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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1930
Page
3
A short social notice indicates arrangements for mailing or delivery and references a person named P. Miller with a timing note between 3 and 4 p m for the following day. The fragmentary text suggests a neighborhood update or private matter.
The District Nurses Association reports a community effort in Winchester delivering Christmas aid. Elk’s Club provided shoes overshoes and hose for 37 children with nurses fitting each child. Kiwanis and Handley School baskets fed families, plus substantial donations from local citizens.
A Tuesday evening party at Miss Eleanor Willey’s Middletown home featured games and late refreshments. Guests included Miss Christine Link Virginia Kline Beulah Walden Eriie Wright Marguerite Legge Frances Willey Eleanor Willey and Messrs Charlie Rinker William Coffman William Owings Gordon Keith Tommy Sutler Lawrence Long Earl Willey.
Mrs Virginia Faulkner DaShane, daughter of Mr and Mrs H D Fuller, is reported extremely grave at Memorial Hospital after injuries from a Maryland automobile accident. Her husband Mrs DuShane had shown improvement but has since worsened.
Mrs Elmer E Wingfield of Fairview Avenue underwent a Memorial Hospital operation this morning for longstanding complications. This afternoon her condition was reported quite satisfactory. Her husband is employed at the Winchester post office.
The Northern Virginia Power Company held its annual dinner for about 45 employees at Tokus Inn with a pleasant menu and local orchestra music. Local visits note visitors and births while several staff and relatives travel between Berryville Strasburg Stephens City and Roanoke College.
Rich mond Times Dispatch notes gatherings across the region with Mr. Mortimer F. Harkins of Washington visiting relatives, Mrs. William Beverley returning to Seb home Winchester from 410 West Franklin, and numerous dinners and returns from Newport News Capon Bridge and New York with families and students.
The Winchester Church of Christ held a watch night service with songs readings prayers and a social hour. The pastor noted 92 sermons 91 talks 770 pastoral calls 5 marriages 7 funerals 13 additions 180 members 77 morning 50 evening 119 Bible school 30 Christian Endeavor 17 prayer meeting plus missions benevolences 104.14 and school 111 with debt reduced to 11 400 on a 40 000 property.
Two people died and several injured when a Greyhound bus left the road on the National Road near Eaton Ohio while en route from St Louis to Pittsburgh. The driver W R Spratt of Indianapolis was trapped for hours and severely hurt.
Paisley Scotland January 2. Charles Droward charged with culpable homicide after a fire at a motion picture theatre killed 72 children. Town massing funerals while undertakers work day and night. nearly 70 more to be held with multiple ceremonies in five families. Most injured recover. 14 sent home. 22 still in hospital with two in serious condition.
Mahore India January 2 The new working committee of India's national convention authorized the president to call on all national congressmen in the various legislatures to resign immediately. The move aims to win independence through cooperation with the British government. The committee set January 26 for a nationwide demonstration in support of Congress and defined the creed as Pian Swaraj or complete independence.
New York stock market opens the year with a brisk rally that proves short lived as renewed selling pressure hits merchandising public utility issues and high priced specialties. Early gains of 1 to nearly 6 points vanish and declines spread to 2 to 6 percent as Call money climbs to 6 percent.
Dragonflies possess eyes with as many as 30 000 facets to provide intense vision for catching fast prey.
DETROIT Mich Jan 2 Inspector Henry J Garvin head of the crime and bomb squad was shot four times and seriously wounded shortly after 8 am by men in a large sedan who fired 12 shots on Cape Lynn Avenue near Jefferson Avenue An 11 year old girl Lois Bartlett was struck and is described as dying Garvin had been a marked man since the squad was formed two years ago to fight racketeers and hijackers.
A protest from the Women's Civic League was filed with Mayor Shryock over a musical comedy at the Colonial Theatre. The show ran nearly two weeks and was alleged to be immoral. Chief Doran summoned the manager and others to the police station to hear the objections.
A fire at Verne D. Andrews's farm home in Nashville Michigan on New Year's morning burned three identified as guests and left two others missing. Andrews, a widower, was discovered inside as neighbors found the blaze and began a search for additional victims.
Faded page lists wholesale dairy and grain prices with names like Butter fat No 1 and Creamery, plus cattle and poultry notes. Includes figures for Wheat Hay Cotton seed Meal and various livestock categories with scattered, unclear OCR text.
ACYRUS Ohio January 2 Milo J Goodwin 25 railroad worker shot Rose Ulmer 22 in a street near a factory where Mary Fisher stood. Goodwin ordered her into a car before firing a shotgun and then killed himself. Authorities say motive linked to threat and coercion.
A weight loss promotion touts Kruschen Salts as a fat reduction method. It claims daily half teaspoon in hot water reduces fat in 3 weeks, boosts energy and health, and offers an 85 cent bottle with a money back guarantee if unsatisfied. The ad urges Baker's Drug Store and other druggists to supply.
Stephens City Va January notes from Mrs J P Carbaugh entertain Sunday School class at home with games and new officers elected. Visitors include Snyder Alleman Mrs I B Mra Albertanee and others. Several local residents noted visiting relatives and recovering from illness with updates on hospital stays and travel plans.
Mrs. G Prossell and Mise Virginia Shryock shared holiday greetings with Mr and Mrs Paul Lampeell in Baltimore Maryland. Mr and Mrs Frank nee of Washington visited over Christmas week with the Dean family in Maryland.
The will of Sewell B. Watts, banker, probated in Baltimore Orphans Court, divides an estate estimated at 1 million dollars among his immediate family after his death by gunfire in his garage last week. Claims against the estate total about 2 thousand dollars.
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