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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Aug 13, 1931

Page

5

Public Sale in Bankruptcy Auction at Winchester

Bankruptcy sale at 329 North Market Street Winchester Virginia by Philip R. Fowle trustee Duvail Dunn Auctioneers offers various bottling equipment and bottles for cash to the highest bidder all items described with approximate case counts and no reserve under court order in the era District of Virginia presume sale date set with items including hydro bottle bottling lines and assorted bottles and packing supplies

A. J. Novick Virginia North Market Street Winchester Vic Miller Hydro Novick Fletcher Philip R. Fowle Duvail & Dunn

Stephen Mills Dies After Prolonged Illness in Blairton

Stephen Mills, aged 73, long resident of Berkeley and Warren counties, died Monday at his son in law and daughter Benjamin Huff’s home in Blairton after a five year illness from kidney trouble. He leaves multiple children, stepchildren, 41 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren. Funeral services were held at Blairton United Brethren Church with burial in Smoketown cemetery.

Oeten Caslover Bish Limestone Company Martinsburg Benjamin Huff Blairton Mr. Mills Warren County Samuel Hilda Costella Mills Berkeley County Mary Costela Effie Boyd Rippon Sandy Mills Dry Run Nannie Cave Huff Stephen Mills Hagerson John Mills Winchester Rosalie Mason This City J. Thomas Mills James Morgantown Margaret Pomeroy Harpers Ferry Catharine Smith Columbus

Harness Classic Postponed In Muddy Goshen Track

The grand circuit harness racing program and the $60 000 Hambletonian stables third annual championship were postponed until tomorrow due to a muddy track. It marks a second straight day of rain preventing racing at Goshen New York.

Associated Press Goshen N. Y Hambletonian

Capital Lawyer Is Shot To Death By a Bellhop

W Frank Norman a former special attorney general was shot four times in a dispute over a hotel parking space at the Wardman Park Hotel Washington. Homer H Diggs a 31 year old man surrendered and was turned over to police after the shooting authorities said the attack occurred as Norman waited for his chauffeur and Diggs fired multiple shots.

Washington W. Frank Norman Wardman Park Homer H. Diggs Norman Diggs

Ice Mountain May Yet Be Seen on Newsreel Screen

In True Stories of Old Winchester Mrs Melvin Green describes the Ice Mountain a natural wonder thirty miles from Winchester Emma Howard Wight writes to Carl Laemmie Sr Universal Pictures about featuring the Ice Mountain in the Newsreel He replies that the idea will be forwarded to the Newsreel Department and a cameraman may visit Capitol Theatre shows the Universal Newsreel each Monday.

Winchester Civic League For the Benefit of the Milk Fund Melvin Green Emma Howard Wight Carl Laemmie Universal Pictures Universal Laemmie

Deputy and Man Sought As Rum Maker Slain

In Tazewell Tennessee a deputy sheriff and a man named Tine Brooks, alleged distiller, were killed after a gun battle near town. Deputy Chadwell was wounded but expected to recover while Brooks’ wife Minnie and daughter were detained for questioning. Officers pursued Dove Brooks, 20, who fled the scene.

Associated Press Tazewell Tenn W. S. Thompson Tine Brooks Carl Chadwell Brooks Minnie Dove Brooks

Six Pennsylvania Railroad Divisions Report Perfect June Safety Record

Six divisions Sunbury Schuylkill Logansport Cumberland Valley Grand Rapids and Akron posted perfect accident free June results for the first half of 1930. Station forces led with a 51 percent injury reduction, followed by maintenance of equipment at 43 percent. Overall first-half accidents dropped to a record low of 4.3 per million man hours.

Pennsylvania Railroad Sunbury Schuykill Logansport Cumberland Valley Grand Rapids Akron R. V. Massey

Record Shows 1931 Six Months Fall Behind 1930

A six months' record for 1931 shows a drop of about one third from 1930. The first half of 1931 was markedly lower than the best month in 1930.

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