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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1908
Page
4
An appeal calls for active stockholder cooperation to make the Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Fair the best in the valley. It urges every resident and stockholder to join in improving the fair, criticizing directors for lacking support and insisting on constructive boost rather than knocking.
The Star endorses Sunday train service for Winchester, noting prior support and a mass meeting at City Hall. Ministers oppose citing Sabbath desecration, but the paper argues the nation’s towns run Sunday trains and urges business leaders to back the plan for civic health and prosperity.
The Times-Dispatch urges a comprehensive plan to build a Richmond to Staunton macadam road. It notes Virginia’s dry Novembers and Scotland's year round highways as models, cites benefits to farm land values and local happiness, and calls for state cooperation among Richmond Staunton Charlottesville. It also reports Rev. D H Scanlon leaving Berryville for Montreal after ten years as pastor.
Citizens question the city’s rail service, asking whether no train service on Sunday is acceptable and urging support for restoring Sunday trains. The discussion stresses the public need for weekend transport.
An old advertisement claims Foley's Kidney Remedy cures kidney and bladder disorders in middle aged individuals. It urges readers over fifty to start using the product to stop drains on vitality and regain strength, attributed to Franck Barker & Son.
A Winchester Virginia election notice states qualified voters will decide on issuing up to fifty thousand dollars in sanitary sewerage bonds at ward polling places on January 7, 1909. Ballots will read For or Against Sanitary Sewerage Bonds with a required three fourths line. The notice appears in The Evening Star for ten days and is posted at each voting place ten days prior.
The Derryville Cornet Band bazar in Winston Hall drew a sizable audience and proved financially successful despite bad Saturday weather. Activities continued through Monday and Tuesday. Visitors include Mrs. George Rice from Scranton spending winter near town, and Mr. John Richardson of Chicago noted for National Biscuit Company.
Paris reports the Castellane children neglected amid quarrels between Prince Helle de Sagan and Anna Gould de Castellane. Their father Counts seeks custody hearing set for next Wednesday as potential divorce suit unfolds. In Washington, former Senator Millard of Nebraska may replace Cortelyou as secretary of the treasury in Taft’s cabinet.
In Boyce Virginia on November 18 Professor Cooley's wife and young daughter arrived and will stay at the home of Mr and Mrs George Garvin while Mr Cooley boards there. Various local residents are noted visiting or traveling to Philadelphia Pittsburg Woodstock and Stephens City.
Mrs. Alice S. Buchanan died at her Berkeley Springs home on her 66th birthday. Surviving are her son J. C. Laley of Berkeley Springs and two daughters Mrs. F. J. Leonard of Washington and Edith M. Buchanan of Berkeley Springs.
Thomas P. Conner, who has been ill for some time, left this morning from his home on a business trip via the B. and C. railroad line.
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