Deaths and Funerals Notices
Viola Collier Henry 8 died at daughter Mrs Leonard Browns home after long illness. Born August 5 1875 Green County widow of Silas Henry. Survives: daughter, brother, three grandchildren. Funeral Sunday 3 p.m. at Reliance Evangelical United Brethren Church. Interment Reliance Cemetery. Dr B B Dutton funeral 4 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church. Miller Howard Cain 18 Inwood WV dies in University of Virginia Hospital. Funeral Sunday 2 p.m. Omps Funeral Home. Burial Grace Bible Fellowship Cemetery Clear Brook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viola Collier Henry
Leonard Brown
Berryville Avenue
Green County
Edward
Josephine Vernon Collier
Silas Henry
Stanardville
Henry
Reliance Evangelical United Brethren Church
Mrs. Brown
William G. Collier
Springhill
Charlotte M Brown
Leonard W. Brown, Jr
Teresa A. Brown
Oliance Evangelical United Brethren Church
Fred H Edee
Carl W. Hiser
Jones Funeral Home
Gilbert T. Brown
W. Frank Shipe
C. C. Bowen
Walter B. Little
B. F. Barton
Relance
B. B. Dutton
Christ Episcopal Church
Holt Louder
Mt. Hebron Cemetery
Miller Howard Cain
Inwood
W. Va
University of Virgina Hospital
Charlottesville
Loudoun County
Robert S. Cain
Emiley Painter Cain
Frederick County
Musselman High School
Musselman
Grace Bible Fellowship Church
Clearbrook
Pfe
Robert Cain, Jr
US Marine Corps
Camp Lejeune
N.C
Gerald Linden Cain
Alice Flinbeth Cain
Cora Virginia Can
Nellie Painter
Brucetown
Omps Funeral
Craig Burleson
John Gowdy
Grace Bible Fellowshp Cemetery
Auto Crash In Wrong Lane Kills Five
Las Vegas police said a station wagon pulled from a filling station and drove a mile in the wrong lane of the divided highway to collide head on with another car. Five persons were killed including William C. Dratt 52 of Las Vegas the station wagon driver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Vegas
Nev
Boulder City
William C. Dratt
Droe‘t
Lamson Fator
Virginian Charged With Bank Robbery In North Carolina
William O. Holloway, 22, of Fairfax Virginia, was charged with the Oak City Edgecombe Bank and Trust Co robbery worth $1,785. He was arrested 25 miles north of Oak City after police found most of the money in his car. He waived a preliminary hearing and is held for a grand jury under $15,000 bond. The heist involved taping and gagging the cashier and a janitor, and included a chase when he jumped into the wrong car. This follows three other North Carolina bank robberies in six weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak City
N.C
Edgecombe Bank & Trust Co
William O. Holloway
Rt. 1
Fairfax
Here
Tarboro
North Carolina
Holloway
U.S
W. M. Tetterton
Williamston
Blonzie Hyman
William R. Parker
Asheville
Angier
Worth A. Whitaker
Garner
Villa Raid at Columbus Highlighted in 1916 Invasion
Columbus New Mexico faced a major invasion as Francisco Pancho Villa crossed the border on March 9 1916 burning large portions of the town and killing 16 Americans in the raid that shocked the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
New Mexis
United States
Francisco “Pancho” Villa
Unclear Nephew Visitor Involved In Auto Crash
Lorraine E Sperry a 13 year old neighbor of the Dratts visiting from Laurel Maryland and Mrs Lorenzo Whittle 30 of San Angelo Texas were involved in a car crash. Whittle who drove the car was hospitalized with serious injuries but expected to recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dratt
Laurel, Md
Lorraine E. Sperry
Dratts
Lorenzo Whittle
San Angelo
Tex
Whittle
Public Auction Listings for Frederick and Winchester Areas
A sequence of auctions on Aug 24 to Sept 14 lists items including furniture tools antiques cattle and household goods. Locations include old Charles Town Road Front Royal Road Gainesboro and Winchester Court House with trustees auctioneers Ralph L Schuchart W D Orndorff J Edward Thoma and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. A Taylor
O M Lloyd
Old Charles Town Road
Richard N. Brooke
Frederick County Court House
Front Royal Road
William. R. Garver
Littlestown
Ralph L. Schuchart
T. A. Caylor
O. M Lloyd
Julia Adams
Gainesboro
W. D. Orndorff
Joseph B. Newlin
County Court House
Winchester
E. T. Snider
R.G Feely
Dennis T Cole
G. G. Baker
Patton’s
