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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1934
Page
2
One year ago Miss Princoise May was crowned Queen Shenandoah X during the Apple Blossom Festival. The parade featured Winchester Cold Storage afloat as part of festival events.
Mrs. Lillie White Leafe 74 wife of former Lewis Jones Knitting Co. manager died in Portsmouth and is brought home for burial. The item notes deaths of Mrs. Emma C Leidig 68 in the county and an engagement of Polly Yates Brinton to Burr Powell Harrison.
A reported forced landing occurred in a Stines wheat field near Cumberland Maryland, drawing local authorities to the scene for investigation and assessment of damages and safety.
Twenty five years ago John Paul Lamm weds Esther Wisecarver in Cumberland Maryland. Richard Kuykendall weds Virginia Pancocke and J Townsend Burwell weds Rosalie Wheat of Clarke county. The Man of the Hour and The Lion and the Lamb are plays set for Aneta soon. Hartman contractor wins heating plumbing and electric wiring contracts for the Weather Bureau main observation building at Mount Weather under U S Department of Agriculture.
City officials report a surge of Easter travel into the Shenandoah Valley with Washington residents among the visitors. Estimates suggest at least 25 000 automobiles and 100 000 people entered the area in six hours on Sunday afternoon, while outbound bus ticket sales doubled the usual weekend volume.
Reports from local hostels indicate tourist arrivals have increased at least threefold, with a mild rush in early April. The data show a surge in visitors and a stronger start to the spring season for the area’s hospitality sector.
The passage notes bankruptcy laws were harsher in the past with Scottish debtors forced to wear distinctive clothes and English debtors treated like criminals until 1861. It remarks that media avoided the word and used censored headings such as B-kr-pts when listing petitioners.
The Winchester Ministerial Association met yesterday in Handley Library with Rev. Wallace M. Brashears presiding. Dr. S. L. Flickinger read a paper titled The Minister His Office, tracing church leadership through ages. Plans include October union community services and a fellowship banquet for rural church workers on May 31 at First Baptist Church.
A Frederick county resident who died at a parish farm last Saturday was given last rites. The Rev. Dr. L. A. Thomas led the services at Grace Lutheran Church. Interment followed on the farm graveyard. Authorities had little information beyond his wife Louise Windle, deceased years earlier, and that he had one brother, two sisters, two sons and three daughters whose names are unknown.
Red water or r ed water occurrences are caused by microscopic organisms and are observed in coastal regions.
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