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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1916
Page
4
The Evening Star in Winchester Virginia notes daily publication except Sundays and consolidation with several local papers. It lists post office reentry as 2nd class mail matter and provides subscription rates for one year six months three months and one month with various prices.
The Petersburg Index-Appeal cites Thomas A. Edison backing Wilson for president. The piece contrasts Wilson’s forward stance with Taft’s backward blunders and notes Edison’s unlikely support for any other candidate, while suggesting Hughes would draw few endorsements.
A speaker recalls wasting summer watering to save a parched lawn. Nine hydrants and three miles of hose could not prevent the grass from drying to gray. Neighbors doubt revival, but a long rain restores life and green growth, as the narrator and his wife celebrate on the lawn.
Miss Helena Knight daughter of Dr and Mrs M Knight leaves Saturday with about twelve young women from Baltimore for Wellesley Mass to begin the new session at Wellesley College. The group travels together from Baltimore most were 1916 graduates of the Girls Latin School.
The advertisement claims broad national use of Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a genuine merit aid for women’s ailments. It argues women discovered its benefits over forty years, prompting widespread purchases across the country.
S. T. Hoffler of Norfolk Virginia reports Tanlac relieved catarrh indigestion and morning mucus with improved appetite sleep and well being. He urges readers to visit Miller's Drug Store Winchester or Charles Blencowe's Berryville to try a bottle.
Attorney General Pollard rules that state officers including the chief legal adviser and county and city attorneys must pay the standard license fees. City engineers and county surveyors serving the state at set salaries also owe the fees. The ruling confirms the act fixing fees as valid and applies to all who represent the state in court or provide official services.
Martinsburg West Virginia September 26 thirty one bootleggers were taken on a single train to county jails across the state to serve sentences imposed by Judge Dayton at this term of the federal court Deputy Marshal J W Moore led the group with assistants T V Butler of Fairmont a Marion county deputy sheriff and Edward Stock of Fairmont The sentences range from thirty days to six months Harrison county hosts the largest share with thirteen confined in that county Seven will serve in Marion jail five in Wood county with Taylor and Barbour counties each two Morgan and Randolph counties one each
This week news print paper in ten lots costs six and one-half cents per pound, under ten lots seven cents. Demand exceeds mills’ capacity. Publishers should contact the Western Newspaper Union in Baltimore to secure partly printed sheets at low advance rates and plan weekly stock to reduce labor and costs.
Announcement of the marriage of Miss Bessie Hockman of this city to Mr Luther Patton of Winchester occurred last Saturday in Hagerstown Maryland. Patton son of Mr and Mrs Isaac R Patton works at a local cider and vinegar plant.
Invitations from Mr and Mrs George D Crawford of Hagerstown Md announce the marriage of their daughter Miss William Mark Crawford to Edward Joseph Byron of Mercersburg Pa son of Edward W Byron of W D Byron and Company Williamsport Md The wedding is planned for October 7 at St Johns Protestant Episcopal Church in Hagerstown a major fall nuptial event.
Col John B Purcell president of the First National Bank of Richmond died suddenly in Lexington Virginia where he had gone hoping to regain his health. He had been feeble for months but his death was not anticipated and he was attending the Virginia Military Institute at Lexing-
An advertisement extols Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a mild natural laxative safe for children. It cites Mrs Leo Weigand of Pittsburgh praising its use for regularity and overall family health. The copy urges avoiding imitations and directs readers to obtain from drug stores or write to Dr Caldwell.
A Civil War veteran who enlisted at 14 rose to colonel of the First Virginia Regiment and later served as state dairy and food commissioner Benjamin Purcell. He leaves a widow a son three daughters one sister and one brother.
Preaching is scheduled at sunrise 10 30 a m Mount Zion at 3 p m and Mount Pleasant at 7 p m next Sunday by Rev W H Sampsell. The notices list the churches and times for the Winchester circuit.
Mrs Hyde and her children have returned from Edgartown Massachusetts and will reside in Winchester for fall and winter. She has reopened her West Waters street residence.
A Winchester resident G. W. Sowers endorses Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney regulation and relief from backache headaches dizziness and urinary issues. He reports lasting satisfactory results from the medicine available for 65 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y markets the product.
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