Today In History

April 30, 1987 — When Sandra Collier calls auctions, it’s anything but tongue-in-cheek business. “A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk,” sing-singed Mrs. Collier, […]

April 29, 1891 — Thomas N. Miller, a young man aged 15 years, son of Mr. B.W. Miller, of Rileyville, this county, was killed by the train at that place last Sunday morning. In attempting […]

April 28, 1911 — Conduct in the Post Office lobby, especially when the evening mails are being opened, has come to such a pass that Postmaster Holtzman has been compelled to call the attention of […]

April 27, 1961 — The death of Leo “Sidy” Dovel, 52, on Monday of this week, recalls the pitching deeds of one of the most popular and most effective pitchers in Luray’s long history of […]

April 26, 1962 — Nothing satisfies Virginia appetites like home-baked breads, pies, biscuits and pancakes … and no flours or corn meal have a finer reputation with our local housewives than the “Star of the […]

April 25, 1889 — Mr. Isaac Spitler is preparing to enclose with a wrought iron fence the grave of one of his old ancestors, Philip Varner, on the Rodeffer farm, below town, who died about […]