Berryville Junior Symphony to Compete in State Contest
Berryville Virginia March 29 5 000 will compete on April 3 4 in Richmond for the state music festival directed by Miss Mary Rob The Berryville orchestra will enter preliminary contests Thursday morning playing March of the Finnish Cavalry and Trumpeters Serenade Winners perform Friday night at the Mosque or Kiss Field over 5 000 participants from schools statewide attend The trip by bus is sponsored by local clubs and organizations with support from Clarke County Signs Club and the Junior Women's Club Members listed by instrument include violins viola guitar drums clarinets saxophones and more
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Berryville
Peay Geerteet
Sy Orches
Mary Rob
Richmond
Kkiss
J. A. Richmond
Pam
Ichkiss
R. L. Emery
Clarke County Signs Club
Clarke County
Orchestra
Asjtation
Emond
Margaret Barthel
Betty Rumbarger
Ruth Shewbridge
Ruby Sowers
Loraine Russell
Betty Stough
Josephine
Eugene Deserable
Albert Alvan White
Reginald Puller
Marvin Armelts
Camille Wisecarver
An Parker
Gay Levi
Ann Hudson
Josephine Lancaster
Pauline Ashby
Zachary White
Bobby Smalley
Reginald Mills
Joe Dorsey
Annea Lee Enders
Gloria Anne Longerbeam
Frankie Sowers
Fred Jones
Elizabeth Hereford
Betty Boxwell
Annual Awards Made At Gala by Winchester Junior Board
Winchester Junior Board of Trade held a gala banquet and dance finishing its third year. Awards were presented by retiring president J. Pinckney Arthur to Richard Eddy Laurie Hill George Jones and Ben Belchie. City Manager Lee Grant named 1940 Distinguished Service Key recipient. New president George Barnsley received the gavel as over 200 attendees heard brief committee reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
George Wash
Arthur
J. Pinckney Arthur
Richard Eddy
Laurie Hill
George Jones
Ben Belchie
Lee Grant
W. Nelson Page
Garland Quarles
Clifford Grim
Kenneth Robinson
Barnsley
Ed Lee
Clarke County
Lynn Keller
Andrew Babb
H. B. McCormac
James March
Joe Thomas
Hedrick Koontz
R. B. Nelson
City Manager Lee Grant Wins 1940 Civic Award
Winchester native Lee Grant named outstanding young man of 1940 by the National Junior Chamber of Commerce for civic activity in the past year. He could not attend the Junior Board of Trade banquet due to illness. Grant has served the city since 1925 and sits on the Brad dock Street Church board of stewards.
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Tom Baldridge
C. Ridgely White
Winchester
Lee Grant
Braddock Street
Answers to Test Questions Page 4
The list includes mammals red sea selvage light Edison Burma oxen Henrik Ibsen Horace Greeley and composer. The items mix biology geography materials figures and professions across varied topics.
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Mammals
Red Sea
Selvage
Light
Edison
Burma
Oxen
Henrik Ibsen
Horace Greeley
Composer
Local Music Ensemble Names Read at Concert
The program lists Horns Ruth Hardesty and Jane Carter, Cello Patricia Wynkoop and Jean Clark, Double Bass Rose Ellen Ramsburg, Piano Laura Drury, Flute Jean Randolph and Mary Robert Pugh, directed by an unidentified conductor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Hardesty
Jane Carter
Patricia Wynkoop
Jean Clark
Rose Ellen Ramsburg
Laura Drury
Jean Randolphee
Mary Robert Pugh
Direcor
Revival To Be Held At Romney Church of Christ
Beginning Sunday night March 30 a series of evangelistic services will be held at the Romney Church of Christ through Easter Sunday April 13. The meetings will be conducted by Rev Charles R Line of Gore Va with the Evangelizing Board of the Disciples of Christ directing. An invitation is extended to all friends of evangelistic efforts to attend and assist in the work. Services will be held each evening except Sunday.
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Romney Church of Christ
Charles R. Line
Gore
Valley District
Evangelizing Board
The
Disciples of Christ
Friends of Evangelistic
Purses Finds Way Back to Miner After Mine to Locomotive Trip
Electrician Robert Cannon lost his pocketbook deep in the Julian coal mine east of Vincennes. Weeks later a Baltimore and Ohio fireman found it in coal near Flora, NL, after it rode the conveyor, was washed and dumped into a hopper, and finally reached a locomotive tender. Cannon recovered the pocketbook.
