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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1901
Page
2
The Star brings local news with a short notice release. It promises more local content than any paper and provides the full account of the Memorial Day proceedings up to 12 30 this afternoon.
The Sixth of June marks Confederate Memorial Day in Winchester with visitors welcomed and many Confederates decorating graves. The piece honors the Lost Cause, notes thinner ranks and halting steps, and predicts the day’s significance will grow once the last veteran rests.
Movements in Nineveh reports Mrs. Emma Hicks illness improves. Thomas Carter from Washington visits cousin Miss McCartney. Miss Mamie Petty returns to Washington after long visit. Memorial Day crowds in Front Royal. Local farmers halt work for a week due to rains. Mrs. Capt. L. Han is ill at home. Miss Mabel Miller returns from West Virginia.
Rock Enon Virginia June 6 There was preaching and baptising at this place last Sunday by Rev W RB Cocke and preaching on Monday night by the State Evangelist Rev Mr Shelbrum. Mr Jas Good and Miss Emily Anderson have been on the sick list for some time are worse. Meredith Anderson has gone to Harrisonburg to serve on the United States Grand Jury. Elias Farmer lost two cows last week with hydrophobia. B F Kerns post master is ill with dropsy. Op shearing is the order of Miss Portia Baker has returned from Baltimore.
Rev Dr S K Cox of Harrisonburg Virginia preached in Charlestown in the Methodist Church South both morning and evening. The Rockingham and Winchester Districts leaders reportedly agree on the appointment with bishop approval. Cox, editor of the Baltimore and Richmond Christian Advocate, is esteemed in the Baltimore Conference and his Charlestown pastorate is welcomed by many friends.
Mr. Herbert Wolff son of Rev J H Wolff of Charlestown and formerly of this city is a University of Virginia student expected to graduate with A B and A M degrees. He has accepted a position at the Military school at Yorkville SC near Kings Mountains to teach Greek French and Latin.
Notable local items include Capt. Wm. Snodgrass's improved condition after illness and operations, the release of Carl Wieth amid Mrs. Drummond’s assertion of innocence, and Edward Payne's July 12 execution after a Dublin assault case. Gen. James A. Walker enters the Republican gubernatorial race, Mrs. Ella J. Trimham's self harm, a conductor Col. W. Franklin’s critical injuries, S. H. Hansbrough at a hospital committee meeting, the Philadelphia guests Nannie and Lillian Jefferson visiting Mrs. Fannie Fugitt, and City Clerk Richard L. Gray’s Memphis return.
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