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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1916
Page
3
At Winchester Virginia the document lists capital stock paid in 200,000.00 and surplus funds 200,000.00 The figures show 1,000.00 and 2,600.00 and 194,697 2,880.00 37,201.34 2,415.23 and 6.74 percent with 20,634.77 2,323.00 noted.
An article fragment promotes a medicine for every family to have for sudden colic and diarrhea with urgency to treat promptly until a physician arrives or medicine is available. It mentions a cholera and diarrhoea note and references costs and figures in the surrounding text.
Funeral services for Miss Eisie M. Hoover age 22 were held after she died Thursday morning of typhoid fever at the home of her aunt Mrs Asa Holtz 435 Highland Avenue. The rites were at Mount Olive Church and interment followed in the church cemetery. Miss Hoover was a daughter of Walter Hoover formerly of this county now in Clarke County Virginia.
Lee Gardner of Waynesboro surrendered to Harrisonburg authorities after being indicted by the Rockingham county grand jury for involuntary manslaughter. He was driver of the car in the July 20 wreck near Harrisonburg that killed Eva Henning of Philadelphia. Gardner, with counsel D O Dechert, was released on $100 bail pending a Thursday hearing.
Sidney Rymer, ex prosecuting attorney of Lewis county, West Virginia, and 1906 West Virginia Senate candidate, pleaded guilty in Martinsburg Federal Court to bootlegging liquor in Clar, West Virginia. He received months in jail and a fine of $1000, Judge Dayton stating Rymer wasted his talents. Eleven others also pleaded guilty to bootlegging charges and received jail terms or $100 fines.
The thirty fourth annual Virginia Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention will be held in Tazewell from September 26 to 29. Speakers include state president Mrs Howard M Hoge and several other named delegates. Winchester union delegates plan to depart Monday for the event.
Invitations from Mr and Mrs James Murray Mason Charlestown W Va announce the marriage of Miss Mary Morris Mason to Mr Edmund Stradwick Jr of Richmond. The ceremony at Zion Episcopal Church Charles Town will be October 4 at 6 30 PM with a reception at the bride’s parents home. The couple will reside in Richmond.
LeBaron of Santa Barbara California, visiting at Millbank with Miss Wood on the Berryville pike, departed yesterday for Cambridge Massachusetts to resume studies at Harvard University. He has family connections and many friends in this Virginia section.
Charles Hudson a longtime White Hall resident Frederick County died at 10 20 yesterday morning at Miss Mary Hackneys home where he had lived for years Age 81 years 11 months 27 days He was unmarried Survived by two sisters Mrs Mary Darlington Gainesboro and Mrs Galloway Rin cer Kansas Funeral planned for Sunday to allow western relatives to attend
While grading the Mec ahelisville and Fort Loudon Rail road a bank of sand was opened. The sand is said to rival Keely Springs sand of West Virginia, a top glass making material. A nearly white rock possibly suitable for building was also found. Near Cape Horn two miles west of Fort London a large vein of iron ore was struck on Cumberland Valley Railroad Company lands.
The suit of S. B. Calkins and Company fruit dealers of Memphis against F. A. Shryock a Winchester apple dealer seeking 25000 damages for alleged defamation was postponed to Monday September 25. Judge Henry C. McDowell will preside. Attorneys Harry Kern and R. Barton with Winchester witnesses remained in Lynchburg awaiting a prior case. Kathleen Kipps of Front Royal has enrolled at Fort Loudoun Seminary for the fall session.
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Fragmentary OCR shows a Mount Bidney Mas report of a person named Jenry Re Shaver-jeft who spent days with relatives and friends and died at Mrs Joan Koons. The postmaster general’s wife, and a return to Washington are mentioned amid unclear text.
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