Valley Railroad at risk if freight franchise granted
Attorney Rudolph Baumgardner warned that granting a Davidson Motor Bus freight franchise on the Valley Pike between Harrisonburg and Lexington could cripple the Valley Railroad. The line now operates under Baltimore & Ohio and faces possible foreclosure if freight service shifts to buses, threatening a historic link tied to Gen. Robert E. Lee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Historic Valley Railroad
Harrisonburg
Lexington
Robert HE. Lee
South
Baltimore Capital
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Davidson Motor
State Corporation Commission
Rudolph Baumgardner
Staunton
Railroad Company
Davidson Motor Bus
Richmond
Baumgardner
Baltimore
Ohio
Those Who Will Be Marshals of Festival Parade
The parade committee of the Apple Blossom Festival parade will function as marshals as well as committee men this year. The committee is organized as follows: Capt. eee Steere, chairman, Lieut. Nelson F. Richards, vice chairman, W. Spottswood White, grand marshal, Elsie L. Preffitt, secretary. Executive Board - Capt. Henry Steere, Major L. M. Allen, Lieut. Nelson F. Richards, and W. Spottswood White. Members - Capt. John H. Rosen berger, Lieut. Phil Williams, Lieut. Ryland Washington, Lieut. F. W. Bailey, Lieut. W. R. Legge, N. B. Page, Will Dearmont, Baker Chamblin, Percy Drury, Lodge Bowles, Allen Hstep, J. W. Larrick, J. Sherman, Clarke Hardesty, Strother Sherman, Taylor Barr, Fred Yeakley, and Hunter Stine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eee Steere
Nelson F. Richards
W. Spottswood White
Elsie L. Preffitt
Henry Steere
L. M. Allen
John H. Rosenberger
Funeral director demands kindness and sympathy in service
The piece asserts funeral directors need a gentle, sympathetic personality to ease the burden of loss and notes the firm R. T. Jones & 60 South Loudoun Street Winchester Virginia offers assistance. It also advertises ten thousand Apple Blossom Festival invitations available free at the George Washington Hotel Headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington Hotel
Pardons Cleans Up Famous Allen Edwards Case In Virginia
Richmond April 29 Gov Harry F Byrd pardoned Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards after 14 years in the state penitentiary for conspiracy to shoot up the Hillsville courthouse Carroll county Virginia The move ends one of the states most famed cases recalling the 1912 courtroom shooting that killed three officials Floyd Allen and his son were executed later and others had been pardoned earlier The Allen Edwards clan prison records are wiped clean in this final chapter of the case backed by Virginia leaders and the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Richmond
Sidna Allen
Wesley Edwards
Harry F. Byrd
State
Hillsville
Carrol County
Virginia
Allen
Edwards
Byrd
Sidna Edwards
Charlotte
N. C
Massie
Webb
Commonwealth
William Foster
Floyd Allen
Floyd Ahen
Claude
Frield Allen
E. Lee Trinkle
Sidma Allen
Yo Floyd
Towa
Floyd
Mary
Kilties Band Cancel Dates Over Apple Blossom Festival
Director W A Ryan today received word that due to date changes for the Apple Blossom Festival May 4 and 5 MacDonald's Kilties Band must cancel its engagement and will not be here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Ryan
MacDonald
Kilties
Parade Committee Offices Open Tonight
For Apple Blossom Festival entrants the parade committee offices in Shenandoah Valley Bank building rooms 5 and 8 will be open 7 to 9 this evening. Entries close at midnight Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shenandoah Valley Bank
Notice to Milk Dealers License Required for Retailers
Public health notice states the milk license tax is due and licenses are obtainable from Dr. E W Miller meat and milk inspector. All stores selling milk and retail dairymen must obtain licenses by order of the Board of Health president Walter Cox
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. W. Miller
Meat and Milk Inspector
Board of Health
Walter Cox
Rotary Club organizes 1926 27 year plan and entertains festival queen
At a Winchester Rotary Club meeting plans for a 15 month term were outlined with committee groupings led by chairmen. President Marshall Baker spoke on Rotary in 1926 27 and education efforts. Miss Priscilla Bridges of Hancock Md was honored as the Apple Blossom Festival queen with Rotarian tribute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary Club
Paul Gaylord
Sergeant At
Rotary
Marshall Baker
Winchester
International Rotary
Priscilla Bridges
Hancock
Miss Bridges
Brantz Roszel
Ce Cohill
Hancotk
Cohill
B. Ogle
Walker Bond
Luther Neff
Vsed
Guy Staunton
Ryan
Winchester fair grounds dispute settled ahead of fete
Apple Blossom Festival and Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Society reached a quiet agreement over use of the Winchester fair grounds for two days next week. The carnival feature was canceled or moved, with a $500 rental proposed if grounds are used for carnival purposes elsewhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apple Blossom Festival
Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Society
Winchester Fair
Agricultural Society
Ryan
R. T. Barton
The
Fair Association
Barton
Oakes
Kremer
