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Winchester The Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

May 28, 1902

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Elegant Kremer Home Witnesses Quiet Civil Wedding for Kremer-Moling

Miss Ethel Kremer and Mr. James Nelson Moling were married at 8 30 PM in the Kremer residence on South Market Street with Rev. T. Marshall West officiating. About 150 guests attended as Blanche Diffenderfer played Lohengrin, and a simple reception followed in the dining hall.

Margaret Kremer South Market Street Ethel James Nelson Moling Kremer Cupid Miss Kremer Blanche Diffenderfer Bate Mrs. Moling

Skull Unearthed During Mortuary Chapel Excavation

Workmen uncover a well preserved skull with teeth at Mount Hebron during cellar dig for a new mortuary chapel. The find lies in an old Lutheran cemetery section dating to the early nineteenth century, near surrounding graves and memorial stones. The bones were reinterred and a local resident speculates the remains may be an uncle buried nearby.

Mount Hebron Old Lutheran Grave Yard Star Robert Goss South Kent Street

Organ Recital Friday Night At Braddock Street Church

The Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church hosts a Friday night organ recital featuring Miss Virginia Cover and Miss Estelle Shore. The event is billed as a leading local musical occasion, with proceeds supporting the church and admission set at 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for children.

Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church

Twinkle Song Fragments Spark Odd Literary Mix

A playful but garbled poem scene blends familiar nursery rhyme phrases with quirky, surreal lines. The speaker jokes about stars and objects like a cat, mixing familiar and invented words. The fragmentary text reads like a whimsical, incomplete verse.

Winchester Bank On Roll Of Honor

The Shenandoah Valley National Bank in Winchester earns a spot on The New York Financier list of 494 U S banks with surplus and undivided profits above capital. It ranks near the top in Virginia, third in the state behind two Richmond banks and Staunton.

United States New York Shenandoah Valley National Bank Richmond Staunton

Florida Monument Dedication Plans Shift Speakers

Miss Bessie Nurton of the Daughters of the Confederacy reports Florida Senator Talli aferro and Representative Davis cannot attend the June 6 unveiling due to prior engagements. With timing tight before Memorial Day, no Florida speaker will be sought unless the monument arrives in time, in which case a prominent visiting veteran will deliver the oration.

Bessie Nurton The Daughters of the Confederacy Talliaferro Davis Florida Florida Monument

Wild West Fever Grips Winchester Youth

Wild West shows sweep through Winchester drawing juvenile cowboys and painted Indians into lariat play and rope-wrapped belts. The coming circus will shift the program from Wild West acts to sawdust arena heroes as accidents and mimic robberies loom in reports.

Winchester

Golf Tea For Tomor row Postponed

The golf tea at the Fairfax College links west of town, hosted by the young ladies, is postponed to Thursday afternoon June 5 due to cooler weather. The weekly teas for golfers are described as pleasant affairs run by patrons.

Fairfax College

Youthful Couple Elopes From Lost City Parents

Miss Buela Peer aged 15 and Mr. Robert Harbaugh about 25 eloped from Lost City West Virginia after parental opposition. Police searched toward Hagerstown and Winchester by train and line of sight but the couple reportedly wed, aided by friends in a mountainous area.

Evening Star Srraspura Buela Peer Robert Harbaugh Lost City W. Va Harbaugh Mrs. Peer Hagerstown Elopers Winchester Cumberland Valley Tun Pater Locksmiths

Delicate operation planned by local doctors at Woodstock

Drs. W. S. Love and Wm. A. Bell from this city travel to Woodstock Virginia to perform a delicate cancer surgery on Mrs. Samuel Edmondson six miles from Woodstock. The operation, described as exceedingly difficult, is set for this afternoon after Dr. Love was summoned yesterday. Mrs. Edmondson is wife of Samuel Edmondson and related to Mr. S. Rosenmyer of the Star Shoe House.

