Goodbye Electric Farewell to the City Clock Tower
The City Council voted to remove electric lights from City Hall and rely on gas to illuminate the clock tower and surroundings. A light committee report cited annual lighting costs of about 113 dollars for the tower and city hall expenses exceeding 2,300 dollars yearly net, urging strict economy amid rising costs.
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Old Clock Tower
Tata
County Board of Health
Round Hill
Alleghenies
L. N. Barton
Ramsburg
Barton
Star Makes Hit At Public Play In Stephens City
A Stephens City audience debated local papers as a stage gag featured The Evening Star Publishing Company. A performer mocked the rival paper, praising The Star as the paper of the people, while the audience applauded the tease and backed The Star with high local readership and circulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Star
Stephens City
Mayers’ Hall
Evening Star Publishing Company
Tar Star
Tex Far
People
Tur Star
Echo
C Ming
Tue Star
A Veritable Snake Hunter
Mr. Harry Thatcher son of Mr. George Thatcher of south Market street is described as the section’s fiercest foe of snakes. He relishes the hunt and has killed 27 serpents this year, mostly near Rouss Springs, with noted encounters including a spread-head moccasin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Thatcher
George Thatcher
South Market Street
Thatcher
Rouss Springs
Mulligan Post to Meet at E N Houston Residence
Mulligan Post No 30 G A R will meet at 123 east Clifford street on the third Saturday at 2 pm. All comrades are urged to attend as important business will be transacted. E N Houston J F Bean Commander Adjutant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mulligan Post
E. N. Houston
East Clifford Street
J. F. Bean
Handley Estate Conditions Prompt City Comment on Hotel Winchester
Mayor Barton cites the city’s stake in the Handley estate and warns of potential losses from administration costs while noting the Hotel Winchester sale was withdrawn. He also defends the Market street tree removal as necessary to lower pavement grade and protect the building’s terraces.
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Barton
Hotel Winchester
Market Street
Winchester
City of
Handley
Handley Estate
Building Commission
Proclamation Orders Dog Containment in Shenandoah District
Due to a mad dog scare in Frederick County, Josiah Stickley, Supervisor of Davis District Shenandoah, issues a proclamation under a legislative act requiring all dogs be penned or muzzled for ninety days. John M. Steele and family of Stephens City were in town.
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Frederick County
Josiah Stickley
Davis District
Shenandoah
Memorial Day Pilgrimage Draws Large Crowd to Stonewall Cemetery
Indications point to a big turnout for the Sixth of June pilgrimage. Hotels are crowded as visitors arrive by rail with excursion rates offered from Strasburg to Washington and Baltimore. Veterans from nearby towns will be hosted in Winchester with a parade marching from Market to Water Street and to the cemetery led by Chief Marshal Williams.
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Stonewall Cemetery
Winchester
Cumberland Valley
Baltimore & Ohio
Strasburg
Washington
Baltimore
Government Weather Bureau
Piccadilly Street
Piccadilly
Main
Cork
Youthful Train Wrecker Caught Near Martinsburg
A 12 year old boy Harry Cook living with D. M. Shaffer near Martinsburg admitted placing stones on the Cumberland Valley Railroad between Martinsburg and Winchester. He was jailed then acquitted by a magistrate due to his tender years. The orphan was under Shaffer’s care.
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Cumberland Valley Railroad
Martinsburg
Winchester
Harry Cook
D. M. Shaffer
Shaffer
Children to assemble for June 6 parade at Court House yard
The 21 Ladies Memorial Association requests children to assemble at the Court House yard at 10 30 Thursday morning with flowers. Each child should bring one cent for a cemetery headstone collection for the Unknown Dead and donations for the veterans launch at the old post office corner of Main and Water streets on June 6.
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Court House Yard
Main
Water Streets
Ladies Memorial Association
Killing of General Ashby chronicled in Confederate Veteran
Miss Mary Calhoun of Liberty Missouri offers an illustrated article in the Confederate Veteran about the murder of General Ashby near Harrisonburg and his burial beside his brother in Stonewall Cemetery in this city.
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The
Mary Calhoun
Liberty
Ashby
Harrisonburg
Stonewall Cemetery
Ribs Broken by a Fall at Kernstown Home
Mr. Theodore Bowman of near Kernstown, in the county, was injured Sunday night when he rose after hearing a noise in his yard. In the dark he stumbled over a chair and broke two ribs at his home.
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Theodore Bowman
Kernstown
A Fair June Bride
This afternoon Mr Joseph D Fearnow of Morgan county West Virginia and Miss Elizabeth Place of this county wed in a ceremony conducted by Rev N N Hall. The bride is the daughter of Mr Joseph Place who lives near the Morgan county line.
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Joseph D. Fearnow
Morgan County
W. Va
Elizabeth Place
This County
N.N. Hall
Joseph Place
Weather forecast for Virginia from weather bureau
The United States Weather Bureau issued a forecast for Virginia noting partly cloudy skies tonight and Thursday with warmer conditions in the eastern portion. The report highlights regional temperature differs and emphasizes a warming trend into Thursday.
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United States Weather Bureau
Virginia
Southern Cross Formed By Rouss Hook Ladner At Parade
Tomorrow during the parade the Rouss Hook and Ladner Company will form among other drill figures the Southern Cross and march for some distance along Main street in that formation.
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Rouss Hook & Ladner Company
Southern Cross
Main Street
Keep off the Grass on City Hall Green
Early today several pees were planted on the City Hall lawn. They blossomed and bore fruit, displaying a large legend reading Keep off the grass.
The Curtain Rises Tonight at the Auditorium
The curtain will be raised tonight at the auditorium at 845. Fine Perfumes, Bushnell’s.
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St Bushnell’s
City Council Handles Water, Sewers and Fire Issues
The May water usage dropped 207 710 gallons from May 1900 figures as the council discussed sewer work for Town Run with a $5 000 appropriation and annual $1 000 installments. An ordinance to reimburse the city solicitor for revising ordinances was advanced. The fire hose budget faced review while a Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Society water rate proposal was rejected for lack of funds.
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RE. Holmes Boyd
Boyd
Heller
Fuller
Ward
Lewis
Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Society
Fair Grounds
Kremer
Ono
Messrs
C. P.kremer
John K. Lewis
C. W. Hensell
H. D. Fuller
Mr.Fuller
Albert C. Brown
William R. Willis
Star
Quarterly Conference Postponed by Frederick District Leader
Owing to conflicting engagements Rev Dr W S McKenney Presiding Elder of Frederick District Methodist Episcopal Church cannot attend the quarterly conference at Market street Church on Friday. The conference is postponed to Saturday night.
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W. S. McKenney
Eldex
Frederick
Methodist Episcopal Church
Market Street
Memorial Day wreath laid at German Town graves
On Memorial Day in German town Pennsylvania 2,632 Federal soldiers and 150 Confederate soldiers were decorated. Miss Fanny Powell of Richmond placed a wreath in memory of the fallen.
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Germantown
Fanny Powell
Richmond
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Tata Clock Tower
Mulligan
City Hall Square
John M. Steele
Woodstock
Front Royal
Charlestown
Lebanon Church
Berryville
Holliday
Main and
Jack Adams
Quicksburg
Hart Hotel
Marshal Williams
T. C. Williams
Aids
E. G. Hollis
Meade Jefferson
Thos. Chamblin
Turner Ashby
Stover
William Richardson
J. E. B. Stuart
Ino
W. Rowan
Romney
Hugh McGuire
Lebanon
Chas
W. McVicar
Marshal
Government Weather Report
Ship of State
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