Local Draft Registrants Begin Questionnaires in Winchester
Registrants aged 19 to 36 who registered on September 12, 1918 start receiving questionnaires. About 123 per day will be sent until complete. Recipients have seven days to answer. The Legal Advisory Board offers free help at the Corporation Court House City Hall from 9 am to 6 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vtal Board
Corporation Court House
Legal Advisory Board
Robert M. Ward
Winchester
County of Frederick
More Registrants Listed for September 12 1918 Draft
A second installment lists men aged 18 to 45 who registered for the September 12 1918 selective draft. Names include Middletown Winchester Stephens City White Post Hayfield and other communities with many residents from Virginia counties and towns.
War Bonds Rally Poem Urges Support for Soldiers
Walt Mason calls for maximum support to the war effort urging readers to buy War Savings Stamps and back the army and navy. He praises workers and disabled veterans contributing to production, while insisting every able person contribute to sustain the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsed by Local Carpenter
The note from Hillyard of 8 Kent St describes long lasting backache and damp weather pain, with kidney secretions causing annoyance. He credits Doan's Kidney Pills for relief and endorses them over four years later, urging readers to use the same remedy sold at 60 cents by Foster Milburn Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hillyard
Kent St
Doan
Martinsburg Area Social Notes Mention Visits and Calls
Brown and family of Martinsburg spent Wednesday with Miss Suan B Howard. Mr and Mrs M M Bailey and son Edward of Davis spent time with relatives here. Mr and Mrs D S Mattison visited Martinsburg Friday. Mrs W A Orndorff went to Winchester on business Thursday. Miss Fern Luttrell called on friends Thursday. Mr and Mrs Harry Fling of Winchester visited Mrs A V Hudson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Fling
Winchester
A. V. Hudson
Read' of Apples Cooking On Trees
Mrs Samuel Baxter visiting at the home of Mrs W R Willis on South Market street receives a letter from her son Samuel Baxter Jr in the United States naval service abroad. He encloses a Paris edition clipping about apples cooking on trees in Winchester area orchards during August heat. Associated Press dispatch circulated to major papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Baxter
Washington
Mirrs
W. R. Willis
South Market Street
Samuel Baxter, Jr
United States Naval Service
Paris
New York Herald
Winchester
Postcard from France Shows Morgan Grave Scene
Mrs Nabcy Lee Coble of West Water received a souvenir postcard from Private Devereux Bowly serving with an artillery unit in the Rainbow Division in France. The card features Major General Daniel Morgan’s grave at Mount Hebron and notes he is well and busy. Numerous such cards are on sale at cheslands in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nabcy Lee Coble
West Water
Devereux Bowly
France
Winchester
Mount Hebron
Daniel Morgan
Hestwate
Britons endure rationing as wartime pride grows
An American labor mission member observes Britain’s strict rationing of meat bread sugar milk and eggs and the nation’s stoic acceptance. Workers praise shipbuilding progress and self denial as crucial to victory, noting substantial food imports from the United States and the resolve to maximize every resource.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R M. Wright
American Federation of Labor
England
London
United States
Clyde
War of the Roses in a Damask Rose Competition
The piece argues a perpetual contest of beauty among nations and cultures centered on rose breeding. It notes Paris’s Venus award, California’s Bagatelle prize, and German influences, praising French rose types while labeling German entrants as imitators.
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Japan
India
Serbia
Persia
Damascus
Paris
Venus
Southern
California
Bagatelle
Teutons
Duchess de Mecklenburg
Cornelia Kech
Felenberg
Princess de Sagan
Victoria
Brooklyn Eagle
Exemption Board Quips From District Youth
A Chicago Tribune report recounts how Jay McCord of exemption board No. 8 finds district youths endlessly entertaining. A young man offered to wave a United States flag, another claimed a $100 monthly wife allowance while earning ten dollars a week as a porter, and the porter denied knowledge of any alleged craps habit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jay McCord
Exemption Board No
George
Yassah
United States
France in Arms Through the Eyes of a US Soldier
A US soldier just back from the front describes France as a nation in arms from cities to villages. He recalls a feeble French mother pushing fertilizer uphill, proving the war’s widespread impact and the French spirit, then adds a superstition about ladders and lamps as omens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osler
France
United States
Surprise Party for William Braithwaite Near Cross Junction
Friends gathered at his Cross Junction area home last Sunday to honor William Braithwaite. Guests arrived with baskets and shared a fine dinner followed by a melon feast. Attendees included N. A. Braithwaite Mrs Henry Kerns and many Kerns Strother Shirley Dailey and Dailey family members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Braithwaite
Cross Junction
N. A. Braithwaite
Henry Kerns
Scott Strother
Shirley
Light
Ernest Dailey
Lee Kerns
Julia
Annie
Minnie Shirley
Pearl
Mary
Willie Kerns
Johnnie Kerns
Clayton Dailey
Bostella Dailey
Nellie Dailey
Calotabs praised as modern calomel substitute
Ad endorses Calotabs as a reformulated calomel with no nausea or griping. One nightly tablet with water cleanses liver and purifies system, then morning appetite returns. No diet restrictions and genuine Calotabs sold only in sealed packages for thirty five cents.
