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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1931
Page
7
Virginia chamber taxation committee urges raising automobile taxes citing road wear by heavier cars. Proposes new rates from 70 cents to 90 cents and 1 per hundred for heavier vehicles with higher charges for licenses and gasoline. Calls for a progressive rate on higher weight cars to offset road damage and fund improvements.
Newport News Virginia December 30 police continued to seek the motive for a rooming house murder of a man named Amas whose body was found in bushes near Hampton authorities said he was known for a flair for gambling and may have been robbed the organs to be analysed in Richmond to see if he was drugged before a bullet wound to the head. Col Louis Mason Gulick of the Philadelphia navy yard marine barracks was ordered to China to command Marines at Peiping’s legation and will depart San Francisco January 22 succeeding Col James Breckenridge.
Local column from Greenwood Virginia lists visits and social rounds. Sums include S E Maloy and son Harry traveling from Altoona to visit Edward Pope in New Oxford. families from Marion Kernstown and Winchester region visiting relatives. Ruth Anderson returning to Washington D C. Sulphur Spring road improvements by Frederick County road force. various locals hosting and calling on neighbors.
The Am erican Red Cross chapter acknowledges receipt of memberships for the coming year. Names received too late for the annual Roll Call include Arthur Robinson Major Thomas I Steere George Sedgwick William Briscoe Jennie May Manuel Adina Clifford Amanda V Jordan Gussie Ransom James F Robinson Bettie Jackson Epworth League John Mann Church John Mann M E Sunday School Charles Taper George Martin.
Hogue Creek Virginia reports a long list of social visits during the holiday season. Rev. and Mrs. C J Racey and a driver joined Mr and Mrs Luther Larrick for dinner. Various friends and relatives from Highview Lenore Gainesboro and Winchester spent time with local families including the Larricks Orndorffs White and McCormicks.
The famed Fourteenth century weather vane in Echingham church Sussex is made of wrought copper and bears the arms of Sir William Echingham. It remains mounted atop the tower.
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