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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1934
Page
9
Brief snapshots from Baltimore Brooklyn Milwaukee Yellow Springs Great Bend and Chicago cover life trials inventions and a county farmer's trades. Highlights include a war bride confessing theft of shoes a doctor inventing a solitaire game and a Chicago fair attendance surge.
Milwaukee police issued warrants charging four suspects with theft since Christmas. They allegedly stole a ton and a half of railroad rails along with numerous electric motors and a complete water pumping system.
In Odgen Utah Charles Santillon and John Tofoya were fined five dollars each by the city court for refusing to believe Enoch Bingham's claim that he was sleeping in his watermelon patch.
Young William Trent and his 13 year old friend planned a camping trip despite grandfather Dr W H Wimbrough objections over phone distance. The doctor solved this by using pigeons to deliver daily messages from the camp as a reliable communication link.
Klutch forms a comfort cushion that fits tightly to the plate to prevent rocking or chafing. It allows eating and speaking as with natural teeth. Available at drug stores for 25c and 50c per box.
Marian Martin Pattern 9094 offers a school girl frock design with a pleated front panel skirt and long sleeves. Size 8 to 16 requires fabric and belt details. pattern costs fifteen cents per pattern, book and pattern together twenty five cents, order via Winchester Evening Star Pattern Department.
The eighty sixth session of the Virginia Valley Central Congregational Christian Conference was held at the Mayland Church with strong attendance. Rev. A W Andes of Harrisburg gave the standout address on Ethiopian Hosts and urged following God’s will amid social ills and war clouds. Officers for next year include President Rev B J Sharp of Harrisonburg and others from Winchester and nearby towns.
Rev. Dr. William F. Locke says the shift from the assessment method to voluntary contributions is not a radical change. The general conference at Jackson authorized suggested quotas for members and churches, with canvassing to determine if the target can be met, and quotas may be adjusted as needed. Dispatches from Junaluska note the lay activities board had officially discarded the assessment method.
David B. Baker was sentenced to three months in the local jail by Trial Justice A. J. Tavenner on petty larceny. He allegedly embezzled and sold 104 cross ties from Clayton Painter near Vaucluse to L. A. Larke & Son, Inc. for $59.18, keeping the proceeds and failing to settle with Painter. All ties were sold during March 1934.
Rural groups debate a general freight rate hike as farm, lumber, and coal interests push for ICC action while drought worsens conditions. Grange growth spreads in the South with Texas Florida and Georgia showing momentum. Over 400000 families rely on government drought relief as the Agricultural Adjustment Administration faces likely reforms.
The Grange reports major growth in the southern United States with Tennessee and Arkansas forming new state Granges. Tennessee established six months ago and Arkansas to begin in September, with over 50 and a score of subordinates, raising national representation to 34 states at Hartford.
The next monthly National Grange program will air on NBC stations Saturday August 18 from 12 30 to 1 30 p m EST. It repeats on the third Saturday each month during the National Farm and Home Hour. The Grange features humorist Strickland Gillilan with music by the U S Army Band led by Captain William J Stannard. A lively Iowa Grange recently celebrated its 500th meeting with a family quartet spanning four generations aged 80 to 11 performing.
The piece notes four generations on a Grange roll, with a long-standing rule allowing members from age 14 upward. It contrasts farm earnings with general price changes, citing the July 27 index showing farm commodities at 80 percent of prewar levels while inputs run 122 percent, creating a 42 percent farm squeeze not counting government acreage and production contracts.
The expansion of highways and widespread car use have driven a consolidation that cuts about 10 000 rural mail routes nationwide. There are currently 40 000 routes in operation.
During the quarter ending July 1 in the United States 109 new Grange units were organized. Nine new mona Granges and 58 new juveniles were instituted, distributed over 30 states, marking the best quarterly Grange growth in more than 30 years.
The annual Gore picnic will be held on Saturday August 25. A double header baseball game between Gore and Wardensville, WV is planned along with a fiddler contest with a $5 prize and a beauty contest crowning Queen of the Day. Band music and various refreshments will entertain attendees.
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