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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1935
Page
10
Local residents from Romney to Washington visited family and friends in Front Royal this weekend. Notable trips included Mrs. Hugh Hite and daughter heading to Florida for the winter, Major and Mrs. Sewell with children visiting Annapolis, and several others returning from or planning travels to Richmond, Boston, New York, and various Virginia towns.
Dr and Mrs O W Carper returned from New Castle relatives. Ree Ellis moved from FERA to WPA Staunton office. Lewis Jewett of Washington visited town. he starred for the All Stars last season. Adjutant General and Mrs S Q Waller from Richmond returned home after several days with Gen Waller's mother Mrs Fenton Bradford of Washington DC. Mrs Bradford returned home after Thanksgiving at Mountain View.
State Senator Aubrey G. Weaver hosted Virginia officials at a Saturday night gathering in Front Royal. Attendees included Governor George C. Peery, Senator H. F. Byrd, Attorney General A. P. Staples, Comptroller E. R. Combs, Secretary Peter Saunders, and numerous senators and delegates from Charlottesville to Fauquier plus Front Royal notables and legal officials.
Rev Moorman Parker, pastor of Warren Riverton Methodist Episcopal Church South for two years, will relocate Thursday with his wife and infant son to Lewisburg West Virginia to serve the Lewisburg M E Church South. He is credited with organizing youth work and is described as industrious and a strong pulpit orator. His successor will be Rev B Stickley of Callagham near Covington Virginia, who is the father of Mrs Vernon Bum gardner of this place.
FRONT ROYAL December 2 C W Hawkins contractor of Scrabble Virginia has been awarded the contract for construction of a school building in Rappahannock County using PWA funds it was learned here today Hawkins the lowest bid of 25 dollars per something remains unclear in the fragment and total contract amount not fully shown
Front Royal reports that Haywood Wines H L Miller and Richard Costello residents three miles east of town will be tried December 9 as inspectors Barnett and Sergeant E C Smith caught them setting mash Saturday morning. Bail was posted to appear Monday.
John H Cochran aged about 78, prominent retired farmer of the Opequon area, died at 5 40 yesterday afternoon at his brother A A Cochran's home 920 Amherst Street. Death from a heart ailment. Survived by brother, sister Mrs Mary C Ryan. Funeral tomorrow at 2 from R T Jones chapel South Loudoun Street. Interment Mount Hebron Cemetery. Rev George W Stover to officiate. Pallbearers named R S Smith Lynch John Dr Anderson Frank W Magruder Clayton Cochran.
Funeral services were held at St John s Lutheran Church at 2 o clock last Friday for David L. Hopkins 74 a Knoxville Tenn native. He died Tuesday at the home of Mrs Kibler from paralysis after a long illness. Burial followed in the church cemetery. He was born January 1 1861 in Knoxville a carpenter by trade who worked in Frederick County before health failed. His wife preceded him in death. Survivors include two sons William T. Hopkins Barcroft Va and Joseph T. Hopkins Roslyn Va and three daughters Myrtle McNabb Barcroft Va Jane Fleming Washington DC and Ruth Watkins Roslyn.
Associated Gas and Electric, a major utility, joined other holding companies in efforts to restrain enforcement of the new deal utility act. The suit, filed in Wilmington, seeks declaration of the act as unconstitutional. Registration rose to 58 with Mission Oil Company of Kansas City among new filers, though late registrants risk illegality for actions from December 1 until registration.
In Tampa on December 2 a masked mob flogged and tarred two men grave. one other, E F Poulnot, was treated after police questioned them on suspected communistic activity. Shoe maker Joseph A and Sam G Rogers were gravely ill in hospital. Poulnot organizer of the Un employed Brotherhood of Hills ee County was treated at home.
Montreal report says Natalie Carr, 21 heiress from Clinton Connecticut, has returned home after two years away as a Roman Catholic nun. She had planned to complete her novitiate at St Hyacinthe Quebec next week following an international police search begun June 13, 1933. Carr, a Vassar student, disappeared eight months after leaving.
A man held by police in connection with the Workingman’s Store robbery gave conflicting stories, claimed Washington origins with plans for Cleveland, had aliases, no ID on his well dressed clothing, as officers await Justice Department fingerprint results. The robbery involved merchandise worth more than a stated amount.