Advertisement for Foley health kit and remedies
Cut this out and mail to Foley at 2835 Sheffield Ave Chicago Ill for a trial package including Honey Tar Compound Kidney Pills and Cathartic Tablets. Promises coughs colds and croup relief and that the kit is sold everywhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Ill
Notice To Owners Stock Valley Turnpike Company
Notice to owners of stock in Valley Turnpike Company to file proof of ownership with Secretary H. Byrd of Middletown Virginia by December 15. Owners with original certificates should present them. those without must file sworn statements detailing their ownership claims. The company will review claims after the deadline and distribute funds with minimal delay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Valley Turnpike Company
Valley Pike Company
Valley ‘Turnpike Company
BH. F. Byrd
Trustees Sale of Attractive Home in Frederick County
By deed of trust from A. S. Bowers and wife dated 1910, the 2 acre property near Rest Ridgeway in Frederick County Virginia, featuring a two story six room residence with porches and a good cistern, is offered at public auction in Winchester on October 19 1918 at noon. Terms: one third cash, balance in two equal annual installments with interest, secured by deed of trust and fire insurance. Auctioneers M M Lynch, Duvall & Dunn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. S. Bowers
Frederick County
Virginia
Court House
Winchester
Rest
Martinsburg
Turnapike
White Hill
Elso
M. M. Lynch
Duvall & Dunn
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Evening Star
Harry Flood Byrd
Evening Star Publishing Ce
Atter
Pelephones
Neil
United
Morning News
Weekly News
Weekly Times
Weekly Mirror
Evening Star Ie
Postoffice
Joan Alber
Ansge
Bernie F. Strosnider
Middle
Charles Franklin Reeder
Meadow Mille
Herschel C. Borden
Middletown
Charles M. McDonald
Stephens
Albert John Smith
Thomas Jefferson Mceinturff
Howard Clinton, Frye
Benjamin Franklin Nankers
Vernon S. Shaffer
John Henry Sargent
Reubin Clark
White Post
Henry Dean Braithwaite
Olliver Clifford Clowser
Hayfield
William Andrew Peffer
Winches
Ter
James Franklin Ashby
Albertus” Edgar Cline
Ernest Howard Bocky
Grimes
John Powell Chamberlain
Clear
Pendleton - Lillard
Chester
Edgar Irvin Smoke
Hang Schlichting
Henry Clay DeGrange
Luther Byers
Frederick William Forney
John Gray Beverley
John Anderson
John William Brown
William Henry Davis
William van Meter Ryan
Henry Russell Shaver
Clarence Conley Hoover
Louis Herbert Haines
Henry Lesher Bowers
Baker Milton“ Seabright, ‘'Win
Otto Handly Fuller
Freddie Clarence Foreman
Robert Nelton Boyd
Harry Emanuel Pingley
Win
Courteney Wells
Weems
Charles Herbert Frye
James Cave
Paul Abert Beck
Wincheeter
Clinton H. Barr
Kes William Robinson
Ephens
Edward Elonza Peer
Wilbur Lee Fisher
Wilbur Ellis Avery
Charles Fienry Jack
Arthur Gates Athey
George Adison Butler
William Harry Smith
Oliver Newton Clark
Gordon Wallace
Darden
Albert Lee Baker
Calvin Augustus
Brill
Mountain Falls
William Harper Beaver
Barton
Ville
William Strother Sargeant
Stephens City
Ad Jo- Porter
Whitacre
Sibr
Charley
Edward Fishel
Star Tannery
Walt Mason
War Mings Et
Albin News
Albin, Va
Associated Press
Morgan
Gabby
Calomel
Forthe
Man
Whoik Ij
Jolin
Rolin
Heroli
Werolin Med. Co
Atlanta
AGEN
Turner Carper
SSD
Shirley Carter
Lucy Barrett
J. Hunter Williams
South Main S1
G. W. Kremer
J. A. Hasmock
Ilm
Biles
Bell
Star Office
S. Main Street
Fawcett
Neel Motor Co
W. Johnson
Clifford Street
E. N. Anderson
Northwestern
Jones Creamery
William Morgan
L. Mazer
South 5Th Street
Philadelphia
M.’’ Care
the Star Office
Shenandoah Valley Nat.Bank
Federal Reserve Bank
U. S
Eral Reserve Bank
U.S
Pee Eeerenee
State of Virginia
Frederick
Elsie M. Maphis
N. P
Stock Valley Turnpike Company
Rambler Bicycles
H. R. Willis
Market St
Office of State Et Ae Commission
Richmond
Boyd’s Run
G. Pleman
Ville and
Seeme
Russell
R. C. Smootz
Fishers Hill
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