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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1926
Page
3
Fr google shard text shows shutters raised still in old town, with shopkeepers pulling back curtains as Beranger songs echo in the street. Drawings for works depict the old windows and charming façades still visible despite action.
A group of inmates in a Tangled area faced charges after a grand jury indicted them for robbery within a jail. Missing funds totaling about 65 dollars were recovered, with 45 hidden on Elliott and Heflin, and 10 recovered on the floor from Newcome. Additional defendants include Newcomer, arrested for drunkenness, and Cham Peen, jailed for drunkenness. The cases involve store and post office robberies at Kernstown and a railroad station robbery at Stephens.
A marriage license issued in the county clerk’s office records Albert B. Pinetree and Miss Bertie Annneider of Hagerstown Md as the bride and groom. The groom a widower and conductor at the Western Maryland Rail yard married bride daughter of Harlan Sneilier at Kernstown by Rev T H Daffin of the Presbyterian Church Kernstown.
In the Shenandoah Valley a massive Poland China hog, believed to be the state’s largest, was slaughtered by I.C. Crist. It weighed 1110 pounds, measured 8 1/2 feet long and 6 feet 5 inches around. Hams weighed 75 pounds each and shoulders 68 pounds each after feeding nearly 100 bushels of corn. Four observers, including Walter Pence who guessed the weight to the pound, watched the butchering.
A two year study by R C Walton at the State Cell experimental lab Arendtsville traces peach canker damage in Adams County Pennsylvania to hydrated lime. Walton says the lime's small particles caused the issue and has led to substantial crop losses.
Inwood church of Christ receives a donated building lot from Ed Swartz. A building fund starts as the congregation prepares for its own worship space near the Pennsylvania Railroad on the state road to Gerrards Town. The church joins about 10 000 Churches of Christ with over a million and a half members nationwide.
American Legion officials announce a statewide effort to enlist thousands of ex service men in reinstating and converting their World War I policies. The deadline for reinstate ment is July 2, 1926 after which conversion ends. Virginia posts totaling about 101 with 7,000 members will mount an aggressive advertising push to inform veterans and aid their action.
Blind guides in London protest winter weather reducing business as clear and cold conditions persist. Foggy spells cause thousands to get lost nearby while guides on street corners offer assistance, with an estimated 350000 pounds in lost business in less than a day.
Walter E. Dehaven on Bayliss AS Stine and We MM Blok face about seven or eight cases slated for grand jury consideration. Several matter involve alleged violations of the prohibition laws.
A Virginia report notes more than double the car lot fruit and vegetable inspections were made in 1925 compared with 1924 under the voluntary federal state inspection service. The program, begun in 1922, operates with cost recovery from applicants and has limited state funding.
A note on Henry Ford’s role in reviving old time dance and music, tracing the movement to a Big Rapids Michigan kitchen where Ford and Thomas Eddy traced tunes with local fiddlers. The piece recalls Jasper and other pioneers, Ford’s trips east for collaborations, and aging fiddlers keeping dances alive through phonograph recording and community events.
Chicago dated report details 1926 all star selections by batting and fielding leaders. Leon Goslin of Washington and Gordon Cochrane of Philadelphia top both departments, with legends and cross references to historic 1906 clashes and a lineup of top fielders and hitters from the era.
Sheriff Pannett summoned Frederick county residents for service at the February term of the Circuit Court to begin Wednesday February 3. Citizens named include R. A. Lemley Phil H Gold S H Braithwaite L J Hook J A R Snapp T B Massie L F Dorsey J Lester Dailey B L Anderson R N Hockman C Brumback and Romanus.
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