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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1946
Page
7
Classified note seeking a furnished or unfurnished residence with contact number 4191. Also items include wanted ads for a car, office space near railroad terminals, and various sale listings such as appliances, cars, timber, livestock, and pets, all from a mid century classified page with multiple names and addresses.
Berryville Virginia social column notes the engagement of Miss Ann Mumma to Mr. R Meade Dorsey announced at a Christmas party hosted by the families. Guests from Charles Town Winchester Millwood White Post and Berryville plus out of town visitors include Captain Al Mumma Washington and Cadets Morton Mumma III and Joseph Dorsey. Several local residents and relatives are mentioned with holiday gatherings and visits.
Residents of Winchester Berryville Millwood and Charles Town host relatives from Washington Arlington and Richmond during the Christmas holidays. Families include the Reynolds Kerfoot Paget Hamilton Ballance Barnett Robertson and others, with university and college ties noted.
Mr and Mrs Carlton Emmart have returned from their wedding trip and are staying with Mr Emmarts parents for the present Mrs Emmart was formerly Miss Dorothy Wynkoop daughter of Mr and Mrs Wynkoop.
A list of residents and relatives visiting Berryville for Christmas includes Mr. and Mrs. Lee Clagett Warfield of Laytonsville Michigan, Mrs. Mabie Glascock, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Joyce and their three children from Farmville, Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Burks of Alexandria with Craight Burks, Eleanor Mercein from Washington, Miss Peecy Stalnakes from Washington, Corp. Alan Olcott from Boca Raton Field, and Misses Reva and Ruth Yerlin from Washington plus Mrs. William Harper Dean visiting G. Kenneth Levi at White Haven on the Shenandoah.
OPA official Mr. Preston Bird announced the January 15 1947 deadline for landlords under hotel and rooming house rent regulations to file supplemental registration statements. The filing aims to classify establishments under the Price Control Extension Act of 1946, distinguishing transient hotels residential or apartment hotels rooming houses tourist courts and related properties in rent control areas. Some housing regulation renters are exempt from this specific filing while others must comply.
Mrs Shirley Simpson and Mr and Mrs Sammy Simpson plus Mr and Mrs Lloyd Deavers visited McGuire Veterans Hospital near Richmond at the start of the week to see Mr Shirley Simpson who is undergoing treatment as a patient there.
The undersigned will offer for sale at public auction at the residence of the late Alberta Maloy south of Sen seney Road and east of Winchester at 2 o clock PM Saturday December 28 1946. Items include stove oil stove tables Philco Radio sewing machine china closet clocks beds piano dresser chairs rockers lawn mower and other personal property. Cash terms. W E Edwards administrator of the estate of Alberta Maloy deceased. Dunn and Duvall Auctioneers.
By virtue of a court execution in Cooley v. Collis the De Soto Sedan 1941 model with motor number 8-27509 will be sold in front of the Frederick County Court House on Saturday December 28 1946 at 12:30 PM for cash. G G Baker sergeant city of Winchester handles the sale.
OPA says registration is simple with a single page duplicate form. Landlords submit at local rent offices and receive a classification for their establishment as transient hotel residential hotel rooming house or factory court once data are reviewed. Categories added to regulation November 1 1946 after advisory committee consultation.
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