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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1908
Page
4
The Valley of Virginia leaders from Lexington to Winchester may meet at Harrisonburg to discuss relief from Baltimore and Ohio and Southern Railway burdens. Chesterman and the Evening Journal praise Byrd liquor law while noting its impact on drunkenness cases.
The article notes the death of Mrs. Marie Boley due to old age and mentions Christmas observances, family gatherings, and local social details surrounding Martinsburg and nearby areas. It records the Methodist parsonage ceremony and a Christmas day atmosphere with residents visiting and exchanging greetings.
Christmas services were held with a decorated church and a large crowd. The program featured carols, recitations, solos, and a gifts distribution, with performances by local children and the church choir. Several residents and visitors from Martinsburg, Berryville, Rest, and nearby areas attended events and visited with families during the holiday season.
The Frederick and Shenandoah Telephone Company held its annual stockholders meeting in this city Saturday electing Isaiah Funkhouser as president Ashbey Graves as vice president Harvey Richards as treasurer and E R McDonald as secretary. W H Richard and George W Branner were named directors for the coming year. The company, connected with the Bell system, provides the same service as the larger Bell network and is in a prosperous condition with a bright outlook for new business.
Inflammation often causes croup pneumonia and can be averted by Gowans Preparation, an external remedy marketed as the world's great anti inflammatory solution. Advertisers urge buying now to be prepared for croup at night and potential death.
Mr and Mrs Walter Gray and their children from Memphis Tennessee are visiting Richard L Gray city clerk and his family at his North Kent street home during a family visit adding a note of local civic ties and travel.
An ad touts Scott's Emulsion as nourishment and medicine for weak children troubled by digestion. It urges a small three daily doses and offers a free atlas in exchange for the paper name, address, and four cents postage to Scott & Bowne, 409 Pearl Street, New York.
Notice from Winchester fire department chief warns volunteers not designated by the Charley Reuss company may not ride on the automobile when alarm is raised. Overcrowding blamed on thoughtlessness. order aims to protect safety and efficiency. Signed J. W. Sibert Jr, Chief Fire Warden, Winchester, December 28, 1908.
The Payne's Methodist Episcopal Church South Sunday school held its annual Christmas program on Christmas evening in Ridgeway. Supt J Ridgeway led a large attendance with songs recitations prayers and a candy and fruit treat for scholars.
Rev D H Kern, pastor at Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church South, announced watch-night services to be held Thursday night starting about an hour after sunset. The note indicates a formal religious observance to commence the new year.
A fire devoured Fine Lingerie in a wall closet at Mrs. Taylor’s house with no clear origin. Fire alarms drew a crowd as firefighters contained the blaze without using water, though the Charley Rouss Fire Company hose carriage collided en route. The incident prompted a note from Chief Fire Warden J. W. Sibert in a separate column.
The report notes a Christmas day drop in disorderly acts under the Byrd law. In Richmond seven incidents compared with twenty in the prior year, with 20 jailed previously and only one drunk and three disorderlies afterwards. Justice Cratchfield calls the Byrd law the best of its kind.
An attractive program was presented at Grace Lutheran Church last evening under the Young People's Prayer Meeting Society. Prof. Melville Bowers delivered an address and Miss Frances Parker sang a solo. A large congregation attended before the regular evening services.
Mr. George F. Norton went to New York Saturday evening and is expected to return tonight with his daughter Miss Esther Norton who has been staying at Mount Vernon New York with her uncle Dr. William F. Greene.
In Frederick county Circuit CourtVirginia on December 16 1908 the judge orders Frank H Krebs to act as special commissioner to report on property notes and security in the J Wm Miller H S Larrick case He must list conveyed real and personal property the debts and liens and report court accounts and creditor claims February 1909 hearing set in Winchester with attendance required by all interested parties.
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