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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1929
Page
6
Reports say the Potomac Bridge saw strong business during the Apple Blossom Festival. On Friday, over 3 900 automobiles paid 85 cents each to cross the bridge while Thursday traffic exceeded 1 000 autos. The caretaker reportedly did not need to haul receipts in a wheelbarrow.
Virginia farmers in 1928 hog raising contest report two litters of plasma that weighed a ton or more at five months. Pennsylvania ranked first with sixty five litters weighing a ton at six months. War does not pay even when you win.
Charlottesville April 25 Several marines from Quantico will reach Madison to erect three army tents and prepare Hoover’s fishing lodge at the headwaters of the Rapidan in Shenandoah National Park. The camp sits near Double Top Mountain at 2500 feet. road work on Graves Mill road to the lodge will take about twenty days. Hoover plans to visit around June 1 for a brief fishing outing.
Cross Junction Virginia April 24 Mrs W Braithwaite entertained a few friends at supper last night at her home.
Saturday evening guests included Mr and Mrs Walter Potts of Washington DC and others from Whitacre Cumberland Berkeley Springs and Martinsburg. Sunday visitors at J S Braithwaite’s included John Feltner Ray Lewis and Harvey Braithwaite with Braithwaite relatives. S H Braithwaite and Mrs Baker share a sick list and S H Braithwaite improves his residence with new paint.
In Shepherdstown West Virginia state agents will limit their cedar rust eradication work to removing galls on cedar trees pending court rulings on the constitutionality of the state law. They will not cut down cedars. An appeal from an adverse ruling is pending.
A pending Supreme Court injunction seeks to halt the cutting on Miss Sue Lemen’s property. Kanawha County Circuit Court has issued a temporary restraining order. The gall removal occurs under the 1927 crop pest law while cutting was done under the 1926 act.
The Chevrolet coupe of Rev. L A McMurray missionary to Africa on furlough was stolen during the Apple Blossom Festival traffic tangle in Winches ter. It was found abandoned on a county road near Winebrenner's Cross Roads by A G Keller after reports to Sheriff Thomas. James Janney Jr. had the car when he escorted Miss Lucy Miller to the festival dance at the George Washington Hotel.
Rail stations at Riverton and Waterlock on the Southern Railroad were entered during Monday night. Robbers forced waiting room windows and obtained $6 at Waterlock, leaving only a Canadian penny at the other station.
A drawer at Riverton was ransacked but no crew or identities of the robbers have been found yet, leaving investigators puzzled about the suspects.
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