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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1910
Page
4
Fragmentary notice from The Star about advertisement acceptance policy in Winchester Virginia. Mentions second class advertising and a Bell business office with subscription rates and pay directions.
Mrs. Kate Waters of Lenoir North Carolina writes she is not tired and sturdier after a two week wash and credits Cardui, a vegetable tonic, with strengthening her. The ad urges other weak women to use Cardui and requests information from Logies Advisory Dept. Tennessee company.
The six newly elected Nutley councilmen join a hold-over member to form a capable group. They pledge a clean, progressive, businesslike administration as they face key future issues for the city. They also note support for plumber D. H. Hartman, and a Nutley rule barring firemen from swearing or criticizing council members on duty.
The article notes a Texas representative urging the Postmaster General to study using airplanes to carry mail. It also reports the Montreal Herald building disaster death toll rising to 34 and recounts aviator Robert Owens’ perilous dirigible incident over New York.
Mr and Mrs William Marburg return to Baltimore after visiting Bartonville. They will drive from Baltimore to Spring Lake, join a party, and travel through the New England States for several weeks.
Arthur Dix, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Dix, sustained two broken bones in one foot when a pile of lumber toppled at the site of the new Christian Church at Braddock and Clifford streets.
Calmes Neck farm known as Calmes Week across the Shenandoah near Berry's Ferry was sold by J Albert Burchell yesterday to J R Hamilton of southwest Virginia a noted live stock dealer.
Miss Bessie Yaughtery daughter of Mr and Mrs Taylor Yates died at home in Front Royal Sunday night after a lingering illness from complications of diseases. She leaves her parents four brothers and four sisters.
Unprecedented rains hinder corn wheat and rye due to cool weather, cutting expected yields. Reports say corn suffers from cool temperatures, though some sunshine kept plants alive. Fruit, especially apples, benefits and size may rival July norms in warmer areas.
A local advert notes growing demand for room sized carpets. Choices listed include Electra Velvet Axminster Imperial Smyrna Saxony and Brussels with a variety of rug options available.
Under a Frederick County circuit decree from April 12 1910 the estate of Mary J. Glaize represented by Garland M Hansbrough executor will sell at public auction in front of the County Court Housed at Winchester Virginia at 12 noon on the property 327 North Loudoun Street. The two story brick dwelling fronts 20 feet on North Loudoun Street and extends to an alley with sale terms offering one third cash day of sale and two thirds by bonds dated now and due in one and two years bearing 6 percent interest secured by a deed of trust and fire policy or full cash payment. Parties include Garland M Hansbrough M M Lynch and J M Steck trustees and executors. 4 19 4.w
A wedding at the home of Mr. Charles Filmore in Rock Enon Springs Virginia joined Miss Mary B Gffin daughter of Mr. Giffin to Edgar Good son of Mr. Mahlon Good Rev Roy Schmucker officiated a reception followed by a buffet supper Miss Gffin wore blue poplin and carried white peonies The couple has ties to Harrisburg Pennsylvania and Winchester Virginia with many friends in the region
Governor Mann calls first meeting of the Virginia Tax Commission in his office on June 28 as the body becomes official. The commission includes Mann, J Taylor Ellyson, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Robert R Prentig, George Bay Keezell, and A M Bowman. It will hire a tax expert, study state and other laws, and prepare a package of tax statutes for the next Legislature.
Rev A G Link pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Strasburg Scenes County has received a call from a church in Campbellsville Kentucky and is understood to have accepted it provided he is dismissed by the Winchester Presbytery. Link has long served as stated clerk of Winchester Presbytery and is a well known minister in northern Virginia. He married Grace Wallace of Middletown.
The writer lauds proprietary medicines like Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as honest and successful for female illnesses. Thirty years of claimed success in curing female ailments are cited, while inferior products are said to fail and fade away.
Mrs. Mary W. Taylor of Charlottesville Virginia is visiting at the home of her son in law Robert P. Glass in Opéquon this county.
The Root Juice Medicine Company of Fort Wayne Indiana reports widespread use and praise for its Root Juice Compound. Stores like Swimley Drug Co. see steady sales as testimonials claim cures for nervousness rheumatism kidney troubles digestive ailments and more due to its soothing healing and tonic effects.
Postponed notices reflect June 18 scheduling. Train No 18 offers Pullman to Bristol, No 1-2.56 a m to Roanoke and Gary with cafes, No 27 to Elkton, No 28 to Hagerstown with connections to Washington, and No 14 and No 2 sleeper services to New York and Philadelphia. Officials Brvill Bragg Smeltzer family news included.
Mr. B F Kelley of Springfield Illinois describes how kidney pills relieved headaches dull pain and bladder distress after a few weeks. He credits Foley Kidney Pills for restoring normal bladder action and removing distress. Franck Baker & Son Druggists supplied the product.
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