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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1930
Page
3
Social and personal items from the department include updates from Mrs. Isabelle de Miller. The social reporter will provide news between the hours of four and five at the designated folio area.
A Round August 17 gathering at Country Church features Rev. W White D D from Raleigh addressing topics The Country Church as Seen From the City and From Itself A children's choir and Burnt Church quartet perform Lunch is planned with helpers from Round Hill Opequon Memorial and Burnt Church Churches organize the event John W Larrick Jr Avalon Orndoff speak on Sunday school lessons Music led by J E Lupton Virginia Bayliss piano The day aims for broad church turnout Masonic School of Instruction closes at Blacksburg Southwestern Masonic School wraps after nine days of lectures and activities with 84 lodges represented Officers elected include W M Brodie T J Traynor and M S Kipps Next session set for Blacksburg August 1931 Railroad veterans picnic set Tom Jones Day August 20 at Connellsville Pa Amateur play The Arrival of Kitty at White Post Parish Hall tonight at 8 20 Mrs Arthur Ribble hosts cast afterward Mr and Mrs Knupp welcome newborn daughter Rebecca B born August 4 Berryville Va Details note family connections and local group involvement
Large preparations for the Old Stone Church reunion to be held near Green Spring in this county. Rev. Harry M. Crim of Strasburg Presbyterian Church to give an 11 o clock address. Attendees to bring baskets for a noonday feast and enjoy lunch. At 2 pm music and roll calls of former students and memorial association members.
The Girls Athletic Association will hold a swimming party Thursday afternoon at Big Eddie on the Shenandoah river near Charles Town. Participants must sign up with Mrs. William Brown at Brown and Fisher's store by 5 PM tomorrow.
Mr and Mrs Crisman and sons Frederick and Dick return from Asbury Park N J where they visited with Miss Louise Zirkle who has left for San Francisco Calif. Benner Johnson and Mr Irvin Staton return from Ohio after visiting relatives in Cleveland Akron and Dover Capt Stuart A Seabright accompanied them as far as Quaker City Ohio. L Kaufman spends week in New York City purchasing for Kaufman store. Frances George and Juanita Riley return from Virginia Beach. Benjamin Grim Philadelphia police official visits relatives. Melvin Green and son Monty and Stewart Bell Jr return from Cape May with twenty four Winchester guests at the hotel. G W Riley B L Lovett and Juanita Riley spend Sunday with W W Bailey at Romney Va. Elizabeth Schwartz vacationing two weeks with sister at Rockaway Beach Long Island. Dr Aubrey T Musssen Baltimore visits Mrs Robert Arbuckle at Spring Dale. Jessie Hottel and Edna O Leary return from vacation in Tennessee.
A vast wildfire grips the foothills near Orkney West of Mount Jackson in Shenandoah County Virginia threatening hundreds of thousands of feet of timber. Foresters and local residents fight the blaze as extreme drought dries the woods, with houses barns and outbuildings at risk and residents evacuating. The smoke is visible along Mount Jackson Timberville and the Valley Pike.
Six top scorers from last week will compete for a cremium plated engraved putter at Perfection Golf Course. Participants and their low scores are John L Miller 46 Persell Plank 46 Les ter D Arnold 45 F S Miller 45 Kijo Ritenour 44 Vinnie Hollis 44.
After extensive tests by scientists, Superior Judge Joseph Sabath will decide the identities of the Bamberger-Watkins infants in Chicago, acting as arbiter in the domestic dispute.
Bob Wark and Eddie Brown abandoned their four stop flight from Tokoma Washington to Tokyo after a landing accident at Ladner airport near Vancouver. The propeller and undercarriage were badly damaged when the plane ran into a ditch during the post arrival landing.
Drought and wariness grip West Virginia as relief demands surge. Cabell county reports 1 200 destitute families and 40 percent of Tri-State Dairymen farms lack a milking cow. Farmers urge eight month term cuts, halt road work, and tax relief while bankers fear loan repayments. The Jefferson county fair opens amid drought with no farm exhibits possible.
Voters in five states chose party nominees for state and federal offices. George W. Norris of Nebraska faced multiple rivals in a Republican senatorial bid after his 1928 defection. Arkansas Democrat Joe Robinson faced opposition for the first time in twelve years. Alabama’s Heflin was nudged aside by Bankhead and Thompson, planning to run as an independent in November. Oklahoma and Ohio Democrats nominated candidates to oppose GOP incumbents.
Robert Mackey, 21, son of Cran dal Mackey of Mackey's Hill Virginia and a congressional candidate, died from injuries from a July 30 automobile accident near Laurel Maryland.
Police in several cities sought the owner of an orange monoplane that dropped nine bombs on mining property near Providence Kentucky. No injuries or damages were reported as authorities investigated the bombing with federal help while witnesses gave varying aircraft numbers.
Baltimore August 12 Additional charges were filed today against William E Baldman convicted embezzling officer of the Maryland Trust Company bringing total shortage in his accounts to 63116 The case will be presented to the grand jury tomorrow Baldman was arrested and charged with larceny of 28000 from the bank but an audit revealed the additional shortage Officials of the bank and police say he confessed and described the method used.
The advertisement claims 666 tablets relieve neuralgia headaches in 30 minutes and reduce cold symptoms on the first day while checking malaria in three days. It presents a multi symptom pain relief and fever reducer in a single tablet form.
Scouts of Troop No 1 Winchester camped along the Capon River at Camp White Rock near Bridgeport West Virginia. The camp opened August 7 with improvements to the water front kitchen and camp area. Three scouts Douglas Cather John Perrine and Versus Sirbaugh cook the meals while parents and friends plan cake day and religious services were held at the council ring.
C G Dwight of F W Roberts Manufacturing promotes an apple vending device to local growers. The system offers a ready market and extra revenue while advertising apples as a health food. A unit will be installed at Winchester Cold Storage on North Loudoun Street soon.
A Red Cross report to the President details drought impact across eighteen states with Virginia and Kentucky worst hit. Unemployment rises in drought zones as crop losses reach up to 50 percent. Railroads offer hay rate relief. officials urge faster public works to ease unemployment.
The Greater St Louis monoplane piloted by Dalekson and Forest O’Brien neared the 554 hour endurance refueling record set by the Hunter brothers at Lambert Field. At 6 11 am CST they circled for 527 hours with 27 hours to go, aiming to surpass the mark and stay aloft at least eight more days.
In Chicago on August 12, grain futures fell with Wheat September at 91 to 91 4, December 96 to 96 March 1.01 to 1.0144, May 1.04 to 1.04. Corn futures also edged lower with September 98 to 98 December 94 to 94 March 96 to 96 May 98 to 98.
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