Outlook predicts rising apple production but slower growth
The 1930 United States Department of Agriculture outlook report forecasts continued upward trend in commercial apple production for several years, aided by better orchard management and younger trees though gains may slow. It notes many commercial plantings are young, with 25 to 30 percent under nine years old in 1928 and the impact of family orchards on prices remains.
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Associated Press
Richmond
United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Copeland Verdict Reaches Afternoon Closure in Trial
In Frederick County Court Russell Copeland, 19, faced a murder charge in Stephens City against Jim Berger. After a day of defense witnesses and prosecution arguments, the jury returned a not guilty verdict at 2 PM, Copeland discharged with the defendant smiling as he left.
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Russell Copeland
Steph
Jim Berger
Stephens City
Philip Williams
Frederick Coun
Harry R. Kern
Copeland
Sport Shertz
Pannett
Gossard
J. Gray Beverley
Corporation Court of
Winchester
J. Lee Crider
Crider
Mark Pugh
Cross
Berger
Emma Robinson
Man Vs. Inson
Quiet Santo Domingo after night of upheaval
In the Dominican Republic President Horacio Vasquez and Vice President Alfonseca remained loyal in the fortress as clashes and revolts arouse fears of a wider confrontation. Haiti reports indicate several deaths and many wounded with insurgents moving toward the capital as Curtis mediates.
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Associated Press
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Horacio Vasquez
al Fonseca
Senora de Vasquez
Vasquez
Port AU Prince
Haiti
General Assembly of
Hosa D. Alfonseca
Charles D. Curtis
Betty Moore Dies of Pneumonia in Berryville
Miss Betty Moore aged 86 died at her Berryville Virginia home from pneumonia. She leaves sisters Misses Kate and Cornelia Moore and brother Nicholas Moore, with a late brother A Moore Jr. Funeral in Grace Episcopal Church with interment in Green Hill County. Pallbearers named.
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Berryville
Betty Moore
Ammishaddai Moore
Mary Brewer
William Brewer
Montgomery County
South Church Street
Kate
Cornelia Moore
Nicholas Moore
A. Moore
Miss Moore
Upton
Eric Miller
Madison
Wis
William Stalnaker
Cumberland, Md
C. F. McIntosh
Norfolk
C. Williams
Annie Cabell Moore
Howard Morrison
Dorsey
Anne Moore
William Cabell Moore
Washington
Charles E. Moore
Richmond
John H. Moore
Cleveland
Ohio
Joseph F. Moore
William Moore
Ammi Moore
Louis Tucker
Grace Episcopal Church
Green Hill County
Harry C. Warden
D. H. Allen
R. M. Dorsey
Edward Dorsey
Firemen's Bazaar Closes Tonight With Auction
The Sarah Zane Fire Company bazaar on North Loudoun street ends tonight with an auction of leftovers including flour sugar coffee and a rocking chair. The kitchen crew will still offer suppers this evening.
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Sarah Zane Fire Company
Loudoun Street
Rexalee Birthday Sale Tremendous Savings
Pharmacy ad notes a birthday sale with significant discount emphasis and a date style reference 2 25 indicating a promotion window in a small town shop context.
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Rexalee
Pharmacy P
Spanish Moon Delights With Heavy Seat Sales At Colonial
The Girls Athletic Association presents Spanish Moon at the Colonial Theatre tonight at 8 30. Advance ticket sales have been heavy with a waiting line evident since sales opened. A full professional production awaits audiences with a real plot comedy dancing music and elaborate settings featuring many pretty girls and bright lighting.
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Colonial Theatre
The
Girls Athletic Association
Cut On Thumb Causes Death in Maryland Hog Butchering
John Hortze Smittburg died in Washington County Hospital from blood poisoning after cutting his thumb while helping his son butcher hogs. Home remedies failed and a four day illness led to his death.
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Hagerstown
John “W—Hortzé
Smittburg
Washington County
Victor Products plans stock split and plant expansion
Victor Products Corporation schedules a stock split adding 250 000 class A nonvoting shares and common voting shares for 1 to 4 old shares. The Hagerstown plant will double in size with expansions at Gettysburg and Winchester and a policy to promote from within. Major customers include Bell Telephone Atlantic and Pacific Frigidaire Woolworth Sears and Pennsylvania Railroad.
