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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1938
Page
7
A brief etiquette column answers three questions. A woman making a first seasonal call should leave one card per woman in the family. Men at a wedding do not pay for boutonnieres. the bridegroom provides them. It is proper to serve candy and salted peanuts at a luncheon and may be placed on the table beforehand.
Senator Harry F. Byrd and Grange leaders attend a two part celebration at Middletown High School marking ten years since the organization on August 12 1928. The afternoon features songs recitations a ten minute play and an address by Byrd followed by social hour and basket supper. Evening events include charter member recognition and talks by Grange leaders H B Caldwell and Mark Turner with local and state officials.
In a court case Judge Thomas A. Green awarded Trick Chicago-Jiggers to Harry Glickman after evidence showed the terrier would perform tricks for Glickman but ignored other claimants. The dog’s popularity and the dispute prompted the ruling in favor of the owner’s selection.
Berryville Virginia August 9 Mrs H B Harris announces 22 tables sold for the community card party at The Knoll home of Mrs R B Smith Friday August 12. Tables names list present and future events include auction at 4 pm and door prizes.
Winchester merchants urged shoppers to arrive early for Bargain Day events selling quality merchandise at unusually low prices. More than 34 leading stores sponsor the sale with expectations of large crowds tomorrow and Thursday. Prices are expected to rise again in fall and winter as the trend shifts upward.
The town of Berryville and Lloyd Williams Post American Legion conferred with Brigadier General James Anderson special engineer PWA in Winchester on Monday about a PWA grant to Berryville to aid construction of a memorial community building with local legion cooperation.
Funeral services were held Sunday for Clayton Panter 68 retired farmer and Cedar Cliff Church elder of Vaucluse. The Rev Allen Jones and Rev Julian Owens conducted at the Shiley home near Middletown with burial in Mount Carmel Cemetery. Surviving are widow Alma, son Violet H Painter, daughter Evelyn H Shiley, two brothers and two sisters.
Jack and Donald Grim visit 22 East Monmouth Street with a well fed spider and offer it for cash. Johnny Rhodes the bug editor says he will not buy spiders or other creatures on the open market.
Richmond report states 1937 Virginia dairy manufacturing rose sharply from 1936 levels and set records for butter ice cream cottage cheese and condensed evaporated milk. Creamery butter 6 508 000 pounds. ice cream 3 735 000 gallons. cottage cheese 560 000 pounds. condensed evaporated milk total 18 855 000 pounds. Milk production reached 1 396 000 000 pounds with $33 111 000 gross income.
There is strong demand for printing trades workers and the Southern School of Printing offers modern equipment and expert instructors. It has trained many men who now hold journeyman foreman and superintendent roles. Write Mr. W. C. Garriott, Manager, 1514-16 South Street, Nashville, Tennessee for particulars. Also note a stray or stolen listing for a female Welch Corgi named Rhoda, reward offered. Call W. D. Pifer in Boyce 5 R.
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