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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1928
Page
10
The Frederick County Board of Supervisors chair questions the authority and timing of a State Highway Commission decision. He says no notice or publication was seen by the board and asks why residents’ calls for changes to three routes were not fully disclosed.
For over 100 years S S S has helped people regain strength and charm by building red blood. The advertised tonic claims to relieve weakness, improve sleep, and restore appetite by supplying plant based ingredients from fresh vegetables. Available in two sizes at all drug stores.
A Frederick County letter questions a 16 percent miles allotment for the Stephens City to Double Tollgate road and criticizes a Harrisonburg hearing. The writer accuses the Star of misreporting and cites Frederick County Board minutes showing debates over North Frederick Turnpike funds and Cross Junction routes. Editor note defends terminology and cites locality names, dates, and participants.
C. V. Bob of New York and Curtis Field pilot Bill Winston were injured when a Fairchild cabin plane crashed into a tree at the Iron Country Club in Speculator. The party, guests of Bob, had traveled from Curtiss Field to watch Gene Tunney work out. Winston tipped the plane during takeoff on a return run. Bernard J. Gimbel and Samuel Prior escaped injury. The plane was wrecked.
The Rev Dr H H Sherman of Nashville Tenn was elected general secretary of the board of education for the Methodist Episcopal Church South at Lake Junaluska NC on July 19 He succeeds the late Stonewall Anderson and is a Baltimore Conference member and Randolph Macon College trustee. Also elected were J R Contiss Grenada Miss as board member succeeding the late Robert H B Selby Sterling Fisher Austin TX as successor to D O Terrell and C C Gimbes Memphis as recording secretary J H Reynolds Conway AR as executive committeeman L
Ralph Forbes, a longtime London stage favorite and mothered by a thespian, plays a impetuous London scion in the film adaptation of Trelawney of the Wells opposite Norma Shearer. Sidne Franklin directs. The Colonial Theatre presents the July 20 release with Forbes brimming on the English stage craft.
The Star lists daily corrected market prices for commodities including flour, corn, bran, mixed feed, hay, butter, cattle, sheep, hogs, and poultry. It records wholesale and retail figures with numerous missing values and typographical gaps, reflecting variable quotes from local buyers.
The Star prints a tribute to E. Janney Whitacre who died July 11 at his Martinsburg home and was buried July 13. The article lauds his deep religious faith, honesty, kindness, patriotism, and dedication as husband and father, noting he left a lasting positive impact on his community.
Geologists Hugh D. Misch and Marcus Goldman from the U S Geological Survey examined rich manganese deposits in Cedar Creek Valley spanning Frederick and Shenandoah counties. Deposits have been blocked out and options taken by various interests with sale to highest bidder anticipated. Shipments from active mines supply ceramic industries in Ohio Texas and Washington state as one company prepares to raise output to 50000 tons annually.
With War department cooperation, R M Lynn Washington correspondent for Virginia papers, has completed a roster of Virginians now holding commissions in the United States Army. The list names officers and their posts among the 420 natives of Virginia serving in the military.
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