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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1939
Page
8
5:00 p m annual picnic of Junior Board of Trade at Sunny side. 8:00 p m important meeting of Winchester Aerue No 824 to complete plans for a membership drive. 8:00 p m weekly meeting of Winchester Rebekah Association at Odd Fellows Hall.
Mrs C B Collins of Bunker Hill West Virginia held a surprise dinner on August 20 for her husband celebrating his 54th birthday. Attendants listed include Ernest Gray De Collins Braithwaite Will Braithwaite Harry McKeever Turner Collins Walter Heck Dolores and many Collins relatives from nearby towns.
Hartford couple announces engagement of Elsie Frank to Dr. Robert L. Burwell Jr. from Smith College to Princeton and Trinity background, wedding date to be announced. subsequent items: wedding shower for Hunter Lee at Barr home with 150 guests. Catholic Sacred Heart lawn party planned with prizes and a $25 cash prize, fish pond ferris wheel bingo and games.
Mrs. Virginia Lucas Wall spent the weekend with her son and daughter in law G Harold Lucas and Judith Reid Lucas at their home in Norfolk Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reed visit Mrs. Reed's mother Mrs. W H Bunting in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
A social etiquette Q and A column advises guests to arrive at least ten minutes early for dinner. It states the girl should lead from table to dance floor when a man and girl dance. It adds a blot in a social letter is not excusable and should be rewritten if it cannot be erased.
Mr W L Poston remains seriously ill in Winchester Memorial Hospital. R Edward Williams and Beverley Wright were in Richmond on business. Mrs John M Steck Jr will host the Tuesday Bridge Club. Mrs Clarence LeFrois of Fairport NY left to attend the World Fair in New York City, accompanied by Miss Joan Borden. Miss Decca Gilmer of Charlottesville is a guest of Miss Mary Scully. Mrs John Barnes Carr and Mrs Harry K Benham will motor to Washington. Audrey Cain has returned home after visiting Pittsburgh and Western PA. Dana Nelson has returned after studies at Mary Washington College with roommate Ellen Frye from Richmond. Mrs A C Oates, Mrs C A Nelson and Gordon Nelson have returned after time at Newport News and Langley Field.
George Resseguie son of Mr and Mrs L B Resseguie sailed August 16 for England with William Austin of Roanoke both members of the V P I orchestra The Southern Colonels Their trip comes as citizens are warned to leave parts of Europe and the itinerary may include France Belgium and Holland They expect to return about two weeks after arriving Before sailing they visited the World's Fair Ralph Summel accompanied them to the fair and has since returned to Winchester
Police investigated a minor accident on Valley Avenue where an unnamed driver woke up and struck Robert F. Doyle's parked car in Clifton Forge Virginia. Doyle, athletic director, had planned to travel to Charlottesville after visiting John Fisher. A broken nose was reported for the unidentified driver.
Fred Cain of Race Street appeared before Judge Donald L. Weems today for a drunkenness charge with a fine of 10 dollars and 25 cents imposed.
Clarence L. Maurer of Maurertown is charged with reckless driving. The case cites a $14 fine or penalty.
The wax palm from the Quindio pass in the Colombian Andes features a tall straight trunk coated with white wax giving it the appearance of alabaster. It grows at elevations up to 10 000 feet and reaches about 200 feet in height.
Baltimore markets report mixed changes across produce poultry and eggs with prices for potatoes butter and eggs. hogs and cattle prices rise in Chicago and Baltimore with steady cows and bulls, varied lamb demand. Philadelphia fowl and egg quotes hold steady or unchanged.
Wheat futures fall over a cent amid profit taking hedging and liquidation. Russia and Germany non aggression pact news weighs on buying, while foreign demand declines. Prices for corn oats soybeans rye lard and bellies move with contracts and cash bids listed for Chicago and Baltimore markets.
The Star lists local wholesale and retail flour prices by bag sizes and barrels. It includes Patent Brand 12 to 98 lb bags with prices from 4.00 to 4.80 per barrel and retail equivalents from 5.00 to 5.30 per bag along with assorted feed items and eggs.
A fragmented page lists various feed and grain products with bag weights such as 12 lb and 24 lb, pricing per barrel and per bag. Items include corn meal feed, middlings, mixed feed, and dairy and chick grower feeds, with scattered numeric values and brand references.
Fragmentary listing of items including horse feed prices 1.80 1.60 and mentions of scratch feed 1.55. Odd words and stray terms such as country lard geese butter appear, suggesting a damaged or partial classified market snippet with mixed commodities.
Francis Andrews was brought to Memorial Hospital from the Riverton Lime Company with injuries believed to have occurred in an accident there. Details were not available this afternoon.
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