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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1923
Page
8
June results show about a 27 percent drop in casualties as the crossing safety drive started on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Railroads nationwide join the effort to warn drivers to slow down and cross with extreme caution from June 1 through September ends.
Sheriff Luther Pannett reports an arrest in Mor County West Virginia of Edward Puffinberger a young white man sought in Frederick County Virginia for threatening language to Miss Miller at Hinchtee. Puffinberger is jailed in Berkeley Springs and agreed to return to Virginia for trial without a requisition. Pannett will travel to Berkeley Springs to fetch the prisoner once rain stops.
Chicago July 31 There are 20 103 761 Catholics in the United States according to the Catholic Press Directory issued by Joseph H Meier of Chicago It shows 69 347 sisters and nuns 22 545 Catholic clergymen 17 062 Catholic churches 212 seminaries universities and colleges 207 monasteries abbeys and scholasticates 586 convents and novitiates 608 academies and boarding schools 599 Catholic high schools 559 hospitals and sanitoria and 594 charitable institutions
Red Men from Maryland Pennsylvania Delaware and the Virginias will gather at Pen Mar on Thursday for the annual reunion. Charles F. Pass of Harrisburg Pennsylvania and great senior sagamore of the Great Council of the United States will be the principal reunion speaker.
Cross Junction Virginia notes a local Modern Woodmen of America camp picnic set for Saturday August 4 with an address by Philip Williams of Winchester and a motorcycle race featuring Max and Paul Braithwaite. Albert Fletcher is treated for a broken leg at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Joshua Yost of South Dakota visits sister Mrs. Sarah Collins. Rev H W Lindamood of Gainesboro will preach on Sunday August 5 at 4 30 p.m.
Local notices describe yard gatherings and social events including weddings with arrangements offered on short notice and furnished services. The terse listing emphasizes casual gatherings and festive hospitality.
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