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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1930
Page
5
J A Robinson dies in Iowa of heart trouble after a recent bout with grippe. Formerly Florence Cunningham ofimore, she leaves son Earl, two grandchildren Joseph Kin and George Robinson, and Emma Carey of her Robinson family in city. A sister of Miss Etta Robinson, she had other connections in the city and county.
Archibald Fries longtime Baltimore and Ohio vice president in charge of traffic and commercial development died suddenly at his Severn Park home. Born February 27, 1864 in Cincinnati, he would have marked fifty years of service on August 1. Survived by wife Elizabeth Johnson Fries.
Middletown Virginia reports that special summer classes will be offered in both elementary and high school departments. The program aims to provide additional instructional opportunities during the summer term for students in the Middletown area.
Principal G. W. Ropp states Middletown High School will offer free tuition in the entary department and a customary union fee paid by the state for the school department as part of a state program to provide educational opportunities for all children. The first session opens next Monday, June 16.
Dr. Charles McCarty, 52, a Waterbury Connecticut dentist, died when his car left the road and overturned near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Passengers include Charles Browne, the Mount St. Mary’s College night watchman, and Daniel Boyle, an attorney from Tamaqua, both injured. The trip followed commencement exercises at Mount St. Mary’s College in Emmitsburg Maryland.
Washington June 10 Six months extension from July 13 in the time allowed to divest itself of ownership in the Western.
The Interstate Commerce Commission was asked today to approve the sale of Western Maryland stock by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The B and O said no other railroad could purchase Western Maryland at present and requested an extension.
Local wholesale and retail market data list varied items with prices for feed flour meal butter and dairy, plus live poultry and livestock values. Prices show small changes and several entries are illegible, reflecting OCR limitations in the historical page.
The readable text lists items like creamery butter and wheat with scattered codes and measurements. It references Baltimore wholesale and calf related terms, but the fragment lacks coherent events or names to anchor a full news item.
MARTINSBURG West Virginia June 10 Homes belonging to Charles Dean and Kirk Smith brothers in Back Creek Valley west of Berkeley County were set ablaze in what authorities label incendiary fires. Local investigators pursue leads as residents report suspicious activity and property damage in the rural area.
A public sale is set for Friday June 13 at 2 PM on Bufflick Road. The auction lists two horses including a grey mare age five, farming implements such as plows and harness, two buggies, a wagon, tools, a grindstone, glass jars, poultry, and pigs. Terms are cash.
Over the weekend three frame homes owned by Charles and Dean Smith and by Kirk Smith were burned. Officials consider incendiary origin with no arrests yet. Only one dwelling was occupied. no insurance was carried. Enigmatic motive centers on alleged enemies of the Smith family. Nearby neighbors Butts Riggs and Kearns had recent jail terms for breaking into Charles Smith’s home amid moonshine tensions.
The windsor chair originated in High Wycombe England where the town remains mainly involved in chair manufacture.
A reflective line praising nature for pairing beauty with its challenges, noting gratitude for both roses and the thorns that accompany them. The thought contrasts appreciation of beauty with acknowledgment of hardship.
A newspaper correspondent suggests a universal land distress signal equivalent to the S O S at sea. The idea aims to provide clear emergency cues on land for rapid aid and response.
Afterdamp is a gas produced by a firedamp explosion in a coal mine. It consists of nitrogen and carbon dioxide, forming a dangerous mixture that follows such blasts.
In Virginia the Corporation Court of Winchester issues a divorce from bed and board for Mary Elizabeth Hoover against George D Hoover on grounds of desertion. The defendant, not a resident, must appear within ten days after notice published weekly for four weeks in the Evening Star. An order mailed to the defendant’s police address confirms the action.
The Indianapolis News notes that public reaction to census returns grows accustomed over time, comparing the process to enduring a routine birthday and suggesting familiarity will ease future inquiries and demographics awareness for residents.
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