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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1909
Page
2
W. W. Poston offers painting and paper hanging services in Valley and at heights with a swinging ladder. Paints furnished per gallon with guaranteed work. Residence: Middleway, O. Kearneysville, W. Va. Call for estimates.
The article recounts Josiah Wedgwood around 1762 turning to clean simple ware in creamware, replacing fragile Delft and salt glazed pottery. It notes his methods, the Queen’s Potter title, and Wedgwood as a practical, quality driven innovator praised by J. H. Foxall in Cornhill Magazine.
A medical contemporary argues doctors have shorter lifespans due to the demands of practice. They face irregular meals, broken sleep, and urgent calls, often neglecting their own health while advising patients on hygiene and care.
Funeral for L. C. Robey of the U.S. Treasury Department held at his brother in law's home on South Washington Street. Winchester Harman Lodge No. 24 A F and A M conducted the burial at Mount Hearthstone Cemetery with Masonic honors. Robey’s wife belonged to Birmingham Lodge No. 8 in Beltsville Maryland.
Mr. W. C. Bickford, grand tiler of the Masonic Lodge District of Columbia and a Treasury Department official, traveled from Washington to Winchester to attend the funeral of the late Mr. L. O. Robey. Bickford had worked with Robey in the Treasury for nearly twenty years.
Little Ruby May, child of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jameson, was laid to rest in Stephens City with pallbearers Rhoda Shertzer Virginia Dean Katherine Groves and Margaret Peery. Rev Cassell officiated as hymns including Beautiful Baby Hands Looking This Way One Not Forgotten Nearer My God To Thee were sung.
Mr Lewis Haymaker, ill with typhoid fever for some time, is in a critical condition at his home on East Slifford Street. The street between Market and Kent Streets has been busy and often unused due to his illness.
Mrs S L Bowen of Wayne West Virginia writes she suffered kidney disease and could not stand or rise without pain. After using Foley's Kidney Remedy a dollar bottle and part of a second cured her. Franck Baker & Son advertise the remedy.
List of unclaimed letters remaining at the Winchester post office for the week ending July 31 1909. Callers must pay one cent per letter. Names include Walter R Bailey W H T Carper Albert Lanick Miss Mac Donald Frantin H Simpson E Tucker Geo W Williams Miss Dada Cougill of Vaucluse who visited Miss Hannah Willis in the city returned home today.
Fragmentary line notes that friendships among men are governed by the time they have to spare. It reflects social expectations and frugality of leisure.
In Winchester Virginia a chancery decree directs executor William Atkinson and trustee Herbert S. Larrick to settle accounts of Mary White and John A Huntsberry estates. A creditors convention will determine distributive shares and a reporting of trustee balance. A notice to all interested parties is published for four weeks before August 14 1909.
Jahe undersigned will sell in front of the courthouse July 31 1909 pursuant to a deed of trust of record in the corporation clerk s office of Winchester Va that stone house and lot on the southwest corner of Braddock and Cecil streets Winchester Va See hand bills 7 10 4w Jos B Newlin Sub Trustee
Extract from a 1909 decree of the Corporation Court in Winchester directs a Master Commissioner to determine John W. Hook's real holdings in Winchester and Frederick County Virginia and report his debts. Creditors of Hook are to be convened. notice to publish in a Winchester newspaper is required for service. Master Commissioner A J Tavenner to supervise August 23 1909 office hearing.
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