Marriages and Divorces Rise in Winchester Records
City and county clerks report higher marriage and divorce activity in 1929. The City issued 134 licenses and the County 103, with 24 divorces in the Corporation Court and 10 in the Circuit Court. October led city marriages with 19. December topped county marriages with 16. Residents from ten states were represented, including a Michigan man marrying an Ohio woman here.
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Cupid
Corporation Court
Circuit Court
Frederick County
Peomte
Old Dominion
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
District of Columbia
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Michigan
Ohio
Virginia to Represent Bus Bill Hearing Before House Panel
Lester Hooker of the Virginia State Corporation Commission will present Virginia’s view on the Parker bus bill to the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. The hearing January 8 aims to regulate interstate passenger service with state led certs under Interstate Commerce oversight. The measure, approved by the National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners, would route interstate applications through state public service commissions before ICC certification. Hooker serves on a national committee on motor vehicle legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
House of Representatives
Lester Hooker
State Corporation Commission
Co Parker
Hooker
National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners
Virginia Commission
Public Service Commissions
Interstate Commerce Commission
Parker
New Orleans
Eame
Senate
Couzens
Railroad and Utilities Commissioners
The
National Association
Charles Webster
Iowa
Friendship Fire Company Meeting Tonight Elect Officers
The Friendship Fire Company schedules its regular monthly meeting tonight at 8 o'clock in Friendship Hall. All members urged to attend as officer elections for the coming year will be held and other business of importance will be transacted. Fred W. Forney, Captain.
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Friendship Fire Company
Friendship Hall
City Tags On Sale At City Hall Tomorrow Morning
Tags will be sold tomorrow morning from 10 o clock at the Commissioner of Revenue's Office City Hall. Proceeds support city operations and tax administration.
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Commissioner of Revenue
City Hall
Rouss Fire Company to Elect Officers Friday Night
Annual election of officers held Friday night January 3 at 8 oclock. All members requested to attend. Smoker. See M Lemp, President.
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M. Lemp
Rites Held for Mr Strosnider in Mount Hebron Cemetery
A funeral cortege departed from 317 South Loudoun Street this afternoon for Mount Hebron Cemetery for Ralph A. Strosnider 21 a bank clerk. Rev Dr Muray D Mitchell officiated at the home service with hymns In The Garden In the Sweet Bye and Bye and Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross. Union Bank staff and Mandley High School alumni attended. Pallbearers included Carroll Crisman Kenneth Henry Curtis Bly Floyd Haines Victor Wheeler and Turner Anderson.
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Loudoun Street
Mount Hebron
Ralph A. Strosnider
Amon Strosnider
South Loudoun Street
Murray D. Mitchell
Braddock Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Compaey B
Mandley High School
Strosnider
Carroll Crisman
Kenneth Henry
Curtis Bly
Floyd Haines
Victor Wheeler
Turner Anderson
Death by Bomb at New Year Party Kills Naomi Brady
A deadly explosive package left at a neighbor’s home killed Naomi Hall Brady, 18, and injured eight at a New Year gathering near Mitchellville Maryland. The bomb, likely containing dynamite with nails, exploded after delivery by Leslie Hall and a neighbor’s son, with the package mistakenly sent to the wrong house. Police plan to question a rejected suitor rumored to have felonious dynamite knowledge.
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Associated Press
Eat Pleasant
Naomi Hall Brady
Herman Brady
Mitchellville
John Hall
Hall
Leslie Hall
Washington
John Buckley
Brady
Washington Post
Furloughs Put 1537 B&O Workers Off Work
An aggregate of 1,537 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad employees, including 91 Cumberland and 67 Baltimore workers, received indefinite furloughs due to reduced business. Back shops usually take annual furloughs before and after holidays, while Mount Clare avoided the break this year.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Cumberland
Mount Clare
Baltimore and Ohio
Boy On Bicycle Kills Father In Maryland Incident
Merle Sprenkle Jr 14 of Waynesboro Pa returning home on a bicycle after an errand for his mother struck his father who was walking home. The father died in hospital from a fractured skull.
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Associated Press
Hagerstown
Merle Sprenkle, Jr
Waynesboro
Truek
Public sale notice at 16 W Pallmall St on Jan 4 1930
Household furniture includes 13 beds with springs and mattresses 9 dressers 9 wash stands bowls and pitchers chairs rockers dining room and living room suites 2 vacuum cleaners bedding pillows and a Springfield rifle. Terms cash. 11 o'clock sale Saturday January 4 1930 at 16 West Pallmall Street conducted by Newcome.
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W. Pallmall St
Used Ford Car Models for Sale at GEO WASHINGTON GARAGE
The listing shows 1920s Ford models including A and T, a 29 Tudor, a 29 Standard Coupe, a 29 Roadster, a 28 Tudor, and a 26 Coupe advertised by GEO WASHINGTON GARAGE. Date 11-26-1p-tf appears as a catalog stamp.
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GEO Washington Garage
Smith Democrat Opposes Simmons For the Senate
Raleigh attorney Josiah William Bailey announced his candidacy against Senator F Simmons in the Democratic primary for the United States Senate next June. Bailey supported Alfred E Smith in the presidential race, who was opposed by Simmons as the state’s Democratic national committeeman.
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Associated Press
Raleigh
N.C
Josiah William Bailey
F. Simmons
United States
Bailey
Alfred FB. Smith
Simmons
Hollar's Grocery Special Advertisement
A brief grocery advertisement indicates a special sale at Hollar's Grocery with a pointer to page 5 for details.
Sale of Jas. Cather Farm Set for Saturday Jan 1
An advertisement announces the sale of James Cather’s farm to be held Saturday January 1. The notice appears on page 4 and references the local newspaper listings. Proceeds and terms are described in the ad.
