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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

May 14, 1941

Page

2

Bell Rites Planned In Clarke County For Robert Bell

Bell 73 prominent implement dealer and threshing machine operator in Clarke County will have General services Thursday at 3 p.m. from Duncan Memorial Methodist Church Berryville with Rev. A O Lyons officiating. Interment at Green Hill Cemetery. Survived by widow Beulah Santmyer and two brothers J R Bell of Va and R Clarke county.

Berryville Robert Lee Bell Clarkety Duncanial Methodist Church J. M Wolfe Archibald Osborne Ggorge Chapman L. H. Bell John A Diloyd C. T. Levi C. H. Phillips L. N. Russell George H. Levi Harold Scheuer F. C. Hutteman R. M. Ware J. F. Galloway F. L. Ayler Dick Price

Rites Are Held For Mrs Bageant

Funeral services for Mrs. Veronia Bagent 78 were held at the Redlands Methodist Church near Whitacre with Rev C B Larrek officiating. Interment followed in the adjoining cemetery. nephews served as pallbearers.

Veronia Bagent Redlands Methodist Church Whitacre C. B. Larrek

Answers to the Daily Quiz List of replies from page quiz

The page presents a compiled answer key for a daily quiz. It lists ten items with concise responses including names such as Van Dine and Sir William Howe, along with subjects like Mercury and Alabama.

van Dine Little Bo Peep Sir William Howe Alabama True

New Telephone Directories Delivered in Winchester Area

The new red directory, called the most important yet by officials, reaches about 3 820 subscribers with dial service starting at midnight May 17. It covers Winchester Berryville Boyce Stephens City and Whitacre connecting company lines. Subscribers should remove personal papers from old directories and destroy them after midnight May 17 to reflect new numbers.

Winchester L. J. McElligott Berryville Boyce Stephens City Whitacre

Colored Man Dies In Fire Near Woodstock

Elias Copp a 70 year old colored man was burned to death while cutting wood on the Samuel George farm near Woodstock as a five acre fire and smoke trapped him. Fire also damaged the Tavenner Bosserman office building with smoke and fire on the basement floor and six tenants moved items to safety. Cause of the basement fire not yet established.

Woodstock Samuel George Here Elias Copp H. W. Miller

Codeball Inventor Dr William E Code of Chicago

Codeball arose in 1927 as the invention of Dr William E Code of Chicago. The first demonstration occurred at the Lake Shore Athletic Club in Chicago the following year.

William E. Code Chicago Lake Shore Athletic Club

Clarke County Woman's Club Endorses Rural Supervisor Office

Clarke County Woman's Club votes against abolishing the Supervisor of Rural Schools post and urges the County School Board to reconsider. The May meeting also approved sponsoring Girl Scout Troop No. 1 and a Saturday recreation center at the Community Building starting June 7, with plans for a flower show on June 5 and a prize sweepstakes.

Clarke Woman’s Club Office Rural Supervisor Berryville Woman's Club of Clarke County A. F. Robertson Frank E. Tappan Stella Moore J. M. H. Clagett B. F. Arthur, Jr Winchester

Judge Paul To Hear Sabotage Case In Norfolk

NORFOLK May 14 Four Italian shipmasters held on identical sabotage charges in Hampton Roads prior to government seizure March 30 are to be tried Monday in federal district court before Judge John Paul sitting for Judge Luther B Way The date followed a conference with Maj Paul W Peear court clerk and Sister S Parsons attorney for the captains Eleven crewmen named with the captains by the federal grand jury remain without a definite trial date.

Norfolk Hampton Roads Federal District Court John Paul Luther B. Way Paul Paul W. Peear S. Parsons Federal Grand Jury

Readers Debate Convoy in War Policy

The Inquiring Reporter surveys public opinion on convoy ship protection amid growing fears of entanglement in war. Letters from Woodrow White Willkie supporters W Glenn Nichols James Merriner W Whitlock and Charles H Harper argue for and against convoy and warn of tax and readiness implications.

Mrs. Ola Hummer Rites Held at Macedonia Church

Funeral services for Mrs. Ola Hummer were held at Macedonia Methodist Church with Rev. H. G. Balthis officiating. Interment followed in the adjoining cemetery. Pallbearers included Frank Kremer Hugh Carper Carroll Solenberger Joe McDonald Cecil Bailey and Orie Bailey. She was daughter of Arch and Catharine Lynn McCarty and survived by her husband Alvin H Hummer four children and several siblings and nieces and nephews.

Ola Hummer H. G. Balthis Macedonia Methodist Church Frank Kremer Hugh Carper Carroll Solenberger Joe McDonald Cecil Bailey Orie Bailey Rugged Cross Carroll Hummer Turner Bowen Clarke County Alfred Hummer Shirley Ann Hummer Robert Kremer Carpers Valley Turner Barrett Martinsburg C. T J. E. McCarty Gerrardstown W. Va

Inscription on Thomas Wolfe’s grave at Ashevile NC

The grave marker quotes a passage from The Web and the Rock describing Death bending to touch its chosen son with mercy love and pity and placing the me of honor upon him as a final epitaph.

Thomas Wolfe Asherville North Carolina

Grangers Name Committee On Road Funds

The Frederick Shenandoah Pomona Grange at White Hall formed a committee to study reports that Valley counties receive less highway funding than others. Members are Jesse B. Lewis Ashby Brumback Frank C. Strother D. N. Grover and J. L. Saum. Delegates to the Grange conference at Blacksburg June 12 14 include Miss Ethel Barrett and Mrs. Ashby Brumback with alternates Wins-

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Public sale of household furniture announced

Public auction at the residence of the late Mrs W W McDonald Hillcrest Villa 114 miles south on the Valley Pike Winchester Virginia begins 1 pm Saturday May 17 1941. Items include antique china cupboard spool bed settee dining room furniture beds dressers sewing machine pictures rugs dishes cooking equipment and other articles. Terms cash. W W McDonald Dunn and Duval auctioneers.

W. W. McDonald Hillcrest Villa Valley Pike Winchester

Rural Life Sunday Observance Planned With Talks

The Grangers will join Rural Life Sunday at St. John's Lutheran Church in Mt. Williams as part of a community observance. July 14 picnic at Front Royal recreation park includes talks by Dobbins on Poultry Raising and Jack McAboy on The Farmer's Changing World.

Front Royal Recreation Park St. John’s Lutheran Church Mt. Williams Jack McAboy

Prayer Service and Sunday School Association Meet

The weekly prayer service of the Church of Our Saviour is set for Rag o'clock. A sermon will be followed by a Sunday school Boschare Association meeting.

Church of Our Saviour Boschare Association

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