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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1940
Page
16
Grimes notes in GRIMES Virginia on September 12 that Galilee Church plans Sunday morning preaching. The town reports a good school enrollment, peach harvest in full swing with fair prices, and ongoing threshing as corn silage prep begins.
Local notes detail visits and travels over Labor Day. Richmond visitor Mr. C F Hockman calls on niece Mrs Howard White. Miss Alice Albin stays with sister in Baltimore. Mt Clinton resident Mrs C C Custer visits sister Mrs Henry Mears. residents attend tomato festival in Berkeley Springs and a horse show in Warrenton.
North Mountain Virginia reports visitors and travelers. Mr and Mrs Joseph Bean and friends returned to Washington after a week at their summer home. Mr and Mrs Carson Allamong and sons James and David dined with Mr John Klines at Marlboro. Mrs Edith Snapp visited her brothers in Minerva Ohio and Martinsburg West Virginia. Mr James Loy of Winchester called on H A Snapp. Ernest and Hugh Nesselrodt visit relatives in Manassas.
Miss Agnes Elliott visited her grandmother at Mt Falls on Sunday afternoon.
Cross Roads notes report Rev. M. L. Zirkle will preach at Fairview Sunday at 3 p.m. Sunday School will be held at 2 p.m. Local residents Woodrow Line Hicks Berryhill White and McKee are noted as visiting or calling on Sunday.
A birth notice reports congratulations for the birth of a son on Sunday. The item notes the family milestone and extends best wishes from relatives and friends.
The Kansas City superintendent fired an usher for muttering he did not do his minor duty. The usher marched at front of theatre from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. until called in and rehired. The man had learned the usher was mistaken in his duties.
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