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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jul 19, 1948

Page

5

Have Your Photographs Brought to Life with Oils

Classified notice stating natural oil color portrait work available for purchase with pickup and delivery by calling 8215. Dated July 19, 2011.

Mrs. J. H. Siler Clarke Dies at 81 in Hagerstown

Jessie Siler 81 native of Clarke county wife of Berkeley Springs attorney J Hammond Siler died after three weeks of infection and heart attack. Born November 16 1866 at Berryville she helped form Morgan county library and belonged to DAR and DUC. Funeral 11 a.m. DST tomorrow at St Marks Episcopal with interment in Greenway cemetery Berkeley Springs.

Jessie Siler Clarke County J. Hammond Siler Berkeley Springs Washington County Hagerstown Berryville William A Ann Isler Castleman Siler Hammond Siler Jr Richmond Douglas Castleman Kansas City James Louthan Denver William Camp Chicago L Fi Macdougall H. Plummer Baltimore Edmund Benson Morgan County Public Library DAR and Duc St. Marks Episcopal Church Greenway Cemetery

Inhabitants of the New State Named Israeli

The accepted name for people from the new state of Israel is Israeli. Various terms were proposed but Israeli became the most widely used. It is reported that the Foreign Secretary prefers this designation.

State Israel

J H Wheeler Rites Held at Jones Spring

Services for Joseph Harris Wheeler 76 of Back Creek Valley were held at Jones Spring Methodist Church with Rev. W H Kershner officiating. Burial followed at the Jones Spring cemetery. He died Friday in Martinsburg from coal mine injuries at Third Hill Mountain. Survived by widow Mattie Rees Wheeler and children including Victor W Wheeler of Winchester.

Joseph Harris Wheeler Back Creek Valley Martinsburg Jones Spring

Daily Crossword Across and Down Clues

A compact puzzle list of across and down clues covering monsters serves measures of hand amanuensis care units of electrical resistance trees toward music notes twists Persia biblical figures farewell chain segments reckless apportion French chemist lutecium farm animal body of water through abysses faints verbal pieced out bird of starling family borders collection fruit trees micro organism coin brazilians arm joint west Africa tree Indian anger dogs capital of Bulgaria nobleman female de hundred red ochre greedy prong manners tidy employs first day the Roma month slights varieties of a color small explosion maxim break er verse attempt river P of in Saturdays Answer supernatural object American Indian music note

Persia Jacop Lutecium Sym Verbal Bird of Starling Family Bulgaria Nobleman Breaker River

Walter Sloat Rites, Victim of Drowning

Funeral services for Walter Sloat 73 watchman Riverton Mills Inc. were held at Maddox funeral home Front Royal after his body was found in Happy Creek near Tank Bridge east of Riverton Junction. Coroner Dr. Kipps ruled drowning likely from a fall Friday evening. he left two daughters in Hagerstown.

Maddox Funeral Home Front Royal Walter Sloat Riverton Mills Inc Riverton Happy Creek Tank Bridge Riverton Junction Robert Aleshire D. M. Kipps Warren County Sloat Riverton Mills Hagerstown

Cakes Donated for Stephens City Firemen Yard Fete

135 cakes have been donated for Stephens City Fire Co. yard party this Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Julian Steele heads the committee and a cake walk is among the entertainment features of the fund raising event.

Stephens City Stephens City Fire Co Julian Steele

Birthplace of Screams in Moss Bed

A vivid line describes moss beds giving rise to screams, beginning as tiny rivulets seeping from a vast mossy bed. The passage blends nature imagery with eerie sound imagery to evoke a haunting scene.

Saint Francis of Assisi the first stigmatist in 1224

Saint Francis of Assisi is recorded as bearing the five wounds of Christ on his body in 1224. He remembered the sufferings of the Lord while in his cell at Mount Alverno.

Saint Francis of Assisi Christ Mount Alverno

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