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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1937
Page
5
Funeral services will be held from the home in Stephens City at 10 a m Friday for Charles Franklin Boone 74 who died yesterday in Memorial Hospital after several days as a hospital patient following injuries from an accident at the M J Grove Lime Plant where he worked.
An old advertisement urges women not to be a three quarter wife and promotes Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to ease discomforts of womanhood. It claims the product tones the system and helps during adolescence motherhood and middle age.
Johnsville native and longtime plant worker Jacob Boone died after a skull fracture. He lived in Stephens City for 37 years and leaves a second wife Mary Susan Boone, a daughter Annie Boone, son Sylvia Boone, and sons Maynard and LeRoy Boone. Surviving brothers are Dorsey Boone and Emory Boone. Service by Rev Cephas Fahnestock at Beaver Dam U B Church in Johnsville, Md, with burial to follow.
Brucetown residents share a weekend of visits with relatives and friends. John Moyer and daughter Mildred of Kernstown spent Sunday with J B Snapp and Herbert Fisher families. Corrie Swimley was visited by Frank Morgan Huyett and E H Meeter. Several other locals hosted or joined relatives from Morgantown Baltimore Waynesboro and Wadesville amid varying illness and travel.
Mt Williams Va Sept 22 Tommy Flegal staying with his father on Fresh Air Ridge. He injured his thumb at camp with Company I and remains in a sling. Mrs Evelyn Ebersole and two children Dorothy and Bobby return from a two month visit to North Carolina. Miss Edethyl Pitcock of Opequon visits cousin Irene Fauver. Mrs Myrtle Clowser recovering from dental extraction and cold. Mr and Mrs Zirkle Williams of Opequon visit friends Sunday. Master William Hollis Clowser.
Mrs J Wick visited Mr Isaiah Roe near Gore last Sunday. Hollis Clowser and family visited. Dorothy and Bobby Eber spent time with Miss Irene Fauver last Tuesday. June Wolverton called on Joyce Campbell Wednesday evening.
Thomas Cover longtime head of Cover and Company a leather broker born in Princeton New Jersey and educated at Princeton died in Philadelphia He led the family firm after its sale to United State Leather Company Survived by his widow Olivia Hodgson two daughters and three siblings funeral planned for Bryn Mawr with interment there
In Woodstock on September 21 the Shenandoah County Baseball League honored J. Grove Kniesley for four years as league president. Twenty three members attended as he received a gold medal and engraved token from Dr Harold W. Miller.
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