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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1916
Page
5
Train schedule entry for Cumberland Valley listing daily and Sunday departures and arrivals. Includes station notes and timetable references dated May 28 1916 with officials names such as Supt BA Rippie and Gen P A.
Train timetable fragment lists routes and connections from Berryville to Roanoke Bristol Pocahontas Welch Shenandoah and Hagerstown with sleepers dining cars and Memphis special identifiers. Mentions intermediat e stations and connections at Shenandoah Junction Washington and noting October 20 1915 date.
Fragmentary OCR notes report a bound person from Strasburg with a local designation 12225 and mention a Harrvisonbars 2305s location. No clear event or outcome due to garbled text.
Mrs. Catharine Goodling of York Pennsylvania declares she was eighty sick and unable to bear children before taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound which she says made her bright and healthy now. She urges other suffering women to try it and contact Lydia E Pinkham Co for confidential advice in Lynn Massachusetts.
John W Smoke died at age 80 years 11 months and 29 days at his Mount Williams area home after a long illness. He was a Frederick county resident with family in Winchester and Martinsburg. Funeral services will be held at his house with interment at Mount Olive, conducted by Reverend Brubaker and Reverend Lampeetl. He leaves a wife died five years ago, three daughters Fannie Shepherd Ada and Mamie and five sons Edgar Albert Asa Paul and William.
Funeral services for the late Mrs Sophie Gaither Schley widow of Major Benjamin Schley of Frederick Md were held at the home of her nieces Miss Ida and Minnie Baker on North Market Street. Rev Dr William D Smith led the services. The remains will go to Frederick tomorrow at 910 am and burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery after noon. Mrs Schley was about 83 and had been an invalid for some time. Mr and Mrs Joseph T Moore of Berryville Va visited town yesterday.
A large party of officials led by President M C Kennedy inspected the Cumberland Valley Railroad from Harrisburg to Winchester in a specially equipped train. The delegation began in Harrisburg and arrived in Winchester around 4 16 this afternoon. Dinner was served at the Winchester Inn before the party returned to Chambersburg and other Pennsylvania locations.
Dr. John Bushnell formerly of Winchester has arrived in Augusta to lead Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. The Augusta Chronicle notes his arrival by train from Georgia and describes his welcoming visit with Mr. and Mrs. Buss and family. Bushnell, a Virginias native, has previously preached in Augusta and recently visited Detroit before moving here.
The morning service centered on Dr. Bushnell's sermon titled The Vision of the Wonderful Christ. It drew from Luke chapter 10 verses 28 and 24, noting blessed are the eyes that see and hear the things the disciples hear and see.
Trustees announce a public auction of four real estate tracts in Frederick County near Stephens City. Tracts range from 2 to 130 acres with farm buildings. sale set in Winchester at the county courthouse with one third cash and balance in two annual installments secured by deed of trust and insurance.
First Lieut. Albert Sidney Johnston Tucker U S A stationed at Fort Sam Houston Texas wed Miss Mary Sames at the St Charles Hotel in New Orleans on Monday September 18. The couple plan to visit relatives in Virginia around October 1 after the ceremony.
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