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Vincennes
Ind
Robert Cannon
New Julian
Here
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Flora
Cannon
Woodstock Beauty Contest Seeks Shenandoah Valley Queen
The Woodstock Junior Chamber of Commerce sponsors the Shenandoah Valley beauty contest at the Community Theatre in Woodstock on Friday April 25 with towns across the valley represented. Contestants and escorts dine at the Hotel Woodstock then attend a formal dance. The winner will be Miss Shenandoah Valley of 1941 with two maids of honor, and the trio will ride in the Apple Blossom Festival parades on May 1 and 2 and attend festival events with Tom Reed Tucker and his orchestra. Prominent judges and local celebrities are anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shenandoah Valley
Woodstock
Tomeed Tucker
New Glasgow Book Is Here by Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow novel In This Our Life is highlighted as an intense story about a tidewater family led by a mother, father, and three daughters. The piece notes Glasgow as a major American novelist from Richmond and cites her recent Howells medal for fiction.
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Ellen Glasgow
Europe
Tidewater
Howells
American Academy of Arts and Letters
America
Richmond
Miss Glasgow
Handley Library
County Court Cases Heard in County Trial Justice Court
Cases heard yesterday and today include Fred Foreman charged with assault and battery, fined $15.25 and placed on a one year peace bond. Other entries list McR Bowers speeding, Vincent and Cooper with unlicensed dogs, Gray of Hagers speeding $9.25, and Bailey speeding.
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County Trial Justice Court of
A. J. Tavenner
Fred Foreman
McR
Bowers
Wae Vincent
Wae Cooper
Gray
Hagers
Aames D. Bailey
Fifth generation resides in 1838-built Spring Garden home
The 1838 Spring Garden house near Winchester, built by Robert Steele, remains a brick landmark now occupied by the fifth generation. The article notes sturdy materials, a nearby 300-year-old oak and pine, Steele’s Scottish origins, and early family ties through the Civil War era plus notable contents like an antique mirror and table.
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Robert Steele
Winchester
Navi Ulvania
Elizabeth Smith Kern
Leo
Joe Campbell
Spring Garden
Smith
Era
Pennsylvania
Sway
Campbell
Sare. Kern
Joseph . Campbell
Dent
Kean High School
Died Friday H E Fry 56 Clary farmer
Harry Edward Fry 56 a Clary area farmer died at his home Friday. Survived by wife Mattie Pangle, daughter Kathleen Rebecca, two sons Harry Edward and Joseph angle, and siblings W H Fry L E Calahan W M Stickley O M Painter. Funeral Sunday at 2 from home and 2:30 at Shiloh U B Church. Interment Riverview Cemetery.
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Harry Edward Fry
Clary
Jesse Fry
Emma Hatfield Fry
Marlboro
Fry
Mattie Pangle
Kathleen Rebecca
Harry Edward
Joseph Angle
W. H. Fry
Philadelphia
L. E. Calahan
Lynchburg
W. M. Stickley
Vaucluse
O. M. Painter
Clark
Shiloh U. B. Church
C. A. Moon
Riverview Cemetery
Virginia State Police Officer Inspects Winchester Teletype
Lieut. L. O. Thomas from Richmond, communications officer for the Virginia State Police, toured Winchester yesterday on an inspection tour. He visited the local police department and evaluated their teletype facilities accompanied by Carlton Sundin, ex assistant manager of the local telephone office now at Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone regional HQ in Lynchburg.
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L. O. Thomas
Richmond
Virginia State Police
Winchester
Iee
Virginia
Carlton Sundin
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Lynchburg
Mrs. Vernie Kremer Rites Planned for Sunday
Funeral services for Mrs Vernie Katherine Kremer 70 are set for Sunday at 3 PM at her late home 206 South Cameron Street. Rev Garland E Hopkins of Market Street Methodist Church will officiate. She was widow of Thomas E Kremer and mother of councilman John Thomas Kremer. Pallbearers include Beverley Wright Pinckney Arthur Otis Sargent Jacob H Yost Donald McPaden and Robert Rea. Burial at Mt Hebron Cemetery.
