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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1914
Page
3
A fragmentary scene shows a mother scolding Tommy over debt and a botany teacher quizzing Miss Smith about bacteria longevity. The dialogue hints at a comedic or instructional tone in a girls' school setting.
An ordinance sets the 1914 water taxes for Winchester residents including outside-city users. It specifies flat charges for hydrants baths and plumbing plus a meter option for county consumers at ten cents per thousand gallons, with conditions about meters and ownership, plus section 29 about cellar drainers and multi family premises. The text notes names and arrivals at Hotel Yams and local officials returning from Richmond meetings.
Snow is plentiful in Clarke and Erick counties. Local resident Mr Liends and others say they found a large quantity of snow in Clarke. Spates at Briggs station supplied by the Norfolk and Western Railway area reports snow remains well despite heat. Citizens buying pop and ginger ale from Spates store note quick access to the snow.
Ernest Clem, a well known horseman, was fined 260 dollars for violating a city ordinance mandating muzzle use for bulldogs. The badge of concern focuses on a recent string of dog attacks near Plucks alley in the northeastern city section, including an incident that knocked down a young man named Hoover.
Local notes list residents and visitors arriving by train or spending time in town. Names include Mrs. Conrad, Mrs. Wy lie, Mrs. Smith and her son Kain Harold Smith, Captain Diffenderfer, Miss Katharine Keating, Clark Maxwell, Robert G. Smith and Virginia Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Sunderland and their daughter, Prof. Arnold, County Treasurer R. McCann, Dr. Hugh Clark, Mrs. Marian Barker, Boyd Richards, Joseph Long, Joseph B. Newlin, William Harlee, Miss Pisie Maphis, Allen Maphis, John M. Steele, Harry Keckley, Charles B. Dooley, John Petrie, Leslie D. Kline, O. F. Firestone, and W. W. Briggs. Each is noted for travel, visits or business in Harrisonburg, Baltimore, Washington, Warren ton, Altoona, and nearby towns.
Contractors have been invited to bid by June 30 for improvements to the superintendent’s lodge at Winchester National Cemetery now under Captain F M Davis. Approval came from the war department and plans await award next week. A second story will be added and a rear one story kitchen built with stucco finish replacing native lime stone. Additional lodge and grounds work planned, earlier proposals for a new lodge on Piccadilly Street were dropped to avoid moving monuments and altering the cemetery’s design.
A witty exchange features the question Was or satisfied with the part assigned in my new play and the manager retorts Was ever satisfied with part of anything Judge.
Mr ZO Larrick of Middletown was a business visitor in town to see Mr W C Soles of Baltimore. He spent the weekend in the city with friends. Mr J N Bradley of Baltimore is registered at the Hotel Jack for the weekend.
During yesterday’s storm Mrs Jenkins of Fairview near the National Cemetery was shocked by a sharp lightning flash as she closed her door but suffered no injuries. In a nearby incident Mrs George Kelican on Front Royal Road saw plaster fall from walls in three rooms and no one was hurt. A tenant house on the harsh owned by Mr Stewart Bell also felt a bolt, tearing down a chimney.
The Star reports Baltimore wholesale prices for June 27 including wheat No 2 red and June at 85 cents a bushel, corn prime yellow spot 3.75, hay No 1 timothy 19.50 to 18.50, butter fancy creamery 19 1 23, Virginia dairy prints 18, eggs Virginia firsts 20, live poultry old hens 17 1 2, spring chickens 12 per pound, old ducks 12 5, pigeons old per pair 25, young per pair 20.
Partial OCR lists prices for wheat products and live poultry among wholesalers Advertisements mention bran middlings butter spring chicken and old hens amid unrelated literary quotes and fragmented text, with unclear attributions and irregular formatting. The readable portions suggest a commercial price listing section integrated with a column of ad copy and literary fragments.
The piece argues perception shapes trust and morality. Some deem others twisted, while different minds assess straight and crooked in people and events. It reflects on bias and the idea that observers project what they seek to find.
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