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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1915
Page
2
Letters from Sterling Connecticut and Massena New York celebrate relief from menstrual and anemia symptoms after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Readers describe improved energy, clearer skin, and overall health, urging other young women to try the remedy.
Public auction in Winchester Virginia on Wednesday November 8 1915 to sell a brick mixed use property on E Piccadilly Street No F fronting 38 feet by 102 feet 9 inches with Willison and Oscar Barr adjacent. Debts secured total 5000 with interest. one third cash day of sale and balance in one and two years via two purchaser bonds bearing 6 percent interest. James P. Reardon trustee. 10-4-4wks.
Mr and Mrs Melvin Green hosted a small dance and supper at their West Piccadilly Street home. The event featured singing by Mrs Tucker who performed new folk songs, entertaining their house guest from Keokuk Iowa.
Winchester native Rob L Gray Jr formerly consular official abroad has been reassigned to the Hanover consulate after serving as acting consul general in Cologne. He arrived in Hanover amid wartime duties and had earlier advised from Berlin and other European capitals. He was in Cologne when aerial bombs struck the city.
The Rev. Mr. Van Der Linden began a series of meetings at Whitacre on Wednesday night in Redland Church with the public invited. A quarterly meeting will be held November 6 and 7 by the presiding elder. Local residents and visitors are noted, with several names listed as attending or visiting relatives in nearby towns.
Cadet A J Bond travels from Shenandoah Valley Academy to Petersburg Va for the funeral of his grandmother Mrs Jane Maclin Bond Captain Antrobus Bond dies at home in Petersburg She is daughter of Edward and Minerva Johnson and granddaughter of Colonel William R Johnson The funeral is scheduled for tomorrow
A 17 year old adopted son of G W Graham of Bolivar was killed near Pers Ferry yesterday as he attempted to board a Baltimore and Ohio freight train. He died within half an hour from injuries. The deceased was an employee at the transfer sheds and son of Capt and Mrs Brunawick.
In Frederick County Circuit Court Elaine L Harloe to resume maiden name Elaine L Calvert after partial divorce for desertion filed July 30 1914 and alleged desertion Feb 1 1915. An absolute divorce granted for Hattie Crawford from William Crawford with abandonment more than three years ago and separate living. Property rights of each protected by decree.
Mrs Sallie C Boswell of Orange County Va died yesterday at the home of her daughter Mrs W C Gaither in Harrisonburg after months with age related infirmities. She was 77 and a longtime Protestant Episcopal Church communicant. She was mother to Mrs Miley wife of J M Miley Baltimore oil executive and to Rev W C Boswell of Baltimore. Remains were taken to Orange for burial.
Colonel John C Moore eighty four Confederate veteran pioneer newspaper editor and first mayor of Denver died at Excelsior Springs Missouri. He helped found the Kansas City Times and Denver Mountaineer before Civil War service with General Marmaduke. He never surrendered after the war and sent a defiant note to Marmaduke when peace came.
Governor Stuart reports that Virginia will receive 282.47 dollars this year from national forest reserves. Under a congressional provision 25 percent of receipts from forests go to the state for roads and schools in the counties where reserves lie. Massanutten forest in Rockingham, Page and Shenandoah yields 0.81, Natural Bridge Reserve in Rockingham 253.40, Potomac Reserve in Frederick and Clarke 0.64, White Top Reserve in Washington and Grayson 27.62, Shenandoah Reserve in Rockingham and Augusta yielded none.
A Russian fleet bombards Varna on the Bulgarian coast amid invasion talk. France sees the Viviani ministry resign. Aristide Briand is tapped to form a new cabinet with Viviani possibly remaining as justice minister. German troops push into Serbia while Russian front reverses at Dvinsk and Czartorysk. Britain reports rising recruiting due to King George VII and Edith Cavell’s execution. The British cruiser Ar- worth noting.
A digest of visits and gatherings across Stone Bridge Browntown Nineveh Bethel and Winchester includes Irvin Manuel Frank Jones Ely Vaught and families with relatives traveling to Browntown for a few days and Miss Blanche Dove returning from grandmother Mrs Dove in Bethel Other small social items list visits to Armels Kirby and McCormacks plus apple butter make and kettle event at George Kirby’s home and trip to Front Royal for Old School Baptist meeting
An advertisement asserts rheumatism relief by expelling uric acid through Scott's Emulsion a blood enriching oil food. It claims the product purifies blood increases red corpuscles and strengthens organs to remove acids causing joint pains and stiffness with no alcohol and broad consumer benefit.
A gull has run aground and is described as a total wreck, with the incident noted in brief local coverage.
Cut this slip with five cents to Foley & Co. Chicago to receive a trial package of Foley honey and tar for coughs and colds Foley kidney pills and heart tablets. Mr and Mrs W H Olmsted of Clarendon Virginia are staying a few days at Hotel Evans and are registered.
By authority of a trust deed dated October 2 1911 Mrs S B Perkins the undersigned trustees will offer for sale at public auction in front of the County Court House Winchester Va The Winchester Inn Property situated in the Citys most desirable residence section The green lawn fronts 462 feet 10 inches on Stewart Street and the land extends back 1085 feet on the south 1095 feet on the north and 488 feet 10 inches wide at the rear
Seated on an elevation above Winchester and close to the B and O and Cumberland Valley rail stations the Winchester Inn is a solid brick three story building with a finished basement an airy attic above the third floor ensures cool rooms.
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