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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1935
Page
8
Front Royal residents plan holiday gatherings with relatives in Baltimore The Plains Winchester Harrisonburg Easley Pittsburgh Staunton and Washington attend Christmas Day events and community tree services despite cold weather Family groups include Wilkerson Holzshu Proctor and Carroll households and others from Front Royal Bennetts Chapel Culpeper and nearby towns.
Mr Jack Walker of Worton will spend the holidays with grandparents Mr and Mrs Hackett Kerns. Mr and Mrs C C Countryman and their son will spend Christmas Day in Roanoke. Mr and Mrs Leo Murray of Kingston Maryland spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs George Johnson. Miss Elizabeth Gilkey of Washington will spend the holidays with her father Mrs Oscar Giley. Mr G N Buck will spend Christmas Day with friends in Charlottesville. Mrs Philip Ambler and Mrs Harry Reid visited Ambler Reid.
A midnight service will be held at Calvary Episcopal Church in Front Royal Virginia on Christmas Eve with Holy Communion. The choir will sing carols including God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Good Christian Men Rejoice Shepherds Shake Your Browsy Sleep Low How A Rose The Coventry Carol The Holly and The Ivy Good King Wenceslaus Sleep Holy Babe Silent Night With A Torch Jeanette Isabelle
ATHENS Ohio December 24 a five year old girl Donna Green wandered near the Baltimore and Ohio tracks. Her foot caught between a rail and a plank. Volunteers Mrs Will Gabriel and Mrs Thelma Barnett tried to free her as a train neared. They held the child so only her foot would be cut off but the foot slipped free just as the train halted.
Dances are scheduled at Updykes Hall from December 25 to 31 with December 24 and 31 highlighted as the season's gayest. December 25 features a battle between Bob Riley of Winchester and The Royal Troubadours of Front Royal for popularity, promising lively music. December 31 pairs Ray Fry's Virginians of Harrisonburg against Johnny Sylvesters' Blue Rhythm Boys of Baltimore. Chaperons are Mr and Mrs J N Major, Mr and Mrs C O Maddox, and Mr and Mrs Frank Forsyth.
Baltimore market reports show cattle steady to 6.00 for beef cows and vealers near 12.00. Hogs quoted 10.35 to 10.85 for 120 to 210 pounds, heavier down to 9.75. Sheep receipts none, lambs bid above 12.00. Philadelphia lists poultry prices with fowls 20 to 22 cents, butter unchanged, eggs at 5,624 cases, steady. Chicago reports hogs at 9.60 to 10.15 for various weights, cattle to 14.00 for top steers, and sheep mostly steady with lambs 11.50 to 11.90.
Markets report daily prices and trends with standard cautions about typographical errors. The Star provides updated figures but disclaims responsibility for any transcription mistakes in listings.
Local wholesale market lists various flour and feed prices by bag size and brand, including patent and mixed feeds, dairy feeds, cracked corn, shelled corn, middlings, and egg mash. Retail listings show per bag and per barrel rates for 98, 48, 24, and 12 pound bag sizes, with regional items such as Madras and Kasco products and butter prices also noted.
George E Morton aged 11, son of Ashton and Grace Morton, died at 5 30 this morning at 116 East Pall Mall street. He had been ill a short time from a cold and complications. Survived by uncle and aunt Frank and Caroline Brooks. Funeral arrangements not completed.
Quiet and selective buying gave many stock issues a list today with some at new year peaks though pre-Christmas indecision ruled. Grains dull and cotton backed. bonds steadier. Foreign exchanges barely moved. Call money at 0.75 percent. Selected quotes include Allied Chemical 152 American Can 136 American Radiator 23.5 American Smelters 58 Arch Topeka & S Fe 56 42 Bethlehem Steel 4944 Chrysler 9334 Consol Gas of NY 30 4 Corn Products 69 % General Electric 3644 General Motors 567 Goodyear 207 Int Harvester 60 Johns Manville 92 Montgomery Ward 387 NY Central 27 Penn Railroad 2954 Stand of NJ 48 Texas Corp 287 Union Pacific 105 US Steel 45 Woolworth 525 0
Futures and cash grain markets report closing values for wheat corn oats rye and barley with Dec May and July futures and December cash prices. Lard futures also listed plus Baltimore and Winchester spot wheat and corn prices with mill delivery notes.
