details. A separate note describes a linen thread counting device with a movable pointer for accuracy.
The Citizens' Bank of Albion in Allegheny County was closed by state bank examiners amid a $67,000 shortage. Cashier R. J. Griswold was arrested and charged with falsifying accounts and posted $16,000 bail. The First National Bank offered to assume Albion holders accounts to cover the shortage. Ex-Cashier Pleads Guilty in Dayton. Fred Hecht, former cashier of Dayton American National Bank, pleaded guilty to embezzling $306,000 and was sentenced to ten years in Atlanta.
J. L. Crouse of Greensboro North Carolina contractor for Handley Schools and the new Commercial and Savings building has been awarded a large contract to construct a wall and 40 houses at Duke about 39 miles from Sham. The project will cost about 750000 and work will start as soon as materials arrive. Superintendent Hammond expects to bring many mechanics from Winchester to Duke. Captain W H Hemphill, engineer for the Crouse firm, recently left Winchester for Greensboro after nearly a year here. he is a World War I veteran and nephew of Major J C Hemphill, noted journalist now in Spartanburg South Carolina.
Members of Sun’s faction met and repudiated Tsao Kun’s recent election arguing bribery influenced the vote. A statement by their cabinet urged a nationwide movement to oust Tsao and a manifesto to foreign powers was planned.
Wortey Puffinterger, a northern county resident, was tried in Frederick Circuit Court before Judge Whiting. The indictment charged him with stabbing to death a cow owned by Mrs Bertha W Haynes on May 18. A jury heard 29 witnesses, 17 state and 12 defense, and found him guilty with a two year penitentiary sentence. A motion to arrest the judgment was filed and to be argued later.
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