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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1931
Page
3
Social and personal items note mailed or telephone requests for notices. Readers are instructed to mail to The Evening Star or call the provided telephone number for the start of notices and updates.
Miss Nannie McIntosh and Miss Lucille Crogan and Mr. Roy Kern leave today for Wildwood New Jersey for ten days. They will be joined in Washington by several relatives and friends.
Four of fourteen states filed objections to the Farm Board plan to destroy a third of the cotton crop to lift prices. Texas wavering with governor Sterling initially seeming to support then denying backing. Georgia Alabama Florida and South Carolina rejected the plan but offered substitutes, while others offered no public proposals.
In Ann Arbor Michigan police hold a fourth man and a woman in a case where three torch slayers killed two young couples and burned their bodies to cover a robbery. Katherine Keller denies direct participation but a pistol she possessed links Howard Forwalter to the crime. Authorities say the confession reveals bootleg liquor motives behind the brutal killings of Thomas Wheatley Harry Love Vivian Gold and Anna May Harrison.
Bulls kept the New York stock market well in hand with a steady tone and gains of one to three points in many advances. Oils motors and accessories and moderate priced shares traded in substantial volume while weekend profit taking appeared at times and extreme gains were not sustained. Transfers totaled about three fourths of morning shares as call money renewed at 12 percent.
Rebels led by Menocal surrender near River Verde in Pinar del Rio and are taken to Cuba aboard a warship. Among captives are Rep Miguel Angel Aguiar, Martinez Fraga, and Menocal's son Raulo. Government claims several casualties in Santa Clara clash as it contemplates next moves.
Rev. Harold Holt of Oak Park Tl argues in a sermon that the dethronement of man as head of the family is among factors contributing to the decline of the traditional home structure.
An ad for engraving services offers copper plate engraving to produce 100 name cards and 250 business cards. Pricing shown includes 87.00 for 100 name cards and 5.75 for 250 business cards. Location listed is The Home Print Shop at 211 South Main Street.
Trading muted as grain values hovered near yesterday's close on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat settled near figures at September 50 1 2, December 53 4, May 58. Corn closed September 46 1 2, December 40 1 4, May 44 3 4. Oats 41 2, 23 1 4, 26. Rye 34 1 2, December 38 1 2, May 41 4 1 2.
Washington August 15 federal government moves to replenish bonded liquor stocks via distilling 2 738 100 gallons. Commissioner James M Doran says 30 percent bourbon and the rest rye will be produced. Three quarters of output to be made in Kentucky aided by grain costs and unemployment relief.
State agency investigates the lumber yard blaze that destroyed an estimated million feet of timber. Firemen battled the flames for nearly ten hours, aided by a ten inch water main crossing Woodstock lane supplying Harris Addition.
Firemen and Woman's Auxiliary units led a parade through town to the Winchester Fair grounds for a band contest. Prizes were awarded to Virginia and Cumberland Valley groups for best appearance and distance traveled, with bands from Alexandria Washington and Mechanicsburg among participants.
Fire companies from Annapolis to Alexandria and beyond joined a parade and band contest ending with a homeward trek. Representatives from Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania fire groups traveled with trucks bands and auxiliaries. The procession drew visitors and featured numerous drum corps and bands along the route as crews returned home after the event.
By 9 am today the last guard had withdrawn and Winchester returned to normal after four days of entertaining and hilarity at the Jordan Springs Hotel dance which drew the greatest assemblage in Virginia history.
Harrisonburg Hose Company No 4 captured 300 dollars for parade head prize plus 300 dollars open award tied with Washington Hose of Mechanicsburg Pa. The No 1 auxiliary won first in the band contest and also cash prizes totaling six hundred dollars for the two local units. Ex Captain William Willis led the No 4 delegation and spectators praised the No 1 auxiliary’s red tongue cart display and the women’s marching sight.
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