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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1916
Page
2
An advertisement from A Hottell and Son of Middletown Virginia offers a Clover Huller and Hay Press with prompt first-class work and reasonable rates. It invites patrons to seek further information by writing.
Special Commissioners will offer for sale at public outcry on September 9 1916 at 2:00 p.m. in Shepherdstown West Virginia a 250 acre limestone farm with 64 acres of apple orchards two 8 room houses barns and outbuildings 60 acres of bluegrass and a Potomac river promontory. Terms include one third cash and two equal annual payments or all cash option. tenant rights and growing crops reserved. Located 3 miles north of Shepherdstown on the Shepherd Grade Pike near schools and Shepherd College.
An allergy to modern remedies leads a resident of Mt Airy to report quick improvement after six doses of Cardus. The ad claims Cardus treats headaches backache and fatigue from womanly troubles and urges readers to consult Chattanooga Medicine Co for a free 64 page book.
Chaplain Captain J. Cleveland Hall of the First Virginia Regiment departed Brownsville for Danville to avoid farewell goodbyes. He is greatly missed by the unit. Company G of the Second Regiment won the prize detail for guarding the wireless station at Point Isabel.
Verdun dispatch reports optimism that German forces may quit Verdun soon as bombardment continues. AP correspondent tours the town’s fortifications under citadel guard and hears a veteran estimate of the current situation with cautious tone.
Reporters touring Verdun describe widespread destruction and a belief the Verdun fight is over. German losses reach about 500000 with French defenders sustaining fewer. Experts expect German retreat and a western front shortening before winter.
Rev Dr J Sidney Peters was elected by the General Assembly as state prohibition commissioner and qualified at Houston Va before Judge W R Barksdale. The two month interim allows Peters to organize the office with help from friend witnesses and Guy S Homer of Southampton County as legal advisor.
Four Sunday schools from Strasburg and Fishers Hill gathered for a union picnic with the Christian Baptist and Methodist denominations and the Reformed Church. Speeches by Rev Hamaker Metzger Copp, music by the Strasburg Cornet Band, and a merry-go-round enlivened the event. The meeting backed a Davis district union outing and noted local clergy movements and illnesses. A local horse owner, B F Richards, mourned a $200 death from colic, with broader losses this summer.
An obscure advertorial fragment praises balancing work and rest. It mentions labor as good and hints at advertising from a local periodical, The Mwr- and notes rest as beneficial. The text is incomplete but suggests a civic or moral reflection.
A letter to the Charlottesville Daily Progress describes a car trip on the Staunton Richmond Highway August 4 and shows a photo of the occupants waking near Dr. W. F. Carter’s home. William P. Massey, secretary of the Virginia State Horticultural Society, and Henry M. Baker of Winchester cite impassable Albemarle roads driving Charlotte s ville merchants to do most business in Waynesboro and Staunton.
In Rock Enon Springs Virginia on September 6 a tent meeting at Shiloh has featured sermons by Rev. Mr Patterson from New Jersey and Rev. Mr Davis from Wardensville. Arthur Larrick of Mount Jackson is visiting and welcomes news of a newborn boy. Ethel Wagnier from Cumberland visits Mrs. Mahlon Good. Harmon Shanholtz has moved to Romney for a new job in a barrel factory.
Mr. Sutton Harris, formerly of this city, has left Rock Enon Springs where he spent the past year and has returned home.
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