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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1923
Page
4
A regional consolidation brings together The Morning News The Weekly News The Weekly Times and The Weekly Mirror under a single publishing group. The move aims to streamline operations expand coverage and improve distribution across the region.
Major Heath Tyler, son of ex-Gov Tyler, will chair the Second Congressional District Pay-As-You-Go Roads Association, with ex-State Senator E C Mathews leading Norfolk. The move shifts sentiment from bond issues and suggests a larger vote for the pay-as-you-go plan.
A letter from Frank Page, chairman of the North Carolina State Highway Commission, argues that a $65 million serial bond plan funds road maintenance through auto and gasoline taxes. Critics warn of long retirement periods and high interest, noting Virginia’s different approach and questioning the overall impact of bonded road financing.
The letter notes bonding plans in North Carolina with 10 to 40 year payback and a proposed retirement period of up to 65 years. It compares with Virginia, which is unlikely to adopt the same rapid financing approach, and mentions an official estimate of interest around 31 million dollars.
The Danville News endorses a six week drive to raise 1500 for Danville and 25000 statewide for a pro bond advertising campaign. It notes Richmond headquarters will flood Virginia with propaganda before the November 6 bond election and urges voters to rely on their judgment amid the outlay.
Yale researchers Prof Henderson and Dr Haggard report that automobile exhausts in crowded streets release poisonous gases that may affect many people. They suggest exhausts be vented upward or streets ventilated to reduce risk, noting urban air can be compromised in dense settings.
U B Rural Charge lists Pleasant Valley and Fairview services with Sunday school at 9:45 and 10 a.m., sermons at 11:45 a.m. and 3 p.m., Christian Endeavor at 7:30 p.m., and prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 p.m. Mt Olive also hosts Sunday school at 10 a.m. The pastor urges full attendance of members and friends to organize the new conference year.
Hallie Becca Clowser infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs Carroll Clowser died at home on September 16 aged five months and twenty days. Survived by parents and sisters Catherine Frietta and Virginia. Funeral services held at Gravel Springs Church by Rev H E Sleep at ten thirty. Burial followed.
A verse about the temperamental neighbor who yells and scowls. It notes the harm of prolonged sulks and the relief when anger ends and gentler feelings return. The piece mocks chronic gloom and the misery it brings to wives, workers, and neighbors, concluding with the enduring blight of a perpetual frown.
Miss Lydia Chapman returns to Winchester from Burnt Factory after visiting Mr. D. G. Newcome's family. Miss Mabel Newcome goes home from Carper's Valley after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Esten Carper. Farmers begin corn cutting and silo filling while others harvest millet and cowpeas and cut alfalfa. Apple picking is under way. Rev. and Mrs. Harry Marsh and Ada Tanquary return to Middleburg after visiting Virginia and West Virginia relatives. Mr. and Mrs. J D Wright spent last Sunday with friends near Ripon, Va.
Mrs. Tillie Keplinger died this week at her daughter’s home near Capon Bridge. A deaf mute, she was formerly Miss Whitmore, daughter of Aquilla Whitacre. The funeral was held at Bloomery yesterday.
Rev P W Wigsman will preach in the lawn of H Dunlaps at 33 o clock in the afternoon. Everyone invited to attend the open air service.
Field Marshall von Hindenburg, leaving Bavaria today for Wan over, urged Bavarian leaders to avoid secession from the empire and to preserve the true Prussian faith. He addressed Gen Jaidendorf and others, including Dr ena Kavu Pipl and Bayer, with a farewell admonition to Bavarian patriots.
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