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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1916
Page
2
A. H. Hottell & Son advertise a Clover Huller and iHay Press with prompt first class work at reasonable prices. Patronage invited. Information available by inquiry at their Middletown Virginia address.
Mr J Clapiane heads to Washington while A J Marston travels to Hancock Maryland. Frank Thomas of Philadelphia staying on business registered at Hotel Evans. D William Timberlake returns to Clarksburg West Virginia after visiting here. Advertise in the Want Columns.
Social news notes list several visitors and locals including Mrs. Emma R. Eastham returning from Elkton Virginia, Miss Barton from Winchester arriving in the city, and Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Shepherd with child from Cincinnati registered at Hotel Evans. Others travel to Baltimore for schooling, fairs, or visits, with names including Mrs. C. V. Van Der Linden and son Gainsboro, William M. Adamson Clarke county, Gordon M. Buck Pelham, N Y, Miss Ella Timberlake Brooklyn, Mrs. Owen Baltimore visit, Harry R. Gordon New York, and Lillian and Mary Lambert Baltimore relatives of Rev. T. J. Lambert.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a genuine internal remedy that acts on the blood and mucous surfaces. It claims a physician’s prescription, a tonic with blood purifiers, and widespread testimonials. Sold by druggists at 75 cents with Hall's Family Pills suggested for occupation.
The Star reports daily market quotations for flour corn barley middling hay butter and poultry along with Baltimore and Virginia area prices. Notable figures include creamery butter 33 cent Fancy and 31 cent Choice. eggs Virginia area 31 cent. No 1 timothy hay 17.50. chickens 13 cents per pound live. sheep and lambs priced per pound with range 3 to 5 cents for fat sheep and 10 1 2 cents for spring lambs.
The process outlines soaking bones in milk of lime to remove fat, washing, boiling to extract adhesive strength, then clarifying with powdered alum to remove impurities. The liquid is molded, cooled, sliced, and dried to produce glue adhesive.
A new pair of rock elm wooden tongs with insulating varnish aids safe fuse replacement at switchboards. They allow quick removal and insertion while preventing shocks and short circuits from metal contacts.
A passage reflects on equality in death, asserting no rank or wealth in the afterlife. It notes that power, status, and possessions vanish, with all from rich to poor, debtor to creditor, and politician to laborer left on equal footing after death. John J. Ingalls quotes Congressman Burns of Missouri.
Commentary argues for greater use of popular singing to build national spirit, noting Germany's extensive choral societies and songs of the father land as a model, while suggesting the need for similar efforts elsewhere.
Sunday services listed at Centenary Reform, Christ Protestant Episcopal, Church of the Sacred Hearts, First Baptist, and Grace Lutheran. Details include service times, pastors, Sunday school starts, and midweek prayers.
Rev. W. T. Walters pastors at the corner of Hrad lock and Clifford streets. Services at 1 a.m. with a combined Christian Endeavor Society meeting until further notice, then regular 8 p.m. evening preaching. Sunday school at 2.15 p.m. with Walters as superintendent. Weekly prayer meeting is Wednesday at 8 p.m.
Methodist Episcopal at corner market and Cork streets announces preaching at 1 a.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday, with Sunday school at 2.15 p.m. Rev H G Spencer is pastor and Hunter N Kern superintendent. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7.30 p.m.
A listing of Sunday and midweek worship times for Methodist Episcopal South Presbyterian Pentecostal Mission and other local churches on South Braddock Street South Main and Highland avenues. Services include morning and evening sermons Sunday school prayer meetings and midweek gatherings led by pastors Rev W O Albert Rev J B H Lacy and E F Ashley among others.
United Brethren church on North Brad dock street announces preaching by Rev. G W Stover at 11 a m and 8 p m Sunday school at 9 46 a m led by superintendent T Mancher Young People's Society Christian Endeavor meets at ? pm with L W Fries as president Midweek prayer meeting is at 8 pm.
A discussion among office workers urges saving time by speaking concisely. Do not lead up to the point or give lengthy explanations. Begin with the point and avoid excess words to enable more work and help others do more.
British museum naturalists identify a straight tusked elephant of at least 15 feet tall from bones found in Upnor Medway trench. Tusks may reach 16 feet. The American imperial mammoth stood about 18% feet, with the true mammoth likely not over 9% feet. The Indian elephant is taller, and the African elephant may reach 14 4 feet.
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