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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1933
Page
5
Senator W Layman author of a state prohibition law says he might accept a reasonable revision. He notes Virginia’s old quart a month logging and foresees beer legislation affecting repeal chances of the eighteenth amendment. He criticizes national enforcement for lacking effort funding and proper use of funds.
Grimes Virginia report notes Alvin Dick ill at home for two weeks but improving. Woodbine Community League met at the Hubbard home with good attendance. Mrs. Albert Miller and D L Affleck suffered from grippe and cold. Martinsburg teacher Miss Pinkerton left Woodbine school due to her father’s accident. Miss Cornwell from Winchester substitutes. Farmers begin spring plowing and tree trimming ahead of the new year activities.
A rural Kentucky West Virginia style community page lists visits among families in Mt Pleasant Mr Boyce and others hosted and called on by neighbors. Christian Endeavor society re organized with Mary Perry as president and Milhon as treasurer and meets weekly with Clinton Barr leading activities.
Announcement of a new law partnership in Staunton with Forrest T. Taylor joining Meredith E. Stickley effective Jan 15. Taylor brings local bar standing. Stickley, a District of Columbia and Virginia government lawyer with WWI service and UVA law graduate, will office in the Law Building.
Miss Charlotte Elizabeth McMurray, sister of Presbyterian pastor Rev Joseph A McMurray of Spring Mills Berkeley County, died at her brother’s home from a paralytic stroke suffered a week earlier. Born 1852 in Georgia, she taught in southern schools and later led the Female Orphanage in Lynchburg Virginia. funeral held this afternoon.
Thieves bored a hole in a large tank at the National Fruit Product Company plant in Martinsburg West Virginia Sunday night and did not plug it. About 1300 gallons of cider ran out. Police help sought to stop thefts. One man was arrested pleaded guilty fined and jailed.
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