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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1909
Page
3
Wilda Clarke of Clayville in Powhatan County Virginia was struck by lightning while in a hammock on her veranda. The bolt tore off her garter and hose and shattered a high heeled slipper, leaving a blue streak on her knee. She was shocked but uninjured and tended by her family.
A false alarm Friday night became a small fire incident at Mrs Sumption widow of Joseph W Sump tion on North Main street. Smoke damaged the room while Charley Rauss Wire Company trucks responded. fire crews were misdirected to Robingut sienir laundry on Kent street due to name confusion.
The Frederick Md baseball team arrives for a game with the Winchester Champions at Reservoir Park. The match is set to be played today after travel over the Baltimore and Ohio system.
Walbrook Athletic Club from Walbrook Maryland arrives for a three game set with local team starting Tuesday and continuing Wednesday and Thursday. Winchester will meet the Brexton Athletic Club of Steelton Pennsylvania on Friday and Saturday.
Berryville High School held the closing exercises in the auditorium with a large attendance. Prof. H. D. Hatton of Powhatan College spoke on the meaning and demands of the age. Graduates named included Lilian Seibert Mesmer Elizabeth Newland Sowers Lucy Powell Floudy John Hartwell Moore. Prizes awarded included Clarke Courier and Minginia scholarships. Various local residents and visitors were listed as attending or visiting over the week.
Quartermaster General Alchire of the United States Army purchases horses in Virginia for cavalry use. Front Royal will serve as a station for animals bought locally. Captain Casper H. Conrad will oversee the purchase and, once enough horses are acquired, they will be sent to remount stations at Port Reno and Fort Keogh.
A magazine writer condemns tramp activity on rail lines as a grave threat to interstate commerce and traveler safety. He cites stowaways, children riding atop cars, tampered air brakes, and cars set ablaze, urging harsher penalties for trespassing on railroad property.
Marion R Lux, locomotive fireman on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy line, received a silver medal and $1,000 toward a home for saving a child from a moving train. The train rode about 25 mph when the engineer spotted the child, Lux leapt out, and amid the braking, jumped through the cab and over the rail to shield the child, narrowly avoiding the wheels as the speed slowed to ten mph.
An extraordinary Siam accident on the Royal State railway between Ban vhati and Bangkok killed two workers and wrecked 13 cars after a heavy goods train struck a wild elephant on a curve. The elephant perished, and derailed engines and cars caused extensive damage. A prior Siam elephant incident occurred in February near Lapburt with less train damage.
The plan calls for using American and English locomotives on Austrian private lines. About 2 000 miles of track are to be leased by the government next year at a cost near 15 million dollars.
In Middletown Virginia on June 7 a gathering of Run Lodge members honored Memorial Day with a ritual led by the noble grand. hymns included Nearer My God to Thee and What a Friend We Have in Jesus. Flower girls Mary Weaver Aileen Sperry Dorothy Ja Lela Ludwig Roberta Parks Anna Pope sang Safe In the Arms of Jesus after graves were decorated. Reverend J P Stump and Reverend D Harrig gave speeches before refreshments.
Fragmented excerpt urges loving friends openly repeatedly prove love and bring happiness and cheer to their lives while noting missed opportunities for loving and expressing affection in scattered phrases.
An OCR fragment describes Foley's Kidney Remedy as a remedy for kidney or bladder disorders with backache urinary irregularities and exhaustion. The ad mentions Warnack Baker & Son.
The readable items show numbers and letters that resemble a ledger or clock-like notation with times and codes. No clear names locations or events emerge to form a complete headline or summary.
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