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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1948
Page
3
H J Janke found a $100 bill in his car’s license card container. It had been there two years and was left by the son of the man from whom Janke bought the car, F C Grable. Grable forgot about it. Janke returned the money.
A candlelight service at the First Baptist church will be held at 8 p m tomorrow. Rev. E T Clark will deliver The Last Week in the Life of Christ with choir music accompanying.
The Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau filed proposed amendments to hail insurance rates for crops including barley and tree fruits. Increases target barley to 5.00 per 100, and tree fruits, berries, grapes to 12.00 in several counties, with other adjustments and endorsements under review. A public hearing is set for April 1, 1945, at 10:00 A.M. in Richmond to hear comments.
The page itemizes numerous conveyances with buyers and sellers including Paul Leonard Jones to Clarence Hausenfluck. depictions of lots and improvements on streets such as Virginia Ave Cameron St Purcell Ave Jefferson St and others. Notable sums include 10000 dollars for the Curl estate and 6230 dollars for the Kern property, with many parcels described by location and size across Frederick and Hampshire counties.
Rev J Goode announces Easter programs at Cedar Creek Christian Church Capon Bridge Sunrise prayer meeting at 7 Bible school at 10 and Easter worship at 11 a.m. Cedar Creek Church program 7 30 p.m. Sunday with dedication of improvements and furnished items.
James Arthur Hanna, a Martinsburg youth arrested here early Tuesday, confessed a string of breakings. He was returned to West Virginia as an escapee from the industrial school for boys and reportedly admitted larcenies in Martinsburg and Charles Town.
Rev. Edward Plunkett leads a 7:30 p.m. Holy Week sermon at Montague Avenue Methodist Church. The junior choir directed by Mrs. Vance Whittaker will sing Glory in Going On by J. Lincoln Hall. Service ends with Holy Communion.
Italy faced a nationwide printers strike that paused about 150 dailies while Premier De Gasperi announced the April 18 election would proceed on schedule. Italians crowded newsstands for Vatican and Trieste papers and some read with dictionaries as U.S. Voice of America broadcasts began.
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