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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jul 22, 1937

Page

12

Brucetown Club Advances in Better Homes Drive

Brucetown Home Demonstration Club met July 15 at the school house with Mrs. Martin Adams presiding. 48 homes participate in the county drive toward a 50 home goal. A proposal for a community library was discussed for the next meeting.

Brucetown Home Demonstration Club School House Martin Adams Jackson Better Homes Committee Elizabeth Farrar Institute of Rural Affairs Virginia Polytechnic Institute Blacksburg Farrar

Free State Insists on Potomac Ownership Dispute

Maryland state game warden E Lee Lecompte asserts Maryland owns the Potomac above Little Falls and has Supreme Court and State Court of Appeals backing. West Virginians H C Burgan and G C Stotler were fined for fishing without Maryland licenses, sparking a test-case push coordinated by L C Engle. Lecompte defended arrests, saying Maryland laws apply to the river south banks and will be enforced.

Baltimore Maryland Potomac River Little Falls E. Lee Lecompte Lecompte United States Supreme Court State Court of Appeals H. C. Burgan G. C. Stotler Shepherdstown West Bobs W.nice Engle West Virginia Supreme Court Court of Appeals State Game Department

Purchases Farm From Land Bank

L Edward Smith of Winchester purchased an 84 acre Frederick county farm five miles east of Winchester. The Federal Land Bank of Baltimore announced the sale and the transaction was handled by J E Judy of Bridgewater, real estate fieldman for the land bank.

L. Edward Smith Winchester Frederick County Federal Land Bank of Baltimore J. E. Judy Bridgewater The Land Bank

Pocket golf mystery ends with Teague pocket shot cure

In New Oregon City Oregon William Teague uses a pocket in one as his drive on the 14th. Teague and teammates search in the fairway while George Swaford, seeking a ball, finds Teague s pellet in his pocket and drops it to the fairway to resolve how Teague should play his second shot.

Oregon City Ore William Teague Teagu George Swafford Teague Tague

His Clothes Not Of Right Color

Patrolman Max Rickard in plain clothes approached An drew Woodford of Charles Town W Va and tapped him on the shoulder. Woodford protested he was arrested while intoxicated and told the officer to go away saying he was not dressed in the right clothes. Woodford has two more days to serve in jail.

Hagerstown Max Rickard Andrew Woodford Charles Town W. Va Woodford Rickard

Baltimore and Ohio buys 14 percent stake in Kee shin Transcontinental

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announced it had bought a 14 per cent interest in the Kee shin Transcontinental Freight Lie, a trucking company. In Goldsboro North Carolina Rev Walter C Ball a Methodist minister has found a novel way to sleep through heat waves by cooling his bed sheets before bedtime.

Baltimore Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Keeshin Transcontinental Freight Lie Goldsboro N. C Walter C. Ball

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