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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1905
Page
1
Hicks forecasts a sequence of storm periods in January with rain and snow across the central and eastern U.S. from the 2nd to the 27th. Central periods on the 2nd 7th 14th and 25th bring rain sleet snow and cold waves as temperatures rise and fall with shifting barometers and strong winds.
Mrs Maria Burrell widow of Dr Philip Burrell and sister of attorney George Harrison dies after brief paralysis illness at Millwood aged about 55. Funeral at Iscopal Church and burial beside Old Chapel. survived by two sons Nathaniel and George and three daughters Fannie Dora and Margaret. Her death is widely mourned in Clarke County Virginia.
Captain Jas S. Trout aged 67 died last week at the Soldiers' Home in Richmond. He served as captain of Company C, 33rd Virginia Regiment and helped revive the Shenandoah Herald after the war. A native of Woodstock, he spent years in Washington and later became nearly blind, living at the Home before burial there.
Miss Fannie D Baker and Mr Holly R Dunlap quietly wed yesterday at the Lutheran parsonage on North Market Street with Rev George Bowers officiating. The bride, daughter of the late Josiah Baker, long a noted farmer near Winchester, and the groom, son of Joel P Dunlap of Hampshire County, W Va, have long farmed the Baker place together.
Rural Free Delivery mail carriers will have a holiday on Monday January 1 1906 and will make no deliveries according to department instructions.
A Miss heads to Philadelphia for a festive hometown visit during the holiday season. The trip centers on family gatherings and seasonal celebrations in the city.
Elections held yesterday in Ashby and Madison districts resulted in decisive majorities for no license. Woodstock and New Market will remain the only licensed saloons. In Ashby Cleveland voted wet by four. Mount Jackson Corneville Cross Roads Hamburg Jerome and Cleveland precincts also voted no license. Edinburg in Madison district showed 133 against and 89 for license. The Virginia Anti-Saloon League backed the dry side as Judge Harrison previously issued licenses twice in the district.
Lieut. Com. Nulton heads the hazing board at the Naval Academy as Midshipman Trenmor Coffin Jr. faces a court martial for hazing Midshipman Jordone P. Kimbrough on December 1. Coffin allegedly forced Kimbrough to stand on his head for ten minutes until he collapsed. Lieut. Com. L. M. Nurton helps oversee the proceedings.
Capt. J. Robert Doran of Charley Rouss Fire Company appoints Chas. E. Hoover M. T. Reed and R. T. McGuire to settle with treasurer Theo. Y. Kinzel and names J. H. Henry D. F. Haines and J. W. Hillyard to settle with the band under the constitution frame.
Miss Etta Eskey of Sherrard West Virginia is due in Winchester tomorrow to visit her uncle D R Eskey. She is the daughter of John W Eskey a prominent local merchant and farmer. D R Eskey will meet his niece tonight at Martinsburg.
An attack on Matthew Grubbs's home in Clarke County near the Shenandoah River by a crowd of seven or eight youths ended with three arrests. The ring leader Marshall Wiley fled. warrants issued for seven others, all said to be intoxicated. The victims and assailants are described as part of a long‑standing troubled element in the area.
Captain J K McCann reports the death in Philadelphia of his brother in law Allen White a prominent furniture dealer about fifty years old. Survived by widow Rebecca Crone seven siblings and a Charleston DC native daughter predeceased. Remains to Winchester Saturday 11 55 AM via Cumberland Valley RR with funeral at Rev Horace Lacy Presbyterian church and burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery.
A board meeting of the Parnjera' and Merchants' National Bank at the Winchester banking house declared a semiannual dividend of three percent on capital stock. The dividend will soon be payable to stockholders. This is the bank’s first dividend since starting four years ago.
Mr. J. T. Fisher of Winchester reports a dis tressing accident at Burlington West Virginia last Tuesday where seventeen year old Harry Shenk, a John Kerr Public School graduate, was severely injured by an exploding powder charge in a gun barrel. He faces likely total blindness, mangled hand, and serious burns. taken home for care as doctors doubt sight will be saved.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Custer hosted a week event at their West Stephen street home for Martinsburg residents attended by over 30 relatives and friends. Out-of-town guests included Jacob Vorous family from Berryville and others from Leetown Charles Town Jefferson County and Winchester.
Winchester Memorial Hospital directors likely to sue the Handley Fund trustees over a $2,000 claim. Mr. Robert M. Ward, former city attorney, arranged the transfer. After a committee meeting the board has not stated its intentions.
Mr. Chas. BE. Supinger of Capwell Nail Co. Hartford Connecticut is visiting his uncle Mr. Edgar R. Harmer.
W Roy Stephenson of Winchester seeks to construe the late Thomas Goheen will filed for probate in the county clerk. The estate valued in the thousands would go to Bishop Augustus Van de Vyver for cemetery improvements at Sacred Heart Church. He contends the mutual provision with Mrs Goheen directs the funds to the church and the case will be heard at the February term.
Mr S B Clem of Woodstock attended the funeral of his brother in law Mr Jno N Ridgeway of Warren county who died suddenly aged 61. A Confederate veteran he is survived by a wife and two daughters. Pallbearers were comrades Capt Saml Simpson Jesse T Funk Rudolph Updike Abraham Sibert Jno Winsborough and Jno R Burk. Read it the inside pages.
James A. Boyce, 50, and his wife 45, of Mount Kane, county, boast eighteen children nine sons and nine daughters all healthy. The family posed for photographs to be sent to President Roosevelt, with a letter detailing the parents and offspring.
Mr. Carper Hil and Wesley Carper are mentioned as local men in the county near the Millwood pike. One is reported paralyzed Thursday a week while Mrs. Arthur Affleck of this area is noted in connection with the article.
Mr. EB J Jacobs is identified as the Washington in fragmentary OCR text. No additional context or facts are readable to determine event, role, or date.
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