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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1908
Page
4
Winchester Virginia publication The Evening Star announces it will not accept ads that deceive defraud or mislead buyers. It rejects schemes fake stock ventures and wildcat mining ads and states space is reserved for bona fide advertisers.
Per year in advance two hundred dollars. Per six months in advance one hundred dollars. Per three months in advance sixty dollars.
Mrs Sarah J Orndorff died July 25 at her home in Refuge after four weeks illness. She was twice married first to James Gardner leaving son George Gardner of White Post. Surviving children include Mrs Ben McFarland Winchester Mr N B Orndorff Middletown Mr W A Orndorff Refuge Mr G J Orndorff at home and Miss Lucy M Orndorff with two sisters Mrs Martha Tansill Vanclisonville and Mrs Mary Tansill Baltimore. Funeral held at Salem Dunkard Church Monday at 2 PM.
Mrs. May J. Leasure a widow 65 of Emporium Pennsylvania and Layton M. Sampson a widower 61 of Sampson Virginia were married in Hagerstown by Rev. W D Keller of the Dunkard Church at the minister s residence. The couple had corresponded after an advertisement in a matrimonial paper and met in Hagerstown with a meeting at the Blue Ridge Hotel. Sampson left town but later returned and the pair agreed to marry after a long conference.
In Woodstock Virginia on July 29 a severe electrical storm struck the Jadwin area destroying the barn of Josiah Wisman with its wheat hay and farming gear. Four hundred dollars of insurance covered the barn no crop insurance. Also noted shipment of early apples and a projected larger enrolment at Mas. Hanuttentte Academy with the new $19 000 building rushing to completion.
Mr A B Wyndham of Berry ville and Mr Howard Boteler of Baltimore spent Monday in Winchester on business. Mr Wrynahom visited his parents Mr and Mrs T C Wyndham on Worth Braddock.
The piece surveys Shenandoah locales tied to Civil War campaigns, from Middletown to Cedar Creek. It recalls Early and Gordon’s tactical maneuvers, the Jut of the Massanutten, Sheridan’s 1864 defeat, and local memories preserved by residents and a foreign observer.
A series of electric storms struck multiple locations in Page County. At G E Viands home north of Luray lightning followed a telephone line into the house, knocking down Miss Rae Viands. In Luray a woman, daughter of E M Emerson, sustained facial and hand burns when lightning struck near her while she carried an umbrella.
Mrs. M. Vv. Affleck of Winchester Virginia reiterates a 1903 testimonial praising Doan’s Kidney Pills. Her son, treated by doctors with no relief, recovered after using the remedy and remains cured. Sold at Frank Baker & Son’s. Price 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY. Remember the name Doan’s.
Reduced rates to Boston via Pennsylvania Railroad for Knights of Pythias meet. Tickets paid Aug 1 to 4 valid for return Aug 4 to 16 with Sept 16 extension for $1.00 to validate in Boston. Stopovers in Philadelphia Baltimore and New York on through tickets with $1.00 charges. Obtain full details from ticket agents.
Capt. Philip BR Walker, US, recently visiting his mother Mrs Gen John G Walker at Mansfield, has departed for New York.
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