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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1924
Page
8
The Department of Commerce reports 1923 highway fatalities totaled 22,621, up 3,418 from 1922. The death rate was 20.4 per 100,000, with 16,452 deaths from automobiles. Including railroad and streetcar collisions raises the motor-vehicle toll to 18,788, about 83 percent of all highway fatalities.
The Winchester Rotary Club will meet tomorrow at 1 o clock in the coffee room of the George Washington Hotel. The club roster is divided into groups of four with a leader for each table and a large attendance is expected. An interesting program has been arranged.
George Crone a veteran railroader and long time Camden Station agent for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is reported critically ill. A native of Winchester he is advanced in years and feared not to recover. He is brother to the late Mrs. J K McCann and uncle of Charles R McCann of this city. He frequently visited his old home on Confederate Memorial Day and last did so last June 6. He has spent about fifty years with the B and O system, largely at Camden Station in Baltimore.
Mount Williams Virginia notes list residents and visitors across families. Mrs. Mattie Elwell of Winchester visits brother William Himelright and kin. Arthur Sager and family visit H W Aeitwood. J M Orndorft week ends with Kernatown hosts. Marie Fiegal in Washington returns home. Orance Sager visits R M Haas at Mountain Falls. A B Fauver resided pebbletda. Oswald Giese and family guests of local friends.
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