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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1924
Page
8
Rev Dr D L Blakemore presiding elder of Winchester Methodist Episcopal Church and Mrs Blakemore visited Mr C B Hardy over the weekend at their home. Dr Blakemore preached the annual sermon to City High School graduates.
Miss Frances Beverley and Miss Leslie Gaylord left this morning for New York to sail tomorrow on the United States liner Republic for European countries. They expect to spend about three months on the continent and return to this country in September.
John Kane of the county was injured while spraying in the orchard of Harry W. Hyde at Clear Brook. His clothing entangled in a rapidly revolving fly wheel drew him in and spun him several times. His left thumb was torn from its socket and his face badly mashed. He was treated at Memorial Hospital and released home in serious condition but improved after days of confinement.
Robert Brown, colored, released after finishing a thirty day sentence for transporting liquor. He was fined 100 dollars plus costs by the Federal Court at Harrisonburg and freed upon affidavit of inability to pay. He had already been serving thirty days for the same offense under State prohibition laws.
Edwin Crim of Washington D C is spending a few days with his parents Mr and Mrs John Crim at Kernstown in this county.
The Winchester Rotary Club will be represented by Mayor W W Glass at the international Rotary convention in Toronto from June 6 to 20. He replaces H B McCormac who cannot attend. Other local attendees include H D Fuller Robert L Gray Victor Arthur and Marshall Baker with about 25 members from Fredericksburg traveling by Pullman car June 14.
A J McGee district superintendent of the Home Beneficial Association arrived Saturday evening and will spend a week or ten days in the city and vicinity with William A March, the local agent.
A marriage license was issued in Washington on Saturday to Carlton Smallwood of Wheaton Maryland and Miss Virginia Kump of Trone in this county.
Announcement contradicted. Handley Schools will关闭 all day holiday tomorrow for the Jefferson Davis birthday anniversary. It is a state holiday observed by public schools across the state.
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