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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Aug 07, 1936

Page

10

Friendship Fire Company Carnival Opens With LaMar Brothers

Preparations for the Friendship Fire Company jubilee and carnival at the fair grounds run August 10 to 15. Krause Greater Shows will exhibit with rides fea tures bands cali phones and circus acts. The La Mar Brothers perform 120 feet in the air without a net and have audiences abroad. Ladies free 1 to 6 Tuesday. children free noon to 6 Wednesday. all rides 5 cents for kids. Firemen Fraternal Day Saturday features and enhanced acts promised.

Friendship Fire Company Krause la Mar Brothers Japan

Sunday Visitor's Day for Scouts at White Rock Camp

The White Rock camp opens two camps for younger and older Scouts with James Botts and Laurens Jones leading groups. Patrol leaders earn totem poles. meals run on time. Sunday marks visitor's day with a camp service. cake days are set for August 8 and 15 with cakes drop-off at Cooper Merchandise by 1 PM.

White Rock James Botts Edwin Snider Logan Massey Chas Harbaugh Paul Hammond William Miller Laurens Jones Everett Jones Robert Anderson Donald Stewart Edgar Smoke Senta Barnhart Richard Sutton Levi Anderson Eugene B. Cooper Cooper Merchandise and Oil Company Loudoun Piccadilly Streets

Weight Control Booklet Promises Health Regimen

A newspaper declares a weight control booklet published with the United States Public Health Service as a dependable guide. It stresses that both underweight and overweight signal health issues, requiring diet and exercise changes. Readers are urged to order by enclosing ten cents with the coupon.

United States Public Health Service

Pettigrew Visits Winchester on Airport Plans

A H Pettigrew of Richmond in charge of Virginia airport development under the department of highways visited Winchester yesterday. He met locals interested in improving landing field facilities and discussed securing a new airport site and state funding for its preparation.

A. H. Pettigrew Richmond Virginia Department of Highways Winchester

Food And Feed Crop Increase Is Encouraged

A new provision in the 1936 Agricultural Conservation Program for the East Central Region allows farmers to grow more food and feed crops than their base without payment deductions. The change applies to all farms in the region regardless of drought, extending relief for shortages.

East Central J. Fred Stine

Bickers Commends Park Service Aides

Myron Bickers of Bickers Motor Company praised Privates Henry M. Berger and Stanley G. Kitchen of the United States Park Police for aid after his July 17 car accident near Memorial Circle on the Mount Vernon Memorial Boulevard. Frank T. Gartside of National Capital Parks praised the officers for their actions.

Myron B. Bickers Bickers Motor Company National Park Service Henry M. Berger Stanley G. Kitchen United States Park Police Mr. Bickers Sde Memorial Circle Ount Vernon Memorial Boulevard Frank T. Gartside National Capital Parks Bickers

Local youths plan corner store for sports goods

Otis Sargent and Thomas Kremer announce a new sports goods shop in the George Washington Hotel basement room at Cameron and Piccadilly. They will stock Spaulding and Goldsmith products and install a patron fountain. Sargent, a Handley School alumnus, heads youth athletic programs while Kremer, son of a local merchant, brings retail and athletic background.

Otis Snag Sargent Thomas K. Kremer George Washington Hotel Cameron and Piccadilly Streets J. Mack Noonan A. G. Spaulding and Goldsmith Company Sporting Goods Handley Cumberland Valley Athletic League Springfield College Springfield Mass Tomy Kremer Thomas E. Kremer

Hold Black Person Held for Hearing on Bad Check Charges

Howard Lipstomb of Bunker Hill West Virginia is held for hearing on multiple bad check charges. Sergeant Frances Funk says Lipstomb, described as colored, issued bad checks to four local auto firms, with four cars recovered promptly.

Howard Lipstomb Bunker Hill W. Va Frances Funk

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