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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1908
Page
4
Residents and the Common Council advance a complete concrete curb gutter and sidewalk on National Avenue. They offer to pay all sidewalk costs, urging federal support to extend paving to the National Cemetery front and boost property values.
The Star announces Dr Branch M Roszel as the new principal of the Shenandoah Valley Academy in Winchester. He brings experience from Washington city schools and Sewanee Grammar School plus a Johns Hopkins PhD in astronomy. The academy buildings will be renewed with fresh interiors and modern conveniences to support progressive educational aims in the Shenandoah Valley.
The article surveys tariff reform debates, criticizing protective tariffs as fostering monopolies while urging tariff reform advocates like Bryan. It argues campaigns are funded by manufacturers and calls attention to urban improvement, notably planting trees along Market Street near City Hall to counter harsh poles and wires. It also discusses the Byrd liquor law and the need for a legal definition of drunkenness beyond retailer judgments.
Berryville Virginia residents and visitors are listed. Names include Mrs Lit tlepage and Miss Emily Littlepage at Mrs Estelle Powers. Mrs McComb and children planning a Buena Vista stay. Mrs B O Grove visiting Luray. Meade family from Kansas at Mrs John R Crown's. Parker of St Louis at Hon Marshall McCormick's. Miss Collins of Philadelphia at Audley. Fannie Wolfe and Ellen Williams off to New York for Chautauqua. Miss Martha Jones a trained nurse visiting here. Miss Helen Dortch returning from Italy. Mr Hyde of Atlanta visiting Percy Crown. Major Swiggert and daughter Mrs Charles Lee visiting Charles R Lee family.
A Virginia discussion questions the Byrd law's reach in libel and slander cases and how to define not being drunk. The barkeeper must judge if a patron is articulate enough to order another drink, with courts to decide final enforcement and dictionaries guiding the term.
A structural steel workman, name not obtained, was struck in the left eye by a hammer at Handley Memorial Library yesterday and seriously injured. Dr. P. W. Boyd Jr. notes sight likely saved. William McKenzie, hurt after a fall at the library building, remains at home on North Main Street but shows improving condition.
Homer Orndorff of North Kent Street was injured yesterday when his second left finger was caught in a weaving machine. A portion of the finger was mashed and he suffered severe pain and loss of blood. Dr. P. W. Boyd Jr. attended him.
Miss Elsie LaMaster of Chambersburg Pennsylvania, daughter of Superintendent LaMaster, is visiting her aunt Mrs Charles Fuller.
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