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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1935
Page
5
G Tyler Miller president of Front Royal Rotary and W . of Front Royal Lions club will decide this evening on a radio program for Front Royal Station WSVA in Harrisonburg. Valley programs has invited the town to use one meeting about the middle of next week.
Front Royal Rotary Club welcomed Rev Ronald Roland rector Calvary Episcopal church to a meeting. He spoke on The Type of Christianity in Abyssinia. He was introduced by Dr Orville VanDeusen. Also present was Rev Charles T Warner rector St Albans Episcopal Washington DC on vacation in Rockland.
Front Royal Lions Club schedules a Tuesday evening session at 6 15 at the Fairlawn w c Deming presiding. Members David Way Kendrick Percy Rogers and Joe Biggs will present reports from the international convention in Mexico held in July.
Albemarle Weavers Textile Company baseball club to replace Heurich Brewers for the remaining 13 games in the Shenandoah Valley League. R Lewin Eastham announced the change and the new team is said to have a strong record and expected to provide solid opposition.
Melvin Mason an habitual offender is in Warren county jail in Front Royal in connection with the robbery of Silman’s Grocery on Boundary avenue. Perk Perkins is also held. A hearing is set for Monday afternoon before Trial Justice Walter G. Olmstead.
The All Stars meet the Weavers Textile Co of Charlottesville in the Valley League at Front Royal tomorrow afternoon. The new club should provide strong opposition and a top game for local fans.
A marriage license was issued this morning in Front Royal to Cleveland Shipe and Nannie Oliver. Shipe is the son of Robert and Doris Shipe, a laborer from Relief, and Oliver is the daughter of Tom and Lizzie Cameron Oliver, a Milldale native.
The area office held a farewell picnic Friday evening at Elizabeth Furnace in Powell's Fort to honor Dorothy K. Smith area administrator promoted to the District Office Staunton in charge of Woman's Work. About 50 people attended representing five offices in Page Rappahannock Shenandoah Frederick and Warren. Julia Harnsberger arrives from Richmond to visit her parents J Baldwin Harnsberger and Mrs. Harnsberger.
Richmond resident Mr Frank Evans plans a week in Front Royal with family at Mrs Edgar Poultons home on Chester street. Washington visitors Mr George Calvert and Mr Elmer McIntosh drop in, while Miss Louise Borden hosts the Just Kids band.
Lil lie J. Settles transfers to William F. Butler two parcels of land in the South river district near Brown town for $1 and other consideration the deed recorded August 9 1935 in Front Royal Virginia.
Process servers sought singer Helen Kane known as Boop Boop a Doop in Hollywood today in a suit for 115 dollars claimed by Sydney Bozow, her attorney, for house rent.
Baltimore veteran politician Paul W. Eckert known as the Coney Island Whitey was sentenced to jail on a drunk driving charge. Max Sokol the attorney said an appeal and bond was set at 1000 dollars. Eckert also received fines for reckless driving and lacking a license and registration.
Island harvests push pineapple into daily life with affordable canning and new recipes. Dietitians propose varied uses from breakfast fruit to dinners and desserts, including an East Indian Shrimp Salad with pineapple and cabbage and a quick sautéed pineapple dessert with sponge cake and whipped cream.
I C Riggin, Virginia health commissioner, says infantile paralysis cases decline with no state wide epidemic. He notes three cases in Albemarle, one in Augusta, Prince Edward, Prince George, Lynchburg, and two in Petersburg, totaling 367 since July 1 with 121 since August 1. Maj Gen Arthur S Conklin calls ban on Virginia guardsmen a matter between states as maneuvers proceed.
Adjutant General Gardiner Waller said no orders changed plans for Virginia national guard troops in Pennsylvania maneuvers this summer. He noted health authorities in Virginia Maryland and the District of Columbia did not fear spread of infantile paralysis through Virginia participation.
Three men were hurt when an auto struck a stray horse on the three cent bridge at Westport. Fred A. Armstrong 24 driver of the car James R. Thompson 20 and James Welch 24 all of Baltimore were injured Thompson and Welch were thrown clear while the car overturned trapping Armstrong whose ankle was pinned. Firemen freed him after a second crew arrived.
New York playboy heir to an asbestos fortune faces divorce suit from his fourth wife as four men in a black car shadow his nightclub rounds. He carries guns for protection and employs two detectives to guard him.
Baltimore market notes cattle hogs calves and sheep with price ranges and weekly changes. Philadelphia reports dressed poultry live poultry eggs butter and related items with unchanged values.
Aug 10 reports closing prices for wheat corn rye and lard with Sept Dec May futures values. Winchester market notes wheat at 75 cents per bushel yellow corn 90 cents white corn 93 cents with barrel prices $4.50 to $4.65 based on mill deliveries.
For the first time in U S army history a regiment will go to field maneuvers in taxicabs. The 106th Field Artillery leaves Buffalo for Pine Camp near Watertown next Saturday. 113 taxis will form at the armory at 6 a m to transport 700 men over 225 miles with civilian drivers.
Addis Ababa dispatch reports French military authorities occupy vacant houses in Djibouti for officers as 2 000 Senegalese troops prepare. In Ethiopia Haile Selassie mobilizes tribes against Italy, plans to pollute water wells, and seeks funds via civet cat culture to finance arms. A Japanese credit mission accompanies Daba Birrou as Haile Selassie weighs economic ties with Japan.
New highs for the year appeared amid weekend profit taking as volume reached about 1.39 million shares. Public interest grew with blue chip favorites drawing followings while some low priced stocks revived. General Electric reported strong July orders and Western Union six month earnings rose to about $1.82 a share. Sterling opened at $4.964 per dollar, francs steady, and various closing prices listed for major stocks.
The Star notes markets are corrected daily and declines responsibility for typographical errors. readers are urged to verify figures.
A dense price fragment lists patent and local flour, feed, and butter rates. It shows 98, 48, 24, and 12 pound bag prices per barrel for flour and corn products, plus egg mash, dairy feeds, mixed feeds, and country butter with various cents per pound or per bag figures.
Astronomers forecast the Perseid meteor shower over the northwest sky for the next three nights. About fifty bright meteors will cross the sky as fragments from a comet that disappeared in 1862. Visibility will be worldwide where skies are clear, though a near full moon will dim the display somewhat.
60 acre farm listed for sale with half in wood, house, barn and outbuildings, good water source, located 5 miles from Middletown along the Shenandoah river. Priced at $1800. Respond to H. M. care Star.
Room rentals at Stewart Inn offering with or without meals. Contact phone 282-1 for details.
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