Braddock Street
Proclamation for Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival 1926
A royal proclamation urges subjects to refrain from serious work May 4 and 5 1926 and attend Winchester Virginia for the Third Annual Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival. It extols nature gifts and calls for joy harmony and celebration in the royal Apple Capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shenandoah
Cumberland
Piedmont
Winchester
Virginia
Anna Domini
Parade Committee And Firemen Plan Firemen's Parade Division
A special meeting of the Apple Blossom Festival parade committee and Winchester fire companies discussed a firemen's division in the parade. Absence of Friendship Company delayed decisions. Sarah Zane nominated Taylor Barr as committeeman and marshal. other companies expected to nominate soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Fire Companies
Friendship Company
Sarah Zane
Taylor Barr
Apple Blossom Time cord sale at Ramsburg's Auto Supply
Extra special offer for Apple Blossom Time featuring 30 by 312 Mason cords priced at $9.00. Ramsburg's Auto Supply Co. advertises the deal with a prominent price and item callout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ramsburg’s Auto Supply CO
Bonds Called for Redemption on May 1
Notice to holders of Northern Va. Betterment 6 percent bonds that they are redeemed May 1. Interest ceases on that date. Deposit bonds with May 1 coupons at Shenandoah Valley National Bank. Signed by W W G Hardy, Cashier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shenandoah
Still Seriously Ill At Hospital
The condition of Howard Ginn of the county who was seriously injured in an automobile accident near Clearbrook last Sunday night was only slightly improved at Memorial Hospital where he was taken after the crash. Ginn has a skull fracture and other injuries and has been unconscious most of the time. He is partly conscious if the attending physician can state the final outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Ginn
Clearbrook
Memorial Hospital
Ginn
Meat specials advertised by C. W. Ramsburg
Picnic shoulders priced at 22 cents per pound hams at 33 cents and lard at 20 cents listed in an advertising display attributed to C. W. Ramsburg dated April 30 with page and column markers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Ramsburg
Tire sale and wanted ad note from Star office
Tire sale lists 30 x 3% Diamond Titan cards and 29 x 4.40 Diamond Titan balloons with prices, all other sizes at wholesale or Huntsberry's. Also offers several compressed air tanks for garages and a wanted six room house near City Hall within four blocks. apply at Star office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Star Office
City Hall
Firemen Seek To Recover For Fighting Fire
In Frederick county circuit court the Friendship Fire Company sues N. D. Long for 180 dollars claiming services rendered when fire destroyed his Middletown residence. Long denies summoning the company, argues they saved his property. Evidence shows a telephone summons and that water streams aided nearby property, with counsel Jas P Reardon for the fire company and Frank P Brumback for Long. The case to conclude before ad journs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick County
Whiting
Friendship Fire Company
N. D. Long
Middletown
Long
Plaintiff Fire Company
B. Eers
Winchester
Lightning Ignites 500,000-Barrel Oil Reservoir Near Bakersfield
A storm drenches roads as 6,000,000 barrels of low gravity crude sit in a Standard Oil storage complex five miles northeast of Bakersfield California. Lightning sparked a fire in a center reservoir as hundreds of workers battled the blaze amid washed out embankments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Bakersville
Cal
Western River
Standard Oil Company of California
Oil industry disasters kill fifty seven in west and southwest
Across April a string of fires and explosions cause heavy losses. Union Oil tank farm near San Luis Obispo burned after lightning. A lightning strike hits a Union Oil tank 250 miles southeast of San Luis Obispo, causing three million dollars in damage. Five men die in an explosion on the Standard Oil tanker O T Waring in New Orleans. Magnolia Petroleum tank farm at Luling suffers one hundred thousand dollars damage. The collision of a Standard Oil tanker Thomas H Wheeler with the Dutch steamer Silvanus near New Orleans results in twenty five dead and two million dollars damage. Port Arthur sees a Gulf Refining tanker explosion killing twenty five and one million dollars damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Oil Company of California
San Luis Obispo
Cal
Union Oil Company
Standard
O. T. Waring
New Orleans
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Luling
Texas
Standard Oil
Thomas H. Wheeler
Silvanus
Mississippi River
Gulf Refining Company
Gulf of Venezuela
Port Arthur
O. L. Jamison Injured In Fall At Home
O L Jamison district agent of the Aetna Insurance Company is confined to his North Washington street home after a Tuesday evening fall. His ten toes of the right leg are fractured and he endures great pain, with a lengthy recovery projected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. L. Jamison
