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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1946
Page
3
Winchester churches mark Christmas with morning worship and special programs. Centenary Reformed, Braddock Street Methodist, Church of the Nazarene, and others host candlelight, Nativity adoration, and youth caroling. The union Christmas service convenes at John Mann Church.
A historical advertising note promotes comfortable trusses for hernia relief. It claims reliable support for ruptures of all sizes, improves circulation, and offers ongoing adjustment and instruction. It mentions large incisional hernias after surgery and urges consultation.
E R Crumpton operates as a truss surgical appliances expert fitter consultant on the second floor of the Newberry Building located at 139 North Loudoun Street. He offers fitting services by phone at 7177.
A promotional note touts Everybody’s Song Book a 144 page 6 by 9 inch collection with words music and harmony suitable for evening sing arounds. It lists hymns spirituals college songs and sea songs and invites readers to send twenty five cents postpaid. It also mentions water distillation on ships noting larger vessels distill onboard while smaller ships store fresh water.
Puzzle fills with numbered hints across many topics including languages markets sheeplike inundation founder of Pennsylvania Dravidian Indian terms and a variety of objects and concepts such as a humped animal insect and a goddess of the hearth. The list also covers bay window and past tense forms with regional references and generic terms.
The State Corporation Commission plans two new historical markers in Clarke County next spring. One marks the 1868 air message test near Bluemont when Dr. Mahlon Loomis used a kite over copper wire. the other marks the Castleman's Ferry fight site.
Eris tossed a golden apple inscribed For the fairest at the Peleus and Thetis wedding. Juno Venus and Minerva claimed it, and Paris awarded the prize to Venus.
The Kernstown Methodist Sunday School will present its annual Christmas program on Thursday December 26 at 7 30 p m. The program features songs recitations exercises and a pageant titled The Promised Prince A gift presentation will follow and the public is invited.
James D Bailey of this city has purchased the Colonial residence known as Wapping on the John Marshall Highway near Linden Virginia. The property has been in the possession of the late James Grant and Mrs Grant since 1895. The amount involved was not stated.
Mrs Stanley Bishop visits Elkneart Indiana relatives for a couple weeks and will return for Christmas. The United Brethren Sunday School plans a Christmas program on Monday December 23 at 7 30 p m open to the public. Mr and Mrs Linden Ritter move into Mrs Harry Lamps house. Mrs Emmett Boyce visits John Perry. Miss Mary Fox out Saturday night with Peggy Jean Milhon. Marriage of Perry to Grace Middletown announced by Rev FE pastor of United Church in Hagerstown.
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