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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1916
Page
5
Cumberland Valley time schedule listing train arrivals and departures for May 28 1916. Entries note daily and Sunday services with general superintendent HA Rippts and agent Holltay and Tones.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a Norfolk and Western service to Bristol Roanoke Shenandoah and intermediate stations with mentions of parlor car rooks and schedules around 2:27 pm and 5 pm. It references the Memphis Special and connections to Shenandoah with No. 77.
In Strasburg Virginia on October 24 a jury awarded Mrs M A Cooper five hundred dollars in damages in the slander suit against H G Huff the case arising from remarks Connecting residents of Woodstock and Cedar Creek Officials estimated the total costs at one thousand dollars The trial drew strong local interest with several witnesses ill and unable to attend.
Bunker Hill notes report visits by E F Gardner wife, Robert Goki wife, and W B Clendening to Bakerton. McKee and sisters from Winebrewer's Cross Roads with George Henson. Hattie Huffman called home by father’s death at Creamery. J Ward Lanson plans Lancaster Ohio move. tabernacle meeting in Martinsburg. C R Henson family visit on Dry Run. Miss Stevens visiting J Fred Laise family. Rev Durkee led divine service at Christ P E Church.
The Strathmore Orchard Company will sell 800 acres near Mt Jackson Va in seven tracts on November 28 1916 on the National Highway part of the Meems Bottom estate. Tracts include 318 acre River bottom and upland holdings with orchards and brick dwelling in Tracts 1 2, a 3 acre cottage in No 3, and four more tracts with varied orchard acreage and packing houses. Terms vary by tract with down payments and installments. sale includes subdivision into seven parcels and inspection prior to sale. For details contact W L Fultz Winchester Va and Dunn Duvall Valley Auctioneers.
Ely's Cream Balm offers quick relief for catarrh and colds. A small bottle is advertised for nasal use to clear air passages, soothe inflamed membranes, and restore easy breathing. Apply in the nostrils for instant soothing benefit.
A fragment notes Miss Sue spending Sunday afternoon with Miss Cornelia Mckown, indicating social visit details limited to these two individuals.
Charles M. Schwab asserts integrity and personality are key in salesmanship and in life. He argues truthfulness builds the basis for success and that cultivation of charm enhances impact. The piece notes remarks from Mr Joel Beelerton, and mentions Mr BE Ward returning from Pittsburgh alongside other local visitors.
An article urges readers to sleep with windows open for fresh air to combat indoor fat. It promotes Tassco tablets by Harry L Livick as a weight reduction aid claiming improved digestion and increased oxygen in the blood, noting effects in a few days.
Mrs. KE S Brent returns home from Winchester visit to brother Frank Baker. Mrs. B C Shull of Winchester visits Mrs. S G Jamison. R C Robinson moves to Strasburg for employment. H E Shall spends two days at the Frederick fair. H G Shall and wife visit Winchester at B C Shall home. John F Booth leaves for Norfolk to attend Confederate reunion.
Advertisement promotes Cascarets as a cure for sick headache biliousness coated tongue foul breath and constipation. It claims torpid liver and fermenting bowel matter cause symptoms, that Cascarets cleanse the stomach remove undigested food and poison, and that a 10 cent box will make the head clear stomach sweet and bowels regular by morning.
In Brucetown Virginia on October 24 Mr Charles Flemming and his mother and Mr Robert Suter from Baltimore were Sunday guests of Mr Harry Stipe and family. Frank Brady of Baltimore came to accompany home his mother who visited with Mr and Mrs Joseph Snapp.
Fan Newman, a notorious negro character of Loudoun county, has been sentenced to 13 years in the penitentiary for highway robbery. He was convicted of holding up Fuller Williams at the point of a pistol near the sighs of hope at Rion.
Edgar H. Fletcher of Philadelphia and Miss Ethel Naomi Cowgill of Cold Stream West Virginia wed in Washington. The ceremony was conducted by Rev E K Harding of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The groom is a former Hampshire County school teacher and now chief observer for the U S Weather Bureau in Philadelphia.
Col John Keating hosted a dinner in honor of William W. Brown editor of the Cumberland Daily News. Brown is to wed Miss Hazel Joerder of St. Louis next Saturday and then the couple will begin their married life.
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