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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1917
Page
4
The piece presents Walt Mason’s humorous defense of noncombat roles in wartime. It features a narrator who rejects battlefield service, detailing knitting socks for soldiers, sewing warmth and morale, while reflecting on official attempts to discourage nonmilitary contributions.
Brucetown Virginia notes say Mr and Mrs Walter Steer and Mrs Andrew Steer of Baltimore visited from Sunday to Monday with Mrs Margaret Smith ey and Miss Rhetta Reynolds. Mrs Smithey plans to spend the winter in Baltimore with her sister Mrs An Steer. Mrs Smithey has been visited for a month and hopes to depart soon.
A rough ad style note touts a home made cough syrup from Pinex paste, claimed to soothe throat and bronchial passages within minutes. It urges buying 2½ ounces of Pine extract and warns buyers to follow directions for a money back guarantee.
Mrs Craven James and three children of Charles Town are guests of Mr Carroll Snapp. The sale of Mr Frank Smithey's household goods drew good prices. Miss Elsie Vincente plans to return to Baltimore this week. The church and parsonage aid society meets Thursday at Mrs Robert Smith's home to finalize bazar arrangements for Thanksgiving night. Mrs Harry Myerley visits sister Miss Annie Grant. Mrs Edward Smith and adopted daughter Miss Gladys Smith visited Mr and Mrs Byrd Purcell. The village church reopens Sunday November 4 with Rev Meeks of Strasburg at 11 am and 7:30 pm. Public invited. Mrs Byrd Purcell visited Martinsburg. Miss Margaret Whetzel of Cres Brook visited Mrs W B Timberlake.
Canterbury Virginia on October 30 reports Mrs Will Printz from Urbanna Ohio visiting her niece Mrs Bernard Rolland. Nellie Mae Painter Elsie Higgs from Luray Mary Hale Mrs Headley of Laurel Maryland visit Stephens City. Charlotte Clemons left for Roanoke. Eva Painter of Barnesville Md joins family then heads to Martinsburg W Va. School opens with Miss Lou Lock teaching.
The article records various weekend and week long visits. Mrs. Thomas Martin and Mrs. S. H. Clemons spent time with George Conner. Mrs. L. W. Painter and two children stayed with her sister R. E. H. Abin. Thomas Dare and family moved to Stephens City. Nellie Williams visited her aunt Mrs. Will Ridings. Mrs. J. A. Perry returned from a stay with her daughter Mrs. John Hartly at Refuge.
Relatives learn of W. P. Dunlap death in Maquoketa Iowa at 76. He was a Rockingham County native, moved to Iowa after 1856, helped bring Harrisonburg's first iron safe from Winchester, later became a farmer and thresherman, married Adelia Bentley, survived by son George Dunlap and daughter Mrs. Mc Caffrey of Maquoketa.
Tomorrow night Hallowe'en safety rules urge citizens to remove porch obstacles and vehicles from streets and lock gates. Spectral policemen in citizen dress will patrol to deter mischief and arrest offenders.
A Greenville, Mrs. A C Kirstein, reports Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a quick cure for colds and bronchial troubles used for years in her mother's home and hers. She says it is the most reliable cough medicine they have used and recommends it to all dealers to stock.
A local enterprise financed by fruit growers opens modern storage facility offering rates as low as competing centers. The new cold storage handles apples and related fruit with contemporary systems and aims to serve area growers and merchants.
Herbert S. Bigelow, chairman of Ohio’s 1912 constitutional convention, an ardent pacifist and socialist, was kidnapped in front of a Newport Kentucky hall Sunday night and found in Florence Kentucky. He had been handcuffed blindfolded stripped of clothing beaten with oil on his head and released.
The quote emphasizes surpassing one’s best prior performance as the path to greatness. It frames steady improvement as a universal measure of achievement.
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