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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1915
Page
6
Storms top at 100 miles per hour as relief ships patrol from Mobile to search for wreckage. Smaller towns cut off stand to lose millions in damage while trains are marooned. Weather Bureau forecasts the hurricane will move north along the coast but quickly weaken after leaving the Gulf.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Virginia Wilkinson were held at the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Middletown Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. J. H. Haley. Interment followed at Mount Carmel Cemetery after a large gathering paid tribute. Mrs H Clay Krebs departed for a several weeks visit to Augusta County, Virginia.
George Klein Attractions presents Spartacus in Rome and Turin with large crowds at Chautauqua. Empire offers showings at seven and nine o clock for ten cents, a major motion picture event with twenty six thousand lions and 176 scenes referenced.
Wm. S. Hart starring in a two reel western The Ruse at the Empire with a clever Howard and Wiley double harmony act in blackface vaudeville. The program promises a smashing ten cent show with matinee and night performances Saturday.
Heat will be on at the Empire to keep the building comfortable for patrons tonight.
Dispatches say heavy fighting continues along the western front from Belgium to Switzerland. German detachments are pulled back to meet a larger Allied push while Gen. Joffre plans decisive action with fresh British forces and ample supplies to break German resistance.
Miss Julia Steele is staying at the home of her brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs William Lupton on Fairmont avenue after spending most of the summer with her other brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs Luther Dellinger at Dodson Maryland. Mr and Mrs Nellnger and Miss Steele recently joined them.
Travelers praised the Valley pike in Virginia for its exceptional surface between Winchester and Staunton, noting trips across the valley and other regions were pleasant and well maintained during the summer travel season.
President Woodrow Wilson reviewed 20 000 Union veterans in a solemn court of honor ceremony. The parade, led by Lieutenant General Nelson Miles, lasted about an hour as elderly veterans passed in slow review recalling Civil War narratives and national unity.
Virginia State Fair directors in Richmond decide not to hold the cattle sheep and swine exhibition due to fear of foot-and-mouth disease spread from out of state cattle. The decision ends a decade of cattle shows at the fair, following discussions with Governor HAC and State Veterans official J G Ferne y hough.
J P Morgan agrees to surrender the Martha Washington will to Justice James Keith of the Virginia Court of Appeals for disposal. Fairfax Harrison mediated between Morgan and Governor Stuart and Keith as the will, seized from Fairfax Court House by a Federal soldier, is to be possibly placed in a Mount Vernon fireproof vault. The Virginia Supreme Court suit to compel Morgan to return the will may be dropped.
Mrs. Lucien Kennedy, who spent the summer with her father Major Hurster on South Washington Street, left this morning for her home in Columbia South Carolina.
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