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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1905
Page
4
A folkloric ballad from Winchester Virginia recounts Ruth Foster awaiting her lover whose murder on Christmas Day at the fort on Fort Hill was long concealed. The tale passes through changing times as the missing fiancé’s grave is later found, shedding light on a legend tied to the Fort Lou Doune Seminary site.
December 2 community items list upcoming M. E. Sunday School Christmas program at Refuge on December 27 and Ridings Chapel A. B. Sunday School Christmas night. Local residents Boyd family, Ebersole and Grim families, Gallie Rudolph and Jennie, M. Grim visiting Winchester, George Merryman from Keyser home for holidays, and railroad work by B&O indications.
LOCAL items include Lawrence McCormick of ryville visiting Winchester, Joseph Long ill at home in Winchester, and Judge Harrison with Mr Byrd returning from Washington. Also notes on Miss Nannie Quick and Miss Glass returning from Wilmington and other residents visiting relatives or staying at local hotels and hospital. Wreaths, flower show, and bowling alley promotions appear in the same column.
Franck Baker & Son promote Miona as a reliable tablet form treatment for indigestion. They guarantee cure or refund and urge customers to try the 50 cent box to relieve heaviness after meals, belching, nerves, insomnia, headaches, or backache. The firm claims Miona strengthens the digestive system where other cures fail.
The scene on the Opequon ended with two young men clinging to a log as fifteen minutes passed before Mr. Reed arrived to rescue them. They were revived by McCann, the horse was retrieved downstream with the buggy, and both men continued to Winchester unharmed aside from soaked clothes and a lost seat.
In Winchester the council debates a two cent per thousand fire tax. Mr. Russell and Mr. Carter clash as Carter asks whether he may vote, then withdraws the point. The ordinance becomes law after a lengthy discussion and vote.
Mr B T Argenbright who runs the weather station at Stephens City was in town today. Miss Ethel B Finfrock daughter of Mr and Mrs Chas Finfrock of Grimes has returned home after two weeks with Miss Georgia Crim at White Hall.
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