Trone Brevities and Visiting Notables
Trone residents include Mrs Emma Kump and sons Winifred and Melvin visiting relatives. Daily notices mention Miss Erma Lupton improving from whooping cough and others from Trone visiting in Highview West Virginia and Hagerstown Maryland. Ebenezer all day services attracted many with Rev. S J Good of Winchester as speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruby
Junior
Trone
Emma Kump
Winifred and
Melvin
Russell Lupton
Erma Lupton
Harry Lafollette
Granville
Douglas
Ray Lafollette
T. H. Anderson
Highview
W. Va
C. R. Lupton
Willetta Whitacre
Olive Barrett
Ella Giffen
Pennsylvania
Albert Elliotte
Hagerstown
Grace Poole
Edgar Good
Winchester
Ebenezer
Rev
S. J. Good
Movie To Be Made In Valley Of Washington
Filming will start tomorrow in Lexington and at sites in Goshen Pass Kerrs Creek Charlottes ville Harrisonburg and the Northern Neck of Virginia. A unit from Fort Washington and Fort Myer will participate with local people and Indians from nearby reservation for scenes depicting George Washington in youth as surveyor soldier and general.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
George Washington
Washington
Goshen Pass
Kerr’s Creek
Charlottesville
Harrisonburg
Neck
Virginia
Fort Washington
Fort Myer
Market Report Corrects The Star Typo Note
The Star presents a market report with a disclaimer that it does not assume responsibility for typographical errors found in the daily market listings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Star
How One Woman Lost 20 Pounds of Fat
A weight loss ad promises fat reduction through a daily half teaspoon of Kruschen Salts in hot water. It claims faster scale results in three weeks and improved energy and skin, urging readers to purchase an 85 cent bottle from Baker's Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baker's Drug Store
Adv
Virginia Criminal Costs Rise Sharply in Budget Report
The Department of Public Welfare compiles figures showing criminal procedure costs soared from 458 512.31 in 1920 to 908 210.63 in 1929 with last year excluding state farm prisoner board at 890 538.12 and 1 540 commitments. Penitentiary population stood at 3 087 and payments to sheriffs prosecutors jurors and jailors in prohibition cases climbed from 14 973.10 in 1923 to 295 004.14 last year. A fragment notes questions on diversion of funds once paid into the State Literary Fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Public Welfare
Pease
Dry la BT Weening Fm
Rice M. Yohell
Commonwealth
State Literary Fund
Jocal
Local Ordinances Against State Enforcement Act Declined
A fragmented item notes local ordinances and resistance to a state enforcement act. No clear names or dates are readable, but the text suggests municipalities opposing or delaying compliance with state mandates.
Research Bureau Presses For Access To Comptroller Records
The Virginia Bureau of Research Inc and its director Robert C. Smith publish an open letter to State Comptroller E. R. Combs seeking permission to examine records and payrolls. They aim to verify when and where officials were appointed and challenge changes credited to outside audits rather than bureau inputs.
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Richmond
Virginia Bureau of Research, Inc
E. R. Combs
Robert C. Smith
Bureau
Comptroller’s
Buerau
Comptroller
Laxity Alleged in State Discount Practices Probed
The comptroller's office faced calls for an itemized list supporting a $100,000 discount loss claim. An investigation by State Auditor Coleman Andrews and outside accountants found the bureau's charges untrue. Governor Pollard released the audit result and later the matter was declared closed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comptroller’s Office
Any
Coleman Andrews
Pollard
Purification promotes health with Calotabs cleanse
Physicians endorse perfect purification as the foundation of health. The ad urges a thorough Calotabs course to purify blood by stimulating liver kidneys stomach and bowels. Available in 10 and 35 cent packages from all Gealers.
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Nature
Two Federal Agents Killed In Gun Fight
Two federal prohibition agents were killed and two wounded in a gun battle near Fort Wayne Indiana during an attempt to arrest George Adams a parolee from a federal penitentiary. Agents John I Wilson and Walter M Gilbert died from gunshot wounds while J E Greene and Oliver J Gettle were injured and Adams fled after a fast exchange of fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Prohibition
George Adams
Fort Wayne
Huntington Road
John I. Wilson
Indianapolis
Prohibition Enforcement Bureau
Walter M. Gilbert
Cincinnati
Ohio
Wilson
Gilbert
J. E. Greene
Portland
Oliver J. Gettle
Green
Gettle
Adams
Lindberghs Plan Long Flight To Orient Next Week
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh said he and his wife will depart next week for an Orient flight with a route over Canada Hudson Bay Alaska and along Siberia to Tokyo then China. Eleven refueling stops are arranged and the pair will meet with the state department in Washington before leaving. The trip is described as a vacation with no fixed schedule and Ottawa will be their first night stop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Canada
Hudson Bay District
Alaska
Siberia
Tokyo
China
Orient
Lindebergh
Washington
State Department
Cheap Wheat Crop Diverted To New Channels
In the Texas panhandle farmers trade wheat for theatre admission and dental work, while newspapers pay above market prices for subscriptions. Mills exchange flour for grain and some farmers feed wheat to poultry and livestock. Dodge City judge offers to marry couples for ten bushels of wheat, instead of the usual fee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Kansas City
Southwest
Texas Panhandle
Texas Wheat Country
Ake
North Plains
Dodge City
Kas
Richard W. Evans
Ford County
Not In Evidence At Virginia Summer Schools
Financial mood mainly steady as 832 more students attend Virginia higher education summer schools in 1931 than 1930. Total summer enrollment reaches 7340 up from 6598, with T. D. Eason noting increases at nearly every college in the list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
State Department of Education
T. D. Eason
Hem-Roid Tablets Promised To End Pile Agony
An old remedy claims to cure internal piles by improving blood circulation. Dr J S Leonhardt prescribes Hem-Roid tablets which reportedly heal and restore affected areas, with Baker's Drug Store advertising a single bottle to end pile agony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. S. Leonhardt
Baker's Drug Store
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Valley of Washington
Sir Josiah Stamp
Market Report
Ccce
Baltimore
Research Bureau
J. Co. Penney Co
Court House
Penney
NE Wonder
Capparel Shop
North Loudoun ST
John S. Solenberger & CO. Inc
Loudoun Street
Lindberghs
Phane
Morton Downey
Tony Wells
Columbia Broadcasting System
Psi
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem, N.C
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