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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1902
Page
4
Tar daubing appeared on a rear stone buttress of Shenandoah Valley Bank’s new West Piccadilly Street building. Workers used tar for a cellar floor and someone traced figures resembling Egyptian hieroglyphs. Police will act if culprits are found. contractor C. E. Hoover faces disruption and potential legal penalties.
Two weeks after a court ruling on Sunday liquor, Richmond saloons reopened while police reported no incidents. Public sentiment favors liquor sales, suggesting limited enforcement of the Sunday law.
Millwood Virginia May 27 The Old School Baptists held a union meeting at Old Salem with many locals attending. Miss Myrtle Brown of Island Farm is visiting friends in Woodbury. Mr and Mrs Grubbs of Charles Town visited relatives here Sunday. A refreshing shower cooled the Sunday evening. Mr Hume Brown was in town Sunday evening. Miss Fredonia Ritter is staying with L Bhiley this week.
Yesterday afternoon J 8 Spicer collided with a turning bicyclist at Main and Water streets. Spicer sprained a wrist and had a cut hand while the other rider was uninjured. Vance Yeakley began duties as a fireman on the Cumberland Valley Railroad, first two weeks on a Martinsburg to Hagerstown work train, then Winchester to Hagerstown. J M Thompson, editor of the Norfolk Dispatch and former Summit Point resident, praised Winchester’s prosperity.
Excursions will be run over the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad next Sunday to Washington and Baltimore. The fare to Washington is $1 and to Baltimore $1.25. The train leaves Winchester at 6 30 a m and returns leaving Baltimore at 6 p m and Washington at 7 p m.
A sausage social is planned at the Daughters of the Confederacy on Tuesday evening May 27 at 8 o clock. All members are urged to attend.
The Martinsburg World issued an extra edition at 5 30 this morning announcing the city election results. Mrs George Lee of Stonebridge Clarke county Virginia was in Winchester today.
Four towns along the Cumberland Valley rail line now have Republican mayors after Martinsburg West Virginia elected George F Evans as mayor. The line includes Chambersburg Hagerstown Martinsburg and Winchester. The Republican ticket won everywhere except F J Emmert for city council while W H Crawford of Winchester Woolen Company lost the mayoral race.
Paul Kern son of Rev. Dr. J. A. Kern of Vanderbilt University and nephew of Postmaster Bentley Kern won the southern intercollegiate oratorical contest held in Nashville Tennessee last night. Contestants came from each southern college and the prize goes to a young man nearly a Winchesterian by heritage.
Autum n cold spell grips residents as daytime highs linger around 50 degrees and overnight dips approach restless thirties. People wearing summer clothes feel the chill while a few brave souls in straw hats and overcoats endure the breeze. The forecast promises fair but cooler conditions tomorrow.
Mr J W Parker of Opequon Va visits town on business and H R Bryarly announces fire insurance. W H Dinges of Middletown in town. Adam Rose White 42 arrested in Norfolk for attempting to rape 12 year old Bessie Consolvo of Lambert Point. Norfolk to host Spottswood a $250000 six story novel, promoted by Norfolk and Baltimore capitalists. The U S yacht Kanawha with Gen Leonard Wood aboard arrives from Havana and departs for Washington. Dr Julian Ward leaves for his farm on the Eastern Shore. Mrs Ward accompanies him to Baltimore. George Secrist of M P Moller Co Hagerstown tunes pianos. orders with L E Rice receive prompt attention. An independent steel plant to be built at Parkersburg with $250000 capital, employing 400. A Norfolk Railway and Light Co car kills John T Richards 24 formerly of Miami. W M Biden and A F Hockinbeamer in town. Parkersburg Grand Jury probes funding in the Scott Caldwell senatorial race. Notice Shawnee Tribe Red Men to meet at wigwam.
A New York Press item recounts rose symbolism in Muslim and Christian history. It notes Saladin cleansing Jerusalem with rosewater and a similar story from St. Sophia in Constantinople. The piece uses a light anecdote about naming a baby after a notorious ancestor to close.
Dialogue excerpt shows Dick praising Charlie for his writer’s craft while remarking on a fine car as a metaphor. Charlie responds with a blush and a witty line about carrying a pen. The exchange captures playful, self aware humor in Stray Stories.
A collection of short, fragmentary sayings and dialogues including comments on yacht racing in the Hawaiian Islands, a Caribbean dialect exchange about sugar theft, and a Victorian era aphorism about favors.
The committee of arrangements led by Chairman E Holmes Boyd plans an afternoon meeting at 4 o'clock to finalize the program and details for the event. Major Murray defended the South in secession debates, citing historic figures Timothy Pickering and Joshua Quincy from 1811 and proposing a future paper.
Wholesal prices paid for produce and grain were corrected daily for Tuesday May 27. Market figures reflect current wholesale rates and are published as available from city market observers.
Richmond Baptist ministers meet and endorse Rev Dr H Crawford for attacking County Judge Campbell in the Christian Federation. They declare Campbell’s conduct an attack on press freedom and pass resolutions unanimously supporting Crawford.
The note recalls Mr. William Jenkins and his wife from Baltimore spending Sunday with Mr. M. T. Reed, reflecting on the dulling excess of writing and stifling routines.
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