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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1933
Page
7
The ad promotes Marian Martin pattern 9827 for a mossy crepe brown and green satin afternoon dress. It lists sizes 16 18 20 34 36 38 40 42 44 with yardage needs and asks readers to send fifteen cents per pattern plus book and pattern offer.
Miss Jean Baker of Middletown High School won second place in the national essay contest on Why Highway Safety Pays, after winning first in the state. The honor roll lists several students, and the football season ended with a scoreless tie to Strasburg. future seasons look brighter with returning lettermen. Other notes describe a second grade Indian village project, library improvements, and memories of the week before Christmas.
School plans final exams the last week before Christmas holidays. Jimmy Kline improves after a Berryville game injury. John Fred Larrick, recently back from Lexington, is seen with crutches after an after school accident. The Community League meets December 14 in the school auditorium to feature a minstrel preview directed by Mr Wake.
Hable's Berkeley Square screens again at the Palace marking the end of a three day engagement. Leslie Howard stars in the leading role with Heather Angel as Helen Pettigrew in a time bridging romance. The Fox Studios production features lavish scale and a four star screenplay.
The article notes that fierce blizzards and deep cold strike the northern interior of North America and that Antarctica and Russia host similarly severe storms. It highlights burans or purgas in Russia as local terms and compares global winter extremes.
Local notes show residents and families from Middletown visiting relatives in Winchester Purcellville Martinsburg Hyattsville Washington and other areas during Thanksgiving. Shared trips include Mr and Mrs Sperry Mrs Ropp Lieut and Mrs Weirick and many youngsters visiting relatives and returning home to continue schooling or winter plans.
Funeral services were held at Reliance for James Robert Richardson infant son of Rev. and Mrs. H. E. B. Richardson. The pastor of the United Brethren Churches of the Reffance circuit, he died at birth in the Front Royal Nursing Home.
The French academy notes modern airplanes are less efficient than insects. A machine weighing 250 pounds built like an insect would require about 3.5 horsepower to fly at a good speed.
The president will speak by radio at 10 39 this evening as part of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America two day program in Washington marking the council's twenty fifth anniversary. A letter to Rev Robert B Nelson from A W Beavey a council official in New York announced the plan. The address at 10 30 will join the concerted effort to spur spiritual recovery of American life.
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