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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1917
Page
5
Scrambled entries show trains arriving in Winchester from stated stations. Times cited include 920 am daily except Sunday and 727 pm daily with other numbers and notes partially legible, indicating a periodic transit timetable in a historical notices page.
Train No 13 runs 9 22 a m to Bristol and intermediate stations with Pullman Parlor car to Roanoke and Bristol. Train No 12 27 carries Roanoke Bristol Pocahontas Welch Norton and intermediates with Pullman Sleepers to Winston Salem and Roanoke with Shenandoah and Bluefield connections. Train No 27 6 41 p m services Rox Shenandoah and intermediates.
An advertisement offers about $100 monthly for newspaper correspondence and $40 to $50 monthly in spare time work with no canvassing. Readers urged to send for details to National Press Bureau Room 4256 Buffalo New York. Date: 5-19 Saturday.
Handley Library officials led by President R Gray Williams endorse the American Library Association drive to raise a million dollars for soldier reading material. The local committee includes Miss Lily Baker Miss Carter B Conrad Mrs R T Barton and librarian C Vernon Eddy urging Winchester supporters to contribute and not cut Red Cross giving. The appeal links literacy to national vigor amid wartime taxes and German world influence.
Promotes Calotabs as a newer calomel tablet advertised as nausea free and tasteless. Claims include perfect biliousness relief, constipation and indigestion remedy, with refund if not delighted. Pack contains twenty doses priced at thirty five cents.
Col and Mrs John Keating entertained friends at their Cumberland Maryland home Sunday night for their twenty first wedding anniversary. Bishop Dennis J O Connell of Richmond Virginia attended to confirm a class at Kessel West Virginia along with several church prelates and Cumberland leaders including Chief Judge A Hunter Boyd James Clark Daniel Annan Roberdeau Annan State's Attorney Philip Roman William W Brown editor Tasker Lawndesg and Dr James T Johnson Keating native of Winchester and brother of William Keating serves as vice president and director of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Cumberland.
Market prices from local buyers show winter and spring wheat flour retail prices at 11.00 and 13.00 per unit, cracked corn 2.10 per bushel, middlings 8.00, various hay and butter prices, potatoes 1.00 to 1.20 per bushel, live poultry and cattle values, and hogs at 19.75. Dr. A. R. Allen, Cumberland Valley Railroad chief surgeon, died aged 55 in Carlisle after a surgical operation for blood poisoning. Mr. Samuel G. Forney returns to Baltimore after a week visiting relatives. he works in the linotype department.
Marlboro Virginia reports a series of social visits and local movements. Miss Ethel Staples visited in Winchester. E S Brent, J Booth and others traveled for business. several residents visited relatives in Stephens City Martinsburg and Edinburg. Cross Junction notes record Samuel Baker's return from Washington and a welcome birth in the Braithwaite household.
The will, written on his deathbed in western Frederick county, leaves all estate to his mother Rebecca Ann Dyke for life and to his sister Annie E. Carver after her mother’s death. Executor George Carver, who bonded for 1500 dollars, is named. The will dated August 19 1917 was witnessed by W. C. Clem and Joseph F. Bean. The Canning Club exhibit will be on display Friday September.
The Welltown Sunday school will reopen on Sunday September 390 at 10 a m. All officers teachers and pupils are urged to be present. Mr on Gittings has returned to Baltimore after visiting friends in town.
Mrs Kate Bush leaves this morning for Chillicothe Ohio after visiting the Misses McCartney. She is joined at Harpers Ferry by her sister in law Mrs Lewis Barley who has been visiting relatives at that place.
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