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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1929
Page
6
District Nurse Association led a broad volunteer push as Christmas seal efforts wind down tonight. Mrs D W Ritener directed the campaign with committees covering publicity, ward captains, civic groups, Bible classes, and workers’ luncheons, listing numerous volunteers and local schools and businesses involved.
Names of numerous women organized by ward participate in a tag day for a county charity. East ward includes Mrs Smith Clarke and several others. Northwest and southwest wards also list multiple volunteers assisting at community events and a country store collection.
The article outlines moves to raise the salary of the incoming governor and to replace several key officials including McCall and Frazier as director of motor vehicles, with Pollard shaping minor offices like fisheries. It notes halted appointments until measures curb oyster belt tensions and mentions possible reappointment of A Willis Robertson as head of Game and Inland Fisheries. Auto insurance, driver license exams, and gas tax fund distribution are flagged as major legislative items, with Pollard’s inauguration set for an open-air ceremony.
Representative J A Garber of Harrisonburg introduces two bills proposing memorials for Daniel Morgan buried at Winchester and for Major Joseph Bowman and his brother along the Shenandoah Valley Pike near Crystal Caverns. Morgan, born 1736 in New Jersey, moved to the valley in 1762 and rose to brigadier general before the Revolution.
The text recalls Joseph Bowman and three brothers Abraham John and Isaac Bowman as right-hand man to George Rogers Clark in the Northwest conquest and their service in the Revolution. It notes their Shenandoah roots near Strasburg and honors their sacrifices as a lasting national legacy.
The Ladies' Bible Class of Grace Methodist Church Middletown hosted the Men's Bible Class at the parsonage on a Friday evening. Rev Hupman led prayer, readings were shared, and the parsonage was festively decorated. E R Sperry thanked the ladies, noting the work both classes do, as 37 ladies and 14 men attended and refreshments followed.
Pope Pius XI told forty Cardinals in Vatican City that the government unfairly criticized the Catholic action group and its political involvement. He denounced Mussolini era policy and defended the Catholic press including its view of the Lateran treaties as misrepresented and unjustly treated.
The Macon Telegraph notes a roguish idea that the tax deadline should land before Christmas as a humorous rebuke to bureaucratic timing. The aviatrix voice jokes about America’s supposed lack of first class humorists while deriding the calendar shift.
Gore Virginia December 24 a very interesting program has been prepared by the Union Sunday school and will be given on Christmas Eve at eight o clock. A number from this Sunday school attended the exercises at the Methodist Episcopal Church at Gainesboro Sunday evening and report a fine program with large attendance. Mr Howard Kerlin of Bluefield is visiting at the home of his father in law J B Compton due to Mrs Kerlin’s illness in Memorial Hospital Winchester. Mr Lohr Good of Intermont and Mrs D F Kern and Mrs W R Kern drove to Baltimore Friday and returned with the latter’s husband who has been in Union Memorial Hospital under care of specialists. He is improving and plans further treatment.
The Indianapolis News notes a practical quality to Mr Id's Santa Claus items that beneficiaries highly appreciate, highlighting usefulness and value to recipients.
For sale a seven room house with hot air heat double garage and an extra lot. Contact A. F. Jenkins at 68 Greenwall Ave. December 20, 1961.
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