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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1916
Page
4
The Evening Star in Winchester Virginia publishes daily except Sundays and is consolidated with several weekly papers. It notes Post Office mailing as second class matter and lists subscription rates for one year six months three months and one month in advance.
Staunton Virginia press notes West Virginia's strong Republican leanings and the electability of Hughes against Wilson. It recalls a Supreme Court judgment linked to debt and interest. The piece hints that party loyalty may trump a multi million loan issue in the coming election.
The poet contrasts wealth and happiness, recounting a once-poor friend who gained unearned fortune and now laments heavy losses. Wealth buys luxuries but not a contented heart, leaving the narrator chilled by the glum visits and grim reflections on capital and loss.
Grimes Va September 7. Preaching at Galilee on Sunday the 10th morning and night. Local residents and visitors include Mr Harry Seabright Winchester on business and Mr B C Baker Winchester. Community improvements at Galilee Church with new concrete walk porch and chimneys raised for winter. Various visitors and relatives listed from nearby towns and states.
Clarke county voters gave Judge T. W. Harrison of Winchester 519 votes for the long term and 521 for the short term. H. H. Downing of Warren county received 91 votes for the long term and N. B. Early Jr. of Greene county 76 for the short term. Mrs. Thomas Jackson and Mr. and Mrs. John Martin of Chambersburg Pa were guests at Primrosedale last week.
A Baltimore Sun dispatch says New York food dealers who hoarded supplies to exploit a feared railroad strike were overwhelmed when the strike failed. Prices collapsed and one speculator reportedly lost hundreds of thousands. The piece lauds the strike’s avoidance and notes future laws to penalize heartless speculators in essentials.
The announcement lists sermons at Lamps Memorial at 11 a.m. Pax ton Chapel at 3 p.m. and Round Hill at 8 p.m. on Sunday September 10 delivered by Pastor W. Brubaker.
London reports Leuze wood now in British hands after Tuesday’s capture. British blows hit north of the Somme as German assaults south of the line at Deniecourt and Berny fail against French fire. Verdun sees German plans halted near Fleury while Russian forces push the Austro German front between the Zlota Lipa and the Dniester. 4,500 more prisoners taken along the Gorodenka river in Galicia. Invasion reports of Dobruja remain conflicting as Bulgarians and Germans advance into eastern Romania.
A Washington D C family group including Mr and Mrs Maynard Hull and their son Charles with Mr and Mrs Mumaw spent Sunday and Monday with Mr and Mrs E M DeHaven at Greenspring Va Mc Homer Line family moved from Back Creek to Charles Gordons for the year Mrs A W Hull traveled with her son Charles R Hull to Angiewville Prince William county Va for the past two years and is visiting DeHaven and relatives
German statement reports captains of several Rumanian towns and significant losses to Romanian forces. Seven of the Tutrakan fortifications and their armored batteries in southeastern Romania were stormed by Central Powers troops.
G W Layman of Troutville is reported killed in the trenches of France on August 13 while serving with the British army. A Washington and Lee University graduate, he studied forestry in Michigan before enlisting. He was 23 and survived by his parents and sisters.
In Beaver Falls Pennsylvania Caleb Smith a Civil War veteran aged 96 stopped his daughter Cynthia 78 who was eloping with Roman Williams 92. He confronted the couple at the clerk's office with a shotgun forced them to abandon the plan and return home. Williams sustained shotgun wounds from the confrontation.
Strasburg Virginia September 7 Three accidents are reported from Maurertown Shenandoah county Mrs Ellen Huffman fell while moving between rooms injuring a rib and arm and bruises Beatrice Beydler five year old daughter of station agent Hugh Beydler fell from a fence breaking her arm and wrist while Philip Rinker was hanging a barn door a timber struck his head cutting the scalp and exposing the skull.
Mr C D Baker and his family from Elkins West Virginia arrived in Winchester in their touring car. They traveled via Durbin Monterey McDowell Staunton and Charlottesville. They plan to visit relatives and later go to Maryland and Pennsylvania. Baker formerly managed the Standard Oil Company here before his transfer four years ago.
Eugene Evan Barr formerly of Stephens City and Nellie Wilson Orndorff daughter of Mr and Mrs C B Orndorff of Frederick County were married in the Evans Hotel parlor by Rev W O Talbert pastor of the Southern Methodist Church They plan to reside in Cumberland Md.
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