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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
5
The Bunker Hill lodge held its annual meeting electing officers. Counsellor F D Butter leads the slate with Ernest Ashwood as Vice Counsellor and A C Jackson as Chaplain. Other posts filled include Recording Secretary Charles F Laise and Treasurer E D Lamp.
Gore Virginia notes detail visits among residents including J D Kerns from Fremont and D F Kerns in Gore, family stops at Valley Home, and social visits with the Parish family and Mrs Schmucker. A major storm Tuesday swept bridges and gardens, with Upton Pugh losing lumber near Dry Run.
June 24 itemized social notes from Castlemans Ferry list visits by Mrs. John Herrington and family of Pitcairn Pa Mrs C D Johnson and family of Kabletown with W H Moreland Miss Mary Galloway from Mexico visits Miss Nina Woodward of Brunswick visits the Baldwins Luther Bell of Millwood visits Bluemont relatives Winchester youths spent a day on the river Ernest Fincham of Rappahannock caught two large groundhogs Frank Galloway of Berryville stopped by in Charles Town.
The Virginia Knights of Pythias plan a memorial for Samuel Holder Hines the Pythian martyr who died December 25 1870 saving Erasmus W Ross when the Spottswood Hotel burned in Richmond Elders say the long effort faced obstacles but now culminates in erection of the monument reviving lodge enthusiasm statewide.
There is now in hand $50,000 and plats for an affluent building with a memorial to Mr. Hines over the main entrance. Erected under the Grand Lodge of Virginia, the Hines Memorial will stand on Fifth Street between Broad and Marshall in Richmond.
A Pittsburg dispatch notes Rev. Dr. William A. Koontz of Baltimore, visiting the city, was briefly hailed as William Jennings Bryan due to a strong resemblance. A Carnegie Library guard even praised a Koontz speech before learning the cleric’s true identity and background in the Baltimore conference.
Wadesville notes record visits by Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Pidgeon at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Charles EK Clevenger and Dr. O Edward Janney called, while Warren Garrett and Edith Hardy paid a flying visit to Miss Bettie Carter. Crop damage and washed fencing along the Opequon from the recent freshet are noted.
Mr. Thomas B. Byrd is named manager of the Bell telephone exchange to succeed Garland Hansbrough who resigns July 1. Hansbrough will join his father’s firm Hansbrough Carter as partner, a move viewed as promising for his future.
Mr. E. Rose of Washington was among the arrivals at Hotel Evans last night signaling a notable visit to the city lodging establishment.
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