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Newspaper
Winchester News
Location
Winchester, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1908
Page
4
Publication details show The Winchester News Co published daily with Sunday issue and mail service from South Main Street. Rates listed include funds payable in advance and annual, semi annual, and monthly figures.
Rates listed for display advertising by inch with editions per week and monthly terms. Time discounts include three months ten percent, six months twenty five percent, and one year thirty three and one third percent. Reading notices priced per line for business notices in body type and pure reading news headings.
The Winchester News argues for larger local advertising space to boost circulation and profit. It notes 1700 copies daily, growing demand, and talks of upgrading presses costing 2000 to 6000 dollars while urging Lexington merchants to advertise more locally and nationally.
A Courier Journal editorial urges Winchester and Clark County residents to boil or filter drinking water to destroy typhoid germs. It cites Louisville’s higher typhoid risk, explains transmission through contaminated water and food, and calls for boiling water in public schools to protect children.
Two large gatherings in Winchester Sunday afternoon and evening urged public education reform. Prof. E C McDougle of Eastern Kentucky Normal School spoke on rural Kentucky education funding and resource gaps while Prof. P P Claxton of the University of the South urged longer terms, better teacher pay, and higher public sentiment to sustain school progress. He praised Kentucky’s new school law and contrasted urban and rural schooling, noting literacy impacts on voter power.
Perry Asserry was shot in the back of the head at a Barnwell carnival edge while talking to Marvin Holland who was wounded. The gunman fled into darkness and bloodhounds tracked the trail but it ended unresolved.
Belleville Illinois on November 30 Miss Nellie Morton confessed to Chief Helsgen and Prosecuting Attorney Tacklenberge that she sat on the cot as Peter Waeltz grew unconscious while Sydney Maker, her sweetheart, held a chloroform soaked cloth over Waeltz. Waeltz's body was found at the foot of stairs with a crushed skull. Baker has disappeared and a murder warrant is issued.
Havana reports a conference between Governor Megoon and President-elect Gomez ahead of evacuation by American troops. They will address future Cuban governance including treasury obligations and the possible need for a $30,000,000 loan to be underwritten by Speyer & Company of New York.
W A Beatty and Col R R Perry launched the Winchester Daily News in Lexington for the first time since the paper began. The venture shows 1600 circulation in seven weeks, serving Winchester Clark County and nearby towns within fifty miles. The editors plan a new fast press to handle rising circulation and advertising.
Charles P Taft brother of the president elect joined a large Washington gathering for a dinner honoring Republican National Chairman Frank H Hitchcock He was asked about the Ohio senatorship but declined to comment beyond saying the situation was all right.
President Castro of Venezuela arrived at Basse Terre on the steamer Guadeloupe en route to Bordeaux. He said his mission is to settle diplomatic business with the French government.
Mrs. John D. Langosky died instantly when the Langosky family was struck by a train on the Wisconsin Central bridge at Stevens Point Wisconsin. The couple's youngest child died of injuries and the husband suffered a broken arm.
A small tugboat passed astern the Lakewood spraying foam with its propeller. A three year old boy tugged his father's coat-tail and cried out in awe at the boat's spitting water.
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