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Jas. Cather Farm
Dr Charles E Barker to Speak at Capitol Theatre
Dr Charles E Barker of Grand Rapids Michigan renowned for keeping Taft fit will address Capitol Theatre Sunday at 3 oclock He will then lecture Handley School students Handley Library audiences and Rotary audiences on parental responsibilities His Rotary funded visit carries no admission fee.
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Taft
United States
Charles E. Barker
Grand Rapids
Mich
Capitol Theatre
Handley School
Handley Library
Barker
Tay
Barker Ma
Rotary Clubs
Rotary
Rotary International
Wanted Based Straw Call or Phone Winchester Cold Storage
A terse classified item seeks a straw buyer, directing readers to call or phone Winchester Cold Storage for contact. The short notice emphasizes immediacy but provides no names or specific details.
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Winchester Cold Storage
State highway department reports record road work in 1929
The state highway department announced a banner year with 491 miles of highways built in 1929 and total expenditures of 14 744 139 for construction and maintenance. Maintenance costs reached 4 512 498, while the gap closing fund and supervision costs totaled 12 818 260 for next fiscal planning.
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State Highway Department
Henry G. Shirley
C. J. Allard
Highway Commission
General Assembly
Catatute
Chief of Police Warns Against Blank Pistols
Police Chief M. A. Doran urges immediate end to blank pistols after lenient handling this year. Merchants were told not to sell blank pistols or cartridges to children, amid incidents of noise and one injury from a child loading a live bullet.
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M. A. Doran
Farm Union To Elect Officers At Stephens City Meeting
The Stephens City Farm Union will meet in the People's Bank building at 8 o clock Saturday evening to elect officers and discuss buying warehouse property for the organization. All union members are urged to attend.
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Stephens City Farm Union
People’s Bank
O’cclok
For Rent Maderh rgom House at 423 W Leicester
For rent a house at 423 West Leicester Street, possession to buyer. B M Sullivan signs the notice with date November 22.
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Rgom House
Leicester Gee
B. M. Sullivan
Governor Byrd Backs Stratford Hall Fund Drive
Virginia Governor Harry F. Byrd endorses the campaign to raise funds to preserve Stratford Hall, home of the Lees, as a permanent shrine to General Robert E. Lee. He urges Virginians to contribute, noting early large gifts and broad support from civic and historical groups across the state. The drive aims to complete Stratford Hall’s preservation with a substantial payment following a $50,000 initial sum.
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Fredericksburg
Charles D. Lanier
Robert B. Lee Memorial Foundation
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Stratford Hall
Lees
Westmoreland County
Robert E. Lee
Byrd
Stratford
Commonwealth of Virginia
Lee
Granville G. Valentine
Mond
Richmond
Nancy Astor
el Mirador
Marion Willis
Memorial Foundation
Stratford Hall & Shrine
General Lee
Confederate Veterans
Sons of Veterans
Daughters of the American Revolution
Association For the Preservation of Virginia Antiquitiies
Colonial Dames
Garden Club of
America
Cooperation of Pastors Requested
Pastors of Winchester churches are urged to submit Sunday service announcements to The Star office by Friday noon. Announcements must be delivered in person or by mail, not by telephone. Those received Saturday may not be published with certainty.
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Winchester
Joint Farm Union Meeting Is Called
Gainesboro Virginia January 2 a joint meeting of the county organization of the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union and the Gainesboro local will be held at 7 30 oclock Tuesday evening January 7 There will be election of officers and other important business All Farmers Union members in Frederick county are cordially invited to be present.
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Gainesboro
The
Farmer's Educational and Cooperative Union
Farmer's Union
Frederick County
Sarah Zane Fire Co. Monthly Meeting and Officer Election
The Sarah Zane Fire Co. calls its regular monthly meeting and annual officer election for Friday evening January 3 at 8 o'clock. Full attendance requested. Capt. James N. Moling presides.
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James N. Moling
For Sale 100 Edison Preferred Stock at Court House
For sale 100 shares of 6 percent Potomac Edison Preferred Stock in front of the Court House on Saturday April 4 at 12 30 o clock. Duvall and Dunn conduct the sale.
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Potomac Edison
Front Court House
Duvall & Dunn
Mrs Barton survives forty foot fall from Berry's Ferry bridge
Mrs Eleanor W Barton wife of Shenandoah Valley Academy instructor Lewis N Barton narrowly escaped death when her Ford sedan plummeted forty feet from the west approach of the river bridge at Berry's Ferry. Local motorist R J Hatcher found her semi conscious amid mud and water and rushed her to Memorial hospital where doctors treated severe lacerations and shock. Her husband Lewis Barton is in Chicago awaiting word.
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Eleanor W. Barton
Lewis N. Barton
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Berry’s Ferry
Cara Ford
Yound
R. J. Hatcher
Washington
Helen
Hatcher
Ueston
Memorial Hospital
Shenandoah River
Mr. Barton
Chicago
Barton
Joseph M. Barton
South End Hose Company to Elect Officers at Meeting
South End Hose Company will hold a meeting Monday evening at 8 o clock to elect officers for the ensuing term. A smoker, short addresses and music follow, with a promise of a good turnout from attendees.
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South End Hose Company
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Hal Skelly
Skid
Nancy Carroll
Dorothy Revier
Ralph Theodor
Charles D. Brown
al St. Join
May Boley
Fred W. Forney
Rouss Fire Company
MR. Strosnider
Naomi. Brady
Newcome
Smith
Democrat
Hollar’s Grocery
Dr. Barker
Department
Farm Union
Evening Star
Joint Farm Union Meeting
Sarah Zane Fire CO
L. Barton
South End Hose CO
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