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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1906
Page
2
News from Boyce notes a busy social scene with church services, school visits, and many residents visiting relatives in Winchester, Staunton, Baltimore, and nearby towns. Highlights include a Children Day program at the Methodist Church with a solo by Miss Minta Carper and tributes to teachers for training the children.
June 20 Rest items list brief updates from town residents. Mrs T B Do ing remains ill at home. Miss Helen Slingluff visits Mrs L R Payne in Martinsburg. Rev J S Douglas from Martinsburg visits Mrs A E Cunningham. C A Ewan of Philadelphia returns after a brief visit. Mr and Mrs Robert Kurtzman of Winchester spend Sunday with friends. Calvin Perry returns to Ridgeway after typhoid illness and stays with his father. Walter Cain and wife visit her parents near Opequan. Storm disrupts church services. Harry Feagans finds five skunks in a den while moving hay. Charles Jefferson and wife visit Brucetown.
A Canadian article describes a northern shore island near Manitoba Lake where waves on shingle create bell like noises at night. Ojibway avoid land due to Manitou beliefs while travelers note distant church bell impressions. The piece then shifts to ostrich selection for zoos, noting speed signals health and recounting a race for figs with two birds racing neck and neck.
Engineers in the British Navy use a dynamite cartridge placed in a pork baited with a wire connected to a battery. When a shark takes the bait, a button is pressed and the cartridge explodes, killing the fish.
The plan would give a person who pays six pounds ten shillings at age twenty one an annuity of thirteen pounds at age sixty five. If the saver dies beforehand the state keeps the funds.
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