N. Cameron St
J. Edward Thoma
Winchester Milling Corporation
EF. T. Snider
Mapha Frances Lichliter
Circuit Court
Frederick County
Virginia
J. Edward Thomas
Two Boys Tumble Down Mine Shaft Rescue Fails
Timmins Ontario rescuers recovered Ronnie Blakemore age 10 from debris in a 1400 foot mine shaft. Bonar Scholes age 16 was rescued last night as three other teens escaped unhurt after a timbered shaft collapse. The old Vipond mine lies near Timmins in northern Ontario and was fenced off though breached by the youths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timmins, Ont
Ue Yearold
Ronnie Blakemore
Vipond
Lake Huron
Lake Superior
Scholes
W. G. Bissonnette
Timmins
Blakemore
Four Crewmen Die in Coast Guard Amphibian Crash
NEW YORK Four of six Coast Guard crewmen were killed when a twin engined Grumman Albatross crashed and burned while taking off from Floyd Bennett Field Brooklyn. One survivor Frederick E West Jr walked from the scene and was treated for shock. The other survivor John R Lowell was flown to St Albans Hospital in Queens in serious condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Coast Guard
Floyd Bennett Field
Brooklyn
Frederick E. West Jr
Aviation Electrician
Ist
Columbus
Ohio
John R Lowell
St. Abans Hospital
Queens
Grumman
Weather snapshot for Virginia and New York air history
The report notes fair weather in Virginia with highs in the 80s and lows in the 60s, a five day forecast through Wednesday, and possible showers Sunday and Monday. It also records sunrise and sunset times, rainfall totals, and historical notes including Curtiss’s first NYC airplane flight on June 26, 1909.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Glenn H. Curtiss
Sunnyside Defeats Stephenson to Clinch Second in Church League
Sunnyside outpaced Stephenson 9-4 to secure second place as playoffs begin Monday. Opequon leads, Stephenson and Presbyterian face best two of three series, with a trophy already promised to Opequon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunnyside
Stephenson
Stickley
Hill
Opequon
Presbyterian
Lowers
Wendell Dick
Smith
Good
Duvall
Bailey
Boyd
A. Shirley
B. Willis
H. Willis
Bromley
Armel
Duval
Ridings Chapel News Briefs Highlight Visiting Guests
Recent visitors included Misses Jeanette and Beatrice Webber of Fairmont West Virginia and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nix of Atlanta Georgia. The Hammock and Pugh families hosted gatherings with friends from Hayfield Fairfax Hyattsville and New York plans noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ridings Chapel
J. S. Jackson
Jeanette and
Beatrice Webber
Fairmont
W Va
Carl Nix
Atlanta
Emil Albright
White Post
Maron Hammock
Roy C. Easter
Hilda Mae
Linda
Roy Pugh
Warner Pugh
Hayfield
Acquittal, Twentieth, and Lamentations in Virginia Ledger
A fragment lists items including Twentieth, Lamentations, and Virginia Lexington, with notes on redish blue hues, an 8 by 11 inch steel industry reference, the buyer beware maxim, and the initial of C. Cibber. The text fragment is terse and appears as a partial archival note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Lexington
GOP
C. Cibber
How's Your IQ Answers Revealed
The page prints quiz answers beginning with question one about Andrew Johnson and his trial. The item presents the reader with correction notes and the identified response for the first query.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Johnson
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Mrs
Dutton Service
Viela Collier Henry
Reliance Efub Church Jones Funeral Home, Inc
A&a Sons
H. C. Christianson
For All
Kernstown Tractor Sales & Service
Loy
The
Winchester & Potomac Railroad Co
Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company
J. Sloan Kuykendall
R. S. B. Hartz
Peint
Porch & Picaw
Maby
P. W. Plumly Lumber Corp
N. Kent
Virginian
Rotary
N. Cameron &T
Loudoun
Order of the Golden Rule
Stance Escuense Oe
Australia
William R. Garver
Ralph L. Schucart
Chester 8
Byers
Architects
Winchester Concrete Products
Welltown Pike
Cous
Pittsburgh
MU Aera
I.Q
Vom
Ober
E. Piccadilly St
Stephens City
North Cameron Street
R. Gray Williams
Corporation Court
City of
Alexander M. Baker
Boscawen Street
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