Model reform school impresses Winchester visitor
City Sergeant J W Taylor reports from Laurel Industrial School in Virginia where 148 boys, including five from Winchester, live under humane reform. The institution emphasizes schooling, work, and virtue with minimal fences, strong discipline, and a system where captured escape attempts reduce sentences for the captor.
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J. W. Taylor
Laurel Industrial School
School Post Office
Youths Reformatory of
Virginia
Taylor
State Penitentiary
Reformatory
Winchester
J. W. Cringham
Popular Musician Miss Shore Returns to Winchester Faculty
Estelle Mae Shore former music instructor at Valley Female College will return to Winchester and join Fairfax College as a faculty member. She is studying at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and has earned a strong local reputation as a musician from her previous residence in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estelle Mae’ Shore
the Valley Female College
Winchester
Miss Shore
Cincinnatti Conservatory of Music
Fairfax College
Shenandoah Normal College Holds Eighteenth Commencement
The Shenandoah Normal College in Rewianoz Virginia held its eighteenth annual commencement with 88 students enrolled. Alumni events featured a banquet for 71 guests and an address by W H Copeland of Monroe County West Virginia. A board elected M L Fearnow president and a unanimous resolution reaffirmed support for the college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rewianoz
Shenandoah Normal College
W. H. Copeland
Monroe County
W. Va
Alumni Association
M. L. Fearnow
W. G. Emmett
Edith P. Fearnow
H. 8. Grover
D. H. Scanlon
Charming Young Musician Guest In Chambersburg
Olive White, an 18 guest of Misses Katharine and Olivia Hyssong, stays on east Piccadilly Street in Chambersburg. Although only fourteen, Miss White is an accomplished pianist and vocalist who has already made many friends during her visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olive White
Chambersburg
Katharine
Olivia Hyssong
East Piccadilly Street
Miss White
A Legend of Long Ago in Winchester Virginia
A storyteller recalls Winchester in the Civil War era with its blue ridge setting and Shawnee water legends. Prisoner Ludwig Becker befriends Morgan at a German Lutheran church ruin, where a chance parole leads to a fateful meeting with Kitty O'Brien, foreshadowing the tale ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Shenandoah Valley
Blue Ridge
North Mountain
the Alleghanies
Virginia
Thomas Fairfax
Neck
Washington
Brandywine
Morgan
Saxony
Ludwig Becker
Gen. Morgan
Frederick the Great
Ludwig
Sweet Kitty O’brien
Gentleman buys Hackwood for colonial summer home
A Nashville resident has purchased the historic Hackwood near town and plans to restore it as a typical colonial mansion for a summer home. The buyer is the brother in law of Gen Thurmond of Clarke county, per good authority cited in The Star ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Hackwood
Town
Gen. Thurmond
Clarke County
Card of Thanks for William O Leary Death
We thank the many friends who were kind to our family during the bereavement caused by the death of my husband and our father William O Leary especially those in Staunton. Mrs Wm O Leary and family. Rev and Mrs 8 K Wine of Stephens City were guests yesterday of Mr and Mrs C Boyd near town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William O’leary
Staunton
Wm. O’leary
8. K. Wine
Stephens City
This County
C. Boyd
Town
Silo debate fuels farmer concerns over silage value
E C Jordan argues silos wasteful and harmful to dairy quality. He cites Professor Henry and Michigan factories, noting silage milk often spoiled odor and lower nutrients. He recalls abandoned local silos and urges practical, chemistry based evaluation before widespread adoption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry
Farmer’s Institute
Michigan
Frederick
Clarke
Loudoun
Fauquier
Highly Esteemed Lady Margaret Anderson Dies at 68
Mrs Margaret Anderson widow of contractor George M Anderson died at her home on South Main Street at noon after twenty one weeks confined to bed. Born Mary Boustack in Carlisle Pennsylvania she moved to the city with her late husband a prominent plasterer and was a devoted Grace Lutheran Church member. She leaves four children Mrs Hunter B Grimm Mrs McKim Diffenderfer Mrs C B Grimm and Mr John Anderson and was admired for steadfast piety and quiet charity.
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Margaret Anderson
South Main Street
Grace Lutheran Church
W. L. Seabrook
John Anderson
Hunter B. Grimm
McKim Diffenderfer
C. B. Grimm
Mrs. Anderson
Carlisle
Mary Boustack
Gaenslen
George M. Anderson
Anderson
Brother Follows Brother in Tragic Fristoe Deaths
Charles Fristoe of near Bentonsville dies from heart trouble while returning from the depot where he had gone to meet the preacher for his brother James Fristoe who died suddenly Tuesday. The two deaths are connected by the family tragedy and timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Fristoe
Bentonsville
James Fristoe
Wm. Everhart Funeral Attended by Kremer Family
Mrs. Margaret Kremer and her son Merton, with Mrs Kremer's husband, were in Berryville this morning for the funeral of Wm Everhart, who was her brother in law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Kremer
Merton Kremer
Berryville
Wm. Everhart
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Model Institution For
Laurel State Reformatory
N.C
Reliance Institution
Taz Star
Mr. Jordan
Prof
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