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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1923
Page
3
Chas C Burgner completes piano tuning job noted with date 8 24, possibly catalog or invoice entry. The text repeats name and service without additional event or location details.
The governor orders an election on road bonds to be held November 1923 in Winchester and surrounding areas. City Sergeant Adam Forney notes polling places open sunrise to sunset on November 1 and 6, 1923, with officials urging turnout. The notice also mentions community events and adult recreation at Centenary Reform Church and YMCA activities with schedules for children’s classes next week.
A court filing states the will of Thomas Luttrell, who died recently, bequeaths his estate to three children. L. Shirley and L. Shirley are named executrices, with bonds posted. The estate includes a trunk and a shotgun given to Aaeen Shirley as a beneficiary, and the assets are to be sold and proceeds divided among the three heirs.
The Methodist Church in Moorefield West Virginia dedicated a new building last Sunday. The pastor, the Rev G Dorsey White of St James Church, preached the dedicatory sermon.
Residents and guests are listed as traveling to and from Washington Roanoke Philadelphia and Baltimore. Dr W P McGuire and granddaughter Mia Ann Tucker More head to Wash ington for medical meetings. Dr Jesse T Scott attends Virginia State Medical Society in Roanoke. nombreuses names include Pidgeon Leafe Shepherd Wilder Weems Knight Wolfe Bennett Royston Gibson Winchester Orndoff and others visiting relatives and staying at Hotel Jack and Stony Mead over meals and days.
A Virginia commission urged ending the practice of appointing staff colonels as honorary positions to socialize governors. The Senate and American Legion oppose these "paper colonels" arguing they deprive deserving militiamen and add social bias. The move aims to bar new governors from creation of such ranks.
Centerville Michigan report shows County Clerk John Niendorf printing marriage guidance cards for couples. One side carries the clerk’s blessing. the reverse lists ten rules for a successful marriage including courting, budgeting, building a home, and avoiding relatives and boarders.
Letter from a reader requests correction of a newspaper article about a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad train being late. It notes prior late instances on August 3 and October and seeks space for a clarification tied to Washington and Baltimore trains at Harpers Ferry.
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