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Victor Products Corporation
Hagerstown
Alvin Stein and Company
Washington
Victor Products C
Funkhouser
Gettysburg
Winchester
Victor Products
Chambers of Commerce
Bell Telephone Company
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
Armour and Company
Kroger Grocery Company
Frigidaire Company
Wilson and Company
Swift and Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
F. W. Woolworth
Grant Stores
Kresge
Kress
Sears Roebuck
Mr. Funkhouser
Victor Products Stock
Former Naval Officer Leaps to Death in Park Avenue Apartment
Richard H. Jones, 35, ex assistant sales manager at Tidewater Oil of New Jersey, died after jumping from his Park Avenue eighth floor residence. Police ruled it death by own action, noting he struck his wife with an electric lamp before leaping. A 1946 Naval Academy graduate, he belonged to the Army and Navy Club in Washington and the Engineers' Club.
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Associated Press
New York
Richard H. Jones
Tidewater Oil Corporation of
New Jersey
Park Avenue
Jones
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Army and Navy Club
Washington
Engineers’ Club
Man Shot in Prohibition Raid Dies of Wounds
Tulsa Oklahoma February 25 George Lewis Redding 30 died today from wounds received after federal prohibition agents shot him during a liquor raid at the Redding home near Tulsa A guest Lawrence Morgan of Crystal City Oklahoma is hospitalized critically wounded both men were alleged bootleggers in the raid by federal agents at the Redding residence near Tulsa
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Associated Press
Tulsa
Okla
George Lewis Redding
Redding
Lawrence Morgan
Crystal City
Morgan
Bills on Women’s Liberal Arts College and Banking Safeguards
In Richmond the House of Delegates debates a bill to establish a state Liberal Arts College for Women with site restrictions near Charlottesville. A banking bill requires bonds to insure fiduciary funds, plus a move to allow banks to surrender charters for industrial loan charters. The Senate backs Jamestown island transfer for a colonial national monument. to expand budget discussion, a bid to move budget hearings earlier fails.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Richmond
Banquo
House of Delegates
Senate
Halsey
Delegate Battle
Charlottesville
University of Virginia
House Committee On Insurance and Banking Today
R. H. McCurran
Portsmouth
McCauley
House
Chesapeake
E. C. Folkes
Richmond City
Houses
Assembly
Holt
Jamestown Island
Gilliam
Warren
Grace Lutheran men plan February Bible Class Banquet
The Grace Lutheran Church Men's Bible Class banquet is set for Thursday evening February 27 at 5 30 in the Sunday school social room. Rev Dr A A Kelly will speak, with Rev L A Thomas introduced. Music by Market Street Methodist Church Orchestra and the Women’s Auxiliary will serve about 180 plates.
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Grace Lutheran Church
A. A. Kelly
L. A. Thomas
D. D
Congregation of
Grace Church
C. A. Freed
Valley of Virginia
Market Street
H. K. Grove
Frank Brown
J. A. Richard
J. A. Stultz
W. H. Bosserman, Sr
L. F. Cooper
Oscar 8. Brown
J.H. Bott
Joseph Miller
E. J. Snapp
P. A. Beck
H. S. Miller
Free Samples at G L Cakes and Crackers Demonstration
A store advertises free samples this week at G L Cakes and Crackers with a demonstrator. SARGENT'S CASH GROCERY at Market and Piccadilly runs a promotional notice.
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Sargent's Cash Grocery Cor
Market
Local Fund Advances Restoration of Stratford Lees Home
The Robert E. Lee Memorial Fund seeks to restore Stratford near Wakefield Virginia and preserve the Lees home and its Civil War and Revolutionary heritage. Treasurer Miss Lily H Baker and chair Mrs Gertrude W Barton urge contributions from Winchester Frederick County and other Virginia towns to support a nationwide history project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stratford-on-the-Potomac
Virginia
Robert E. Lee
America
Wakefield
Washington Plantation
Potomac River
Stratford
Robert E. Lee Memorial Fund
Lees
Winchester
Frederick County
Lily H. Baker
Gertrude W. Barton
Last Rites For Mrs. Schneider In City
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella Heiser Schneider, wife of Captain Henry Schneider, were held at 3 p.m. from her home at 301 South Braddock street. The Rev. Norman Cooper of Grace Lutheran Church officiated. Interment followed at Mount Hebron cemetery.
