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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
2
A special sale features Ladies Hats flats in all colors at 89c and coats priced well below market. Eve coats discounted from 1.50 to 4.00 under house price along with coats at 2.79 and tan beaver coats at 5.50. Kids coats from 1.00 up and dress goods cut 10c to 25c a yard with goods at 16c. Also Xmas china samples and fine china plates and salads offered.
Prof Ira C Whitacre of Gaithersburg Md spent Thanksgiving with relatives in Gore Va Mrs Harrison Foreman ill but convalescing Mrs Eden Dunlap indisposed near Gore Messrs Julian and Holmes Rosen berger and Misses Beulah Rosenberger and Viola Good of Hayfield were in Gore Sunday evening Mr and Mrs Charles Lonas near Bunker Hill visited ill brother William Lonas Mrs Roy Schmucker shopped in Winchester Mr T C Adams of Gainesboro in Gore on business Little Mary Haymaker of Winchester visiting uncle and aunt J W Herell Mr and Mrs Amos Foreman visiting sons before moving to Winchester from Bedford Pa They recently moved Nora Lewis spent Thanksgiving in Winchester Mr W B Adams in Winchester on business and Mr and Mrs W O Horsey of Winchester attended Thanksgiving at Joe Giffin home Miss Flora Mancher of Harmans Md visiting Gore Dr C R Anderson in Winchester on business
Local items report Commissioner H. H. Shull ill at his brother’s Marlboro home and Mrs. Fannie Windle dangerously ill with consumption. Several residents move residences, others visit, and Rev. G. A. Link conducts a successful protracted meeting at Mt Hope Chapel.
Typhoid fever strains Beatty brothers with slight improvement Lloyd Beatty recovers. Raymond Albin marries Agnes Perry at Stephens City M E Church parsonage, novelty pranks include cord wood in buggy and rice shower for the couple. Local visits and visits by Mrs Perry and other residents noted along with church and school activities in Refuge near Reliance and Stephens City.
The Well-Informed favor Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna for a simple pleasant and efficient laxative. California Fig Syrup Co. emphasizes known wholesome ingredients and ethical production. For sale by leading druggists at fifty cents a bottle.
The timetable lists westbound trains on the Southern Railway between Washington DC and Bluemont Virginia with arrival times at Alexandria, Fostoria, Vienna, Dunn Loring, Herndon, Leesburg, Hamilton, Purcellville, Round Hill, and Bluemont. Service shows No. 123 131 133 and daily sun ex at specific morning to evening hours.
Daily local notice lists northbound and southbound trains with times, connections, Pullman sleepers, cafe cars, and intermediate stations. No. 16 a m for Bristol Roanoke Columbus. No. 27 p m Shenandoah. No. 28 a m for Hagerstown Harrisburg Philadelphia. No. 14 p m to Hagerstown and New York. No. 2 p m to Philadelphia New York. Rates and timetables available from agents.
A sequence of place names Hagerstown Greencastle Chambersburg Shippensburg Carlisle Mechanicsburg Av Harrisburg followed by afternoon times and numbers including 2.03 2.53 3.41 4.04 4.25 57 5.39 6.56 6.10 6.27 7.16 and monetary value 453 8.26 8.49 9.10 9,48 we indicating a transit or timetable fragment.
Burley Manning, noted baseball pitcher, trapped a large opossum in Stafford on Wednesday night. After dressing the animal he found inside a moccasin snake six inches long three scorpions two mice and one frog. Fredericksburg Lance.
Mrs Henry Stephenson departed this morning for Washington to visit friends and enjoy time away from home.
Mrs Lula Hott Frances of Los Angeles is visiting her uncle, James M. Hott, on Fairmount Avenue, in a family asides note from the city.
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