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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1937
Page
7
Pittsburgh residents trudged back to waterlogged homes after the Allegheny Monongahela and Ohio rivers crest at 34.5 feet. Volunteers and city crews prepared to aid Cincinnati and Louisville while Johnstown sent supplies and firemen. Mothers recalled past flood losses as relief efforts continued downriver.
A Virginia history note recalls the Payne Todd estate near Orange. Dolly Madison deeded 1838 land to John Payne Todd for a 50 acre tract adjacent to Nellie Willis and others. The circular 30 foot ballroom, ice house, and wine cellar stood near Madison Run. Todd chaired the Montpelier Marble Company charter in 1840 and quarried marble for local use before the site faded after his death. Todd’s will (1852) freed slaves and left the estate to the American Colonization Society.
Classified notice notes availability of job printing services including bill heads and letter heads. Indicates options for custom design and production in a historical newspaper context.
Short Creek founder Edmund Barlow asserts wars and floods signal the end times as he governs the polygamy community near the Utah border. He cites global conflict, drought and pestilence as prophetic signs while presiding over the settlement and its communal sawmill.
The colony clings to original Mormon tenets amid denunciation from the mother church. Two men I C Spencer and Price Johnson return after nearly a year in prison as “returned missionaries” while Barlow and followers, 29 adults and about 70 children, endure poverty and public censure. Snows have finally isolated the village as dayslong storms trap families with rations, parched corn, a little meat, and stored cabbage.
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