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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1947
Page
2
Edward proposes to Midge offering Ainswick life and rings. Lucy Angkatell hosts a relaxed post murder-episode gathering at Berkeley and Mirelle before planning a quiet autumn wedding with off white satin and a small bridal party while inspectors search for the revolver used in the Christie case.
The 1937 Constitution creates a Seanad Eireann with 60 members and a Dail Eireann with 138 members. This establishes the upper and lower houses of the Irish legislature and sets their delegation counts.
Cecil B. Feagans Sr., 53, Berryville and Charles Town jeweler and former Dupont worker, died this morning at Winchester Memorial Hospital after a 10 day illness. He leaves a large family including widow Sallie Spates Feagans and five sons, three daughters, and siblings.
Edward M. Mathews, area Director of the State division of war veterans claims, said he will be located at the Chamber of Commerce offices in George Washington hotel starting Wednesday. Office hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. each Wednesday for veterans or dependents needing help with disability compensation pensions hospitalization service pay burial allowances headstones return of war dead terminal leave training and related claims.
S. S. Abshire of near White Hall injured while feeding corn stalks into silo machinery at J. L. Nethers farm. A blade cut the left eye in three places. sight impact not yet determined. Abshire, 66, has two daughters in Winchester, Mrs. Melvin Brown and Mrs. Mervill Hardy.
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A 15 month old boy, Donald County, is eating well again after doctors removed an open safety pin from his stomach. He stopped eating for several days but improved after surgeon Joseph Klein operated at Temple University hospital following a fall from his crib in Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania.
Trial Justice Court Three divorce cases have been settled by Judge Elliot Marshall in Frederick Circuit Court. Gladys Boyd Golliday was granted an absolute decree from Leslie Golliday for desertion. They were married in July 1936. She may resume her maiden name. Wallie Haines Haines was granted a full divorce from Edgar Elwood Haines on ground of cruelty which justified desertion. They were married on June 1942. She may resume her maiden name of Vailie Haines. A partial divorce of Margaret Smith Gray from Emerson Gray for desertion was merged into an absolute decree. She may resume her maiden name.
A sequence of auction notices lists sales by date time and seller in Winchester Kernstown and Clearbrook Virginia. Items include household goods antiques livestock farm equipment horses cattle hay grain and machinery. Locations include Indian Alley Castleman's Ferry Loudoun Street Kernstown and U S Route 11.
An official said the trial justice will seek warrants next week against eight or nine county parents for failing to comply with the compulsory school attendance law. Names of those summoned to appear in court were not revealed.
The article notes Russa backing three Balkan Soviet satellites in the Greece dispute, endorsing Germany’s approach, and opposing what he called powers acting outside the U.N. framework. He also criticized the U.S. plan for a year around a small Assembly.
Weisenbeg reports 7000 homes damaged and most private piers wrecked along the waterfront. West of Pascagoula hay St. Louis causeways washed out, halting traffic on scenic Mobile routes. Biloxi officials call on Keesler Field army to deter looting as beaches littered with wrecked yachts.
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