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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1913
Page
5
Northern timetable fragment lists schedules to Roanoke Memphis Elkton and intermediate stations. Mentions Pullman service and northbound routes with unclear destinations and garbled station names. References G. Paunde W.C. Baunde and Roanoke Roanoke area.
The timetable lists southbound and eastbound trains from Strasburg Junction to Alexandria Washington including No. 972 local daily at 6 00 am arriving Harrisonburg 10 16 am and No. 49 arriving Harrisonburg 2 55 pm. Eastbound No. 319 daily 6 05 am to Washington arrival 10 30 pm with No 14 limited for Alexandria and Winston arrival 11 65 am. Also No 28 daily 4 56 pm local for Alexandria with Buffet Parlor Car. General Agent L S Brown signs off.
Train arrivals in Winchester are listed with times 9.22 and 11.51 and 7.96 daily except Sunday. The notice names J. H. Tonge and Sapt H. A Rippite G. P. A as officials.
Sergeant Frank W. Ping ley of Winchester and Company I leads in scores as the Virginia team of 16 shooters competes for prizes. Pingley has excelled all week with strong results in the skirmish run and other events, aiming for the national match scores including 260 possible points.
An editorial touts successful doctors and proprietary medicines while critiquing poor practitioners. It praises Lydia E Pinkham's Compound as a trusted remedy for female ills and asserts its compliance with the Pure Food and Drugs law.
Frances Peyton Page wins the ladies doubles with Gear of Cumberland and takes runner up in the ladies singles. W Nelson Page reaches final in men singles, loses to Fisher of Baltimore. Page and Gordon reach men doubles final but are defeated. Mixed doubles go to Mrs Powell and Rendall.
Gilbert Walker a 22 year old colored man was arrested in Scottsville county after allegedly attacking Annie Ham mer a 10 year old white girl. Walker confessed his guilt and mobs threatened lynching. authorities moved him to Charlottesville for safety and a hearing is planned this week.
A Show Hill North Carolina resident recounts severe dysentery from mid July for about two months. After weight loss from 145 to 125 pounds and no relief, two bottles of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy provided permanent relief. For sale by all dealers.
Public auction in Winchester Virginia on July 12 1918 at 12 o clock to sell 365 acres of Birmingham and Randolph farm lands southeast of Stephens City Frederick County Virginia. Parcels offered first then as a whole with two modern houses barns wells and timber. One third cash day of sale with balance in two annual installments secured by deed of trust and bonds. Special commissioners James P Reardon M M Lynch John M Steck and others announce details and bond.
In Clarke county Virginia a suit by Charles Heath comp against Charles E Rafferty Emily A Rafferty George H Levi sheriff Lee J Graves and John F Gouldman Jr Trustees and Blue Ridge Heights Company seeks to enforce a sixteen thousand dollar judgment lien and void fraudulent deeds The defendants not residents must appear within fifteen days after publication to protect their interests A Copy Teste George Glass Clerk F B Whiting and Marshall McCormick attorneys.
Madame Schlosshauer-Nolds of Berlin performed with Mr Thatcher of the Peabody in Audley Grace Church setting. The event raised funds for Grace Church organ tuning and repairs. The evening also featured Miss Baldwin and Miss Stribling hosting auction bridge for Alfred Schlosshaver-Reynolds of Berlin.
A sensational Pittsylvania county report details a lightning strike that killed a sow and ripped it open. The unborn piglets survived and are thriving, described as having two mothers by M C Hawkes. Surgeons have performed similar operations on humans but never before on an animal.
The daughter of A Mitchell of Bagdad Kentucky suffered serious kidney trouble but her father credits Foley Kidney Pills with a complete cure. The ad states women are more prone to kidney issues and advises Foley Kidney Pills as safe dependable medicine sold by all druggists.
The engagement of George T. Shirley of Summit Point West Virginia to Miss Julia Grantham daughter of Colonel John J. Grantham of Middleway has been announced. The wedding will take place on September 10. Mr Shirley is a son of Colonel Robert V Shirley.
A Washington forestry corps along with Virginia and West Virginia commissions search Gainesboro and Back Creek for chestnut blight. They report the disease found on Robert Worsley’s farm near Tinyfield, with work to eradicate it and prevent spread south of the Appalachians. Bulletins are available from state or national agriculture departments.
A grand reception at the Winchester club featured illuminated halls, a Winchester orchestra, and ballroom dancing into night. Attendees included society figures from Winchester and nearby areas, with army officers present and generous help from prominent ladies. The club board of governors guiding the event includes T. S. Patton Randolph T. McGuire Theodore Y. Kinzel Courtenay W. Weems J. Mack Noonan and Dr. Winter H. McGuire and Dr. Louis M. Allen.
Benjamin F Linthicum, 65, longtime stage driver for the Romney area, died at his home in Romney West Virginia after a brief illness from peritonitis. He drove between Green Spring and Romney before the railroad, and between Romney and Moorefield after the branch's completion. A shoemaker by trade he was widely known to travelers. He is survived by his wife a son and two daughters. The funeral occurred yesterday.
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