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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1920
Page
7
On Monday July 5 1920 a legal holiday bank will be closed. All paper maturing on that date can be paid on Tuesday July 6 1920. Signed WM G Hardy cashier Shenandoah Valley National Bank.
Captain George H. Grimm forms a new company for the Virginia National Guard urged by Adjutant General Stern. Virginia towns boost recruiting. vacancies include three sergeants four corporals one cook and one artificer. Mustering July 8. papers due July 5. Twelve men needed by Saturday for $600 appropriation. Red blooded Winchester and Frederick County men urged to enlist.
An Ig Air Service Corporation plane burned at Woodstock in Shenandoah county after a wing hit a fence near the grandstand. Pilot J. I. Menefee of Lynchburg and passenger Fred Painter of Woodstock escaped, with the 5000 dollar plane insured.
United Mine Workers officials in Charleston W Virginia say the miners strike in Mingo County Kentucky Pike County begins at midnight and could draw 6000 members out before daybreak. Officials cite lack of wage talks with operators as trigger and two US Labor Department conciliators arrive at Williamson to assist.
Fort Loudoun Seminary president Miss Katharine R. Glass travels from Winchester to New York for seminary business and to arrange a six week trip to Montana and other regions. She may be joined by Mrs Natitie R Glass and Mrs William B Davis as they depart Winchester around July 12 for Corvallis Montana to visit Thomas Glass at his ranch.
The Sans Fife United Brethren Church will hold an annual all-day meeting Sunday July 4. The organizing committee reports a strong program with notable speakers and music by well known magicians and singers. Featured on the musical program are the blind boys Messrs Butte and Walker. Tinsman delivers the address.
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