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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1937
Page
5
Middletown residents share travel updates visits from relatives and friends in Washington Philadelphia and Winchester. illness hospitalizations include Mrs Garrette Bowers and Mrs Mary Frye with several guests and doctors.
Guests at the Wil lie Lemley residence included Miss Mary Dunn and Mr. Mulligan plus Russell Lemley of Washington D C. Also present were Mr. and Mrs. Wil Hodge and Mrs. Frank Yeakle of Winchester, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Lemley, Mrs. C L Golliday, Miss Ora Shryock, and Mrs. Emma Samsell. Miss Tenise Temlev of Purcell is noted as visiting.
A string of social and health notes from Lebanon Church Va highlights visits illness and recoveries. Items include Mildred Greene regaining mobility after influenza, Mildred and Margaret Ann Mowery visiting, and several residents such as Clarence Windle Lillie Mowery and W L Little noted in hospital or on social calls.
In Chambersville Virginia on January 29 a series of visits are noted. Maynard Shanholtz of Winchester called on Herman Ritter Sunday evening. Martin Wisecarver and family visited relatives near Star Tannery. G L Rosier spent Monday in Charlottesville visiting daughter Colleen at University Hospital. Maynard Brewer spent Wednesday with parents near Mt Williams. Floyd Miller and R L Payne were visited by Berryville relatives. Loring Ritter of Kernstown visited his mother. Basel Brill near Winchester and M Wisecarver hosted guests. F W Pingley visited G L Rosier last week.
Ellis Randall and family moved from Level View Farm to Winchester after twenty years on the Grimes farm which was sold to Albert Anderson of White Hall. Locals regret their departure and wish them happiness. Also noted are visits by Miles B. Dean and Mister J N Good losing a horse. A quiet wedding unites George Sheppard and Miss Margaret Kerns at Bunker Hill parsonage.
Mr and Mrs Leslie Hensell of Martinsburg West Virginia visit with local residents. Mr and Mrs J E Randall of Winchester and Mr and Mrs Charles Hensell plus N C Hensell are noted in attendance. The article notes unusually warm weather and heavy rain in the past week.
Nineveh Virginia January 29. Miss Roberta Fleming visited sister Miss Ray chelle Fleming in Richmond. Miss Elsie Virginia Welsh ill with chicken pox shows improvement. Virginia and Jessie Madigan of Stephens City stayed with aunt Mrs. Charles Tobin. Sonny Bartlett ill with pneumonia. Ashby Powers ill with flu. Alfred Hummer improving from a severe cold at home.
Deaths and marriages mark notices in Bloom and Winchester area. Mrs. J S Crabill dies after thirty years in the neighborhood. Allen Cooper Fearnow will marry Miss Lillian Violett Abbs in Chicago. Long remodels his home, Annie Crabill and families attend funeral. Crowser attends inauguration. Cooper family and locals attend church and services. long illness passes noted.
Oranda Virginia reports social visits with Miss Helen Shull spending time with Miss Helen Mowrey during the past week. Mrs. Beth Whitacre Robinson, wife of Dr. Robinson of Austin Minnesota, was hosted by Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Orndorff. Mr. Ira Snapp of Washington D C visited his parents here last week. Randolph Holsinger attended his grandfather Holsinger’s funeral in Timberville on Wednesday. Mr. Luther Grove of Edinburg was a business caller here Tuesday.
Mr. M. M. Orndorff called on Rev. R. L. Philpott in Middletown. Elmer Cook is moving his family from the R. A. Miller farm to feed now in Frederick county.
Rock Enon Virginia reports no school due to high waters. Local residents mourn the recent death of Mr. McIntyre. Mrs. Mary E. Good remains ill but shows slight improvement. Weather has been unusually warm for the season.
George N. Conrad prominent Harrisonburg attorney bequeaths estate valued about 22000 to his widow Emily P. Conrad and five children with a 1000 bequest to the Baltimore Conference of the Methodist church. He names Emily executrix. real estate 13500 and personal property 8509. Various gifts go to family members, churches, and the Conrad home library holdings.
Mrs. Lucy R. Williamson aged 88 widow of Gilbert M. Williamson Confederate Veteran died at 11 45 P M at her New Market residence after several days illness She was born in Harrisonburg and lived on Court Square They had four children two sons and two daughters survive Elizabeth W Williamson L B Williamson and W S Williamson Funeral services will be held at 3 30 Friday from the home conducted by Rev W A Lynch
LURAY, Jan. 28 Plans for a new 75000 post office and Federal Building to be on Broad Street are being prepared and bids will be invited within sixty days. The lot costs 8000 and a historic home will be moved. The top floor will house Federal offices and citizens seek Shenandoah National Park permanent headquarters there.
In Swords Creek Virginia a pit like cave yielded part of a skull and human bones. Buchanan county officers probe rumors that missing man Michaels was murdered and hidden there. Falling stones hinder the search as investigators await identification.
LURAY Jan 28 The Luray Volunteer Fire Department launches a campaign to raise funds for a new engine to serve county fires. The larger engine, ordered already, will cost less due to price changes. The current 650 gpm engine, value about 9000, will be replaced for broader county protection while town calls outnumber county needs forty to one. The plan seeks a county board budget contribution and notes Stanley Creek’s new company may soon get equipment. Shenandoah already bought a new engine last year.
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