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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1909
Page
1
A quiet but beautiful wedding took place at the bride's mother's South Market Street home. Miss Mabel Rebecca Willis, daughter of Mrs. William R. Willis, became the bride of Mr. John Austin Kern at noon. Music by Carolyn Quantz enhanced the simple, elegant ceremony.
Pettibone Brothers of Cincinnati win furnish new uniforms for the Friendship Fire Company and band. A sample uniform will be delivered on July 1 for inspection by members who have not ordered yet. To date 65 delivery and 25 band uniforms have been contracted at about $1,500. Coats will be Charlottesville gray, trousers Charlottesville blue, light-weight caps to match. Uniforms likely first worn in Carlisle the third week of August for the Cumberland Valley Firemen's Association convention.
Mr Thomas B Driscoll of Baltimore recently earned high honors in civil engineering at Washington and Lee University Lexington Va He is visiting his aunts the Misses Fenton at their North Washington street home
Advertisement copy touts John S. Solenberger & Co as offering the best window screens available.
The 1908 09 session of John Kerr Public Schools of Winchester will close tomorrow morning with 27 graduates, 27 young ladies and gentlemen to receive diplomas. Commencement will be held in the new assembly hall decorated with flowers in a more elaborate program than in recent years.
Front Royal Virginia June 22 William Rich a Russian worker at the Siebel iron mines near here was run down Sunday night by a fast freight train on the Southern Railway and ground to pieces Rich came from Baltimore but no trace can be found of any relatives there
The Harrisonburg team, with Rice Warren as coach and catcher, aims to end instability and revive life in the Valley. Winchester is noted as excepted, leaving Harrisonburg to showcase improvement over rivals.
Editor Richard Weightman of the Washington Post arrived in Winchester for a night at the Winchester Inn before departing for Capon Springs for his yearly vacation. He has spent vacations at Capon Springs for several years.
The Winchester Dry Goods Co. at 1H. Faulkner's old stand offers bargains in every department. Ladies' trimmed hats in the latest New York styles are sold at half price.
At a joint meeting in Winchester City Hall the city and county boards unanimously urged the State Board of Education to rescind its plan to consolidate Frederick and Clarke counties and place Winchester into Tiviston. E Olin Larrick was named chairman with Rev Thomas Cromer as secretary. other members favored retaining local services and opposed consolidation.
Tilden Garnett Baylor aged 61 a civil engineer died at his home in Charles Town West Virginia Sunday of diabetes He served 25 years with the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad and worked until two weeks ago He was a brother of the late Captain George Baylor of Baylor's Light Horse Cavalry He is survived by his widow Miss Beckwith one son Robert M Baylor of Georgetown S C a daughter Annie Iloyd Baylor and a sister Mrs Aisquith both of Charles Town
Mr. F. L. Manual and Miss Hilda A. Pifer received a marriage license here yesterday morning and were married last evening at Middletown by Rev. H. A. Gaver of the Southern Methodist Church. The bride is the daughter of Mr. Stanley Pifer.
Mr Martin Jarrett of Kernstown attended the funeral of his brother Mr T K Jarrett who died Sunday at his home in Lexington Virginia after an illness of Brights disease. Mr Jarrett was the agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Lexington.
London socialite Lady Hadfield arrives in Winchester for a summer cottage stay at Hot Springs Virginia with Mrs Painter of New York Mrs Anderson of Richmond and Mr Tunstall of Norfolk aboard a large touring car. The group tours Valley of Virginia and nearby battlefields before returning to Hot Springs via the Valley Pike.
Public School Auxiliary and the W C T U present an evening in the Assembly Hall Friday June 25 at o clock. A literary program and medal contest will be featured. Refreshments on sale at close. Admission 10 2u 1p 2t.
Fourth page item notes wrappers and engraved sah pins by Henry Baetjer & Co. A single trade listing highlights product type and supplier on one page.
Treasury Department seeks sealed proposals for the complete construction of the U S Post Office in Winchester Virginia. Bids due July 12, 1909 at 3 p m with drawings and specs obtainable from the Winchester site custodian or the Supervising Architect F K Taylor.
In Bunker Hill West Virginia on Sunday afternoon a 10 year old sister of I R Sutton C V agent slipped on a railing and fell into about ten feet of water at a large spring. Her brother N Sutton rescued her with only a thorough drenching and no serious injuries.
Mr J L Darlington of Winchester serves as acting agent in Sandusky Ohio while Mr Glenn passenger agent of the Southern and Baltimore and Ohio is away at a Relief Association meeting for B&O Railroad employees in the area. Harrisonburg Times.
The Bentztown Bard reports police swooped on a mint julep festival in a secluded grotto near the Winchester Virginia pumping station. Officers arrested several leaders and confiscated liquor. The writer mocks authorities while joking about inviting julepers to Annapolis or Baltimore.
Jacqueline Wood one of the infant twins of Mrs Margaret Wood widow of Mr William Wood died at her mother's South Main Street home after a lingering illness. She was born May 25 and died at seven weeks. Funeral at 10 this morning with Rev Arthur K Slagle officiating and burial in Mount Lebanon Cemetery near her late father.
The Winchester Dry Goods Co. advertises bargains in men’s wear hats and shoes and ladies’ and misses’ furnishing goods with specials. Elizabeth Haines visits relatives in Roanoke and Lynchburg. Fairfax Lane lists McIlwee's Livery with traveling men terms and two phones.
Belief voiced by C. B. Lamberd secretary treasurer Watts Lamberd Co and prominent Clarksburg leader that natural gas is a success at 4 cents per thousand feet. note mentions Clarksburg as center of a large gas region. continuation on page 65.
Police Commissioner Theodore A. Bingham of New York released photographs and descriptions of Leong Ling and Chong Sing, the New York Chinese men suspected in the Elsie Sigel murder. Sheriff Purcell posted the circulars in the county clerk's office, noting no local chance of capture as Chong Sing is jailed in New York and Leong Ling is believed to be the principal suspect.
Howard Taylor, son of Mr and Mrs J Ron Taylor, is slowly recovering after falling from the second story while climbing near a house under construction on South Braddock Street. He suffered a sprained leg a cut and a bumped head.
Bids for 50 000 sewerage bonds authorized by voters for Winchester’s sewerage system were opened today in the City Treasurer George H. Zel office. The process occurred with the sewerage commission and the finance committee present as several nonbankers and business men bid on the 50 000 and the full 60 000 issue.
The Strasburg Pythians Lodge of the Knights of Pythias held a ceremony with 75 to 100 uniformed members from multiple towns including Harrisonburg and Woodstock assisting in the initiation of eleven candidates. A large banquet followed with speeches by prominent order members.
Judge Holt in Staunton municipal court issued a writ for a local option election to be held in the city on July 22. The writ followed a petition filed Friday with more than 400 citizens, 276 qualified voters, unopposed, asking the court to decide if the city should continue licensing the sale of liquor.
The W C T U holds a meeting Thursday June 24 at 3 o'clock. Bea y. (2478p)
Chinese cook Chung Sing, jailed in West Galway, N Y, admits seeing the murder of Elsie Sigel and helping rope her body, while describing Leong Sing as the assailant during a police interview. He recalls the raid in Leong's bed and the stripping of the victim as detectives press for details.
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