Love Wm. A. Bell Woodstock Samuel Edmondson Edmondson

Children Parade Plans for Confederate Memorial Day

Mrs. William Deschon oversees the children division for the June 6 Confederate Memorial Day parade. Children gather at ten o clock in the old Court House yard with flowers to support headstone markers for unknown dead. Girls wear red and white, boys red cheese cloth sashes. Funds go to headstones for the four markers near the unknown monument, including graves from Kernstown Cedar Creek Winchester and Cold Spring. Some graves remain unmarked in Arkansas and Alabama plots.

William Deschon Old Court House Yard Stonewall Cemetery Old Kent St Kernstown Cedar Creek Winchester Cold Spring Arkansas Alabama

Funeral for Henry Ardern at Sacred Heart Church

The funeral for Henry Ardern, who died at his East Water Street residence, was held at nine o clock this morning from the Church of the Sacred Heart. High Mass was celebrated by Rev. Father W A McKeefry as the church and cemetery were filled with mourners and floral tributes. Interment followed in the Catholic Cemetery with pallbearers including J Conway M M Lynch P H Reardon Thomas Keating A H Boxwell and Henry Schneider.

Henry Ardern East Water Street Church of the Sacred Heart W. A. McKeefry Messrs Conway M. M. Lynch P. H. Reardon Thomas Keating A. H. Boxwell Henry Schneider

Captain Roach Dies At Advanced Age

Captain John Roach, a Civil War Union Army veteran and pensioner, died early this morning at the residence of Mr. Joseph McCarty near Greenspring Frederick County about ten miles from Winchester He was 67 and had suffered ill health for some time He is survived by a son in the West whose address is unknown The funeral is set for tomorrow at 2 PM at Mr McCarty’s residence.

John Roach Joseph McCarty Greenspring Frederick County Winchester Roach Capt. Roach McCarty

New Roof For Parsonage

Work will begin soon on a new tin roof for the parsonage of the Sist Episcopal Church.

Episcopal Church

Ladies plan Memorial Day programs and fund drive

Daughters of the Confederacy meet at General Turner Ashby Camp room to assign memorial day duties. Dr P W Boyd urged support for entertaining visiting camps on June 6, with Mrs W Deschon coordinating provisions and assistants. The Tennessee monument is ready for unveiling with Major Akers and Senator Cormack expected to speak. Florida monument shipment delays threaten a double unveiling on the same day.

Daughters of the Confederacy Turner Ashby P. W. Boyd Turner Asby Camp Wm. Deschon Vermillion Stonewall Tennsseee Akers U. S Cormack Florida Tennessee Orndorff

Operation Was Impossible for Miss Davison at Hopkins

Miss Stella Davison of Hagerstown, native of this city, was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital for an operation. After examination the physicians determined the condition was hopeless and that surgery would hasten her death. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Egbert Davison and spent most of her life here.

Stella Davison Hagerstown Johns Hopkins Hospital Miss Davison Egbert Davidson

Rouss Hook and Ladder Plans Confederate Memorial Day Parade

At a special meeting the Rouss Hook and Ladder Company accepted the invitation to attend the exercises and parade in full uniform on Confederate Memorial Day June 6. The Black community will hold a dance at Fellows Hall later that evening.

Rouss Hook and Ladder

SUSTAINED HONOR AT FORTUNE S COST

Clarke County man W G Conrad mirrors Charles B Rouss in business integrity. He repaid $700000 bank debt after returning from Virginia and led a restructured Northwestern National Bank of Great Falls Montana into a new era. Conrad Bros bank, now led by W G Conrad, opens a grand new Fort Worth like home base.

Clarke County Rouss Charles B. Rouss W. G. Conrad Montana Hall White Post Conrad Montana Conrad Bros Northwestern National Bank of Great Falls B. D. Hatcher C. E. Conrad J. T. Stanford P. Kelly W. G. Gonrad

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Ethel. Kremer Skelton Winchester Bank Mr. Ardern Captain Roach Daughters of the Confederacy Rouss Hook and Ladder Meeting Posto Mr. Smith
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