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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1908
Page
2
An old health ad promotes kidney awareness and a remedy. It explains kidney function and links health to kidney care. The notice invites readers to request a free sample bottle of Kilmer Swamp Root by mailing to Kilmer & Co. in Binghamton New York.
William Strailman 58 a Baltimore and Ohio Railway conductor died at home in Brunswick Maryland from Bright's disease after a brief illness. Native of Frederick County he lived in Martinsburg and later Brunswick where shops moved. He was a Methodist Episcopal and Brotherhood of Railway Conductors member. Survived by widow and six children. Funeral yesterday at home with burial in Green Hill Cemetery Martinsburg.
Harrisonburg prepares a grand welcome for the twenty second annual Virginia Firemen’s Convention to be held next week. Companies from Winchester Staunton Lexington Woodstock Strasburg Shenandoah City Danville Charlottesville Hampton and Newport News are expected with many others likely to attend. Prizes totaling over 600 will be awarded as Harrisonburg bands and other ensembles perform during the event. The convention opens Wednesday the 26th and closes Friday the 28th.
Whitacre Virginia reports R L Whitacre bedridden with typhoid fever and brother James Whitacre ill across the border in West Virginia. Visitors include G O Davis of Virginia Christian College and E A Hoenshell en route from Dayton to Romney. An educational rally may be held September 5 with program details to come from M M Lynch.
Miss May mee Cooley of Woodstock visits Nineveh friends. Mr. and Mrs. Magnus Leach and family spent Sunday with Edward Baker in Strasburg. Luther Grim is improving after illness. Locals attended the horse show in town. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob McKay and son Hubert spent Saturday in Front Royal.
An 244 acre limestone farm near Winchester Virginia offered in three parcels or as a whole. Tract 1 home farm with 154 acres and a nine room house, Tract 2 Pitman land 65 acres with a five room dwelling, Tract 3 25 acres with a five room dwelling. Purchaser may enter fall 1908 to plant an orchard with sale March 1 1909. One third cash, balance in two annual installments secured by deed of trust. Auctioneers Roy P Duvall and Pannett heirs.
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