Pine Hills 4 H Club Meets with Cake Guess Prize
The Pine Hills 4 H Club held a meeting at the Middletown home economics cottage. Miss Thelma Petty presided as reports were given on the county council meeting in Winchester, and Mrs Pilcher won a cake guessing prize valued at 2.65 dollars while 100 dollars was paid to the county council.
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Pine Hills 4-H
Middletown
Thelma Petty
Thelma Judy
Winchester
County Council
Louise Mowery
P. P. Pilcher
Elizabeth Farrar
Mildred Judy
Elizabeth Jackson
Missa Petty
Death summons Charles A. Ford at Front Royal
Charles A. Ford is reported dead at Front Royal. He is survived by his widow Anna Sprint of Millwood and five daughters including Mrs Gardner Waller and Mrs Edward V. McAtee. Also surviving are three sisters Miss Annie Ford and Mrs Brookie Frank and Mrs Arthur Ridings, and a brother Edward Ford who died recently in Tennessee.
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Ford
Anna Sprint
Millwood
Gardner Waller
National Guard of Virginia
Edward V. McAtee
United States
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Gwynne Coe
Southern College
Lakeland, Fla
J. L. Dickinson
State Won't Try Richards Again On Attack Count
The tribunal just spoke and will not retry Richards on the attack charge. The quote emphasizes deference to higher judicial wisdom and the ultimate responsibility for criminal law administration rests with the judges. Prosecution by Commonwealth Attorney Reardon. defense by Herbert S. Larrick and Judge Frank S. Tavenner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
STATE
Richards
Corporation
Commonwealth
Reardon
Herbert S. Larrick
Frank S. Tavenner
Woodstock
Some Mills To Close During the Holiday Season
Textile mills in the area close for the holiday season with some shutting down this week. Virginia Woolen Company Winchester remains closed except sample department. Brucetown Woolen Mills at Clearbrook will close Saturday until year end. Lewis Jones Knitting Company continues operations. Gen Hugh Johnson urged a 25 percent December production curtailment, met with worker opposition.
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Virginia Woolen Company
Winchester
Winchester Woolen Mills, Inc
Brucetown Woolen Mills, Inc
Clearbrook
Lewis Jones Knitting Company
Hugh Johnson
National Recovery Administrator
Scouts Aid District Nurses With Christmas Cheer
Boy Scouts of Winchester join the District Nurse Association to deliver baskets to the needy Saturday at 1 PM. Scouts from different troops report in uniform at the District Nurse Association office at 12:50 PM for duty. They have aided the association at Christmas for needy families and will also assist Friday after school to prepare caskets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scouts of
Winchester
District Nurse Association
Private Life of Henry VIII at Warner Bros Capitol
The film stars Charles Laughton under Alexander Korda’s direction in a lavish Tudor drama about Henry VIII and his six wives. It runs at Warner Bros Capitol Theatre with other features including The Prizefighter and the Lady and a holiday showing of Alice In Wonderland.
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Henry VIII
Warner Brothers Capitol Theatre
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton
Anne Boleyn
Ann of Cleves
Katheryn Howard
Katherine Parr
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Myrna Loy
Mae Baer
Jack Dempsey
Primo Carnera
Otto Kruger
Walter Huston
Thursay
The
Capitol
Max Baer
Warner Bros
Villian
The Mad Game at Hable's Palace Thrills New York Crowd
The Fox film The Mad Game, a sensation at Roxy's Theatre in New York, played last night at Hable's Palace. Spencer Tracy headlines with Claire Trevor in her screen debut, as federal efforts to curb kidnapping provide the drama and thrills in a pre holiday week of smash hits.
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Palace
Fox
Roxy’s Theatre
N. Y
Shooting Match At Berryville Pike On December 22
A rural shooting match is announced three miles east of Berryville Pike. Chickens, turkeys, hams and shoulders will be included. The event is scheduled for Friday December 22 at 10 oclock. Roy Carter is listed as organizer.
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Berryville Pike
Roy Carter
Shoppers Urged to Lock Autos in Winchester
Police chief C. W. Hollis warns Winchester shoppers not to leave packages in cars as thieves prey on unattended vehicles. Officials urge locking doors and windows and keeping valuables out of sight to deter theft during the busy season.
