Packers Seek Stay In Sherman Case Over National Packing Co
Chicago packers facing double indictments for Sherman anti trust violations want the case tried on the original true bills before Judge George Carpenter and will urge disregarding last week’s supplemental indictments. Attorneys plan to seek a stay until the dissolution suit against the National Packing company is heard in equity, asserting civil action has priority.
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Chicago
Chicago Packers
George Carpenter
United States District Court
Carpenter
Equity
United States
National Packing Company
Wickersham and Trust Buster Center
Washington officials say the Department of Justice would meet habeas corpus writs if Chicago meat packers indicted under Sherman anti trust laws fought. Attorney General Wickersham discussed the matter with trust buster head Mr Kenyon, noting the packers likely will not seek writs to challenge arrests and that technicalities should not delay cases.
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Wickersham and Trust Buster Center
Washington
Chicago
Kers
Department of Justice
Wickersham
Kenyon
Miss Lola Benson Weds Next Week in Brooklyn
Invitations have been received for the marriage of Miss Lola Elitina Benson daughter of Mr and Mrs James Benson of Wellhams Maryland to Mr Richard Marcellus Thomas. The ceremony will be at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Brooklyn on Wednesday December 28 at 8 p.m. St Pauls Lutheran Church will hold Christmas services on Tuesday night December 27 at 7 o clock. Stuart Womeldorph of Washington is visiting his parents here.
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Opequon
Lola Elitina Benson
James
Benson
Wellhams
Richard Marcellus Thomas
Methodist Episcopal Church
Brooklyn
Old Valley Female College
William MacDonald
Charles H. Harper
Harper
Chambersville
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Stuart Womeldorph
Washington
Married Again in Hagerstown as McFarland and Fox Tie Knot
A marriage license was issued yesterday in Hagerstown Maryland to Charles McFarland divorced formerly of Winchester and Annie R Fox widow of Hagerstown.
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Hagerstown
Charles McFarland
Winchester
Annie R. Fox
Christmas Eve Celebration With Santa Arrives
Santa Claus will attend the Christmas celebration on Christmas Eve at eight o clock and will distribute presents. An attractive program has been prepared by the Sunday school.
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Santa Claus
Nday School
Gas company digs in Piccadilly seek leak in meter flow
Gas company workers continue digging along Piccadilly street trying to locate a leak. The gas has not yet passed through a meter, costing money as efforts persist.
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Piccadilly Street
Winchester Woman Brings Christmas Joy to Kentucky Hills
Miss Ida Harford, a Presbyterian missionary from Winchester, works with the Washington YWCA to aid forty Kentucky mountain children. This year boxes and a barrel filled with dolls toys books knives and food travel toward Argo Pike County to brighten Christmas for those who never knew the holiday’s meaning.
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Kentucky
Washington Young Women’s Christian Association
Ida Harford
Louis Harford
Wingchester
Association
Argo
Pike County
Claus
Christ
Miss Harford
Washington
Santa Claus
Snow Expected Again Tonight Weather Forecast
The Weather Bureau issued the official forecast for Virginia. A fair pattern is expected with snow in the extreme western portions tonight or Wednesday. Cooler tonight and in eastern parts Wednesday.
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the Star
Washington
Virginia
Weather Bureau
Man Swallows False Teeth in Firelit Strasburg Home
Joseph Gordon of Strasburg nearly strangled after swallowing his false teeth while seated in a big easy chair by the fire. A physician was summoned, but the teeth returned and the man’s equilibrium was restored before aid arrived.
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Joseph Gordon
Strasburg
Willard DeHaven Couple Wed in Martinsburg Ceremony
Edgar William Willard of Hagerstown and Lula DeHaven of Matchless W Vai wed several days ago in Martinsburg with Rev W A Rousch officiating. Sale of stock and furniture scheduled December 21 including horse cows sow and other farm gear. Mrs M B Knight.
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Edgar William , Willard
Hagerstown
Lula DeHaven
Matchless
W. Vai
Winchester
Martinsburg
W. A. Rousch
M. B. Knight
For Sale Items and Offer Notes
A classified snippet lists for sale items including a canoe and lamps. It mentions contact at an office and a special lamp price. Also notes a person named Fred Barr and J. M. Orndoff with short time markers and an address style line.
Balloonist Augustus Post Seeks Annulment in NY Supreme Court
The case centers on Augustus T. Post who seeks to annul his marriage claiming his wife had a lawful husband at the time of their wedding. Mrs. Post, 20 years older, testified to ten years cohabitation and knowledge of two prior marriages. Her first husband was Texas judge J. S. Keaghey.
