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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1949
Page
2
The piece extols stewardship as the Christian duty to give rather than hoard. It frames giving as the path to true possession, asks for enlarged gratitude and benevolence, and prays for use of talents and lives to glorify God, ending with an Amen.
Listings of upcoming auctions on April dates across West Virginia Maryland and Virginia. Items include real estate household goods furniture tools and vehicles with locations in Jefferson County Stephens City Greenspring Ellicott City Wardensville and Winchester. Separate times and dates shown for each sale.
Rebert J. Smith, president of Winchester Lions, presented a gong and gavel to the Fauquier county club at Marshall as the newest of 42 clubs in District 24 C. Governor James C. Hill of Vienna presented the charter. Winchester Lions sponsored the Fauquier club and Stephens City club also attended. Frederick county club reported eight straight months of perfect attendance. C. A. Hobert, deputy district governor of Berryville, served as toastmaster.
William Arthur Coffelt, 71, of Oranda died at home after a long illness. Born in Lebanon church area, he was active in Walnut Springs Christian church and oversaw the Walnut Springs cemetery. Survived by wife Effie Bell and children Hollis, Hary, Norman, and Mrs Ernest Good, plus siblings and grandchildren. Funeral Sunday with 2 p.m. cortege from his home to 2:30 p.m. services at Walnut Springs Christian church and burial in Walnut Springs cemetery.
Former Missouri senator George Graham Vest delivered his famous tribute while acting as a lawyer in an 1870 case over a client’s dog killed by a man. The jury awarded $150 in damages.
Executive committee approves an eight page resolution praising Dr Hunter McGuire president of the institution from 1901 until his death on January 22, 1949. The memo highlights his role in founding Winchester Hospital and in teaching during the Nursing School era, notes fundraising drives that reached 600000 dollars, and outlines plans for a new 222 bed hospital costing about 2200000 dollars.
Winchester named site for a Sunday school convention on June 16 while Palmyra Church near Edinburg will host the annual session on August 10-11 at the Virginia Valley Congregational Christian Churches mid year meeting held at Tenth Legion. Rev. R A Whitten spoke on Our Share In Evangelizing the World noting the world waits for the church to witness.
The page lists quiz answers including United States Organizations for Q1 and The diamond for Q2. It notes topics such as jokes and a kitchen and confirms a claim as true. It names states New York Illinois California Pennsylvania Massachusetts Ohio and answers Countess, ride in it, and he struck out.
Madrid dispatch notes Franco era recovery lags after ten years post civil war. Despite a 5 billion peseta budget for dams rails and housing and private loans from the United States including a 25 million Chase Bank loan 750 freight cars and 1 000 railcars from France are on order as housing and transport remain undersupplied.
The article notes sunspots as conical tornadoes with heights up to 20 000 miles, highlighting the mystery of their cause while detailing their striking vertical scale.
Harold Korman of Martinsburg suffered a nose laceration and about 300 dollars damage after a 1946 Pontiac coupe traveling to pass collided with an International truck turning left at Perry's quarry on Route 50 three miles west of Winchester. State Trooper J H Wood reported Harry Trout of Martinsburg drove the car and Joe Monroe of Capon appears involved.
The bridge operator Korman received treatment at Winchester hospital and was released. Damages were estimated at 200 dollars to the car and 100 dollars to the truck. In Burma, tea is sometimes pickled and eaten as a vegetable.
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