Virginia eyes savings by auditing sheriffs fees
State officials warn $100000 plus in criminal costs may be recoverable from sheriffs fees and local jail payments. Audits examine excess fees, local ordinance cases, and state jail costs, with proposals to shift sheriffs to salaries to simplify accounting and curb spending.
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Virginia
Hiss
L. McCarthy Downs
State Compensation Board
C. H. Morrissett
Mr. Downs
Leroy Hodges
Compensation Board
Treasury
Morrissett
Col
Hodges
National Guard
Downs
State Board of Education
General Fund
State General Fund
Legion Splits In Maryland On Tydings Purging
Maryland American Legion faces a rift over the Senate race between purge-designated Millard E. Tydings and Roosevelt loyalist David J. Lewis. State commander Bruce T. Bair defends a veteran-focused view while opposing Roosevelt's influence and calls Lewis a rubber stamp for the president.
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Legion
Maryland
Baltimore
Maryland Department of the American Legion
Millard E. Tydings
Roosevelt
David J. Lewis
Bruce T. Bair
Bair
United States
Rep
Lewis
Washington
Denver Visitors Barred From Berkeley Municipal Course
The report notes two visitors at the Berkeley Municipal course were barred from the links after attempting to reach the green from tall dry grass following several swings. It mentions horseshoe references and a playful remark about plau dits.
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Denver
Berkeley Municipal
Government report notes lower criminal costs during Depression
Mr. Bradford cites 1933 to 1936 expenditures of 1.171 million, 854 thousand, 1.099 million and 1.181 million dollars, reduced by depression cuts. He warns without cuts, charges would reach about 1.35 million annually in 1932-34. Governor Peery says biennial criminal costs exceed appropriations by 450 thousand, and reforms failed to cut expenses.
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Bradford
General Assembly
Peery
Prominent Young Couple Are Wed at Gretna Green
George S. Mennen son of a well known toilet goods maker and Miss Mary E. Mahoney of Rochester N Y were secretly married here August 16 courthouse records show The Rev J T Baker officiated The couple met at Cornell where both studied She is the daughter of Leo D Mahoney Rochester attorney.
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Elkton
Gretna Green
Georges
Mennen
Mary E. Mahoney
Rochester
N. Y
Raymond Avenue
South Orange
N. J
Miss Mahoney
Cornell
Leo D. Mahoney
Hable's Palace Screens The Rage of Paris Cast
Danielle Darrieux and Douglas Fairbanks Jr star in The Rage of Paris at Hable's Palace Theatre for three days starting today. A world acclaimed beauty makes her American debut with a plot about romance and danger. Mischa Auer Louis Hayward and Helen Broderick also appear.
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Danielle Darrieux
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Paris
Hable’s Palace Theatre
Mischa Auer
Louis Hayward
Helen Broderick
Iron County Fair Accepts Commemorative Wooden Nickels
Iron River Michigan fair week adopts wooden nickels as tokens commemorating Iron County 40th anniversary. Citizens and visitors use the coins without stigma, embracing the novelty and local pride.
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Fair Exchange
Iron River
Mich
Iron County
Rabbit vanishes. hound Tel tracks down runaway pet
Blair Hildebrand of Johnstown searches three days for a rabbit after illness. The family turns to 15 year old hound Tel who, two hours later, returns with the wriggling cotton tail firmly in his mouth.
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Johnstown
Blair Hildebrand
Blair
Tel
Horse Puzzle in Temperanceville Stalls an Unlikely Rescue
In Temperanceville Virginia W T Brittingham reports a horse wandered the barn at night and climbed narrow stairs to a second floor with an L turn. To retrieve it, workers removed a wall and built a bridge from the second floor to a truck for the animal’s exit.
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Temperanceville
W. T Brittingham
County News Briefs From Gore Virginia
Local notes report deaths, visits, and gatherings. Fern Poube and other residents are mentioned with family connections in Gore and nearby towns. Attendees at a Mary Belle Larrick dinner include numerous Larrick and Brill relatives and guests from Winchester Broadway and Wilmington Delaware.
