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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1901
Page
1
A tabled draft outlines male suffrage for Virginia residents with residency and tax requirements, plus education or property tests. Excluded are idiots, vagrants, previously disqualified voters, felons, and those confined by court judgment.
Mr. and Mrs. Loring A. Cover hosted a large social reception at their North Washington Street home for Mrs. Cover’s brother John Stayman and his Richmond, Virginia bride. The decorated parlors, floral hallways, an unseen orchestra, drinks, and a grand supper defining a stylish, elegant evening with many society guests. Mrs. Cover wore pink net over satin with a diamond sunburst at the throat.
The Star's Gore correspondent reports about thirty guests at Mrs. S. Gore's boardinghouse in Gore County enjoying the bracing mountain air and scenery. The crowd is mostly women, with the lack of men noted as the only missing element to complete the happiness.
A horse owned by Mr. Giles J. Smith of Gore County sustained severe lacerations after its front foot became caught in a barb wire fence. Attempts to free the foot likely left the animal permanently crippled.
Mrs George H Heist, Mr Ol e Faulkner, Miss Baulah Cline, Mrs G O Snapp and Miss Bettie Green are on Capon and are stopping at Andersons about five miles from Capon.
Rebeccah's Daughters announce a meeting at their headquarters tonight at 8 o'clock. The gathering aims to discuss upcoming activities and community outreach.
Architect Keiferstein presented pencil plans to the Winchester Building Committee for a two story colonial hospital on Stewart and Clifford streets. The layout includes twelve pay patient rooms, a central administration block, a dispensary and operating room, and four charity wards separated by a long corridor with separate spaces for white and colored patients.
The forecast shows continued cloudy and unsettled weather for Thursday night and Friday with occasional rains. No severe conditions noted and temperatures not specified. Local readers should expect damp conditions and carrying rain gear as the period progresses.
The city removes the municipal pond at Market Street and Rouss Avenue near City Hall after paving. Crews clean the dry site, lay a brick gutter, and replace a power pole to improve drainage toward the Town Run through Uniontown.
The Friendship Concert Band performs on the Union Band lawn Saturday night at eight. The program includes Romaine March, Praise to the Father, Virginia Patrol by Geo Stumins, Crack O The Whip, Valse Bleue, Belles of America, Alita Wild Flower, The Billboard march by John N. Klohr, and other selections.
The Baltimore district meeting of the Methodist Episcopal Church South met in Rockville Maryland for an experience session. Delegates chosen for the Baltimore conference in March 1902 included John W Smith C W Prettyman C E Miller O S Rhodes and P A Scagg. Presiding Elder Henry Hamill urged adoption of the twentieth century movement and Charles Prettyman advised church incorporation.
Miss Frances Miller of Baltimore visits Mrs. Maggie Bryant on North Main Street this week as a guest in the city social circle.
Mr William T Hottel of Amherst Street has leased the Valley Turnpike flour mill from Mrs Sidney Hahn for one year begun about a week ago. A veteran Confederate adjutant, Hottel is noted for his lifelong work in milling and is expected to win strong local trade support as he succeeds Robert Hahn who has moved to Washington.
Frederick county and Winchester delegates return from Norfolk where the state convention meets leaving two absent. They arrived in Winchester today after departing Norfolk at seven o clock last night. City proxies went to Daegue Holmes Boyd and county proxies to Senator L Lupton with voting instructions.
Report from Larned Kansas describes a metallic casket bursting open during a funeral procession after a bolt of lightning. The reportedly deceased child sat up sobbing for its mother, was wrapped and taken home. The tale echoes a prior fake in the same town.
Mise Margaret Dame arrived back last night after an extended absence in New York and Washington.
Hon. Wm. A. Anderson of Lexington secured the State's Attorney-Generalship after a brief convention vote in Norfolk. Only two ballots were needed as his rivals Senator John Jeffries Judge Williams Judge Robertson Captain Parks and Col. Wm. A. Anderson were presented before the convention.
The article notes Attorney General nominee William Alexander Anderson born in Botetourt VA in 1842 and a Confederate veteran who later became a respected Lexington lawyer. It also reports nominations of A J Montague for Governor and Col W R Williard for Lieutenant Governor, with Claude A Swanson sailing August 21 to campaign.
Mrs L Li Smith wife of Rev L L Smith of Strasburg came here on Monday for a visit and fell ill on Tuesday. She has been unable to return home to her husband who is also indisposed.
Mr. George Ginn of Tulip was bitten on the hand by a moccasin on Tuesday. The Stag reports he is improved today as swelling subsides and the venom is cleared from his system, with no serious results expected.
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