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Augustus T. Post
Supreme Court
New York
Post
J. S. Keaghey
Texas
Keaghey
Daniel Holliday
Fred. W. M. Holliday
Winchester
Holliday
United States Supreme Court
Heaghey
Heaghey-Holliday
Widow of Joseph Duvall Dies in Berkeley County
Intelligence confirms the death of Mrs Theosdosia Augusta Duvall widow of Joseph Duvall. She passed away at Spring Mills Berkeley County West Virginia Friday after six weeks with bronchitis and other ailments aged 78. Daughter of James Colburn of Boston and Susanne Newton of Virginia she left nine children including Mrs J E Harley of Frederick County Maryland. Funeral services were held at Trinity Church Washington.
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Theosdosia Augusta Duvall
Joseph Duvall
Spring Mills
Berkeley County
W. Va
James Colburn
Boston
Susanne Newton
Virginia
Duvall
Visitation Convent
Georgetown
D. C
J. E. Harley
Frederick County
Trinity Church
Washington
Wealthy Farmer Marries in Maryland After License
Miss Claudie E. Miller aged 25 and Mr John H. Lehmaster aged 62, both of Martinsburg West Virginia, traveled to Hagerstown and Chambersburg to obtain a marriage license and were married by Rev. Charles W. Brewbaker of the First United Brethren Church. The groom is described as a wealthy retired farmer and the bride comes from a well known Martinsburg family.
Holmes Legg and Miss Groff Wed in Philadelphia Wedding
Holmes Legg and Miss Julia Groff wed in Philadelphia on Thursday. The couple will reside with the groom’s father at Bunker Hill after a wedding in Bunker Hill area news notes Mrs Emma Moore of Duffields and Mary Gaff visited Martinsburg families.
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Bunker Hill
W. Va
G. W. Groff
Gerardstown
Julia Groff
A. Holmés Legg
A. G. Legg
Philadelphia
Emma Moore
Duffielda
John Tabb
Mary Gaff
Martinsburg
Anti Tuberculosis League meeting at A M E Church
The colored ranch of the Anti Tuberculosis League will hold a meeting tonight at 8 30 at the A M E Church on North Main Street. All members are urged to attend with friends. Dr J M Benson will deliver an address.
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Anti-Tuberculosis League
North Main ‘Street
J. M. Benson
Antierat
Christmas Dinner and Fayre at Fort Loudoun Seminary
Miss Glass hosted a six oclock dinner for seniors faculty and guests at Fort Loudoun Seminary. The event featured a Christmas program with solos readings and a Dramatic Club play as Santa and helpers distributed playful gifts to all attendees.
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Miss Glass
Fort Loudoun Seminary
Miss Ensminger
Katharine
Douglas Fuller
Margaret Brooks
Fly Leaf
Margaret Keller
Margaret Lacy
Janet Herndon
Nannie Keen
Dramatic Club
Margaret Larrick
Louise Harman
Cornelia Rutherford
Gladys Randolph
Santa Claus
Hampshire Has Largest Orchard in Hampshire County
A West Virginia fruit journal notes the Hampshire Orchard near Romney as the largest single orchard currently planted. It spans over 400 acres with 50 000 peach and 6 500 apple trees, only 10 000 of which are three years old. The young trees yielded 200 to 250 dollars per acre this year, while other growers report up to 500 dollars per acre. Some seven to ten year old peach blocks have produced higher sums per acre.
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West Virginia Fruit Journal
Hampshire
Romney
Middletown To Have A Play
On December 28 in Middletown a benefit play titled The Dream by Miss Emma Howard Wight will be staged at the rink to aid the Providence Industrial Home for colored orphans and indigent children. Rev G S Lawrence and wife founded the home and seek funds to finish construction and support the project. Doors open at 7 and the show starts at 8.
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Middletown
Emma Howard Wight
Providence
G.S. Lawrence
Lanahan Hosts Dinner in Baltimore for Miss Reed
Mr W Wallace Lanahan will entertain in Baltimore at dinner before the German tonight in honor of Miss Edith Carroll Reed. Santa Claus has left gifts at Huntsberry's. Mrs Stuart Bell, confined by illness on North Market street, has recovered enough to be out again.
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W. Wallace Lanahan
Baltimore
Edith Carrol Reeder
Santa Claus
Huntsberry’s
Stuart’.Bell
North Market Street
Death of John R. T. Carmichael in Huntington at 38
Relatives in Winchester receive telegrams announcing the death of John R. T. Carmichael at his Huntington home from typhoid fever. A Lexington Virginia funeral is planned, with services at the Robert E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church. Carmichael, son of Virginia Tucker Carmichael and the late John Carmichael, was born in Lexington and had been a salesman for a Charleston wholesale firm. He leaves his widow Nellie Hubbard and his mother, plus other relatives including his grandfather the late Hon. John Randolph Tucker. He was connected with the Mystic Shrine and Elks.
