Washington float display at Wheeling festival critiqued
Edith J. ONeal Virginia D A R notes disappointment in the festival floats. The impersonation of Mistress Washington by Louise Glass and the Lawrence Washington Society participants were rushed past spectators, preventing individual recognition in print.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Green
Lawrence Augustine Washington
Winchester
Wheeling
W. Va
Washington
Louise Glass
Lawrence One Washington Society
D. A
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promoted Across Generations
An ad style excerpt traces Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound from grandmother to great granddaughter, praising its trusted place in family health for fifty years. It invokes historical eras from polonaise to radio, highlighting continual usage by mothers and daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
Shawnee Sunday Schools Convene May 27 at Kernstown
The fifteenth Annual convention of the Sunday School Association for Shawnee district will be held at the Methodist Episcopal Church South Kernstown starting at 10 in the morning with a noon lunch break. Member schools include Bartonville St Pauls Carpers Valley Kernstown and more with invitation to all interested in Sunday school work.
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Sunday School Association of Shawnee
Frederick County
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Kernstown
Shawnee
Bartonville
St. Paul's
Carper’s Valley
Union Cross Roads
Evendale Union
Rains Aid Mountain Fire Fighters Battle Forest Blaze
Weekend rains aided government crews in controlling weeklong forest fires in the Great North Mountains between Star Tannery Virginia and Capon Springs West Virginia. Fire wardens surrounded 7 000 acres with the Big Survey tract smoldering before rain extinguished the blaze. Farmers said the rainfall was worth thousands of dollars ending a five week dry spell in the Shenandoah Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great North Mountains
Star’Tannery
Capon Springs
W. Va
Philadelphia
Shenandoah Valley
Northern Virginia Power to Redeem Third Mortgage Bonds
Northern Virginia Power Company announces redemption of all its 6 percent Betterment Bonds issued May 1, 1918. On May 1, 1926, the principal and accrued interest are due at Shenandoah Valley National Bank in Winchester, Virginia. Interest ceases after May 1, 1926 and coupons maturing after that date are void.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Virginia Power Company
Virginia
R. Gray Williams
A. Moore, Jr
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
Winchester
M. F. Riley
May term opens in Corporation Court with light docket
The May term of the Corporation Court began today with Judge F. B. Whiting presiding. Little business was transacted as the docket was unusually light. An afternoon session will consider appointing a temporary Judge of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court to replace Lake J. Frazier during his illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corporation Court
F. B. Whiting
Lake J. Frazier
Partition suit for Charles E Wormley heirs in Frederick County
The Frederick County Circuit Court on April 29 1926 orders residents and unknown heirs to appear within ten days to protect interests in a real estate partition case involving Willie C Robinson et al against Charles E Wormley heirs. A public notice will be posted weekly for four weeks in the Winchester Star and at the county courthouse front door by May 3 1926.
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Circuit Court OF
County OF Frederick
Willie C. Robinson
Als
Charles E. Wormley
Frederick County
Charles EB. Wormley
Charles Champ
Louisa Champ
Annie Plummer
Carrie Warrick
Nellie Allen
Eleanora Jackson
Robert Washington
Frank Washington
Louissa Jefferson
Bertha Jackson
Floyd Washington
Samuel Washington
Eva Washington
Mary B. Washington
Samuel Washington, Jr
Veeda Robinson
Washington
Prince Baltimore
George A. Garner
Virginia
Annie Belle Spence
Anda Gordon
Lamet Wo Oes
Charles FE. Wormley
Winchester Star
Winchester
Blanche E
Noonan
Ward & Larrick
P. c
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