Today In History

April 18, 1991 — Some large chain department stores have closed in big cities, leaving only empty buildings. A remedy for the big buildings is to re-open them as mini- malls within the walls of […]

April 17, 1890 — There is a family in this county consisting of four brothers, which is an independent community of itself. They make their wagons, their own boots and shoes, shoe their own horses, […]

April 16, 1992 — Helen Morton spends a great deal of time on the phone, on the computer and on the road. If she’s not talking to someone from California, she’s sending a fax to […]

April 15, 1965 — The strong doubles team of Randolph Cloude and Trenton Long, from Luray, which started out in first place in the National Duckpin Bowling Congress tournaments at Hagerstown, Md., now stands sixth […]

April 14, 1887 — We have for the last year been urging our farmers and others whom we thought might be profited by the business, to look into the feasibility and cost of the establishment […]

April 13, 1967 — Miss Cheryl Keyser, 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Keyser, and sponsored by the Fox Body Shop, was crowned Miss Luray of 1967 Saturday, April 8, at Luray High School […]