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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1906
Page
4
Local notes list social visits and movements including Miss May Powell of Leesburg staying with Aunt Mrs B M Carter near Stephens City, Mrs Ralph Savage leaving for Baltimore, and Mrs F Bernet visiting Baltimore links. Also mentions Rev Julian Broaddus preaching at Salem Church and Round Hill Literary Society.
Howard R. Jones aged 23 and Miss Inula E. Newlin, 23, both of the county, will marry at seven o'clock this evening at the parsonage of the M E Church in Stephens City with Rev. William Stevens officiating. The ceremony will be private with only relatives and intimate friends present. The bride is the daughter of Lewis B. Newlin. the groom is in business and they will reside in the county.
At a special Clarke County supervisors meeting in Berryville on May 23, the board adopted the report of Mr. Jack Garver to designate wireless positions for Frederick and Clarke and United Telephone Companies. The Byrd automobile law was also adopted at the session.
Capt. George W. Kurtz returned from Richmond where he attended the annual meeting of the General Directors' Association of Virginia which adjourned to meet next year at Norfolk. Harry Oliver was elected president of the association. In Richmond Kurtz observed the State Board of Educators of which he is president and the board conducted a meeting with a creditable examination.
Mr James B Anderson suffered a severe accident while peeling bark at Kerns May 23. He reopened an old side injury while rolling a log, flesh torn from a rib, appeared near death, but is improving with Opioids and binding. Dr Offutt Capon Bridge and Gov Gore Gore attended.
The sixty eighth annual session of the Virginia Classis of the Reformed Church will convene this evening in Trinity Church Mount Crawford with Rev B K Hay as pastor. Rev A Theo Wright will preach the opening sermon and officers will be elected for the year. About forty ministers and lay members attend plus a delegate from Winchester and Martinsburg. The meeting runs through Sunday.
Secretary Eggleston notes counties Warwick King and Queen Rochbridge Gloucester Goochland Spotsylvania Botetourt and Frederick have adopted the automobile act but adoption before June 13 is invalid as the law becomes effective only on that date.
The Battletown Inn logged guest registrations for May 22 listing W. D. Mott St. Louis Missouri Chas R Jones Berryville Soc W G Schooley Hagerstown Maryland E B Reed Charlestown WV VG5 J Lyne Shenandoah Junction Wm E Reid Gaylord Mrs Jos E Anderson Berryville J W O Webster Cumberland Wa-7-A-S Brys arly Boyce W P Hall Virginia J W Rhine Cumberland Maryland J L Hintz Cumberland FE A Show acre Cumberland.
Pay your water taxes before June 1st and save 5 percent. Notice from G. H. Kinzel, Treasurer. (ad) 4td.
Mountain Falls jurist Justice John Keffer, once a prominent register, is again elevated to the county bench by Judge Thomas W. Harrison in a recent appointment.
Market brief notes wheat prices hold steady as harvest progress continues and buyers watch USDA reports for guidance. Trade desks cite firm demand from flour mills and exporters with limited supply in key regions.
The funeral for four and a half year old Matthew Ta por died at his parents home on South Kent Street was held at 1 30 pm yesterday from the late home. Rev G H Carter of the Colored Baptist Church officiated. Interment followed at the colored cemetery with four uncles as pallbearers. The child was a bright, well loved pupil and son of Charles and Lillian Ta por.
Riverton notes invite J W Morgan to address the Farmers State Institute meeting at Roanoke July 10 to 12 on Poultry Farming in Virginia. Miss Ryda Spaulding visits Hagerstown cousin Miss Bessie Kerns. Casual local items include injuries and travel updates.
A dispute erupts in Tray town over a proposed ordinance to ban Sunday excursions to the Luray Caverns. Ministers oppose the plan while Norfolk and Western Railway officials weigh in. The town council is split and the mayor faces a deciding vote with counsel retained for the parties.
May 23 item notes visits by Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Adams and daughter Ethel with Mrs. C. E. Hoover of Winchester to Tone. J. W. Herrell and Miss Nellie Kerns in Winchester. Miss Nannie Pearson of Florida to stay with her parents W. A. Pearson. Rev. Pearson preached at Union School House. Potts couple spent Sunday in Winchester. Maggie Johnson mentioned.
Special Sunday excursion on the Baltimore and Ohio offers 1.00 to Washington and back and 1.25 to Baltimore and back. Train departs Winchester at 6 30 am and returns from Baltimore at 6 pm Washington at 7 pm.
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