Festival Honors Washington With Grand Parade and Pageantry
Winchester staged a historical pageant and parade honoring George Washington. The event featured the Handley High School Cadet Orchestra, the Queen Shenandoah IX flotilla, and sections by local civic groups depicting Indian transport, Spotswood's Knights, and Washington’s rise from frontier settler to first president. The two hour procession showcased 50,000 spectators along city streets and at Winchester Fair Grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Military Cadet Corps
Handley High School
George Washington
Shenandoah Valley
Washington
Garland R. Quarles
Handely High School
Virginia Boyd
Meg
Fort Loudoun
Shenandoah IX
Overseas
Drum and Bugle Corps
Washington, D. C
Royal Division
Winchester Fair Grounds
Winchester
Alexander Spotswood
Knights of the Golden Horse Shoe
Winchester Chamber of Commerce
Spotswood
Te Valley
Handley Stadium
Greenway Court
Daughters of the American Revolution
Century
Long list of VFW and Legion groups in regional parade
A crowded roster lists numerous veterans and civic groups from Maryland West Virginia and Virginia including American Legion posts drum and bugle corps bands High School cadets and local business floats. The parade features divisions and participants such as Francis Scott Key Post 11 Arlington Post 139 Greenbrier Military School Cadet Band Winchester Kiwanis Club and Masse various industrial floats from Martinsburg and Winchester bands from Handley High School and Mt Union Band plus commercial sponsors like Greyhound Buick Chevrolet and Montgomery Ward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Virginia House of Burgesses
American Legion Auxiliary
Delphian Society of Winchester
Madison Lodge
Order of Odd Fellows
Daniel Morgan
Winchester
Quebec
George Washington
United States
New York City
Girls’ Athletic Association
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Washington, D. C
Kelly Mansfield
American Legion
Piedmont
W. Va
American Drum and Bugle Corps
Baltimore
Queen's
Francis Scott Key
Frederick
Arlington Post
Clarendon
Morris Frock
Drum and Bugle Corps
Hagerstown
Henry Hart
Cumberland
Hoye Riley
Grover Schlack
Wendell Goode
Greenbrier
Lewisburg
Winchester Kiwanis Club
Banks of Winchester
Front Royal
Elkins
Winchester Lions Club
Robert Y. Conrad
Grange Club
Shenandoah Valley
Pleasant Valley
Handley High School
Northern Virginia Power Company
Winchester Rotary Club
Edmund Lupton
R. R. Legge
Roy Cather
Alexandria Post
Drum
Alexandria High School
Front Royal Post
Randolph-Macon Academy
Massanutten Military Academy
Arlington County High School
Kenandoah Valley Academy Trict Nurses Association
George H. Grimm
R. F. Hatcher
F. I. McClure
Spencer
Fete Committee
Harry McCann
John H. Rosenberger
Jack T. Engle
Cumberland Valley
Ouroast Wartest Woodmen
Ciroo Com
Bee Baking Company
McSherry Lupton
Staunton Military Academy Tepes Company
Greyhound Bus Line
Southern Dairy Company
Ser Benhag “County Council, of America
Hagers- Winchester Cold Storage Company
Peoples Drug Store, Inc
American Oil Company
Martinsburg
Iene Graded School
Industrial Float
Mt. Union Band
Twin City Oil and Gas Company
Pe Oa and Pacific Tea Compan Winchester Milling Company
Mt. Jackson
Montgomery Ward and Company
Chevrolet Sales Corporation
Jersey Packing Company
Bridgeton
N. J
Counterfeit Bills Found In Local Bank Deposits
Detectives report fake currency circulated at Oak Haven Filling Station on Martinsburg pike. Bills on Cleveland bank 1928 series with Hamilton image. two found by Farmers and Merchants staff, one $10 note from New York bank at Commercial and Savings Bank. Banks Winchester Shenko Valley signaled no counterfeit nodes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Haven
Martinsburg Pike
Robert F. Sands
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, O
Union Bank of Winchester
Shenko Valley National Bank
Spring Lows Lead Next In Line Of Arrival
The passage notes spring lowers, signaling their place as the next items to arrive in sequence.
Harvest Festival Crowns Queen Helen of Winchester
In Winchester the coronation of Queen Helen and her court completed with a pageant The Harvest of the Years dramatized Shenandoah Valley history from mythical to modern times about 1 000 students participated The ceremony featured Rev Stephen L Figg inger D D Judge Philip Williams and Ambassador Claudel ee r Shryock among others with the queen crowned and escorted to a tea dance at the Winchester Country Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apple Kingdom
Stephen L. Flickinger
Alfred the Great
Philip Williams
Robert B. Nelson
Winchester
Claudel Eeer Shryock
W. G- Por Ae Aayeeerfieyers
Anneley Field
House of Washington
Claudel
Helen
Esplanade
Shenandoah Valley
Schools of Winchester
Shenandoah Land of
Washington
Shenandoah
Winchester Country Club
Fort Worth Athlete Wore Number 13 in Two Sports
Adolph Dietzel of Fort Worth Texas withdrew from school due to a secret marriage and wore the number 13 jersey as a center in basketball and as an end in football.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph Dietzel
Fort Worth
Texas
Also Mentioned on This Page
Farmers and Merchants National Bank and
Winchester, Virginia
Hansbrough & Carter Insurance
Greenwood Farm News
Brown & Fisher
Ghe Wen
Kelvinator
Florida
California
Canada
J.W. Arthur
General Insurance
Rouss Ave
Local Claim Service
W. F. Shryock
Warner Bros
Capitol Winchester
Barbara
Faso
George Brent
Bette Davis
Dickie Moore
Robert Warwick
Hardie Albright
XTRA
Capitol News
Warner
Warner. Bros
Kathleen Collins
Niles Welch
George Hayes
Lal Smith
Olive Fuller Golden
Gray & Sheetz
N. Main St
Bruce
Rouss Spring Park
Funny Monkey Circus
Hodge
ARST
METRO
Festival Pictures
Scressler
Emma
Richard Cromwell
Jean Hersholt
Myrna Loy
Red Grange
Fisherman's Sport
Jackie Cooper
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
William Johnson
Dorothy Cooper
Eugene Cooper
Anne Brooke Kern
Grace Elizabeth Bosserman
Armstrong
Niagara
Hamman’s Dollar Store
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