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Winchester
John R.T. Carmichael
Huntington
W. Va
Carmichael
Robert E. Lee
Virginia Tucker Carmichael
John Carmichael
Lexington
Charleston
Nellie Hubbard
John Randolph Tucker
J. R. Tucker
W. P. MccGuire
Mystic Shrine
The
Elks
P Bios
Soldiers To Get Liberal Pension
Local Grand Army men will be interested in a bill granting pensions to any person who served 90 days or more in military or naval service during the war or 60 days in the war with Mexico, honorably discharged and now 62 years of age or more. The pension scales from 15 dollars a month for younger recipients to 386 dollars for those 75 or over, with present pensioners protected to avoid duplication.
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Grand Army
Mexico
House Committee On
Abe Friedman Arrested For Wholesale Liquor Sale
Abe Friedman a noted horseman active in Fairmont was arrested by Deputy Marshal Hupp on charges of wholesale liquor sales while holding only a retail license. He was released on a $500 bond after a hearing before Commissioner Lilly. Friedman is a familiar figure to Virginia Maryland horsemen and owns several fine racers.
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Abe Friedman
Fairmont
United States
Hupp
Lilly
Friedman
The Servant Problem Reaches Vexing Stage
Social life strains as young matrons report trouble paying calls and attending events due to off days required by hired help. A colored nurse demanded 5 dollars weekly and specified days off including church and Sunday evenings.
Returned to the West
Mr Robert Milton, guest of Mr Hugh Green and relatives in this city, has returned to his home in Kansas City. Milton is superintendent of the freight department of the Wabash Railway Company. His friends regret his departure. Mr and Mrs Charles Hirth have left for Homestead Pa to spend Christmas with relatives.
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Robert Milton
Hugh Green
Kansas City
Milton
The
Wabash Railway Company
Charles Hirth
Homestead, Pa
Week of Prayer Services Set For January Week
The Winchester Ministerial Association finalized plans for a city week of prayer services starting January 2 at 7 30 pm in various Protestant churches. The program includes sermons by pastors from First Baptist Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal South Presbyterian Grace Lutheran and United Brethren with a Sunday union service at Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church South for an American Bible Society appeal.
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Winchester Ministerial Association
James R. Graham
North Braddock Street
Evangelical Alliance
Graham
J. H. Lacy
W. D. Smith
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church
Foreign Mission
Grace Lutheran Church
The
Christian Church
Home Missions
Christ ‘Protea Weral Church
V. WL Carter
United Brethren Church
Arthur B. Slagle
Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Brotherhood of Man
J. W. Daffey
Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church
South
American Bible Society
George S. Bowers
Population of Martinsburg Grows Significantly
Martinsburg's population has risen to 10,698 according to a census telegram received by The Star from HK. Dur and director of the census in Washington notes the ten year increase from 7,564 in 1900 and 7,226 in 1890, with a 3,134 rise since 1900.
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Martinsburg
Panhandle
West Virginia
Berkeley County
The
Star
Dana Durand
Washington
Winchester
Fine War Drama At The Auditorium Tonight
A thrilling war picture will be among the reels shown at the Auditorium tonight. The program promises an engaging wartime drama for moviegoers seeking action and spectacle.
Fresh oysters and holiday orders urged by merchants
Fresh oysters arrive in large shipments daily all week and customers are urged to place Christmas orders early. Miss Blanche Livers, visiting her sister Mrs Thorn, plans a short visit to Winchester before returning to Grottoes, Virginia.
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Blanche Livers
H. P. Thorn
Winchester
Fred. Anderson
Grottoes
Martingburg
Wrecking Big Power House In New York
Terrific detonation destroys a six story power house site at Fittieth Street and Arlington Avenue causing deaths and injuries. The blast ruins a block, shatters windows, and injures scores while sparking fires and triggering mass evacuations. police rush wagons and ambulances as a major emergency unfolds. damage pegged near half a million dollars.
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Wrecking Big Power House
New York
Nin
York Central
Fittieth Strington Avenue
Segaratt
Expic
Family of Mr and Mrs Oden Welcomes New Daughter
A new daughter graces the family of Mr and Mrs Oden of Appomattox Virginia. Oden is a Martinsburg native and the family lists Mr Oden as a son and secretary in a local context. Christmas ads appear for Henry Baetjer Co and Huntsberry’s calendars are advertised.
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Winchester
Oden
Appomattox
Martinsburg
Hal Fidod
Aes
Henry Baetjer & Co
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Lola Benson
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IA Mountain Santai
Kentucky Hills
Willard—Dehaven
Speed
Fred Barr
J. M. Orndoff
Eod
Augustus Post
Joseph. Duvall
Holmes Legg
Miss Groff
T. M. Barr
Empire
Fort Loudoun
MR. Lanahan Host
John Randolph Carmichael
Gae
Croker
Gra
Fifty-first Street
George Theis
On National Avenue
Tuck
Huntsberry‘’s
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