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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1901
Page
2
By March the paper lists subscription options: one year two dollars six months one dollar three months fifty cents and one month twenty cents all prepaid by publishers. Advertising rates available at Tue Star Office Meave at 17 and 19 east Water street. The Tue Star is served by carriers in all parts of the ice city.
During the New York engagement of a trip to Coontown a performer on stage alone interacts with his imagined double. A real tramp believes he is recovering from drink after the show, becoming an unwitting temperance benefactor. The company performs at Court House Hall Winchester tomorrow night with seats 25 50 and 75 cents.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad offers one fare round trip excursion tickets for March 1 to 3 for McKinley Roosevelt inaugural ceremonies in Washington DC. Return valid through March 8 1901. Also sold March 4 from points within 150 miles west of Washington. For tickets contact T B Patton agent.
The Charlotte Mercantile Review lauds Winchester native Mr. William A. Brooks for business success in Charlotte. Brooks' mother Mrs. Sarah Brooks lives at 426 North Main Street, Winchester. The piece recalls his Virginian origins in the Shenandoah Valley and mentions Stonewall Jackson’s formative influence on Valley troops.
Mr J E Walker of Lou doun Mutual Insurance Company settled a Monday barn fire claim for Jacob Metz. The barn and contents were insured for 1500, while total losses reached 6000 dollars.
William H. Baker of this city announces the death of Lee Willson Sellman at age 30 in Baltimore Maryland from consumption. Sellman led Baker’s chocolate business in Baltimore and Philadelphia and was well known in Winchester. Funeral Saturday at Druid Ridge Cemetery, Baltimore, with pallbearers including Mr. Baker. Sellman was the son of the late Alonzo Sellman of Montgomery County Maryland. his father was a Clarksburg merchant and Civil War veteran.
Wholesale prices for eggs butter apples potatoes chickens turkeys wheat and corn listed with ranges. Travel rates show Settlers Rates West and North West via Norfolk & Western Railway with ticket sales dates through April 1901 to Colorado Idaho Montana North Dakota Oregon Utah Washington and Wyoming. For information write to M F Brane and W B Bevitt Roanoke Virginia.
Woodstock correspondent reports Gen J H Williams was in Winchester on professional business and attended the Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Society board meeting. Williams, a vice president, says prospects are good for the next exhibition, its 32nd, urging county farmers to support the fair as the region’s only one.
A St. Luke Virginia correspondent writes in a lively tabloid style blending humor with news. Ouis Stine coaxed his father to load a gun to shoot a crow, fired it, and leapt astride the gun, causing his mother to mend a tear in his pants.
A pleasant paragraph in the record of our recent trip to Winchester tells of a call upon Miss M. L. Silver who is taking a post graduate course at Fairfax Hall and of the kind hospitality of the principals of that institution famed for training young ladies for noble and useful lives.
The Epworth League holds its regular business meeting at 7 30 this evening at Braddock Street M E Church South. A trustee sale at J C Davis offers men ladies and children shoes at cost.
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