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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1906
Page
2
Fragmentary text shows rates for prepaid services and a street address at Water Street Nos 17 and 18, with timing notes likely indicating city extent and weekly service at five per week. Details are incomplete but reflect a local utility or service notice. Entities include Water Street and August 4 as date reference.
Aug 4 report from Macedonia recalls a protracted church meeting with Rev. H M Strickler and Rev. Aubrey Lynch delivering sermons and converting attendees. Baptisms at Opequon Parkins Mill and Jubilee Church activities amid visits by residents from Winchester Isle of Wight Grand Rapids and Atlantic City. A yard party at Macedonia Church planned for Aug 4 to benefit the church.
A heavy rainfall Thursday flooded cornfields and roads along streams near White Hall. The document notes desolate countryside, water spreading across fields and hills, with flood debris along roadways and farmland impacted by the deluge. References to 1886 patent medicine ads appear in the text.
Col Bitton takes office amid a formal swearing in that resembled a social occasion. The commission, insisting the act tests economic propriety, announces readiness to begin duties and Bitton plans to occupy the Capitol building's first floor leases, with rooms furnished for immediate use.
The will of the late Rev. W. R. Berry of Dayton Virginia was admitted to probate yesterday. He names his wife Maggie E. Berry as executrix with bond of 3000 dollars and leaves personal property to his nephew John A H Rhodes and real estate to Maggie. If any estate remains after debts, the residue goes to the Berry Memorial Fund for the United Brethren Church erection. The estate is valued at 2000 dollars.
The Beli oom Mining and Milling Company of Hunterstown shipped a carload of gold ore to the Philadelphia Cyanide Company. if assays hold at $30 per ton this could spark a rush for gold in the Blue Ridge south of Carlisle known as the South Mountains. For years there have been sporadic finds in this district.
The Barley-Haines reunion returns this year at Riverside Park Paton Maryland. It will be held on Thursday September 6. Descendants of the late Peter Barley of Winchester are expected to attend the gathering.
The Evening Star announces a contest awarding a handsome prize to the best lady correspondent who sends at least eighteen communications between May 1 and September 1. The Star editors may exclude any submissions, and those who write for other papers are ineligible. News quality and neatness will be weighed.
Henry K. Grubb, a butcher from 419 South Main Street, testifies that after heat exposure caused kidney pain, Doan's Kidney Pills relieved his back ache and urinary troubles. He bought them at Franck Baker & Son's drug store and endorses the remedy, noting no pain since taking it. Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo sells the pills in the United States. Remember the name Doan's.
An advisory note promotes non physical discipline for children who wet the bed. It argues spanking is ineffective and suggests Mrs. M. Summers of Notre Dame Indiana offers free treatment to mothers troubled by this issue without asking for payment. It urges readers to write her today and avoid blaming the child.
Portable Frick Engine and Saw Mill offered for sale. Terms cash or on credit with approved security as deemed best by the substituted trustee R Gray Williams.
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