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Ida Brill
Pauline
Juanita Brill
Betty Holloway
Ruth
Ida Larrick
Jean Constable
Zada Cooper
Winchester
Evelyn
Phyllis Audrey
Dorothy Jean Hawkins
Broadway
Harold Larrick
James Sawyer
Roy Hawkins
Eddie Larrick
Charles
John Cooper
Hyattsville
Mary Belle Larrick
Edith Holloway
B. L. Larrick
J. W. Landacre
A. D. Davis
Wilda Jean
George Larrick
Rollin Larrick
Joyce
Isrand
Marguerite Constable
Raymond Hott
Kirby
White Rock
Capon River
Ralph Bowman
Harold Pugh
Roger Cooper
Jack Cooper
Charles Cooper
Lyda Cooper
Kenneth Francis
David
Washington, D. C
W. R. Kern
Valley Home
Kern
Garland Potts
Jean
Joan
Wilmington del
J. J. Deving
B. F Liggett
Katherine
Junior Oates
Allan
S. J. Goode
C. H. Anderson
Miss Kelchner Visits Relative in Washington DC
Carpers Valley notes Miss Mary Louise Kelchner visits her aunt Mrs. Marian Carl in Washington DC. Miss Gertrude Kremer, Miss Ethel furtlebaugh, Miss Jane furtlebaugh, and Miss Mary and Bernice Car are also mentioned in the social brief from Carpers Valley Va.
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Carpers Valley
Mary Louise Kelchner
Marian Carl
Washington, D. C
Gertrude Kremer
Ethel and
Jane Furtlebaugh
Mary and
Bernice Car
St. Davids Church Social Notes Aug 20 Update
St David s Church VA reports visits from McClanahans Walker family and Gorman relatives. Mr and Mrs James Walter from Youngstown Ohio return after visiting D H Walter and Alice Walter. The Sonner family hosted guests from Strasburg and Washington DC with Annie Williams from Winchester. Mr Harry McClanahan and spouse welcomed a birth of an eight pound baby.
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ST. David’s Church
A. M. McClanahan
Upper Marlboro
A. O. McClanahan
Hugh Gorman
Philadelphia
D. H. Walter
Alice Walter
F. C. Sonner
Strasburg
Pear] James
Washington, D. C
Anna Williams
Winchester
T. A. Crabill
Harry McClanahan
McClanahan Family News from Chevy Chase and Mt Jackson
The text lists family notes including Mrs. Leson Shipe and Smith of Chevy Chase Md tying her parents Mr. and Mrs. A. M. McClanahan on Sunday. Messrs J Stanley Barr and R L Clem were business visitors in Mt Jackson Monday. Miss Bertha McClanahan and a friend from Washington DC visited her parents last week.
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Leson Shipe and Smith
Chevy Chase
A. M. McClanahan
Messrs
J. Stanley Barr
R. L. Clem
Mt. Jackson
Bertha McClanahan
Washington, D. C
Veteran John W Williams Dies in Roanoke at 40
John W Williams 40 of Roanoke died at 1 05 A M at home after a World War II service as a lieutenant in the aviation corps He later worked in the automobile bus business and was son of the late John W Williams longtime clerk of the Virginia House of Delegates and a Pearisburg native.
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Roanoke
John W. Wlloems
Division of Motor Vehiclés
John W. Williams
Clark
Vierting House of Delegates
Williams
Pearisburg
Rainfall totals and averages for the year
Present and past rainfall figures show 24 hour endings and year to date. August to date 1.88 inches. year to date 1.47 inches. Average monthly rainfall based on 1913 to 1937 totals lists January 2.53 inches and entries through November 2.30 inches with an annual mean of 35.36 inches.
Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company Annual Meeting
The Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company announces its stockholders meeting in Winchester Virginia on Friday September 2 1938 at 12 15 PM at the office of R Gray Williams Counsel for election of a President and Board of Directors and other business. G F May Secretary.
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Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company
Winchester
R. Gray Willams
G. F. May
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Mary Carper
Daniel Kremer
Loring Carper
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Patricia
Inwood
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Kremer
Arlene Barham
Bernice Carper
Bernice
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Madeline White
Lillie Hoos
Earl Carp2r
D. M. Carp2r
Herbert Schuller
Frank Kremer
Gertrude
Daniel
Madalene White
Hinkle Carper
Edgar White
Robert Russell
Golightly’s Creek Bottom
Ryland Carper
D M. Carper
St. David’s
Ethel Arnold
Marshall Wayne
Gloria Wheeden
Hudson
Albany
New York
Clayton Bishop
Outboard
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Lenore
Ralph Guldahl
ASCO
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