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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1908
Page
3
A stork visit on July 27 brought a bouncing boy to Mr. and Mrs. William H. Baile. Both mother and child thrive. Mrs. Baile, formerly Miss Bessie Galloway of Brucetown, county, now lives in Philadelphia where her husband is a young lawyer.
Miss Berta and Ida Steele of Wiley Pa hosted a 5 PM tea yesterday to honor Miss Lydia Chapman of Winchester who is visiting Mrs Wilber M Bardo of Jersey Shore. Chapman will travel two weeks to Wiley Pa and Jersey Shore locations.
A violent afternoon storm in Winchester toppled a large tree across lines of the Winchester and Washington City Bellway Company, causing erratic current. Service improved by night, but afternoon power was scarce and news intended for publication in The Star could not be set due to printer outages.
Cy McDonald Winchester's heavy hitting first baseman has been offered a position by Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics but is understood to have refused the offer. McDonald has 11 home runs 5 triples and 14 doubles with Winchester this season.
Arthur Jenkins son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Jenkins living on Mr Stanton Glaize farm near Meadow Mills died after a wagon wheel loaded with wood ran over his abdomen. He fell or slipped from the off mule attached to the Stickley and Orndorff wagon as it descended a hill. His brother Willie was with him. Dr. Weaver from Middletown pronounced the boy beyond help and he died at 2 AM.
The Frederick and Winchester baseball teams played this afternoon at Reservoiir Park with a good crowd in attendance. Vic Miller, recently involved in a dispute with Hagerstown Lans, joined Frederick, and Feiser the noted southpaw pitched for Winchester.
Multiple rural and suburban properties offered in Clarke County Virginia and nearby locales. Listings include a limestone farm with a 9 room dwelling and water systems, 50 foot frontage, and price around 6000 dollars, plus 75 acres well improved. Additional parcels feature new five room dwellings on Welltown Pike near Berkeley, 8 acres of limestone land with apple trees, and 1.5 acres suburban plots. Prices range from 1800 to 6500 dollars with various outbuildings and farm potential.
Public sale in Winchester Virginia on August 29 1908 at 11 o clock. A 244 acre limestone farm five miles north of Winchester with three tracts known as Home Farm Pitman land and 25 acres. Land offers in separate parcels or as a whole with terms one third cash and two later installments.
Markets showed no major movement with little variation across indices and sectors. Traders cited stability in economic indicators and absence of fresh catalysts as weight on buys and selling.
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