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South
Cameron Street
Vernie Katherine Kremer
Garland E. Hopkins
Markettreet Methodist Church
Final Rites For Joseph Linaberg
Funeral services were held Thursday at Russell Grove for Joseph Austin Linaberg 56 who died Tuesday. The Rev Court ney Anderson officiated with pallbearers Paul and Elis yee Dodson J L Heishman Ga Richard Densey Hulver and Jonae Sale. Burial was in St John Cemetery Mt Linaberg was the son of Joseph H and Mary Orndorff Linaberg and leaves two brothers J H and W Bryan Linaberg both of Mt Falls.
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Russell Gro
Joseph Austin Linaberg
Courtney Anderson
Paul and
Elisyee Dodson
J. L
Heishman
Ga. Richard
Densey
Hulver
Jonae Sale
St. John Cemetery
Linaberg
Joseph H
Mary Orndorff Linaberg
J. H
W. Bryan Linaberg
Mt. Falls
Death of 18 year old C R Bailey after surgery
Charles Rhodes Bailey aged 18 died in Winchester after an appendectomy on March 18. The peritonitis complication followed surgery. He was born August 7, 1922, son of Herley C. and Mabel C. Bailey, a Bethlehem Lutheran Church member and Palace Theatre maintenance manager. He leaves parents, two brothers Beverley and Tevious, and two sisters Patricia Jean and Patricia. Funeral planned Sunday at 1 PM.
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Charles Rhodes Bailey
Memorial Tal
Bailey
Frederick County
Herley C
Mabel Clark Bailey
Winchester
Ander A We
Palace Theatre
Bethel Luthéran Church
South End
Beverley
Tevious
Patricia Jean Bailey
Funeral Notice for Rev BE B Smith at Mount Hebron
Jones Funeral Home reports the Rev BE B Smith will be in charge with interment in the Mount Hebron family lot. Eight pallbearers are listed: Stover Clark Marvin Massie Buron Fox A C Rudd Lawrence Annett and William Forney.
Draft registrant found at grandmother's farm in Dansville
Draft board officials chased clues across Dansville New York to locate a registrant who listed his address as grandmothers farm. The search ended with identifying the man once they traced the grandmother and confirmed the address.
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Dansville
N. Y
Draft Board
Looker Wife Placed on One Year Probation after Withdrawal
Mrs Ida Looker received one year probation from Trial Justice A J Tavenner after her husband Les ter Looker withdrew charges that she wilfully shot at the complainant with intent to kill. The alleged shooting occurred on March 27 and the hearing costs totaled $10.25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Looker
A. J. Tavenner
Lester Looker
Spelling Match at Mt Williams Debating Society
The Mt Williams Debating Society will hold a spelling match at the hall in the community on Wednesday April 2 at 8 o'clock. Prizes will be given to winners in each division and the public is invited to attend and compete. Special music is being arranged and refreshments will be served.
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Mt. Williams Debating Society
Service At Burnt Church
Preaching services will be held at Burnt Church Presbyterian Church tomorrow at 11 o clock with John Hottle Winchester youth in the pulpit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burnt Church Presbyterian Church
John Hottle
Winchester
Wisecarver Denies Bartonsville Postoffice Petition
Leo Wisecarver, longtime Kernstown post office mail recipient, told The Star he did not sign a petition opposing the Bartonsville post office move and knew nothing about such a petition. He said his mail goes to Kernstown and he is not concerned with Bartonsville.
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Leo Wisecarver
Kernstown
Star
Bartonsville
Bartonville
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Berryville Junior Symphony Orchestra
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Amherst
City
Tfiloclel
Perfection Stove Company
Mervel W. Adams
Piccadilly ‘St
Romney
Jones Funeral Home
Beauty
Old Town
Dunkeld
Perthshire
Scotland
Steele
Gardner
Lord Sidney
Bert Steele
Mr. Steele
Robert G. Smith
John J. Smith
Dundee
H. E. Fry
Clary Farmer
South Cameron Street
Joseph Linaberg
C. R. Bailey
Dan
Goodrich Silvertown
Silvertown
Ethel
Leesburg
John Ww.y. Rosenberger & Co. Building Materials
Braddock
Roddy Kilowatt
Northern Virginia Power Company
MT. Williams
Magic Chef
Antietam
CQO
Hagerstown, Ma
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Winchester Dept
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