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Ella Heiser Schneider
Henry Schenider
South Braddock Street
Norman Cooper
Lutheran Church
Mount Hebron Cemetery
Schneider
Robert H. Heiser
Baltimore
Albert
Clinton
William Heiser
Philadelphia
Henry Schnider
Chicago
James W. Frye
Gore
County
Lewis F. Cooper
John Cochran
J. W. Hilliard
J. Madison Spurr
J. A. R. Snapp
Bennie H. Jones
J. Few Brown
A. D. Henkel
Senator Early Enters Democratic bids for Congress in Seventh District
Richmond Va February 24 Senator N B Early Greene County long serving member of the General Assembly since 1897 announced tonight his candidacy for the Democratic nomination to Congress from the Seventh district The district is represented by J A Garber Republican of Rockingham who rode the Hoover landslide of 1928 to victory
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Richmond
N. B.early
Greene County
General Assembly
Congress
J. A. Garber
Rockingham
Farmers Union seeks new members and plans reorganization
The Virginia State Farmers' Union held its twenty first annual convention in Richmond. Frederick county delegates led by I W Scothorn O L Grim Lester Dailey J G Ramey and C B Stickley praised the meeting. Officers were re elected and plans for an intensive recruitment drive ahead of federal support from the Farm Board were announced. Dailey and state president George A Lambert were chosen to attend the national meeting in Knoxville February 14 and 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia State Farmers’ Union
Richmond
Frederick County
I. W. Scothorn
O. L. Grim
Lester Dailey
J. G. Ramey
C. B. Stickley
Federal Farm Board
Stickley
Dailey
County Union
George A. Lambert
Rural Retreat
Knoxville
Tenn
National Organization
North Carolina
Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
C. E. Huff
Kansas
Overcrowding on trolley cars prompts report and reforms
Baltimore February 25 A report on overcrowding of two car trolley trains following a fatal collision urges block signals on the Point Breeze line serving Western Electric Company workers. The crash left two dead, with 72 fares in the front car and 102 in the trailer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Joseph L. Wickes
Public Service Commission
Point Breeze
Lee Thomas Carney
Lewis Helm
Young Wife Slain in Columbus Slashing incident
Evelyn Frances Edgington, 19, wife of an oilcloth worker, was found slain in her bed in Columbus. Her throat was cut with a milk bottle fragment near the body. Husband Lawrence Edgington, 20, returned from work and discovered her. He says he last saw her alive about 6 yesterday. Ruth Edgington, a relative, was with the woman when he left for work.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
Evelyn Frances Edgington
Lawrence Edgington
Ruth Edgington
French Vote Delays Naval Conference Return to London
Delegates await France's vote of confidence as Camille Chautemps defends his ministry. Paris reports heavy opposition bets on Briand and a possible delay in sending a French delegation until a new government forms. London monitors the Chamber of Deputies decision and the potential impact on the Five Power Naval Conference schedule.
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London
Associated Press
Naval C
France
Paris
Chautemps
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
Briand
Briand Will
Aee
Mac
Great Britain
Henry Stimson
United States
London Parley
District Governor Attends a Lions Club Meeting
The Lions Club gathering in Virginia welcomed Rev Dr Thomas Brown district governor of Lions in Virginia as guest of honor. He praised Winter Lions for their service and urged continued effort. Guests included J E Brunk of National Fruit Product Winchester and Mr McCume of Hagerstown Lions Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lions’ Club
Sarah Fire Company
Thomas Brown
Lynchburg
Lions’ Organization
Virginia
J. E. Brunk
Winchester
National Fruit Product Company
McCume
Hagerstown
Lions* Club
Option Reported On Another Plant In Virginia
The Northern Virginia Power Company of Winchester reports it has obtained a 15 day option on Warren Power Company's Front Royal plant. The Winchester company is a Potomac Edison subsidiary operating power works in Virginia Maryland West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Virginia Powert Company
Winchester
Warren Power Company
Front Royal
Winchester Company
Potomac Editson Company
West Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Tigers to Meet Bunker Hill Independents Tonight
The Winchester Steam Laundry Tigers will face the Bunker Hill Independents at Han High School gym at 8 o clock tomorrow evening. Officials say the teams are well matched and a large crowd is expected to attend the basketball clash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester Steam Laundry
Tigers
Bunker Hill
W. Va
Han High School
Dribbler
Armel School Play Set for Gore High Night
Armel School will present a play at Gore High School on Thursday night February 27 at 7 30 p m. Students and staff invite the community to attend this local theater event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armel School
Gore High
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Clarke County
Victor Corp
Women’s College
Halsey Commission
Lutheran
LEE
Mrs. Schneider
Senator Early
Farmers’ Union
Camille Chautemps
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