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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1917
Page
4
Advertisement shows subscription prices: one year three dollars, six months one fifty, three months seventy five cents, one month twenty five cents. The Evening Star is entered at the Winchester Virginia Post Office as second class mail matter.
Saturday September 8 echoes a loss of a friend and a fading literary talk. The piece laments modern finance talk and recalls a friend who loved books from Homer to Eugene Field.
Miss Minnie Kern of Bluemont spends the week with grandparents in Stephenson. Ed Grant and others visit Capon Bridge. Ada Hardesty visits Upton in Jefferson County. Raymond Boyce recovers from diphtheria. Nora Mauzy visits Mrs. C. R. McCann. C. E. Graham of Washington stays with relatives. Mildred Foster visits M. J. Hardesty. William Solenberger visits Red Bud. Martha White visits Mrs. J. H. Ashwood.
The Primitive Baptist Church union gathering planned for the third Sunday and Saturday is canceled due to health laws on infantile paralysis in the state. Wesley Sargeant of Berkeley Springs visits while in poor health. Ed C. Bageant and family also visit, with Mr Bageant having broken his arm last week from a fall while hauling crossties.
Sonny Gray pleaded guilty to dismantling an engine on Equity grounds and stealing brass parts. He received ten days in jail and a $3 fine with costs paid. The court also ordered the boy to be whipped by his father in the police presence after jail time, with penalties for failure to perform. Father Fred Gray promised to carry out the task.
Justice Fultz committed Owen Anderson in the police court for grand jury action on a count of robbing Clinton L. Batt of 400 dollars in money and checks. Most of the stolen property was recovered. Anderson, from Hampshire County West Virginia near Trone, was returned to jail.
Harry Swain of Alexandria a veteran printer formerly with the Alexandria Gazette quit indoor work due to tonsillitis and followed a physician’s advice to work in the open air. He picked peaches in Pen Mar and planned to work in an apple orchard at Hancock Maryland before returning to Winchester for similar employment later this month.
Rev Dr A J Gill of Maryland visiting the Kern home on Amherst street will preach at Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday at 11 a m and 8 p m. Morning sermon titled Marys Memorial and evening message The Christian Ambassador. Pastor Rev H G Spencer will attend the services.
Front Royal officials say no new infantile paralysis cases in three weeks. Quarantine on children will end if no new cases arise by Monday and church services may resume Sunday for adults only as bells ring again.
War relief efforts accelerate as Winchester and other Shenandoah towns collect for the United States Jewish war relief fund. Local solicitors urge generous contributions during the upcoming Jewish holy days to reach the 1 million dollar goal, aided by Julius Rosenwald's 10 percent matching offer.
In Burnt Factory Virginia a quarantine against incaptile paralysis suspends Sunday school and preaching at the local church until further notice. Local residents, visits from relatives, and travels of several Duvall family members are noted along with a recovery update for Miss June Fishpaw.
Mrs. W. H. Willims of N. writes that Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy relieved her father's diarrhoea after three doses. For sale by all druggists.
An old Classified style notice from EVAP.CO invites readers to bring culls and barrel apples to their facility. It emphasizes keeping culls and ground apples cleaned up to stop waste, with the Valley location and date code 8-15-1f and a contact or yard reference.
Notice announces the dissolution of the partnership Steele & Brother at Stephens City Virginia between E M Steele and J D Steele. The business continues under J D Steele trading as Steele & Brother with E M Steele no longer involved.
Readers are promised a cure for a disease through Hall's Catarrh Medicine, claim it works via the blood and mucous surfaces, and a $100 reward for any failure with testimonials available. J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio advertise the remedy as sold by all druggists.
The Winchester Cold Storage Co offers 30 000 first mortgage bonds as part of a 115 000 issue. Bonds 100 500 and 1000 dollars. Six percent interest semi annually. Secured by first deed of trust on modern cold storage and ice plant with 120 000 capacity and 26 tons daily. Safeguard includes minimum paid in stock of 115 000. Reservations through C R McCannTreasurer. H F Byrd President. John Thwaite VP. Ray Robinson Secretary.
Special commissioner will sell at Middletown State Bank Middletown Virginia on September 12 1917 at 2 pm a house and lot on the east side of Senancy Avenue fronting 43 feet and back 184 feet to a public alley. The parcel conveys from 1895 and is tied to a chancery decree in Edmondson et als v Edmondson et als. One third cash day of sale and balance in two equal annual installments secured by deed of trust and insurance. Bond given by Herbert S. Larrick.
G A McBride of Headford Ontario reports two years of customer praise and his own trial confirms Chamberlain's Tablets as unequaled for indigestion. The note urges readers to try them and states they are sold by all druggists.
Public sale of valuable 214 acre tract in western Frederick County near Gore Post Office. The sale, in Winchester, Virginia, occurs September 8, 1917 at 11:00 a.m. as part of the Preston L. Heirs versus Preston L. Anderson circuit case. Property previously owned by the late Preston L. Anderson. Sale is conducted under trust provisions and witnessed by Robert M. Ward.
Winchester Virginia August 22 1917 annual meeting of stockholders will be held at the office of R Gray Williams Winchester for election of a President and Board of Directors and for other business. Co W Woolford secretary.
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