Soldier Boys in Recent War Honored
Two Winchester graves stand out as highly decorated for Earnest Grim and Raymond Shelley of Company A Second Virginia Regiment in the Spanish American War. Grim died of typhoid fever in Jacksonville Florida while Shelley fell in an accident at Strasburg Virginia. Other local fallen include Corporal John R Steele typhoid death in Jacksonville Private Clarence Dean Winchester heart failure Private Keyser in Cuba and Private John W Denny in the Philippines.
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Mount Hebron
Stonewall
Earnest Grim
Raymond Shelley
Company A
Virginia Regiment
Urim
Jacksonville
Florida
Shelley
Strasburg
Winchester
John R. Steele
Clarence Dean
Keyser
Cuba
John W. Denny
Philippines
Judge Atkinson Named Marshal for Martinsburg Fourth Parade
Judge William Mayo Atkinson of the County and Corporation Courts accepts an invitation to serve as marshal for Martinsburg's Fourth of July parade. He previously presided as chief marshal when the Rouss City Hall cornerstone was laid and is noted for his imposing horseback presence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Mayo Atkinson
County and Corporation Courts
Martinsburg
Atkinson
Rouss City Hall
Hart Hotel Feeds Big Sixth of June Crowd
The Hart Hotel in Charlestown served a large crowd for the Sixth of June exercises. Proprietor S. D. McDonald managed the feeding of nearly two hundred people, with the Independent and Citizens fire companies and the Charlestown drum corps quartered there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hart Hotel
S. D. McDonald
Independent and
Citizens Fire Companies
Charlestown
Drum Corps
Strawberry peddler arrested in Winchester for license noncompliance
M. Snapp of Gerardstown West Virginia was arrested for selling strawberries without a license. He was allowed to resume business after obtaining a merchant's license, as selling fruit produced outside the state requires a local license in Winchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Snapp
Gerardstown
W. Va
Winchester
Visiting His Old Home by Col Dabney C Lee
Col Dabney C Lee of Clarksburg West Virginia returns to Winchester Virginia to visit relatives. He makes his headquarters at the Taylor House and notes this is his first time back since 1874. He is an uncle of Dabney Lee Smith a Shenandoah Valley Academy student.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Dabney C. Lee
Clarksburg
W. Va
Winchester
Taylor House
Col. Lee
Dabney Lee Smith
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Daily Briefs From Martinsburg Area Local News
Topics include June 15 school closing with 22 graduates, a Market Street church lecture on Golden Chain, local sales at J L Pentz corner, Friendship Fire Company meeting, several visitor notes from Brunswick Staunton Barthlow s Md and Washington, weather showers and cooler trend, social visits and travel, a photograph at North Market, and Mart insburg Star office visitors Bettie Wild and Lillie Nuckles with Edith Sigafoose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Star Office
Bettie Wild
Martinsburg
Probate and court notes from county proceedings
At 130 North Main St. Mr A A Robinson is critically ill at home near White Hall. He was prominent in court as the alleged instigator in the suit against Ted Almond for obtaining money under false pretenses. The will of John R Evans was admitted to probate in County Court. Evans lived on Dr Wm A Bells farm near town and left his belongings to his wife for life.
