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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1915
Page
4
The poem by Walt Mason laments the heavy burden of a workingman's mortgage on his hut and a car. It satirically contrasts the dream of rapid repayment with the crushing reality of debt. The speaker compares the weight to an Old Man of the Sea and warns of losing a home to pay for possessions.
Services at Minnie Wood Chapel drew a good crowd last Sunday. Nellie May Evans hosted a watermelon party. Mary Shopland won the seeds contest. Local residents attended picnics in Boyce and Gore, while others visited kin in Smithfield and Winchester. Farmers worked silos and cut corn as fall tasks begin.
Local briefs report E Russell Hook at Woodman picnic in Boyce with B N Lockhart. Georgie Triplette visits Gore. Willie Eby and Katie Gamble visit Muse family. Bethel Church hosts September 18 ice cream festival for Sunday school. Giffin party vacationing with relatives in Chambersville and Moorefield. Mrs. Sarah Triplette visiting E L Lafollette. Chapman family at Forest pageant in Gainesboro.
In Stephens City Virginia Miss Katherine Cadwallader returns to Salem after vacation visits. Sadie and Ada Drake depart Berryville after visiting Mrs Leslie Drake. Florence Guard leaves for Mt Jackson to teach. Evelyn Totty from Winchester visits her mother. Elton and Richie Stickley return from Bluemont trip. Downing Stickley to enter Roanoke College in Galem for next session. Jovan Steele also mentioned in the draft.
Mr Flod Cadwallader, bedridden for part of his illness with typhoid fever, shows some improvement.
Misses Vivian and Ruby Feagan of Wheatland Jefferson county return to their home on Friday after spending a week with their uncle in Rest, Virginia. The brief item notes family visit and travel back.
The United States and Germany along with Austria face renewed strains over submarine warfare. German notes amid the Dumba affair raise questions on sincerity. Aerial combat rises with bombs and airships losses. Germany claims trench gains at Schratzmannele and Hartman's-Weilerkopf. Paris says most lost ground has been regained. Austro German forces advance slowly in Russia as Russians counteroffensive in the south. Germans dig in at Vilna as England hosts a Trade Union congress pivotal to the war effort.
The Sunday school and Ladies Aid Society of Rest hold a picnic in the Ridgeway camp meeting woods today. Edward Marpole of Nain Virginia moved his sawmill to Mrs. E S Rubeck's woods and plans to saw lumber and build a large barn. Mr and Mrs Alien Marshall and their young daughter from near Summit Point visited Mr and Mrs J B Feagan over the weekend.
A resolution seeks terms of peace satisfactory to the working classes. A passenger aboard the British steamer Nicosian recounts a naval patrol incident where a patrol boat flew the United States flag, removed the American ensign, raised the British standard, and sank the submarine.
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