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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1937
Page
9
Crossword clues across and down with varied words including Flickering Feminine and Obsolete forms. The grid lists many prompt terms and partial phrases from a 1909 puzzle with several errors and misprints.
Wallis Warfield Simpson’s divorce decree nisi from Ernest Aldrich Simpson will be made absolute Monday, a week earlier than expected. Final decree hearings will be held Monday before Mgr Justice Bucknill, clearing the path for a possible June marriage to Edward of Windsor.
Mrs. Baptist, a longtime Winchester resident educated in the city, died April 2, 1860. Her father led the firm Hansbrough and Carter, headed Shenandoah Valley Nation Bank, and served as first president of the Winchester and Washington City Railway Company. Her husband M. J. Baptist operates a Middleburg business and their son Garland attends Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
A Virginia obituary notes Mrs Baptist, sister in law of Mrs G M Hansbrough of North Braddock street, aunt to Miss Margaret and Sam Scott, with family ties to Front Royal including Dr Lyle Hansbrough and Miss Katherine Hansbrough. Services possibly Saturday, burial in Mount Hebron family lot.
Judge Walton case continues to May 10. F S Tavenner Jr to notify Winchester area bar associations. Shenandoah County Bar Association to meet Friday at 3:46 PM and attend the service. Funeral from Walton residence at 4 PM with Rev J H Billingsley officiating. Interment in Massanutten Cemetery. pallbearers unnamed.
Judge Walton a distinguished lawyer from Woodstock and son of M L Walton and Mary Walton. He studied at Randolph-Macon and UVa, practiced in Woodstock, served as attorney for Shenandoah Bank and Trust and local firms, and led Red Cross work. He was a leading Methodist layman, Grand Chancellor of Knights of Pythias, town attorney, and World War I volunteer. He married Frances Allen in 1920 and left a widow Frances and three children. He is survived by siblings and extended relatives in Virginia and beyond.
The fragment shows a broadcaster promising to relay a message about fishing rights or signals. It includes unclear references to an action or communication but lacks full context and concrete details. Names, places, dates, or entities are not fully readable to confirm specifics.
Shorty and Skelly Skelton talk of using a pass flag as a weather source for Texas coast conditions from Galveston to Port Aransas. They claim the flag’s motion signals bite days and guide trips, with the flag serving Roosevelt and other anglers who rely on it to judge conditions along the coast.
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