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A. A. Robinson
White Hall
Mr. Robinson
Ted Almond
John R. Evans
Wm. A. Bell
Corporation Court of
Winchester
Virginia
William H. Fletcher
James P. Fletcher
James A. Hardy
Annie C. Cullimore
John E. Cullimore
Market and
Piccadilly Streets
City of
Hardy
Market Street
Martinsburg
Rebecca Fletcher
Wm. Hi. Fletcher
Jas. P. Fletcher
Maria Hard
R. M. Ward
Dee
Annie O. Cullimore
Evening Star
Court House
Corporation Court
Richard L. Gray
Hotings Box?, JR
South Africa
Siberia
Japan
China
Dewey
Manila
Globe
Mails Schedule and Star Route Updates
The Daily Mails lists arrivals and departures for north south and star routes with times for B&O CV and other lines. It notes mail close times and mentions a Manila Evening Times copy received via Private Clyde S. Ray of Co K 27th U S Inf serving in the Philippines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B&o
the Star
Manila Evening Times
Clyde S. Ray
Co. K
U.S
Philippines
Messenger Harry Chambers Dies in Martinsburg at 19
Martinsburg report says Harry Chambers, a popular messenger for the Western Union Telegraph Company, died in that city last night at 8 o'clock. He was 19 years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinsburg
Tux Star
Harry Chambers
Western Union Telegraph Company
Randolph-Macon College to Confer BA on Local Graduate
Frederick County resident Howard Wheelwright Kline of Vaucluse will receive a Bachelor of Arts degree at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland Virginia on June 20 He will also read an original poem at class day exercises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Randolph-Macon College
Ashland
Virginia
Howard Wheelwright Kline
Vaucluse
Kline
Confed Memorial Day Orator To Speak In Charlestown
General H Kyd Douglass of Hagerstown Maryland will deliver the memorial address for Confederate Memorial Day in Charlestown West Virginia. The exercises are set for Edge Hill Cemetery and will begin at 2 o clock in the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Kyd Douglass
Hagerstown
Charlestown
W. Va
Edge Hill Cemetery
Sermon to Firemen Set for Next Sunday at Church
The Friendship Fire Company will attend the annual sermon to firemen preached by chaplain Rev. Eugene B. Jackson. The service will be held next Sunday evening at the First Baptist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friendship Fire Company
Eugene B. Jackson
First Baptist Church
Meeting in Grant's Woods Sunday All Day
An all day meeting is set for Grant's woods this Sunday with preaching at 11 a.m. by Rev. W H H Joyce and at 8 p.m. by Rev A M Cackley D D on The Twentieth Century Movement of Methodism. The Relay Weaver Company faced an injunction from Judge Harrison preventing inexperienced plumbers from tapping Berryville Water Works pipes. Mrs A M Diffenderfer of Martinsburg sprained her ankle after a fall at home. Public school children decorated the mound of the North Carolina monument yesterday.
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Grant's Woods
W. H. H. Joyce
A. M. Cackley
D. D
Relay Weaver
Berryville
Harrison
A. M. Diffenderfer
Martinsburg
Diffenderfer
North Carolina Monument
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West Virginia
Severs
John Kerr Public
Market St. M. E. Church
J. L. Pentz’s
Main and
Water Streets
The
Clara
Bertie Jefferson
Rurie Hawkins
Brunswick
A. E. Dabney
Staunton
C. E. Huntsberry
North Main Street
Nannie Ogden
Middletown, Va
Nellie and Maude Henry
South Kent Street
Mable Rice
Barthlow’s
Oscar Barr
Ladies National Memorial Association
Wm. R. Willis
Thos. Pendergast
Washington
Wm. Hildebrant
Frederick City
Edward Parker
Nannie Singhass
Springfield
Archie Orndorff
Hattie Henry
A.l.shearer
North Market Street
Geo. B. Russell
Zullenger, Pa
Woodstock
Dr. Russell
Massanutten Academy
Nannie B. Moore
D. H. Bragonier
New York City
G. Melville Moore
Maryland Association
Baltimore
C. P. Staley
Richmond College
Broaddus Memorial Baptist Church
John K. Lewis
Clarke
Wilkes Bowles
Shenandoah River
John K
Charles and
Fred Lewis
Wesley Grim
John McIntosh
James Violet
North Main St
the Daily Mails
B and O
C. V
Romney
Bloomery
Shockeysville
Marlboro
Mountain Falle
Rock’ Enon Springs
Capon Springs
Frederick County
Kyd Douglass
Grant’s Woods
Star-Times
East Water St
Hart Hore
North Market St
Bowen
J. H. Herr
Thomas Keating
Agt
Fdr
Cumberland Beer and
Braddock
Barwell Supplied
Cumberland Brewing Company
Main and Water Sts
S. H. Hable
Milwaukee
Schlitz Beer
Robert M. Henry
J. Robert Doran
Wilson
Gibson
Finch
Welty
L. Hesier Brewixe Company
Robert Doran
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