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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1915
Page
5
England endures Zeppelin raids with glass and telegraph damage. French defense holds on Lorraine fronts as Austro-Hungarian and American policy tensions unfold. Berlin and Constantinople war news mix with finance reports and calls for national service reform.
Mrs. William Cave died Saturday at 11 and was buried Sunday at St. Johns Church. Pallbearers were A. H. Beeler James S. Smith Robert Baker W. D. Long W. F. Long and Mr. Pangle. Survived by husband William Cave and five children.
The department raises its total Virginia corn yield forecast to 62,000,000 bushels from 39,000,000 last year and a five year average of 46,959,000. The August crop improvement adds 5,600,000 bushels to the prior estimate. At 97 cents per bushel, the September price implies a $22,500,000 gain to farmers from last year’s crop.
The Redland picnic drew light attendance due to heat and fair week fatigue. The Farmers Band from Unger’s Store enlivened the event with music. Dr H S Whitacre of Martinsburg spent Sunday here. George Peasmaker and wife with Lola visited Inwood West Virginia with H Clark. Garner Scrivener of Washington visits his parents. James Hart consulted Dr Miller in Winchester about a neck wen. Joseph Nesmith and wife celebrate birth of a son. Elmer Whitacre and wife returned Friday from visiting friends.
In Charlestown and other points in the Valley Misses Willie Lee and Elizabeth Payne arrived home Friday from an unspecified journey.
President Harrison of the Southern Railway Company comments on a Department of Agriculture report dated September 1 showing the Virginia corn crop at 95 percent of normal, with the outlook for the year described as most encouraging as of that date.
Paris report states Sarah Bernhardt, hailed as the world’s greatest actress, will likely not return to the stage after a single film appearance left her unable to walk with a new artificial leg. She has cancelled her American tour and returned to Bordeaux, with rumors she may run and stage her own productions to elevate the movies.
The policy allows part payment for new books over a year and a half, with no old book accepted unless used in Virginia public schools in the last four years or identified and containing at least three fourths of its original pages. Local schools will complete all old books currently in use this year.
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