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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1900
Page
2
The Maryland proposal would boost funds for ministers and court clerks while ending runaway marriages. The Winchester and Hagerstown papers note Star alignment, joking about the elopement editor being ousted or resigning.
The Shepherdstown Register calls on Winchester to speed the Martinsburg to Shepherdstown telephone line. The letter questions whether the shout to Winchester means the city or the Winchester Telephone Co. If the city is meant, Shepherdstown’s prompting is noted with a humorous apple and potato quip. The writer advises perseverance and restraint once connected.
Rev S D Skelton, pastor of the United Brethren Church in Winchester, will deliver his final sermon before leaving for Harrisonburg Conference on Wednesday. He has served four years. Conference decides pastorate transfers. The congregation hopes he remains.
A historic editorial extols teaching dignity of labor in schools and urges girls and boys to learn hand crafts alongside book skills. It elevates workers as the backbone of the republic and cites St. Paul Martha Washington and patriotic poetry urging perseverance and unity for the nation.
The Sigma Rho Delta Society at Shenandoah Valley Academy held a reading session and declamations by Dean King Winchester and Doyle and Fitchett. A debate on the motion that two political parties are beneficial to a state saw the affirmative prevail after the absent speakers left the stage to Walter who argued the negative. Mr. B C Ellis read an entertaining paper.
Snowy streets brought out many sleighs as cattle buyer W. L. Kuhn and a stock dealer bumped a snow bank on north Main street. Both men fell but sustained no injuries. Earlier Deputy Collector Lewis arrested Short and Dover from Page county with about 60 gallons of illicit whisky at Mt Jackson.
For rates, tickets, e checked, apply to any office of the B. & 0. 1 F. D. UNDERWOOD, Gen'l. Manager. D. B. MARTIN. Manager Pass. Traffic.
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