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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1905
Page
4
The Stine Sunday School committee led by Mr Clifton Hodgson raised 105 dollars at Bryarly's School House yard party to buy an organ for the school. After expenses they expect ample funds to cover fuel dues and present the organ to the Sunday School on June 25. The prosperous school is numbered 85.
John Lewis a colored sailor in the United States Navy was arrested by Chief Ricamore in Berryville on a March 1902 war rant. He had earlier drawn a knife on Tom Reed after an altercation and was fined, then skipped town. He returned, paid most of the fine after arrest, and was allowed to go back to his ship to avoid a desertion charge.
War poet and war correspondent Harbaugh from Casstown Q visited Hagerstown yesterday while touring battlefields. A Middletown native, he returns to his old home after years of collecting material for literary circles. He has written poems and war stories for forty years and is well known in the area.
A dispatch from Suffolk, Virginia reports Gov. Montague spoke at Whaleyville to fewer than eighty attendees after a well advertised event. Col. B. E. Holland introduced the speaker. The Navy officer then elected president at the General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America meeting.
The article argues deafness stems from an inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube. It states inflammation causes rumbling or imperfect hearing and that restoring the tube to normal prevents permanent deafness. It claims nine of ten cases are due to catarrh and promises a $100 reward for deafness success.
Personal items list where Miss Kate Shaull travels to Brucetown and others return to Keyser Cedar Grove and Winchester. Notices of New York and Boston figures include Mexican Central Railroad capital increase and a bribery conviction. Also reports Philadelphia mayor’s graft repeal ordinance and a chauffeur accident in Saugus with fatalities and injuries.
Wholesale prices listed include Wheat 90 cents a bushel Rye 60 cents Corn 2.55 Butter 13 cents Eggs 14 cents Old hens 10 cents Old roast 5 cents Turkeys 13 cents a pound This snapshot notes markets without feature and records commodity costs.
June 16 reports residents returning from a Middle Way visit Mr Lee Hulver and family. E B Reed and wife of Charlestown spent Sunday with his parents in Gaylord. Mrs Gilbert Myerly visited Mrs Joseph E Anderson of Marvin Chapel. Mrs Kate Morris and Mrs Mince of Loudoun County, with their mother Mrs Ann Morris of near this place, yesterday. Mr Charles B R Castleman named fruit inspector for Long Marsh and Battletown District and to begin work in about two weeks.
Mrs Geo Blake is at home from the hospital and doing as well as could be expected. The operation resulted in the loss of her right eyeball. There will be preaching at 11 a.m. next Sunday by Rev W D Eye. Mrs C L Potter and son visit her mother Mrs Grant today.
Mr. William Glaize of Chicago, who went West thirty years ago, visits county relatives and is brother of Mr. H. C. Glaize and Mrs. Annie Bywaters of Bliss. Mrs. Amos Cooper is very ill. Miss Lillian Rinker, a recent nursing graduate, stays with her parents Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Rinker at Opequon.
Miss Ada F. McDonald of Winchester, daughter of Mr and Mrs S D McDonald, has graduated from Drexel Institute in Philadelphia Pa in one of the programs offered by the university.
A bold claim links stomach action to overall health and promotes Mi O Na tablets as a universal stomach cure except cancer. The text urges pre meal use to prevent indigestion and suggests many ailments stem from a weak stomach. It promises a guaranteed stomach cure with every package from Franck Baker & Son.
Miss Bessie Wise has returned home after attending the Randolph Macon Woman's College commencement exercises at Lynchburg. Mrs H A Wise and Miss Myrtie Wise are spending the week in Baltimore attending Johns Hopkins University commencement. Reverend Stevens will preach at Fairview on June 18 in the afternoon.
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