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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1908
Page
4
The Evening Star is officially registered as second class matter at the Winchester Virginia post office, indicating its mailing status for periodical distribution.
The News Item merged with the Evening Star on May 6 1907 in Winess Office Bell yielding a combined daily circulation over 3 600. The Star remains the sole daily paper in the area.
The Mikado sends a sincere message through Admiral Sperry to President Roosevelt praising the US Japan ties as valuable and aiming to weld them into indissoluble neighborliness. Yet Hobson, the war hawk defender of the white race, is mocked as tiring of warnings and urged to be kept quiet and sent away.
A whimsical quotation mocks a figure who claims to state the facts as a great authority. The text compares alleged plain facts leaving the White House and returning altered, like a stranger to its origins.
Inwood West Virginia hosts a political talk Saturday evening October 24 at 7 00 o'clock with Hon J J Hetzel of Martinsburg and Rev Bly of Bunker Hill as speakers. Local residents Mr E B Kettering returns to Blairsville Pa. Mrs Blanche Clendening visits Bunker Hill.
Over fifty conversions reported as Dayton M E Church revival continues near Dawson. Rev John J A Shockey of Shockeysville Virginia leads the meeting and serves as pastor of the Rawlings circuit with strong Methodist influence.
George H. Jamrich and Miss Nannie W. Webber, both of Brunswick Maryland, wed in a Chester Traction Company car in Chester Pennsylvania. Lacking a license they were guided by officials to Media to obtain one, then reboarded the car and were pronounced husband and wife as it sped toward the express train. The couple plan to reside in Berkeley Springs West Virginia.
Representatives of a pipe line company securing rights of way through county sections and Hampshire county say work will begin once rights are secured. The line, a Standard Oil subsidiary, will pipe natural gas to Washington and Baltimore, passing south of Romney and through the county.
Berryville reports Lieut Marshall McCormick of the United States Marine Corps expected to sail from Porto Rico to New York with his son Province McCormick. The elder officer had been with his son during a serious illness described as pernicious fever and improving readings led to early plans for his return home to recuperate.
Burnt Factory Oct 22. After two weeks of meetings about twenty conversions and seventeen accessions to the church were recorded. Visitors Mrs. Bley of Barnesville Ohio and Mrs. Talbot of Akron Ohio have returned home.
Mr. Cadwallader's funeral will be held at Stephens City on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
An old advertisement offers a reward of one hundred dollars for any case of catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. It includes endorsements from druggists Waldring Kinnan and Marven, and notes the product is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous membranes.
Hon. Richard E. B. Byrd of Winchester will address the Bryan Kern Hay Democratic Club in Boyce Clarke County on Monday night November 2 in the room over the new school building. The public is invited to attend.
A 1908 DC public sale describes items from a retiring business including an elephant a big stick and millions of Teddy Bears. The sale at the capitol is to occur November 4 1908 with possession given March 4 1909 and is endorsed by Cols Rockefeller Morgan Harriman and T Roosevelt acting as auctioneer.
A Winchester letter from F W Devoe & Co argues Devoe paint covers more area per gallon than rivals. The writer claims rival paints are diluted and short of measure, while Devoe is true paint with full body and measurement.
Thomas B Wageley former Summit Point West Virginia resident died of typhoid fever at his Baltimore home in October. Interment was at Loudon Park Cemetery in Baltimore on October 18.
Edward G. Butler of the Blue Ridge Hunt Club lists upcoming meets at Millwood. The dates are October 20 at 3 p.m. and October 24 at 2 p.m., both at Millwood.
An advertisement claims Miona tablets cure stomach troubles by energizing the stomach walls, aiding digestion and relieving vomiting, car sickness, and pregnancy nausea. Sold by Franck Baker & Son for 50 cents a box under a guarantee. Also includes a court notice concerning Herbert S. Larrick and J. Wm. Miller with multiple defendants and publication orders.
Mr and Mrs John Burner of Summit Point spent Sunday with Mrs Burners parents.
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