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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1936
Page
9
Mrs Walter Carter and several visitors headline a long list of local residents traveling and hosting relatives in Front Royal and nearby Harrisonburg. Families from Washington, Baltimore, McDonogh and Keswick spend weekends, attend dinners, bridge games, and visits with kin while Sgt. Hunter heads to Florida and local officials report health and work updates.
Plan Benefit. The Garden Club of Warren County sponsors a card party on Thursday afternoon, September 3, in the City Hall auditorium from 2 30 to 5 p m. Proceeds go to shrubbery for the courthouse lawn.
Front Royal residents traveled to Culpeper yesterday afternoon to watch the opening game of the Culpeper Harrisonburg series. Local fans plan to attend the second game in Harrisonburg tonight.
William Estes, 34, was found dead at 5 p.m. Saturday at his brother in law Clarence Corder's home, near Front Royal. A small calibre gun lay nearby and the coroner ruled suicide. Sheriff Ernest Marlowe and officers investigated. Estes left a note to his wife and is survived by four children. Funeral held today in Rappahannock County.
A sequence of crashes leaves Dr Myers Hart refusing aid after a rear-door exit from a car into the hospital, with water in the vehicle and potential drowning risk from earlier flood levels. Separate crashes near Stephens City involve C W Jackson, Gillingham, and Beaty, injuring six aboard one vehicle and causing damage to multiple cars. others escape with minor injuries as officials move victims to Winchester Memorial Hospital.
Wrecks and a blaze disrupted traffic on the Valley Pike near Vaucluse and at a Leesburg intersection. A large Cadillac burned after a faulty exhaust, no injuries reported. Another auto collision damaged several vehicles, injuring Beriman Grove with jaw, head, and wrist injuries while others escaped harm. A truck driver was later released in Arlington related to a fatality case involving Mary Emma Shelby. details pointed to a green truck. In Santa Ysabel a desert character claims ex-Justice Crater was seen, prompting a small authorities inquiry.
Refugees stream into France as the defenders vow to fight to the last man in the besieged city. Rebels bomb 20 times with little damage while General Chauvin mobilizes forces near the Bidassou River. Rights leaders and officials face exposure rumors as violence mounts and a San Sebastian governor reportedly commits suicide during arrests.
A crude baking tip warns that a cake who cracks and humps signals too much flour and too high heat. The note suggests adjusting proportions and bake time to prevent cake flaws.
Shenandoah and Frederick county officers search for three men who shot Ernest Hockman near Lebanon Church on Saturday night and robbed him. Hockman was wounded in the left leg when one attacker fired as he tried to aid a presumed injured man.
Chicago attorney Mrs. Mary Belle Spencer, mother of the "do as she darn pleases" girl, seeks to annul her daughter's marriage to 21 year old athlete James Edward Wright. The 16 year old Mary Belle eloped to La Porte Indiana with Wright.
The Old-Timers defeated the Winchester Giants 6 to 5 yesterday in a game played on the colored playgrounds along Loudoun street.
Describes a 137 acre farm nine miles west of Winchester Virginia nine miles, quarter mile north of Route 50. Includes eight room house with electric lights and telephone, water, bank barn, and outbuildings. Twenty acres orchard, seventy acres timber, remaining land in state of ial og. N Hannum Hayfield Virginia.
James D Williams aged about 85 died at 3 16 Sunday at the home of his son Jay Apereet near Stephens City Va He will be buried from the home at 230 in the afternoon He was a longtime Methodist and native of Stephens City Survived by three sons three daughters a sister eight grandsons one great grandson and many nieces and nephews Pallbearers will be six grandsons Interment in Green Cemetery
County Clerk C C Brannon issued hunting licenses as the statewide squirrel season opens September 1 for one month with a daily bag of 10 and season limit of 150. By 1:45 pm 620 licenses had been issued in the county office across categories, while a petition to extend the season is circulating and a quail-season closure petition has been sent to Richmond.
The Star reproduces local market listings with prices for patent and Magnolia brand flour in 98, 48, 24, and 12 pound bags, plus bulk and bagged corn, dairy and horse feeds, screenings, middlings, and egg mash. Also listed are veal, cows, steers, heifers, lambs, live hogs, and retail prices for shelled corn and various feeds.
After a talk with Petey at ee mondeld seid, officials expect definite information on potential state funding for a municipal landing field here. The option on the proposed site expires September 7, and authorities want prompt details as the site, approved by Petti grew, is believed to meet Commerce Department standards and qualify for state support.
Delegates open sessions with Mayor Frank H. Wheeler presiding and a packed agenda. Norfolk city manager Thomas Thompson discusses assessment practices while others from Richmond Radford and Petersburg outline weights and measures police communication and public works topics ahead of tours, banquets, and a high profile dance at the Washington Hotel.
Livestock and produce markets show scarce demand and varied pricing. Maryland to Virginia fruit and vegetable quotes list McIntosh apples Cobblers potatoes and poultry values. Baltimore and Philadelphia report live poultry prices and dressed meat ranges. beef cattle calves hogs and sheep prices cited in steady to mixed moves across markets with steers cows and yearlings showing declines and gains at different centers.
I G Vass of Waynesboro will preside at the eighth Virginia Building Officials convention with welcomes by John H mberger and L B Dutrow. Discussions cover uniform codes, electrical and plumbing codes, and building regulations. Banquet set for 6:30 p m with Garland R Quarles as toastmaster. sessions continue the next day with final elections and adjournment after business.
New York August 31 The stock market advanced cautiously with favorable earnings and dividends supporting activity while profit taking appeared in select intervals. Steel and specialty issues led, autos rose moderately, utilities and rails moved little, and bonds edged higher as carriers improved.
Chicago futures weaken as grain values firmed earlier. September corn falls about a cent, corn prices slip after a private crop estimate lifts U.S. production prospects to 1.48 billion bushels. Wheat quotes ease, oats down, rye mixed, barley steady. cash wheat prices listed for No. 1 red and No. 1 hard, corn and oats prices shown. Baltimore reports No. 2 red winter wheat at 1.10 1/4, August Winchester market notes fresh price levels for wheat and corn per bushel and per barrel.
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