Today In History

January 8, 1891 — During the last week in Christmas, a child of Mr. B.F. Sours, who lives near Grove’s Mill, this county, died under circumstances indicating that it had been poisoned. Two days later […]

January 7, 1892 — Christmas has come and gone and about it many pleasant memories cling.  During the holidays, Mr. Andrew Moyer, of your town, bore away one of our best girls in the person […]

January 6, 1887 — A citizens meeting will be held in the hall of the YMCA next Saturday evening at 7 o’clock for the purpose of organizing an association for the relief of the poor […]

January 5, 1911 — Mr. Oliver Shaffer, son of Mr. Simon Shaffer, recently removed from Page to Prince William, on his way to Page on Christmas Eve, was knocked from the train by a lot […]

January 4, 1962 — James F. Burner, a VPI graduate with two and one half years with the Westinghouse Electric Company, has elected to come back to Luray and go in business with his father, […]

January 3, 1889 — Mr. John H. Presgraves, of this county, has for the past 18 months had forming in his mouth a fungus tumor. It had grown to about twice the size of a […]