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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1908
Page
6
A fragmented notice mentions Mrs Randolph Tucker departing for Lexington after visiting her daughter in the city. E B Sheetz announces retirement for a business trip. Isaac Jackson and heirs face a lot survey in Gainesboro Virginia with taxes dating back to 1906 and a July 2 1908 note.
Winchester reports three months of progress with the jail empty for two months and six June arrests. New buildings rise as merchants claim thriving sales despite economic depression. Many saloonkeepers move to other trades and appear prospering, while the press notes temperance gains and ongoing local business strength. Joseph Moffett of Woodstock is in Winchester on business.
Mrs. Thomas B8cdék of Union Theological Seminary Richmond arrives in Winchester to visit sister Mrs. W. S. Love on West Water Street. Mrs. Poor Mrs. Kitty Podor and Mr. Poor of Baltimore have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Baker and returned home this morning. Mrs. K. W. Hudgins and son Malcolm of Hampton visit Judge E. Boyd Faulkner in Martinsburg and plan to spend the rest of summer with their hosts. Mr. and Mrs. John Stayman of Richmond visit Mr. and Mrs. Loring A. Cover in the city.
SEF. Dr E B Smoke and daughter Miss Ethel Smoke of White Hall visited friends in the city. Mrs J E Spurrier improves after a Memorial Hospital operation. Mrs Dr Enos and son of Denver and Mrs Warren Rice of Vaucluse visit Mr and Mrs John W Rice on North Braddock Street. W W Ruth Baltimore and Ohio freight agent in town on business. C W Potter of the Metropolitan Hotel Washington DC visits his parents on North Main Street. Mr and Mrs Clem Capper and children of Washington with Mrs Mary Kline and granddaughter Marilee Russell and Miss Irene Capper of Winchester visit Mr and Mrs J E Chapman at Trone. Master Gray Funkhouser returns to Dayton, Va from grandmother Mrs Marcus Snapp with cousin Elsie Snapp. Mrs C T Owen visiting Norfolk. Theodore P Conner, health trip in Winchester, returns to Harpers Ferry, expects to return here next week. Miss Helen Blake returns to Baltimore after visit with Miss Nan Maynard on West Water Street. Rev Dr and Mrs James Grailr return from country visit. Miss Portia Baker returns from Shenandoah Valley visit. While in town read The Stat.
The University of Virginia Summer School hosts Rural Life Week July 13 to 18, focusing on rural life and rural school issues with national experts. Deputy State Superintendent E C Bishop and others will present lectures, stereopticon views, and demonstrations. the event is free to the public with $1.00 daily lodging at Jefferson Park Hotel.
This afternoon Mr. Harry Funk sustained a serious cut to his right hand when glass from a sash fell while he was placing a screen in a window at his South Main Street home. Several deep gashes required medical attention. Dr. W A Bell attended and dressed the wounds.
Supt J R Affleck of the county parish fart spent yesterday in this city on business. The infant child of Mr and Mrs Carlton Dehaven of Hunting Ridge died yesterday. The Misses Swimley of Bruce town spent today with friends in Winchester. Dr John Pine of Lebanon Church Way is visiting friends in this section. Mr A K Werver has returned from business trip. Vir
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