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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1929
Page
1
An OGAL campaign has been launched to raise funds for the Apple Blossom Festival expenses. Organizers urge generous support to cover costs and ensure the event proceeds as planned.
The festival finance committee led by H Delmar Robinson and D E Stultz with treasurer Clifford D Grim has finished soliciting funds from out of town firms and friends and now starts a Winchester drive. They urge local volunteers to solicit door to door and invite calls to 425 for pickups and emphasize larger civic contributions from profits during festival days.
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Gruber jitney driver found with 16 bottles and two half gallon jugs of liquor on East Piccadilly. City Sergeant Barr and Policemen Boyd and Strasnider noted his arrest and he was convicted in police court. He was fined 118 dollars and jailed three months for unlawful possession and fined 68 dollars and jailed one month for transporting liquor. Automobile confiscated for sale by the state.
A snappy match at Kerns' alleys pits Keyser WVa against Winchester. Winchester wins by 5,827 pins to 3,158 in five games, a 1 percent spread, amid a large crowd and high interest from start to finish.
George Korax once of the Pennsylvania Hotel in Harrisbore accepted a cook's post at the Hotel Jack Coffee Shoppe recently opened under new management.
Shepherdstown April 2. Mrs. R C Ringgold reports state entomologist workers arrested for trespass while cutting cedars on Lucian Reinhart property near Parkersburg. She plans to press malicious destruction charges. dispute centers on 1925 law requiring cedar destruction within three miles of orchards upon ten freeholders petition.
Sibert Fruit Corp advertises immediate delivery of fruit trees with a contact phone number 485.
Martinsburg WV April 2 1929 officials outlined West Virginia's plan for 22 floats in the Winchester Apple Blossom Festival parade. The displays will depict Panhandle history from Native Americans to World War I with themes like husking bees apple butter peels and old fiddlers. Officials meet in Martinsburg Berkeley Springs Shepherdstown Harpers Ferry and Charles Town to finalize plans and dates may shift to late April.
Fire at the Hampton Roads naval training station in Norfolk destroyed three old frame wartime buildings and badly damaged two more before it was controlled. Damage was estimated at 100000 dollars. A recently found prehistoric skeleton with legs wrapped around its neck was also noted.
Elks lodge calls special meeting this Wednesday evening in April 1929. All Past Exalted Rulers and members urged to attend. Secretary EDWT listed.
The Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church opens tonight at Hamline Church in Washington with discussions on admitting laymen to the annual conferences. Bishop Herbert Welch presides. The conference funds its educational and philanthropic programs and is expected to run through Monday with pastoral appointments announced by Welch. The Epworth League council also meets, with Rev. Dr. Oscar T. Sloan delivering the sermon.
A Philadelphia girl, Alice Labutis aged 12, found in custody of Curtis S. Devonshire in Charlotte North Carolina. Devonshire accused of kidnapping and arrested as the case unfolds.
A dealer advertises a 1 ton 12s Chevrolet closed cab and a late model long wheel base White truck. It promotes low prices and urges viewing at 110 Ambheret St by John Nixon.
Virginia State Senator B. F. Buchanan of Marion voices strong support for Williamsburg candidate John Garland Pollard. He praises Pollard’s legal knowledge, Pollard's Code authorship, and tax reform work, and notes Pollard’s fit for governor amid the progressive mood in Virginia.
William Bell a Black man went on a shooting rampage in Newark and Irvington, killing Julius Rabinowitz 36 and Charles Ramsperger 61 and wounding two others including Patrolman Thomas Hackett. Bell then shot himself in the head, a wound which may prove fatal. Neighbors say he was plagued by persecution hallucinations.
Chattanooga Tennessee will send a decorated float and 40 to 50 Chamber of Commerce members to the Apple Blossom Festival parade. John Marken of Stead House handles publicity arrangements for the American Hotels Corporation. Chattanooga will be the first distant U S city in the parade, signaling the festival’s growing publicity.
Heavy draft mares in foal attend Campbell sale at Opequon post office on April 91h. The item notes horses offered by Campbell and location details tied to the Opequon area. The OCR fragment presents a livestock sale update with minimal context.
Local notice promotes Winchester Steam Laundry offering full wash service with pickup and finish times shown. The fragment suggests a dated style ad mentioning callers and a date 3-22-11.
Buyers at packing house sell tobacco products amid emissions concerns and nicotine content issues. Officials review processes, while vendors report steady demand and market prices.
Fifteen delegates to be chosen as representatives at the Baltimore Annual Conference will join about 125 delegates from Winchester district churches for a three day meeting in Cumberland. Rev Dr Canter presides as Bishop Colins Denny cannot attend. 25 churches span Virginia and West Virginia from Harpers Ferry to Front Royal. The conference opens with a service this evening and continues tomorrow and Thursday with sessions on Christian Education hospital ministry and missionary maintenance.
Festival managers announce that 24 sheet posters have been placed on five leading routes into Winchester. Julian W. Baker of the Winchester Poster Company funded the project at nominal cost, with designs by the General Outdoor Advertising Company of New York. The posters welcome visitors and advertise the festival on the Berryville pike, Lee Jackson highway, Valley pike, Martinsburg pike, and Northwestern grade.
Mr. Burdy of the Schunk Artificial Flower Company Chicago arrived with decorations for festival floats and automobiles. He has set up at Hotel Jack and invites locals to view designs and get help with parade entries and float problems.
Notice that the Virginia Loan and Thrift Corp annual stockholders meeting will be held at the office on Wednesday April 3 at ten in the morning. The meeting will elect directors and address other meeting matters. A. S. Hott, Secretary Manager.
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