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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1916
Page
2
This medicine for colic and diarrhoea is touted as essential for every family. It offers prompt relief while awaiting a physician or medicine and is claimed to have widespread availability and a strong reputation. Advertised in the Want Columns.
The body of Eugene Davis Snapp died in Staunton after a lingering tuberculous illness was transported to Winchester for burial at Mount Hebron Cemetery. Rev. Dr. W D Smith officiated at the grave service, with Staunton rites led by Rev. W G McDowell. Survived by his widow Florence Lewis Snapp and two sons, Henry Leslie Snapp and M Dunbar Snapp. Born Woodstock 62 years ago, he lived in Staunton 29 years and had earlier resided in Philadelphia and the West. He was a painter and decorator and member of Woodmen of the World and Junior Order of American Mechanics.
City Treasurer W. T. Barr mails tax notices to Winchester residents informing that 1916 city and state taxes are due. Payments must be made by September 30 to avoid a 3 percent penalty. Cards include the amount due for city and state. The text notes a large share of local property owners are affected.
Property owners and other taxpayers are advised to pay taxes by the month’s end to escape a three percent penalty. A small rise in most taxes follows a statewide reassessment of real estate, conducted last year under a state law requiring five yearly assessments in Virginia.
A runaway pair from the Shenandoah Valley traveled to Rockville Md where Rev. John H. Schooley stopped his sermon at a Methodist Church and joined the couple to marry at the parsonage. The newlyweds are Clinton Fultz of Raphine Rockbridge County and Arline Crawford of Weyers Cave Augusta County. They then left for Washington for their honeymoon.
Hayfield Virginia reports 12 year old Charles Dyche, son of Hayes Dyche, bitten in the calf by an angry dog owned by Isaiah Bowman after teasing the animal. Dr. C. R. Anderson of Winchester treated the wound with five stitches. the boy is progressing well.
The will of the late Laura P. Tucker widow of Hon. John Randolph Tucker, who died recently in Lexington Virginia, has been admitted to probate in the Corporation Court of Winchester. Executed March 17, 1897, the document includes many codicils and distributes personal estate to family with numerous bequests of books paintings silverware jewelry and furniture. A $200 gift to Mount Hebron Cemetery Association funds a perpetual care trust. Executors Harry St George Tucker of Lexington and Dr William P McGuire of Winchester qualified with bonds of $40 000.
Washington Sunday Star reports the Public Health Service faces daily peril in disease investigation and now probes infantile paralysis. The piece notes anticipated widespread distribution in Winchester newsdealers next Sunday and mentions local and visiting residents including Miss Margaret Lacy, Miss Rose F. Ebersole, Mrs. Roland Ringgold, Mrs. Holmes Berry, and Mr. John Spraigue linked to Shenandoah Valley Academy and Lynchburg Randolph-Macon College.
Classified advertisement asserts Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh by acting on the blood and mucous surfaces. It claims a physician's prescription status and lists J Chenny & Co of Toledo Ohio as sellers with testimonials available. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Prof H B Hedrick and family return to New Haven Iowa after summer on their Hayfield Virginia farm. Hedrick holds an astronomy post at Yale. son Benjamin enters second year at Yale. sisters Anna and Eleanor attend high school. The piece notes local visits, school leadership by Frances Larrick, and Hayfield as a potential Winchester and Western Railroad depot site.
Mrs Elsie Lanham and children return to Alexandria after visiting her ailing father J B Croson. Local Winchester fair attendance noted. Dr J W Rosenberry and Mrs Rosenberry visiting Hopewell and Martinsburg relatives ill with typhoid. New sanitary drinking fountains or bubblers installed at Lewis Jones Knitting Company replacing cups for workers.
Directors John W. Rice Lewis F. Cooper and R. Gray Williams subscribed and sworn before notary Elsie M. Maphis on September 20, 1916. Notary's commission expires December 11, 1918.
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