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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1928
Page
3
The Martinsburg area papers document visits from Charles L. Hook and his son from Memorial Hospital, plus various residents and guests. Local social and personal notices cover hospital recoveries, trips to Charlottesville and Harrisonburg, and small thank yous from the Winchester Memorial Hospital auxiliary for a recent charity party with numerous helpers and donors.
Mr. M. E. Kegley of Lynchburg Va. visits Hotel Jack while Miss Julia Grubbs from Marshall Va. spends time with Mrs. Fritts on East Piccadilly. Mr C A Kitchell of Martinsburg WV halted at Hotel Jack last night. Mrs Jack Funk, operated on at Memorial Hospital last Thursday, shows slow but steady improvement. Formerly Miss Beulah Harper.
Mr Garland Hansbrough, long a patient at Memorial Hospital, has been removed to his North Braddock street home where he is slowly recuperating. The January meeting of the Lawrence Washington Chapter Children of the American Revolution was held at 313 West Leicester street with good attendance. The next meeting is planned for February 24 at Miss Betsy Rice’s home on North Braddock street to celebrate Washington’s birthday. Edward C. Goss and wife, formerly Miss Margaret Hodgson, are returning tonight from New York and eastern cities to live with Mrs Hodgson on East Clifford street. Dr B Mitchell Knight and wife leave by auto for the south for several weeks of motoring in Florida and Cuba. Alfredo Campione, president of the Hotel Association of Italy, arrives in Baltimore with Italian hotel men touring the United States. they will be hosted tonight by Col Consolvo at Hotel Belo vedere. Guests include Alberto Campione, Gil de Chiari and Mrs Chiari, Adelmo De la Casa, Ettore Fioroni. all are decorated by the king of Italy.
The will of C S Jefferson, who died recently in Bruce town, probate yesterday in the circuit clerk's office. He leaves to his wife Ollie Payne Jefferson the house and lot in Brucetown and 600 dollars cash. The residue is to be sold and the income paid to Mrs Jefferson for life, with the Shenandoah Valley National Bank to invest the trust fund and erect a monument at Jefferson's grave upon her death. Mrs Jefferson named executrix, bond filed for 4000 dollars. Will dated October 9 1924 and witnessed by M M Lynch and Daniel W Lupton.
City Councilman Fréd W. Forney reports a letter from J. B. Denny a member of the House of Delegates in Richmond stating the Watts bill to levy a ten per cent amusement tax was killed in the finance committee. The nine to eight vote blocked reporting the bill.
Col Charles A Lindbergh arrives in Bogota after a 400 mile mountain flight from Cartagena. He pays respects to President Mendez with Samuel H. Piles and later meets Foreign Minister Uruibe and War Minister Rengifo. A banquet is planned with the president and diplomatic corps.
Sybil Bayer heiress to about 5 million dollars and niece of New York banker Jules F. Bache married Vincent E. Brown, a hotel clerk. The couple wed secretly at Rye, New York, and stayed in a Fifty third street rooming house. Mrs Brown is 23 and Brown 26. she is expected to inherit not less than 5 million when she turns 24.
Bert Acosta, trans Atlantic air pilot, was freed by Judge Walter M. Pickett in Common Pleas Court to chart his own course. He was fined and sentenced to five days in jail for flying below state aviation limits and bond was set pending appeal. He was detained on a New Jersey warrant for larceny of the Splitdorff plane until the court sustained his demurrer and ordered release for improper process.
In Moscow on January 28 Monseigneur Theophile Skalsky Roman Catholic prior of the Kiev Cathedral was sentenced to ten years in prison and five years loss of civic rights. Convicted on most charges including treason and espionage related offenses before the Soviet revolution amnesty, he received a prison term instead of death.
Visitors from the United States bought 54 000 permits to buy liquor in Canada from June 1 to November 1. It was estimated they spent at least $8 each, totaling about $422 000.
The New York market closed heavy after an early strength burst as poor earnings and higher money rates spurred selling. Total volume neared 1.3 million shares while later gains were driven by Treasury assurances and favorable trade news.
Harry Borden 42 of Strasburg Va was found near Darksville W Va nearly froze after first crash and later struck again while walking home. He had been treated at City Hospital Martinsburg and discharged. He suffered head and back injuries and is hospitalized in Charles Town. Doctors suspect shell shock from World War I service.
Federal authorities report the theft of ten books of money order blanks with a potential value up to 100000 dollars and stamps ranging from 500 to 1000 dollars from a Milwaukee postal sub-station. Entrance was gained via a rear window of a downtown drug store where the sub-station was located.
Virginia York Imperial apples sold at a premium in Liverpool buyers’ market amid strong barreled stock, while boxed stock weakened. Prices ranged from 7.06 to 8.27 per barrel for York Imperials and 2.80 to 4.08 per half case for Spanish oranges. overall demand uneven due to ample British supplies.
Kansas City treasurer E S Villmoore arrived in Houston to set Reed for President in 1932. He said special trains would bring over a thousand Reed supporters to the Democratic national convention in June and that Reed merely asks for a fair fighting chance based on his past record.
Judges of election in Stephens City have been named for a February 1 vote on issuing $25,000 bonds for a water works system. Polls open from sunrise to sunset. The judges are Lomax Parker, G. S. Lemley and S. V. Cook, with Holmes Argenbright acting as.
A brief quotable line from the Altoona Mirror asserts that if all U.S. pedestrians were lined end to end drivers would have an easier time, reflecting a provocative safety stance.
President Coolidge met with Representatives Britten of Illinois and Fish of New York to resolve football regulation differences between the Naval Academy and West Point. The talks yielded no sign of progress, with Fish blaming West Point Superintendent Maj Gen E B Winans for refusing a New York conciliation meeting. Britten said Coolidge listened with interest but did not indicate further action.
A mass meeting in St. Petersburg Florida with 1 276 participants from 36 states under the Woman's National Committee on Law Enforcement passed a resolution. It calls national parties to insert in their platforms planks favoring the eighteenth amendment and honest enforcement. The group also urged impeachment of senators representatives and judges who make mental reservations when taking oaths to support the constitution.
Weather bureau predicts rising temperatures and mostly fair conditions in the North and Middle Atlantic States to start the week. Local snow in the north, then rain or snow and a colder second half.
Fire damaged the power generating building of the James 8 Gary and Sons tile mills at Alberton Maryland Howard County during a snowbound morning. About 150 workers battled the blaze as flames were confined to the power plant. power would be supplied from Baltimore to keep operations ongoing. Estimated loss around $10,000.
The Civil Service Commission told the Prohibition Bureau today that a new examination will be held for prohibition administrators after high failure rates on the first test. Prohibition officials and federal officials urged a reexamination to save top agents and naming officers from being lost to service. The new exam will cover districts including Pennsylvania Wayne, Maryland District of Columbia Virginia North Carolina and South Carolina.
An unidentified man leaped 180 feet to his death from a Washington shaft, plunging onto a snow covered pavement. Authorities found only initials J B K on a belt buckle, leaving his identity unknown as weather worsened.
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