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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 04, 1936

Page

5

Stephens City School Days on Sherman

Reporters Eltha Edwards Billy Williams Charles Cook Agnes Grubbs Betty Wohlford Emma Swim ley Julia Steele William Harris Alice K Lemley and Harry Sherman covered Stephens City School Days on Sherman ae Steel Susie and William Harris in a local school feature.

On Sherman Ae Steel Susie William Harris Eltha Edwards Billy Williams Charles Cook Agnes Grubbs Betty Wohlford Emma Swimley Julia Steele Alice K. Lemley Harry Sherman

Outlook stamp project aids tuberculosis fight advocates

Miss P. Bissell, a Red Cross worker, promotes stamps to fund TB efforts. With help from North American, seal sales grew dramatically and cut TB deaths from 179 to 54 per 100000 since 1907. Proceeds fund National and State associations, free clinics, and sanatorium care locally. A ragged news boy sparked public support with a penny.

America P. Bissell Red Cross Ter North American T. B. Association

Senior Class Party and Debates Highlight School Year

The senior party in the high school auditorium ended with refreshments after lively entertainment from eight to eleven. The senior class initiated a series of formal debates. the first on Prohibition saw the negative side win 9-5 amid discussion of economic social moral and scientific aspects.

Freshman News Helen Pappas Earns Dental Certificate

Helen Pappas has obtained her dental certificate, increasing the total certificates to seven, in a note added to the freshman news.

Helen Pappas

Recreation Night Supports Home Economics Drive

The Home Economics group plans First and Third Thursday gatherings at the Home Economics building to raise funds for a modern kitchen. They are selling extracts to fund the project and hope to sell all bottles before Christmas with a prize for top seller. Retha White and Sarah Dutterer are thanked for ginger cakes baked for the class.

Home Economics News Home Economics Retha White Sarah Dutterer

Quotations and exchanges at the county clerk’s office

A trimmed page collage shows snippets of dialogue about licenses, marriage, and everyday concerns. The clipped items feature a clerk and Cecil discussing a marriage license, a quip about success timing, farm humor about onions and potatoes, and a shy remark from Miss Elsie’s lecture.

Cecil

Prose Fragments and Proverb Jokes From Local Page

A collage of stray lines and brief anecdotes appears, including a mock mystery about a missing item, musings on dogs and hash, a batch of dis gy proverbs, and schoolroom crushes. The jumble hints at student life and local humor from a neighborhood publication.

Average Man's Legs In Snowbound Tale

An OCR fragment recalls Earl Beavers and a man described as average as heavy snows hinder his reach to the ground. The snippet presents a stark image of endurance amid winter conditions and a distant, unnamed observer.

Earl Beavers

F F A Adopts 1936 Objectives for Future Farmers Chapter

The Tephone City FFA outlines yearly goals for 1936 37 including summer camp farm tour father and son banquet community fair judging teams news articles to Chapter Chats and a 100 percent paid up chapter by October 1 The group plans plant soil seed milk and soil tests aid to needy families and school grounds improvements while maintaining regular meetings and parliamentary procedure practice.

F.F Tephone Ameren F. F Community League Grange

Organizing an F F A thrift bank and club goals

The notes outline forming a thrift bank for the Future Farmers of America and list objectives for the Northern Triang Federation. Plans include reorganizing the F F A rifle team creating an F F A plant nursery and compiling a scrapbook of Future Farmer activities with Kodak pictures and news articles.

Northern Triang Federation Kodak Pictures

Last Rites For Mrs. Wm. Edmonds

Funeral services are held for Mrs. Laura Edmonds 68 wife of William Edmonds at her home on the Northwest end. The obsequies follow her death at home with local pallbearers and clergy in attendance.

Wm. Edmonds Laura Edmonds William Edmonds

Services Held At Highland Ave Presbyterian Church

Grade Tuesday night, took place at 3 o'clock this afternoon from Highland Avenue Presbyterian Church area. The services were conducted by the Rev. G. W. Shipley, acting pastor, and were attended by many of her friends and neighbors. Interment was in Mount.

Highland Avenue Presbyterian Church G. W. Shipley Mount

Hebron Cemetery Pallbearers Named

Pallbearers listed for a funeral at Hebron Cemetery include Claude A. Carper Harry Carper Freeman Charles William and Henry Boyce.

Hebron Cemetery Claude A. Carper Harry Carper Freeman Charles William and Henry Boyce

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