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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1923
Page
3
December 20 1922 notice from the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of Frederick County Virginia concerning Benjamin M Hedrick documented in official court records.
Commissioner W McDonald Lee led an all day session at Murphy's Hotel with state and federal officials to find means to rid Virginia streams of the carp. The plan includes attracting capital for factories and plants to process the fish and protect commercial fisheries.
The text profiles Zane Grey born in Zanesville Ohio and educated at the University of Pennsylvania. It notes his passion for outdoor sports, his move to the West, and his mastery in portraying desert landscapes especially in Arizona and Sonora. It highlights Desert Gold as a notable novel with serialized rights secured for early printing in the paper.
Beginning Tomorrow Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Winchester will hold the annual stockholders meeting for election of directors and other business. The Banking House is the meeting place on Tuesday January 9, 1923 at eleven oclock. H D Fuller vice president and cashier signs the notice.
Six men stranded on a desert isle for months are found in a warship captain's log. The two Irishmen fought day and night during the entire voyage. The two Englishmen never spoke after an awkward introduction. The two Scots began a Caledonian society onboard.
Announcement of Miss Miriam Louise Kempton of Boston and Lester Lawrence Evans of Front Royal and Washington DC. Kempton, Emerson College of Oratory graduate and Pi Phi, hails from Puritan descent as Alden descendant. Evans, World War I veteran and reserve captain, is a Shenandoah Valley figure, with ties to Frank L. Evans and Dr. Thomas W. Evans of Paris. The couple plan a spring wedding and a New York home.
W A Braithwaite the oldest active firefighter in the state was re elected fire chief of the Harrisonburg fire department for the thirty four year term. A banquet marked the opening of a 5000 addition to the station with 150 attendees. Mayor Morrison cty officials and visiting firemen lauded the department as Harrisonburg adds new equipment valued at 12000 with over 23000 in trucks and a steam engine showing local support for the volunteers.
In memory of our dear mother Mrs Catherine Fries who departed in life January 5 1900. Twenty three years ago today our Saviour called dear mother away. We miss our mother and we will always think of thee. By her daughter Suda.
Henry Wickham, former state senator and C O Railway vice president, announces candidacy for the Senate in the Thirty second district embracing Hanover Caroline and King William counties. He opposes highway bond issues, pledges no special road program, advocates retrenchment and fewer state officials, and cites possible treasury deficits. The Democratic nomination will be at a district convention in January with a February 20 special election to fill the Gravatt vacancy.
Mr. Wickham would return to the Senate as a leading figure in the upper house, following nineteen years in the Thirty second district. Son of Gen William C. Wickham the Republican former senator, he chaired the finance committee and worked on the state and West Virginia debt commissions. He is a major Virginia landholder.
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