Dr. Melton to Speak at Week of Prayer Services
Rev. Ivan R. Smith announces a Week of Prayer to be held each night next week at Braddock Street Methodist Church at 8 o'clock. Dr. Sparks White Melton of Norfolk will deliver the messages as speaker, representing the Winchester Ministerial Association.
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Winchester Ministerial Association
Ivan R. Smith
Braddock Street Methodist Church
Sparks White Melton
Norfolk
Ministerial Association
Melton
Freemason Street Baptist
Protests Over Traffic Lights Grow in Winchester
Chief of Police C W Hollis reports a surge of protests over funding for traffic signal operation in Winchester with dozens of calls from residents seeking the lights’ return. Andrew Bell has gathered more signatures on petitions urging the council to add lights and reopen the budget hearing next Tuesday.
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Winchester
C. W. Hollis
Andrew Bell
Bell
Florence Dandridge Dies at Niece’s Home in New York
Miss Florence Dandridge, 55, of Jefferson County West Virginia, died Wednesday at her sister Mrs Lewis Flushing’s home in Flushing New York. Funeral services were held there and she was buried today in Old Norbourne Cemetery Martinsburg West Virginia. She was a daughter of the late Lemuel P Dandridge and sister of Rev Edmund Pendleton Dandridge of Nashville Tennessee. She was a niece of Alexander Spottswood Dandridge of Winchester.
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Florence Dandridge
Jefferson County
W. Va
Lewis
Flushing
N. Y
Old Norbourne
Martinsburg
Dandridge
Lemuel P. Dandridge
Presbyterian Service Tonight at Loudoun Street Church
Special preparatory services will be held at 7 30 this evening in Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church. The first of the year's quarterly communion services will be held at 11 o'clock Sunday morning. Both services will be conducted by the pastor Rev E B McGukin.
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Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church
E. B. McGukin
Hable's Palace Presents Edward Everett Horton Tonight
Edward Everett Horton stars in the Universal Picture His Night Out at the Palace today only. The program also features The Roaring West first chapter with Buck Jones, plus The Phantom Empire and a cartoon. A double western program with Ken Maynard and Buck Jones headlines Saturday showings.
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Edward Everett Horton
Universal Picture
Buck Jones
Ken Maynard
Maynard
Ken
State Chamber Reports 50 Percent Membership Increase in 1935
The Virginia State Chamber of Commerce, under President Jay Winston Johns, announced a 50 percent rise in membership in 1935 and outlined an expanded research program for 1936. Committees on taxation and government, public education, highways, industry and labor, and zoning and land utilization were outlined with plans to reassess tax systems, education funding, highway policy, industrial relations, and land use to boost efficiency and growth.
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Richmond
Virginia State Chamber of Commerce
Jay Winston Johns
Johns
Committee On Taxation and Government
State Chamber
Mr. Johns
Virginia
Chanters Promise New Program and Vestment Plans
The Chanters thank the community for generous support at Christmas Cantata performances. Vestment debt was greatly reduced and a new program will be announced soon. President Robert McNally says the vestments will be paid for promptly with patron support. A rehearsal for the upcoming program is set for tonight at 7 15.
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Robert McNally
Chanters Organization
Young Peoples
Death Summons Mrs. J. H. Moore
Mrs. Bessie Cunningham Moore widow of Rev. J Harry Moore died after several months illness at her Blackstone Virginia home Monday. The noted Presbyterian preacher once served Berryville and Keyser. She is survived by two sons Thomas A. Moore of Blackstone and John C. Moore assistant principal Riverside Lee Academy Riverside.
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Clarke
Jefferson Counties
Bessie Cunningham Moore
J. Harry Moore
Blackstone
Presbyterian Church
Berryville
Keyser
W. Va
Fire Victim's Funeral Held
The funeral of Evelyn Jackson nine months old daughter of Agnes Jackson colored who was burned to death in a fire at the Jackson home on North Kent Street was held the following day. Dr James A Miller issued a certificate stating death was accidental from burns.
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Evelyn Jackson
Agnes Jackson
Jackson
North Kent Street
James A. Miller
Shadows loom over 1936 campaign in Washington
In Washington on January 3, lines of lawmakers arrive as a bonus redemption measure looms for Congress. President Roosevelt prepares two major speeches while Anti New Deal forces renew attacks amid radio address controversy and campaign talk.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
New York
Philadelphia
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