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C. W. Hollis
Winchester
Wife of Front Royal Pastor Shot in Apparent Tragedy
The wife of Front Royal pastor, Alma Clayton West, 23, was fatally shot at about 5:30 p m. in Front Royal. The couple married September 15 in Ashland. Alma Clayton West, Richmond native and Smithdeal College graduate, was Virginia official delegate to a 1932 national conclave. Her husband, the Rev. West, educated at Richmond and Louisville seminaries, led the Front Royal church since April.
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D. M. Kipps
Warren County
R. 8
Collins
Maddox and Samsen
John Marshall High School
Richmond
Smithdeal College of Business Training
Alpha Ieta
Virginia
Des Moines
Iowa
State Planter’s Bank and Trust Company of
West
E. E. West
Mr. West
Bacon’s Castle
University of Richmond
Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisville
Europe
Randolph-Macon College
Front Royal
Missionary family from Japan visits Winchester home
The Rev. and Mrs. Daniel Crump Buchanan and their four children arrived in Winchester last Saturday from Kyoto, Japan and stay with Mrs. Buchanan’s father Mr. J. George Baetjer and Mrs. Baetjer on Fairmont Avenue. They plan to remain about a year. Mrs. Buchanan was formerly Miss Katherine Baetjer. The family has spent the last 12 years in Japan as missionaries for the Northern Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Mr. Buchanan is the son of Rev. Dr William C. Buchanan, a missionary of the Southern Presbyterian Church stationed in Gifu, Japan.
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Buchanan
Japan
Daniel Crump Buchanan
Winchester
Kyoto
Board of Foreign Missions
The
Northern Presbyterian Church
William C. Buchanan
Gifu
Southern Presbyterian Church
Sue Ralston
C. A. Hammer
Sue Anderson Ralston
Mount Clifton
Charles Alfred Hammer
Harrisonburg
Martinsburg
S. R. Diehl
Charles Hammer
Virginia
Hammer
D. H. Ralston
Miss Forney Named Assistant Manager of Annual
Miss Frances Forney of this city is named assistant business manager of the 1934 annual The School ma am. She is a Harrisonburg State Teachers College sophomore and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart L. Forney of Gray avenue.
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Miss Forney
Frances Forney
Harrisonburg State Teachers
Apple Growing Puts State On The Fruit Map
Virginia ranks three counties Frederick Augusta and Albemarle among 65 leading U S counties in value of fruits and nuts from 1930 census Frederick leads Old Dominion with crop valued at 2 583 210 on 22 333 acres Augusta 1 793 453 on 13 578 acres Albemarle 1 559 977 on 18 332 acres Los Angeles tops with 6 9 percent of value of all fruits and nuts California counties total lead the nation 28 Georgia state figures not cited Virginia accounts for three counties as part of national ranking 8 1 percent of total crop value excluding forest nursery and greenhouse products.
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Associated Press
Richmond
Virginia
Frederick
Augusta
Albemarle
United States
Bureau of the Census of
United States Department of Agriculture
Old Dominion
Augusta County
Albemarle County
California
Florida
New York
Washington
Oregon
Los Angeles County
Orange
San Bernardino
Tulare
Fresno
Ventura
Platform Crash in South Africa Kills Twelve
In Johannesburg on December 19 a platform collapse at a mine shaft killed two European workers and ten native laborers. Rescue efforts sought to retrieve the bodies and secure the shaft area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Johannesburg
South Africa
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Mark Cross
Knox
the Men’s Shop, Inc
Wm. H. Brown
W. Lee Fisher
R. D. Crenshaw
Certified Public Accountants
TAX Counsellors
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Richmond, VA
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Russell, Turnbull & Co., Ltd
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Glasgow
Our
Farmers & Merchants National
U. 8, Postal Savings Depository
State of
Charles A. Ford
California Adonis
Capitol Theatre
Sheetz
Warner Bros. Capitol
Hable’s Palace
John C. Cole
Red Bud
J.v.arthur Etc Insurance Service
Rouss Ave
Kelvinator
Kelvinator Sale
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ROXY
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Spencer Tracy
Pat
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Loudoun St
Buckley
South Seen
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Cameron St
Lee Terrace
West Cork St
Kuhn
National Ave
S. Kent Street
White Post
South Main
North Cameron
Strickler and Wagner
J. W. Wright
Boyce, Va
Mollie Glass
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Hable
Phil Bowman
Stephens City
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Hamman’s Dollar Store
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