Aetna Insurance Company
Washington Street
Poll tax deadline for 1925 1923 1924 in Winchester
Taxpayers must pay the poll tax for 1925 by May 1 1926 to vote in the November congressional election. Also required are unpaid 1923 and 1924 poll taxes. Robert B. Smith treasurer Fred Co and Wm. T. Barr treasurer Winchester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert 8. Smith
Trea. Fred. Co
Wm. T. Barr
Treas
Winchester
Parents with sixteen children visit Winchester from Virginia
Mr and Mrs Robert Arnold of near Alexandria Virginia visit Winchester after a motor tour through Shenandoah Valley They are the parents of sixteen living children and planned to enter a float titled What Can Be Raised In Virginia In Addition To Apples at the Apple Blossom Festival The youngest child Walter Johnson Arnold was named after the Washington pitcher born during the 1920 World Series The Arnolds first drew press attention a year ago and Cordial London club members later sent them a purse of money after a newspaper item highlighted their large family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Arnold
Alexandria
Winchester
Shenandoah Valley
Arnold
Virginia
Walter Johnson Arnold
Washington
Walter
Mr. Arnold
Stork
London
Eng
Arnolds
Two Distinguished Visitors In Town
Mrs Woodrow reports two prominent visitors were in town this week and news of their arrival emerged only after they left. The German Ambassador Baron von Maltyan passed through yesterday, stopped at Cooper Garage in Cameron and Piccadily Street for gas, then dined at George Washington Hotel before heading to Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodrow
Poh Ade
Shibata Aneh
Beron von Maltyan
Cooper
Cameron and
Piccadilly Street
Chaffeur
George Washington Hotel
Washington
Ladies Win Prizes At Hamburgers Store Spring Opening
At Hamburgers Store spring opening two ladies won prizes from a dollar ticket drawing. Bertha von Hillern won a $25 coat and Mrs P E B Lindamood won a $25 dress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamburger
Mise Bertha von Hillern
P. EB. Lindamood
Wife Beater Receives Lashes in Baltimore Jail
James H. Kingsmore, convicted wife beater, is lashed five times on the bare back with a cat of nine tails in Baltimore city jail. Judge Eugene O Dunne imposed the sentence six weeks ago. Kingsmore, defiant, was manacled to the post as the sheriff administered the lash before witnesses. He has two weeks left of a 60 day sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Pres
Baltimore
James H. Kingsmore
Baltimore City
Eugene O’dunne
John B. Potee
Kingsmore
Rooms for Our Guests During Apple Blossom Festival
Winchester urges residents with spare rooms to notify the housing committee chairmen Miller O'Rear Lee Coble or Frank Gregory by calling 650. Provide name address and number of guests for Apple Blossom Festival. Rooms will be assigned at the George Washington Hotel with a record kept of all assignments for locality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Housing Committee
Telehone
Miller O’rear
Lee Coble
Frank
Gregory
George Washington Hotel
Apple Blossom Parade and Pageants Highlight Festival
Marching pupils will inaugurate the Apple Blossom Festival with a parade at eleven o’clock and two afternoon pageants staged by the community’s youth. Prizes reward orderly divisions among grade schools and high schools, while a pageant directed by Miss Edna showcases children from Winchester schools with a small admission fee to cover expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Torlum
Peter Rabbi
Piccadilly
Loudoun
Eas Braddock
North Cage
Jonah
Winchester Oni
Ae Ae
Grasehionien
Winchester
Edna
John Kerr School
Fair Grounds
Peter Rabbit
Fine Livestock Shipped By Hardesty Sons
C R Hardesty's Sons of Point, West Virginia shipped a consignment to Baltimore including four sheep and hogs and a load of lambs. The lot averaged 71 pounds per head with several buyers named such as W A Ali n A M Morgan and others. The shipper also sent a deck of cattle averaging 176 pounds from his own feeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. R. Hardesty
I Point
W. Va
Baltimore
W. A. Alin A. M. Morgan
T. Desty, Jr
Demonstration of Electric Ranges and Applelets at Northern
A power company showcases electric ranges and applets at a Saturday event in the Northern area inviting ladies as guests. The demo emphasizes practical home uses and consumer familiarity with new electrical appliances.
Shawnee Inn Opens with Tourists Dinners and Dances
Shawnee pig opens Shawnee Inn on Valley Pike. Harry Bowers owner offers informal opening Friday April 31 from 5 pm to 11 pm. Special arrangements for tourists and dinners and parties. Public notice extended to general audience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Bowers
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Railroad 10
Baltimore and Ohio
Financial Rocks
Corporation Commission
General Lee
Gen. Lee
Valley Railroad
R. T. Jones
South Loudoun St
Winchester, Va
Carroll Court
Parade Committee
Handley and Chambersburg
Handley Stadium
Vane
Fete
Priscilla 1
Queen of the Apple
Realm
Tire Sale
Huntsberry
California
Father
Hamburger’s
Wife Beater
Hardesty
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