Death's Summons Comes To Oldest Bank Executive
Russell, a longtime Winchester financier and Union Bank of Winchester director, died just before noon after a prolonged illness. Born 1841, he served on three Civil War staffs and helped found several local enterprises. Surviving are a daughter and three sons, with funeral at the Presbyterian Church pending.
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Death
Winchester
Mr. Russell
Isaac and
Eliza Baker Russell
Russell
Eliza A. Baker
Hardy County
W. Va
Frederick County
Charles B Hancock
H. K. Green
A. L. Green
Russell Brothers
The
Maryland Life Insurance Company
South
Union Bank of Winchester
William L. Clark
Union Bank
Winchester Gas and Electric Light Company
Winchester Strawboard Company
Cumberland Valley
Baltimore and Ohio
George Washington
Misses Kurtz
Shirley Carter
South Washington Street
Col
J. N Schoonmaker
Pittsburgh and Lake ‘Erie Railroad
Schoonmaker
Ne Mill Institute
Co. M. C. Kennedy
Pennsylvania Railroad
Clarence Mackay
New York
Postal Telegraph, and Cable Company
Presbyterian Church
Old
Powers Goes To Death With Smile On Face
Harry F Powers, dubbed the mountain blue beard, was hanged at 9 p m in Moundsville West Virginia for the murder of Mrs Dorothy Pressler Lemke and later confessed to killing Mrs Aste Buick Eicher and her three children. He died at 9 11 p m after a 50 000 word statement written at the state prison. The five victims were found in a ditch near his Chamber of Horrors garage on his wife's farm in Sylvan Quiet Dell. A later note comments on Tammany cleanup.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Harry F. Powers
Bluebeard
Powers
Dorothy Pressler Lemke
Northboro
Mass
H. H. Haynes
Clarksburg
Aste Buick Eicher
Park Ridge
Sylvan Quiet Dell
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Cedar Creek
Pegram
James A. Walker
Isaac
Loudoun Street
James B. Russell
Hugh K. Green
Churchman
Gardner W. Brown
Harry K. Russell
James I. Russell
Marshall H. Russell
McFaden
Robert B
James P. Reardon
Fred Thwaite
George B. Bushnell
Hugh Clark
William G. Hardy
John M. Steck
John Downing
Front Royal
Walter R. Talbot
P. W. Boyd
H. B. McCormac
Harry F. Byrd
R. Gray Williams
T. W. Harrison
Harry R. Kern
Maurice M. Lynch
L. M. Allen
M. C. Kennedy
Thomas B. Kennedy
Chambersburg, Pa
Floyd W. Haines
H. D. Fuller
J. Henry Moling
Hunter H. McGuire
Fred
Boyd
John TI. Sloat
J. Howard Cather
Luther Pannett
Kenneth N. Gilpin
Hy Clay DeGrange
Melvin Green
Edward W. Jackson
Harry W. Warden
Stewart Bell
L. J. Janney
Arsene Lupin
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
John
Lionel Barrymore
Palace
Barrymores
Potomac Edison Company
National Fruit Product Co
Hansbrough & Carter
Brown & Fisher
Gray & Sheetz
N. Main St
Greenwood Farm News
Loretta Young
Norman Foster
Guy Kibbee
Warner Bros Vitaphone
Charles Bennington
Ripley’s Boys
Subway
Billy Barnes
Ann
Harding
Adolphe Menjou
Melvyn Douglas
Warner. Bros
Maynard
Warrior
Tiffa
Mary Astor
Robert Ames
Certified Public Accountants
TAX Counsellors
E. Boscawen Street
Richmond, VA
Central
Tammany
Memoriam
Scott Grant
Winchester, Virginia
Just
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
New York City
Marion Ball
Alliance. 0
Charles Hopkins
Miss Ball
H. B Ball
Mt Union College
Alliance
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Pittsburgh
HABLE
Lahr
Bert Lahr “On
Charlotte Greenwood
George White
Featu
RED Grange
Mewe-Golden Mayer
Harold
Barrymore
Connex
Armstrong
Hamman’s Bargain Basement
Hamman’s Dollar Store
Keystone
N. Loudoun St
J.W. Arthur
General Insurance
Rouss Ave
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