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15YEARS AGO

The toll charge for

phone calls between

Culpeper and Sperryville was eliminated. Mrs. Lewis J. Turner and daughter Carolyn left for a trip to Fairbanks. Alaska to visit Mrs. Turner’s son, Capt. and Mrs. John Turner and son.

Fred William Jenkins of Sperryville was shot and fatally wounded while picking cherries in a tree. Charged with the murder was Robert Festus Jenkins, no relation, who told Sheriff C. K. Estes he was out squirrel hunting when he saw the tree branches move and saw something gray which he thought was a squirrel.

30 YEARS AGO

WASHINGTON Cooperative

Fruit Growers

underwent new management when the directors appointed C.E. Johnson, Jr. manager and L.J. Kilby sales manager. Mrs. B.M. Miller was bookkeeper.

A spelling bee was planned and among contestants entered were Mary Edna Schaefer, L.V. Merrill, Dr. J.P. Snead. W.F. Moffett, Jr., James Settle, Mrs. E.M. Jones, Mildred Litsey, Mrs. A.M. Vemer, Rayner Snead, Matilda Walker, H.B. Winfrey, Galley Smith, Mrs. R.L. Massie, Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson, Miss Lucy Mae Smith and a host of others.

A preliminary hearing of the Commonwealth versus Raymond W. Dealing was conducted Tuesday.' Dearing was held on twrf counts: hit and run and involuntary manslaughter in the injury and death of Mrs. J.E. Updike and infant daughter who were struck by an auto while walking on the > highway near Washington.

Miss Lucia Blake Ziegler of Staunton and I.R. Kilby of Sperryville were married in St. John’s Methodist Church in Edinburg.

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