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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1908
Page
3
The Savings Department announces interest will be credited on all accounts. Depositors are asked to bring passbooks and have amounts entered. Dated January 1 1908. H D Fuller, cashier.
A mother mourns her daughter in a sentimental poem about longing and grief. The speaker describes the child’s angelic eyes sun kissed hair and sweet voice that haunt her dreams. The verse ends with the mother buried in sorrow after loss.
Arrangements are underway for observance of the 40th anniversary of Rev. Dr. S J Kieffer's pastorate at Zion's Reformed Church in Hagerstown.
Richmond faces a clash as Confederate veteran groups debate military style female choirs. Lee Camp veterans oppose petticoated officers while George E. Pickett Camp supports the choirs. State Camp officers and tidewater singers plan wartime song performances at the Soldiers Home with Rev Dr John P Hyde absent from the meeting.
The piece muses on leap year customs and the 1908 calendar with jokes about bachelors and marriages. It notes Caesar and Pope Gregory the Gregorian reform and reflects on social changes affecting courting and wedlock.
The text notes an early calendar with alternating 30 and 31 day months, February with 29 days in common years and 6 leap days every four years, and credits Pope Gregory with corrections that shaped the calendar to its present form.
Miss Emily McCormick returns to Washington after holidays with her parents in Berryville. Fenton Whiting and wife resume home in Roanoke. Dr. Matthew Pulliam and family visiting his father on Main Street. Mrs. Charles McGuire and son travel to Hoboken with Miss Rosalie McCormick staying winter there. William Reynolds returns to work in Pennsylvania after visiting Edgewood. Edward Stribling Jefferson departs for Norfolk. Nellie Plaster and sister Liffey Plaster of Bluemont visit Mrs. Osborne. Nellie sails January 4 for Europe with Plaster relatives. A Moore Jr. spends day in Charles Town. Edgar Crowe and wife from Mobile return after weeks with aunt Miss Fanny Crowe. Miss Fannie Crowe goes to Baltimore. Beth Bowen leaves for New York for a few days.
The New Year's ball by the Assembly Club of Hagerstown was held at the Hamilton Hotel. About 160 guests attended from Baltimore Philadelphia Frederick Chambersburg Martinsburg Winchester Harrisburg Roanoke and other places with music by Grubers orchestra.
A salesman on a Cumberland Valley trip allegedly passed fraudulent checks at three Chambersburg hotels last week, netting $35 in cash. The case involves guest Mrs. J G Yeakley and relatives Mrs. Jane Mason, Miss Rose Mason, and Mrs. Nelle Hockenberry of Martinsburg.
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