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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1929
Page
3
Leesburg Rotary Club meetings at the Inn discuss placing a community Christmas tree on the courthouse lawn with electric lights and decorations. Committees were formed to arrange open air Christmas Eve exercises with a local minister to deliver the address.
Virginia Vredenburgh of New York will holiday with her parents Mr and Mrs A M Baker. Her sons Peter Vredenburgh of Williams College and James Vredenburgh of the Naval Academy join. Also noted, Daniel Giffen returns home after finger amputations at Memorial Hospital.
A birthday party for Miss Alice Taylor at her Berryville Pike home leads to a later birthday dinner for Mr D B Haines with several families from Capon Bridge and Winchester among guests. Other notes report local residents ill hospitalizations, hotel stays, and social visits in Winchester including club meetings and visits by Miss Ritter's family.
A jury of mountain farmers was completed today to try four men on charges of murdering Connie Franklin, a farm laborer, near Mountain View Arkansas in March.
Testimony at the Washington County Circuit Court trial of Leslie Clarke and Charles Lewis places a man firing the fatal shot in a Thurmont area bush that hid during a raid. Deputies Hemp Wertenbaker and Hoffman described a man fleeing the bushes after the shot as Clarke and Lewis face murder charges.
The steamer Manuka carrying 200 passengers and crew was beached near Long Point between Dunedin and Port B. Most of the cargo which included a collection of British pictures valued at 250000 pounds appeared to be lost.
The House foreign affairs committee approved a revised Porter resolution authorizing the President to appoint a seven member commission to study Haiti and report in six months.
Do This For Painful Joints and Swellings promotes Joint-Base for stiffness and pain in knee ankle hip elbow or finger with penetrating soothing action. Advertisers claim relief and offer a 60 cent tube at drug stores with money-back satisfaction and feature Baker's Drug Store testimonials.
Frank Smith, colored, was sentenced to 12 years in the penitentiary after pleading guilty in Circuit Court to attacking Mrs. Arthur Pugh of Frederik County. He escaped convict camp No. 10 near Warrenton, Virginia, and a $20 reward was offered. Smith, about 30, 5 feet 7 1 2 inches, black hair, black skin, brown eyes, 155 pounds, allegedly attacked the mail carrier last summer between Gore and Trone post offices. He claimed to be en route from North Carolina to Baltimore in a second hand car, but the claim was doubted.
The Trustee under a 1925 Deed of Trust will sell at public auction at twelve noon in front of the County Court House Winchester Virginia the two story brick Club House at 106 West Boscawen Water Street with 27 feet by 105 feet frontage and an alley Tear. One third cash day of sale and balance in one and two years via two bonds bearing six percent interest secured by Deed of Trust and insurance policy. James P. Reardon Trustee.
A Detroit News quip questions Russia signing the Kellogg treaty, joking it might be mistaken for an express man's parcel receipt. The comment uses tongue in cheek to suggest misinterpretation of diplomatic agreements.
Dwight W. Morrow announced acceptance of the New Jersey senate appointment after Baird resigns. He will join as ambassador to Mexico once London Arms Conference duties end and will seek the Republican senatorial nomination in June. Baird vacated the seat after Edge’s resignation. Edge had been named ambassador to France by Hoover.
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