Santa Barbara Calif Dec 2 A charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to commit murder was filed today against Mrs Dorothea Wendt Livermore in connection with the shooting of her 16 year old son Jesse Livermore Jr last Friday
Mrs. Bertie Vanersdale of 13 West Boscawen Street died today at Memorial Hospital after a period as a patient. She suffered from burns, with funeral arrangements not yet announced this afternoon.
The New York stock market moved with light buying and subdued vigor as traders paused on the sidelines awaiting fresh stimuli from domestic and foreign markets. Merchandising stocks led gains while a few rails and specialties showed modest lifts with grains and cotton trending weak. currencies in gold standard nations firmed slightly with call money at 0.75 percent.
Winchester Martinsburg West Virginia shows moderate wire inquiry with demand light and a steady market. Carload prices include Staymans and Yorks at specific U S No 12 and 24 inch minima. Rochester North Carolina shows slow inquiry and dull market with limited sales. Grand Rapids Michigan notes light hauls and too few sales to establish a market.
Local wholesale and retail flour prices listed with patent brand rates for 98, 48, 24 and 12 pound bags. Also included are various feed items such as cracked corn, middlings, mixed feed, dairy and poultry feeds, egg mash, butter, and meat prices. Retail prices mirror wholesale with yearly irregularities noted.
Market notes from Itimore and Philadelphia show slow but steady to strong bids for cattle vealers hogs and sheep. Beef cows and bulls mixed loads and weights. vealers up to 12.50. hogs mostly steady to 10 lower. lambs opening steady with higher quality sorts 11.50 to 11.75. Poultry and eggs prices listed for Philadelphia and Chicago, with fresh and dressed poultry and egg quotations.
Chicago close shows Dec wheat at 97 1 8 to 1 4 and May 96 3 4 to 1 2. Corn ranges Dec 57 3 8 to 1 2, May 58 1 4 to 3 8, July 59 5 8 to 8 4. Oats Dec 25 3 8, May 26 to 7 8, July 27 1 4. Lard Dec 12 47, Jan 12 37, March 12 85, May 12 3. Chicago cash notes report no cash wheat sales. corn No 4 mixed 52 1 2, No 4 yellow 52 1 2 to 54 1 2. In Baltimore, No 2 red wheat quotes at 95 3 4, December Winchester Wheat 92 cents. Yellow corn 90 cents, White corn 93 cents. all quotations based on mill deliveries.
Rufus K. Edwards a lay preacher and longtime book keeper was sentenced in Hagerstown Maryland circuit court to five years in the penitentiary for one embezzlement related indictment with concurrent terms on another and suspended sentences on two counts after pleading guilty to forgery and embezzlement charges.
London sources after a cabinet session predicted that the League of Nations will soon embargo all oil shipments to Italy by League states. Officials did not disclose whether the cabinet approved the move, and no official announcement followed.
In Chicago on December 2, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales took first prize in the breeding shorthorn division with the two year old bull Bapton Ora, narrowly beating Canadian entry Cruggleton Wellington. Also crowned wheat king for 1935 was W Frelan Wilford of Stavely Alberta, for grain of the reward variety weighing 66.6 pounds.
SUFFOLK Virginia December 2 Farmers Manufacturing Company of Suffolk reports a rare shift in labor demand with 30 basket makers needed at its veneer plant. D F Barnett superintendent notes this is the first time since 1929 the plant has more jobs than workers to fill them as the firm seeks federal re employment office and other agencies aid in recruiting.
A Kansas milling firm, Washburn-Crosby Company, filed a new appeal asking the Supreme Court to expedite its decision on the constitutionality of processing taxes under the amended agriculture adjustment act. The firm seeks reconsideration after the court’s recent refusal to review the taxes.
Washington Dec 2 The Works Progress Administration head Harry L Hopkins asked governors to sign pledges promising their states will assume liability for any unpaid bills of their agencies after the final dole grants from the federal relief administration.
Among ancient peoples the soul is pictured as a butterfly or moth or bee and firefly, with symbols of sparks flames and stars. Steam Engines are machines for turning heat energy into motion, the parts doing the work required.
Spectators packed the grounds as Romeo rode a cannon launch to 4000 feet. A backfire lit him on fire. parachute openings save him as crew rush to aid. Uncertain fate, miraculous escape, and the boss recalls a perilous thrill amid the crowd’s roar.
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