Winchester Daily Paper Consolidation Note
The Evening Star explains ownership and advertising policy after consolidating The News Item in 1907. It notes circulation details and subscription rates, asserting the Star as the sole Winchester paper.
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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1907
Page
4
The Evening Star explains ownership and advertising policy after consolidating The News Item in 1907. It notes circulation details and subscription rates, asserting the Star as the sole Winchester paper.
The piece notes growing expenses for producing daily papers over decades, with higher outlays to maintain records and compete. It mentions the Welsh trial and a defunct Gazette proprietor who sank 4 900 000 in free ads, illustrating financial strain on publishers.
The Yn Munts Club held its annual Sunt gathering on Thursday near Creek and the Ope, with several chases noted. Harry Snapp and others traveled to Rippon for a day with Mr. hrs Charles Bates Richart. a farm incident occurred Friday afternoon as a pile accident led to his mother’s injury. Farmers report little fodder hauled and baled hay in short supply. K Oats spent a week with her parents west of Inwood. Frank Carter of Gerrards returned from Martinsburg after visiting his brother, George M. Busey.
Dockstader and His Minstrels arrive direct from Baltimore to perform at Ford’s Farr house then move to the Auditorium for a week. The Fender Minstrels also reach Winchester today aboard the EB Q Railroad, with no delay anticipated.
The annex to the hall of the South End Hose Company will be formally opened this evening at 9 30 during the regular monthly meeting. Capt J D Grim will preside and City Solicitor R Gray Williams will deliver the dedicatory address. All friends of the company are invited to attend.
Miss Gore, a twenty year old Pretty girl teaching at Jones Spring, died of pneumonia after ten days illness. Her brother William Gore died two months earlier from typhoid fever. Survived by parents and sisters. Funeral at the town cemetery tomorrow.
A second snow event arrived Sunday with wet, heavy flakes. Morning rain gave way to steady snowfall by church time, easing after noon with intermittent dampness. By afternoon the air dried and the sun struggled to break through, marking a brisk, bracing day forecast by Weather Page.
Dispatches from America question whether Lord Fairfax can sit in the Lords. He is not a UK peer apart from Cameron and would need election by Scottish peers even if he renounces American citizenship.
Mr George Myerrel of the Virginia Horticultural Society announces a large apple display at the upcoming annual convention to be held Wednesday and Thursday. He notes the Emmerson Cup for best display and mentions larger quarters at Staunton to accommodate expected record attendance and exhibits.
Miss Mollie Coe youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs Norvel Coe of Inwood and Mr Charles Williams a prosperous farmer near Gerrardstown were married in the United Brethren Church at Inwood on Thursday evening by Rev J Seerititus.
Ridgeway, W. Va. Dec 2 The two week revival at Payne's Methodist Episcopal Church closed last Friday night resulting in the conversion of four young people Rest Chapel services began last Sunday night and will run each evening at 7 20 o clock Mr Harry Forbes Guilford Ring Pa spent Thanksgiving with G W Gossard Mrs Jacob Johnson Hagers town Md has returned home after a few days with her mother Hicks
Ex Senator Charles J Faulkner raised 2520 bushels of corn from 35 acres on his Martinsburg county farm. A 13 acre field produced over 80 bushels per acre and the overall average was 72 bushels per acre at market price. The report notes potential value about 38 dollars per acre when fodder is excluded.
In Winchester Virginia 1907 Commissioner John M Steck announces order of reference in the Frank Brown assignment under Shenandoah National Bank. He will hear creditors, determine debts and priorities, settle trustee accounts and draft a distribution scheme. Notice will be publicized weekly for four weeks in Winchester newspaper.
Magician Durno will headline a December 6 charity show at the Auditorium to raise funds for the S V A Athletic Association. Proceeds support local sports programs and student athletes.
Notice announces a commission to report owners of interests in the Braithwaite and Coe properties and to proceed against known and unknown creditors. The order requires resident defendants and creditors to appear in clerk’s office within days after publication to protect their interests in the creditors’ suit and trustee’s account for general relief.
The notice orders a report by John Steck as Commissioner to determine heirs and legacies of Addie L. Smith decd and to audit Maurice M. Lynch executorship. It requires notices by publication in Windhe Virginia and attendance of interested parties at Winchester office on November 24 1907 with adjournments as needed.
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