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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1929
Page
3
The Winchester Rotary Club heard an inspection trip report by Railroad superintendent W. O. Motoros and colleagues. The same issue covers Girls Athletic Association activities with new officers, a February show, and plans for a basketball game with Berryville.
Miss Nina Belle Ruble of Winchester and Frances B. Gack formerly of Hagerstown were married by Father Rinehart at Saint Catholic Church in Hagerstown on December 27. Gack, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Gack of 20 Franklin Street, is employed by Berkeley Uphholatery Company in Martinsburg and the couple will live in Winchester.
Mrs Bien Eaton wife of H C Baton died after a long illness at 2 30 p m at her home 616 South Loudoun Street She was 84 native of Missouri long resident of the east Survived by husband one son John Baton of Martinsburg W Va and eight daughters Amanda Osen Pearl Nelson Ellen Berg, Mrs William Shimp, Mrs Trowe Diffenderfer, Mrs Jennie Copenhaver, Mrs Henry Hibbard 56 grandchildren 10 great grandchildren Funeral at 10 o'clock this morning at home with Rev R L Williamson of the First Christian Church and burial at Mount Hebron Cemetery
Mrs Nancy A Pope 72 died at 2 30 this morning at her Sulphur Spring Road home four miles southeast of Winchester after a brief illness thought to have been influenza and possible heart attack funeral arrangements to be announced she was daughter of E H and Emily Scrivener and is survived by her husband six sisters including Miss Katie Scrivener of Winchester and Mrs Ida Elliott Martinsburg Pa and Mrs J A Wisecarver Fulton New York and Mrs W M Wisecarver of Winchester
New York prices dipped 2 to 9 points as selling surged on record brokers loans. Buying quickly returned, lifting several utilities copper chemical and food shares 1 to 8 points from yesterday's close. Credit easing supported the rebound with call money easing from 8 to 6 percent.
Samuel K. Hill, 38, shot and killed his wife in Vandergrift Pennsylvania then killed himself. Three children heard the shots and found the bodies. Clarence Hill age 11 said the couple quarreled last night and that the father had shown him money to take siblings to visit relatives. The father warned the mother not to laugh before firing two shots. both victims were shot through the heart.
Mrs. Ray Riser and her children from Brunswick Maryland arrived today to visit her brother and sister-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Athey.
Mr. J. Natwick of Baltimore on a business trip is registered at the George Washington Hotel in this brief society item.
George O'Neill a farm hand was hanged at a jail shortly after midnight for the murder of his 72 year old employer Azor Robertson and his daughter Ruby Martin whose bodies were found in the burned Robertson farm after a February fire. The prosecution said no motive was established but the crime was proven.
At 6 20 this morning during its seventy first hour aloft the Army endurance plane the Question Mark over Imperial Airport refueled with 170 gallons in seven minutes from plane No 1. The contact occurred at 3000 feet while a pursuit plane signaled breakfast and oil delivery for 7 o'clock. The craft completed the third day of its flight at 7 26 this morning.
Mrs Bettie Hite Fauntleroy widow of Judge Thomas T Fauntleroy of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals died this morning at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington. Her body will be brought to Winchester for burial in Mount Hebron Cemetery. She was 82 and a member of the Hite family. The couple married December 2 1858 with Rev Cornelius Walker performing the ceremony. Funeral arrangements to be announced tomorrow.
In Brussels on January 4 the Belgian tragedy saw 15 home-going workers drown when their closed motor car, with defective brakes, swerved off a bridge into the swollen Ourthe river. Six bodies were recovered that afternoon.
A sport brief notes that the fighter Nempsey intends to return to boxing and will face opponent Indianapolis Neves in a forthcoming bout. The announcement hints at a done deal and anticipates an event in the near future.
New York January 4 Joe Dundee Baltimore welterweight champion was reinstated today by the New York Athletic Commission after being on the suspended list. He was ordered to fight next against Young Jack Thompson of Los Angeles who knocked him out in a non title bout.
The Stephens City local of the Farmers Union will meet in the People's Bank building at Stephens City at 8 PM tomorrow. Officers for the coming year will be elected, and all members are urged to attend.
In Franklin Ta Jn 4 the St. Ry parish district court refused to appoint a commission to inquire into the sanity of Mrs Ada Bonner Le Pouey and Dr Thomas Dreher who are to be hanged. The case includes Mentouet brought in on a stretcher. The defense cites memory loss after a 1923 stroke and a changed behavior after the stroke.
Jack Dempsey will be escorted on arrival in Miami Beach to see Rickard for two minutes. Rickard is described as a sick man undergoing an operation for acute gangrenous appendicitis with doctors expressing seriousness about his condition.
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