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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1931
Page
3
A garbled social and personal note appears to recount telephone communications and messages about births and confirmations. The fragment hints at messages exchanged and references a person or family, but lacks clear names or dates to specify a concrete event.
Winchester likely to participate in an inter city music contest with Harrisonburg Staunton Waynesboro and possibly Winchester. Chesapeake boards regulate choir eligibility memory singing school attendance and five scoring criteria. Also reports Sobeloff confirmed as US district attorney for Maryland and social visits of Miss Jacobs and Miss Harris with local residents and trips to New York.
A regular quarterly session of the Tri-State League of Men and Degree of Pocahontas embraced Maryland West Virginia in the District of Columbia met Tuesday in Odd Fellows Hall. About 150 attended including 30 from Martinsburg. officers chosen include Guy Williams Martinsburg president and records chief. Mrs Jenkins Washington secretary. Mrs Virginia Simpson Winchester treasurer. Mrs Effie Arbaugh Frederick Maryland first collector. Miss Winifred Hockenberry Martinsburg second usher. Mrs Nellie Hockenberry Martinsburg second usher. meeting set for April in Martinsburg.
Miss Edna Erle of North Kent street travels to Bradford Pennsylvania to attend the wedding of Miss Jacquelin Martin. Erle will serve as bridesmaid and the pair were former classmates at Mount Mercy Academy Pittsburgh.
Mrs. Wesley Morrison died last Saturday at her daughter Mrs. Vincent Casico’s home in Baltimore. Funeral services were held in Baltimore with burial in Lorraine Cemetery. She previously lived in Brucetown and is survived by several children and sisters from Brucetown, Hagerstown, and Alexandria.
The Capitol presents Viennese Nights the last times today with a lively stage appearance by the Maryland Collegians. The blend of romantic song and film features an excellent cast led by Vivienne Segal Walter Pidgeon Alexandria Gray and Louise Fazenda in a Romberg Hammerstein romance noted for its lively gaiety and tender atmosphere.
Baltimore police inquired about related robberies after a Laurel jewelry store heist left a bandit dead by suicide. Suspects Paul M. Taylor and Thomas A. Phillips told investigators the deceased was L. C. Taylor, once in Howard County and later Topeka. They suggest possible links to the Commercial Savings Bank robbery netting over $15,000.
The steamer Baltic delivery to Liverpool shows generally poor cargo and quality with widespread price declines, though demand remains active. Prices for Yorks apples range mostly from 5.52 to 6.72 per barrel, with other varieties listed. shipments to Liverpool, London, Manchester, and Hull total over 41,000 barrels for the week ending January 24.
A rock slide at a Yonkers to New York aqueduct shaft buried one worker and injured five others. Joseph Perez, 44, was engulfed by dirt and rock and later reported as the eighteenth death in the project since construction began on the $44 million line.
New York, Jan 29. The latest decline in share values became a mere drop in today's market. Continuous selling of government issues in the bond department along with Bethlehem Steel earning reports after the close, were dispiriting but liquidation of stocks was larger and the list-up better than yesterday. Call money renewed at 1 percent.
Virginia motor vehicles director T Mc Call Frazier designates local garages to perform required inspections for Winchester Clarke Frederick county motorists. Lists Winchester Dellinger Brothers Shenandoah Motor George Washington Stephens City Lemleys Parker Middletown Happy Longs Berryville Nail Motor Boyce Millwood garages with no charge for test. parts at regular rates.
Five men, four white and one colored, were fined and costs totaling 1304.75 by Justice Armimstead in Front Royal Magistrate’s Court after conviction for killing fish with dynamite in the Shenandoah River. Arrests by Clarke County game warden C. P. Levi near the Warren Clarke line found them amid three dead fish and two charges already set off.
Mrs Willis Shenk, wife of Willis Shenk, died of a sudden heart attack yesterday at her Harrisburg home. She leaves a husband a daughter Mrs Barclay Grove of Chambersburg two sisters Mrs Howard Zell of Harrisburg and another sister in Shipensburg five brothers A J DeHart Earl De Hart Cleveland William DeHart and Howard DeHart. Funeral will be at Harrisburg at 1 pm Saturday then interment in Chambersburg.
A dense listing shows multiple radio markets with channel numbers and program lineups. It includes time slots for WEAF WCAE WTAM WBEN and many others, detailing music, sketches, orchestras, and news blocks across hours into late evening.
A 800 pound block of marble slipped from a crane at a new Masonic temple on North Charles street in Baltimore hurling three men from a scaffold. Walter Graham 35 a stone cutter and William Dorn 20 an apprentice died soon after. A fourth man was injured and other workers were reportedly in serious condition. The incident occurred at the Scottish Rite Temple construction site.
A news item notes sculpturing is being adopted at the Wisconsin reformatory as a method to shape model prisoners into productive inmates.
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