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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1908
Page
4
Richmond Times Dispatch publishes daily Geneva Assembly proceedings by Lewis H Machen. The column is praised as insightful and invaluable to legislators and voters for guiding intelligent decisions.
Breathitt County residents send letters and petitions to Governor Patterson urging commutation for Edward Turner the condemned wife murderer slated to hang on the 27th The plea argues he lacked guidance to distinguish right from wrong while critics dismiss excuses as flimsy and irresponsible amid a crime wave narrative
The Staunton editorial praises Speaker Byrd and his newly enacted bill regulating ardent spirits. It notes initial doubts about scope but finds the measure favorable and not a stopgap for further reform. The piece urges additional definite reforms in liquor regulation.
A notarized statement dated December 6 details a firm of J Cheney & Co and a guarantee forSpeyer Care with a claim of one hundred dollars per case. Notary A. D. Gleason signs the document in Toledo, Ohio, around the era. The notice references Hall’s family and a testimonial offer for a patent medicine.
The editorial lauds Byrd’s administrative provisions separating genuine social clubs from fake liquor fronts and tightening controls. It notes expansion of rural prohibition, bond penalties for violators, and the bill’s aim to end local option churn, with broader safety and order goals.
The Petersburg Index-Appeal, owned and edited by R. P. Barham, is noted as a leading exchange with daily good news and a delightful editorial page. Its commentary is described as worth reading with profit and pleasure.
Greenway Virginia items list residents visiting or returning home. Names include Joseph Kunkhouser Mary Buckner Edward Brown John Brown Clark Cornwell Loudoun Dale Ural Rose Charles Shenk Edward Gardiner Joe Perry Clarence Jenkins William Watkins Ohie Rosenberry and John Stuart with mentions of White Post Happy Creek and Waterloo.
Hayfield Virginia residents share weekend calls and visits. Mrs Ka tie Larrick and daughter Virginia visited Mrs Stanley Cooper. Ada Hoover of Chambersville stayed with her parents. Hollis Seymour returned to Front Royal after two weeks with relatives here. Mrs James Windle and son Charles went home to Wheatfield after visiting her daughter. Esther Bayliss and brother visited their cousin Sunday evening.
A compiled schedule of upcoming public auctions across Berryville Winchester and nearby locales lists buyers and advertisers for horse cattle sheep hogs farming implements and household goods with sale dates from February 21 to March 24 including properties near Rigpon Berryville Summit Point and Millwood.
William Sells of Forepaugh Sells fame the original three ring hippodrome and last of three brothers died suddenly this week in a furnished room house in New York. Mrs McWilliams the landlady found him unconscious and called a physician. An ambulance was summoned but the doctor said Sells was beyond help. He had amassed a fortune but years earlier sold his show and parted from his wife. His son William is in college in Leavenworth Texas.
An advertisement extols Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a premier kidney remedy. It claims to cure rheumatism back pain liver and bladder issues and urinary problems. Sample bottle and free book offered by mail from Binghamton New York with a note to mention the paper.
A letter to Scott A Affleck of Winchester Virginia markets Devoe paint as the longest wearing choice based on a Madison Florida user's claim that a house painted eleven years ago still looks superior. The note claims lower gallon usage and favorable cost ratios for the job, noting durability in hot climates and referencing Geo. E. Bushnell & Co as distributors.
Fragmentary note discusses savoring current pleasures without fretting about future troubles. Reflects on enjoying the moment and avoiding anxieties that borrow from what might come tomorrow.
Northbound No 9 runs daily at 2 37 a m to Hagerstown with a Pullman sleeper to Philadelphia via Harrisburg. No 28 at 9 31 a m to Hagerstown and intermediate stops connects at Shenandoah Junction with B&O for Washington with a parlor car. Southbound No 4 at 3 13 a m to Roanoke Bristol Bluefield Norton Welch Winston Salem Charlotte with sleeper to Welch. No 13 at 9 09 a m to Roanoke intermediate stops Bristol Knoxville Bluefield Columbus Cincinnati with sleeper to Knoxville and from Roanoke to Columbus. No 27 at 6 42 p m to Elks ton intermediate with parlor car. Rates, maps and timetables available from agents or M F Bragg Trav Pass Ret and W B Brvll Gen Pass Ast Roanoke Va.
Cumberland Valley Railroad time table dated November 24 1907 shows daily service except Sunday with trains from Philadelphia and New York to Winchester arriving at 9 25 am 12 00 noon and 7 15 pm Read line includes M Kennedy J H Tox vice president and general superintendent signature.
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