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THE WINCHESTER STARLOCAL FEATURE NEWSTHURSDAY, JUNE 5, 2008 B3Out of the pastfrom the archives of The Winchester Star100 years agoTo settle a dispute as to the championship of the fastest skaters, the following gentlemen, Mr. L,C. Lowery and Mr. J.E. Ritter, will skate Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights of next week at the Winchester Mutual Skating Rink. Ladies free. Gentlemen 10 cents.June 1, 1908important part in the decision of the State Board of Education in awarding Middletown the location of the agricultural school.June 1, 1908If expectations are realized, Middletown will shortly be-. come one of the most important educational centers in Virginia. There is already at Middletown a graded and high school under the efficient management of Prof. Austin Middleton, of Johns Hopkins University. The State Board of Education last week located at Middletown the State Agriculture and Normal Training School for the Seventh Congressional district under the Gravalt amendment carrying the appropriation of $2,500 annually.It is a well-known fact that Frederick County possesses a diversified soil of slate and limestone and this fact together with the fact that Frederick County is now recognized as the greatest fruit-producing county in Virginia, played anA largely attended meeting of the citizens of the progressive town of Stephens City was held last night in the Lutheran Church of that place, the object of which was to take steps toward the erection of a large, new school house, and the establishment of a public high school.Hon. J.D. Eggleston, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who, in a splendid, logical address, of one hour, held the undivided attention of the audience.He exhibited a number of pictures of school buildings which have been erected during the past year in different villages of this slate at a cost of from six thousand to fifteen thousand dollars, many of them in communities of comparatively few people who contributed liberally out of their slender means.June 3, 1908The 6th of June, the anniversary of the death of General Turner Ashby, is our memorialHEADQUARTERS COMPANYof the3rd Battalion, 116th Infantry Regimentknows thatHUNGER NEVER TAKES A VACATION SHARE AS YOU SHOPDRIVE-BY FOOD DRIVE (No need to leave your car) DOING['HE MOST t0GOODBENEFITTHE SALVATION ARMY SATURDAY, JUNE 7 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. PLEASANT VALLEY MARKET PLACE(Food Lion, Staples, Dollar Tree)2047 S. PLEASANT VALLEY ROADLouise Shelly of White Post provided this picture of her grandparents, Utah and Rhode Island Crosen, with their children in the late 1920s at their home in the Frederick County community of Reynolds Store. Strange as it seems, the parents and 10 children in this well-known Frederick County family were all named after states in the union. Front row, from left: Utah (sitting) with Kansas on his lap, Montana, and Rhode Island holding Tennessee; second row: Virginia, Minnesota, Florida, Vermont, Georgia, and Maryland. Another child, Oklahoma, died when he was 2 years old. Kansas is the only member of the family still living. He resides at Reynolds Store.day. It was observed in 1866 and without intermission has been observed every year since. The people come by thousands from this and that adjoining counties of Virginia and West Virginia, and it is a day as well known in our calendar as the 22nd of February or the 4th of July.June 6, 190875 years agoDr. James A. Miller resident physician at Memorial Hospital since September, 1931, and a native son of New Market, Shenandoah County, this morning opened his office at 110 North Braddock street here for the practice of general medicine and surgery.The office occupied by Dr. Miller is situated in the building where Dr. Allen T. Hawthorne, well-known eye, ear and throat specialist, has had his offices for some years. The office was formerly occupied by Dr. A.W. Armentrout.June 1,1933the produce business until this past spring, will take over the gasoline pumps at Bickers Motor Co., North Braddock Street, tomorrow morning which he will operate.Mr. Stotler has many friends in Winchester and Frederick County which he made during the time he was actively engaged in buying and selling produce. He abandoned the produce business this past spring because of his health but states that he is much improved and feels capable of giving his attention to business duties.June 2,19331The Stars and Bars—emblem of the Confederate States of America—and the men who wore the gray—their ranks thinned by the intervening years again had their day in this city today, when the city joined in observance of its sixty-seventh Confederate Memorial day with cheers for the living and tributes for the dead.With a parade for the living and a special memorial service for the dead, the generationswhT-l-i Irnpw nnt nf thp hard-fitting observance of the day, which falls on the anniversary of the death of General Turner Ashby, one of the South’s greatest cavalry leaders,Their ranks thinned by death as the years passed, but three of the men who wore gray were on hand this sixth of June.The veterans in the parade were:Jacob Shekel, of Winchester, member of Company A, Virginia; Daniel Miller, of Frederick County, member of Company K, Virginia; and George Dellinger of Winchester, member of Company I, Virginia.June 6, 193350 years agowas George Glass, 15, a ninth grade pupil at Handley and son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Glass Jr.Reading the familiar history of the Ladies Confederate Memorial Association, the speaker traced the development of the organization from April 18, 1861 through 1934 when Miss Lucy Russell, the last surviving charier member died.Formed originally by Mrs. Philip Williams, its only president, and Mrs. A.H.H. Boyd, the organization began by supplying clothing and food to Confederate troops in the early days of the war when there was no quartermaster corps.During the war its members served as volunteer nurses in many hospitals here and following the war the association devoted its efforts to locating or burying Confederate soldiers who lay interred where they fell on the many battlefields around Winchester.The Association founded Stonewall Cemetery and arranged for the burial of the Confederate dead in this plot, a section of Mount Hebron Cemetery.Through the years the association gradually merged with Turner Ashby Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, which now carries on the work.June 6, 195825 years agoThe four Winchester fire companies today presented Miss Lucy F. Kurtz with a gold pin and emblem, “in recognition other devotion to the cause of the Confederacy.Engraved with her name and the date and the forgoing quotation, the pin was given at the close of this mornings annual Sixth of lune exercises inOn Wednesday, Grafton School near Berryville will open an autism information center in Winchester, the only such center in the state.The Virginia Autism Resource Center will open at 2 p.m. when Del. Alson H. Smith Jr. of Winchester cuts the ribbon at the center at 134 W. Piccadilly Street.Grafton School is the largest state provider of residential services for autistic people. The school also provides residential care and education to the emotionally disturbed, learning disabled, and mentally retarded.June 7, 1983— Compiled by Priscilla Lehman
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