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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1901
Page
4
The Market Street Methodist Church auditorium was packed with about 1 000 spectators for a Sunday School Christmas celebration. The program featured recitals, dialogues, choruses, solos by Miss Sartelle and Prof T Marshall West, an orchestra, and bright school performances with gifts after.
Major Goldsborough authored numerous historical sketches for the Record on Marylanders in the war. He pursued a Confederate history volume under contract with a New York publisher. In 1879 he issued The Confederate Line in the Confederate States Army, later revised but unfinished. Captain G. W. Booth completed and published the work.
One of the last War of 1812 pensioners, Mrs. Mary Brill of Frederick County, is noted as the widow of a valiant soldier who served in the war.
Yesterday featured serenades by the Friendship Band. Mr Dad Marshall and family visit Mrs P B Marshall on South Market Street. Har ry Marshall, in Limon Costa Rica with United Fruit Company, sends word home. The Girls Friendly Society Christmas entertainment is set for Cameron Hall Saturday at four. Miss Ella Halley of Washington travels to Winchester for her brother Howard Halley’s illness. The King’s Daughters Circle will meet at Mrs Ryan’s home on December 28 at four. Horse blankets and robes offered by W E Barr at 160 Main Street.
An audience packed the United Brethren Church for a Christmas program of music and recitations. Pastor Rev S D Skelton received many gifts as performers including Minnie Brown Elsie Skelton Grace Fries and many others took part. The event also noted obituaries and local news items from Berryville and Winchester.
A whimsical verse contemplates whether a man should let his wife pick neckwear or choose himself. It muses on fashion sense, window displays, and stock market mood as he eyes silks, colors, and the latest cuts to denote taste and social favor.
The Shenandoah Valley Nat. Bank of Winchester announces a new savings department to begin January 1, 1902. Depositors will earn interest under board adopted provisions, with explanations offered by officers after opening. The bank will also operate Saturday evenings from 6 to 9 for public convenience.
The Centenary Reformed Sunday School held a Christmas entertainment last night that impressed a large audience with bright cheerful exercises. Children received gifts candy and fruits, and the event was enjoyed as much as other programs.
Hugh H Graves formerly of Frederick county Virginia and Miss Georgiana Haggerty of Newark New Jersey married December 24 at 506 Warren Street Newark The groom works for North Jersey Street Railway Company They will reside with the bride's parents for now
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