Berryville Sworn In Mayor and Council Reelect Officers
Berryville Virginia council re elected officers and sworn in Leonard H. Bell as mayor. Pete Carper becomes town policeman succeeding Harley R. Cheshire. Council also re elected treasurer, town attorney, assessor, and water superintendent. A water system audit and back tax records will be pursued by a committee.
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Bell
G. Keneth Levi
Ank E. Tappan
Leslie N. Rus 1
D. Blanton Allen
Allen
Whiting
Ben Crampton
Bobler
George N
Edward
Willams
Shenk
G. K
William
Eee
Tappan
Owens
W. Claude Owens
Ted Allen
Designa
K. Lavi
Edward Williams
Dr. Tappan
Levi
Price Receives Distinguished Flying Cross for Heroic Landing
Captain George E. Price of Los Angeles California is awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for landing a disabled army aircraft safely during a test flight. The craft represented two years of intensive research and development by the Army Air Forces.
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George E. Price
Los Angeles
Cal
War Department
Japanese Rotary Clubs Dissolved in Korea and Manchoukuo
Representatives of 47 Rotary clubs in Korea and Manchoukuo voted to dissolve the organization in Tokyo amid a nationwide anti espionage agitation that had targeted Rotary. The dissolution follows the Japanese action as a sequel to the campaign.
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Tokyo
Rotary
Korea
Manchoukuo
Turkey Festival Promises Big Rockingham Event Oct 10 11
Harrisonburg reports preparations for the Second Annual Rockingham National Turkey Festival to be held October 10 and 11. Bands and drum and bugle corps entries are rising, with more than 65 groups likely to participate. Coronation plans for the Turkey Queen are under way at Madison College, with Miss Elizabeth Blose named a princess. The Mummers parade adds comedy with adults and children in costumes and comical vehicles.
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Harrisonburg
Joseph Wampler
Drum and Bugle Corp
Madison College
Elizabeth Blose
Penn Laird
Rockingham
Blose
Ruritan
Keezletown
Charles W. Wampler
Mummers Committee
Sue Anderson
Winchester
Alice Virginia Ankers
Loudoun County
Avery Baird
Romney
W. Va
Mary Elizabeth Aoe
Grayson County
Grace Frances Clarkson
Roanoke
Mabel Cunningham
Prince Ed
Local Markets and Livestock Prices From Richmond Area
Local markets list wholesale flour brand prices per barrel for 12 24 48 and 98 pound bags and include horse feed and various poultry and hog items. The section also notes creamery butter prices and cites a long roster of individuals by county and town names across Virginia and nearby West Virginia.
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Owen Pee Ceeread Hiabsbal
COWES
Soda Dee
Saenes
Sp Sabins Heewd
Clarke School Board Bans Candy Sales Countywide
Clarke County Virginia school board bans candy sales in all county schools and restricts commercial programs to schools only with express athletic association permission. New teacher appointment confirmed. gasoline contracts awarded for bus fleets. schools open Friday with meetings scheduled for bus routing.
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Berryville
Clarke School Board
Boyce
Clarke County
Tesident
A. F. Robertson
Slonaker
Ethel Spaid Slonaker
Winchester
Berryville High School
Marian Martin
Near Boyce
Gore
Harrisonburg
Carter and Ashby
Ernest Alger
Millwood
Clarke
Robertson
Market Quotations From Baltimore Produce Markets
Market quotations from Baltimore and Philadelphia show steady to firm prices across produce lines. Live poultry and eggs hold firm while cattle and hog markets display limited sales and steady to lighter activity.
Wheat and corn year to date prices in Chicago and Winchester Markets
Dec ra Jan. 6.42, Mar. 6.32 Chicago futures. cash wheat No 2 hard 78 3 4, No 4 hard 76 1 4. oats and barley prices listed. Winchester Markets show Wheat 77c, Corn 77c per bushel with year ago comparisons Wheat 47c, corn 60c.
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Dec
Chicago
Winchester
Quotations Va Livestock Market Norfolk Street Tuesday Sales
Livestock sale at Va Livestock Market N Kent Street extended every Tuesday Sept 3 1940 from 5 to 6 45 features veal calves top 11 75 bulk 12 00 lambs choice 9 20 good graded 9 00 medium 7 50 culls 50 hogs top 7 45 bulk to packers 7 35 shoats 6 50 pigs 1 00 to 2 50 fat sows 4 25 to 5 25 cwt feeder and stocker cattle feeder steers 7 00 to 8 50 per cwt 8 or steers 28 to 48 50 head.
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Baltimore Livestock
Baltimore
U.S. Dept. Agri
West Virginia
Paper Borrower Finds Missing Afternoon Paper
In Charlotte on September 4 a man named W. K. Punderbury failed to receive his afternoon paper. Two days later the paper reappeared in his yard bearing a penciled note confessing it had been to Wrightsville Beach and back.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
N. C
W. K. Punderbury
Wrightsville Beach
Gayda Sees U. S. Nearer To War
Rome reports Virginio Gayda, chief Fascist editorialist, says the destroyer base swap with Britain pulls the United States deeper into the European war. He calls the deal a bargain that betrays Anglo Saxon solidarity and warns Britain must lose vast imperial assets to gain 50 American ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Virginio Gayda
United States
Gayda
Britain
Females Again Show Deadliness
STATE COLLEGE Pa Sept 4 The American Psychology Association notes chimpanzee behavior shows female influence through feminine control techniques over males, challenging views of dominance by males in social dynamics.
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State College
Wheat Prices Rise to Near Two-Month High in Chicago
Chicago Wheat prices climbed to near two month highs with gains of 3 to 17 cents as buying from mills and elevators supported futures. Dec and May contracts posted new seasonal peaks while notes cited bullish factors including Romania and Britain's resistance to German air attacks.
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Chicago
Romania
Britain
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Chapman Motor Co
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Cammer Tire Co
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Lincoln-Zephyr
N. Braddock &T
Turkey
Star
Hollis Painter
Staunton
Julia Parrott
Green County
Mary Rawls
Norfolk
Eleanor Ruddle
Bath County
Inez Scott
Bedford County
Janet Trenis
Prince William County
Katherine Walker
King and Queen
Martha Barrett Williams
Elkton
Helen Lucille Wisman
Shenandoah
Delores Spitzer
Port Republic
Dodge
Pine Motor CO
Braddock & Cecil Sts
Defense Unity
Roosevelt
New Found Gap
TVA
Tennessee River
Chickamauga Dam
National Unity
Defense
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U.S
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N. J
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U. S
Philadelphia
N. Kent St
Department of Agriculture
Cincinnati
Ohio
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Millwood Ave
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