Wilbur Trout of Front Royal, released on bond of 5000 dollars, left Winchester for Richmond to attend the January term of circuit court. He was convicted of manslaughter in the slaying of Harvey Slick Saffell of Front Royal, with a sentence of 4 12 years. The motion to set aside the verdict is set for the first day of the January term.
The encyclical by Pope Pius calls priests to cooperation with the laity and to a solid, practical piety. It urges moral education and social concord through the new government of Christ, noting an optimistic awakening of religious spirit despite widespread malice.
The Mount Pleasant United Brethren Church Christmas program, set for December 26, is postponed to Sunday December 29 at 7 30 p m due to bad weather affecting practices. A very interesting program is planned and the public is invited. Mrs R E Byrd will host tomorrow at noon in honor of Major and Mrs Paul Rutledge and guests Mr and Mrs William Gilmore of Meadville Pa.
Harold Bott of Baker and Esta Bean of Inkerman married this afternoon at Kernstown Presbyterian Manse officiated by Rev. Allen Jones. Bott is son of Mr and Mrs Russell Bott, Bean daughter of Mr and Mrs William Bean.
Mr and Mrs William R Hillyard celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary at 104 North avenue with all five children present. They married December 23 1885 in Braddock Street M E Church South. Mr Hillyard, a noted city business man, hosts today as relatives visit. children Ashby Roy Paul Hillyard S Fenton Collins and Mrs W C Plundeke attend from local area and New York.
Christ Episcopal Church presents a Christmas program at 11 a.m. on Christmas Day with processional hymns and anthems, followed by a repeat next Sunday. Choir includes sopranos Mrs. W. Nelson Page and others, altos Miss Harriett Pearson and more, tenors W Nelson Page and others, with Brinton as director and Mrs. J. P. Hayley at the organ. The new junior choir will also sing.
Judge Philip Williams at Frederick Court granted a partial divorce to Mrs Helen Amelia Swartz from Wilbur W Swartz on grounds of desertion, a move learned this afternoon.
A Christmas luncheon of the Lions club featured Misses Elba and Elsie Edwards singing with their father on violin. Rev. Allen Jones spoke on Christmas joy through giving and cheer. Guests included C. R. Strattton and J. B. Redmond. Ladies Night set for Dec 27 with Edwin R. Kingsley as guest speaker. Attendance cites Blacksburg 96.4, Winchester 94, Newport News third. future events noted.
U S inspectors find 44 percent of local jails unfit or unsafe to hold federal prisoners. From July 1930 to June 1935, 1,273 of 2,894 jails inspected were barred from housing federal prisoners. Only three jails scored above 90 percent, in California, Idaho, and Minnesota. Maryland and Virginia had numerous jails below 50 percent.
Bids to repair floors walls and ceilings damaged in the basement fire at City Hall will be opened Thursday at 10 a.m. in City Manager Arthur M Field's office. Bids to upgrade wiring to meet Fire Underwriters requirements are to be opened Saturday at 11 a.m.
Rome reports Sunday battle at Abbi Addi in the Tem Bien area cost Ethiopians 700 killed and more than 2,000 wounded. Italians suffered 157 dead and 173 wounded, including seven officers, per government release.
City Manager Arthur M. Field suggests measuring Cedar Creek levels above and below Marlboro spring, testing water hardness and softness, counting bacteria, and collecting rainfall and runoff data for Cedar Creek above Marlboro in response to a Weather Bureau inquiry.
Pilgrims celebrate Christmas Eve in Bethlehem with midnight services at the Church of the Nativity. Bells toll as a star beacon is lit above the altar and an effigy of the Christ child is unveiled. Worshippers from many lands attend, some traveling from Jerusalem, while bonfires and carols fill Shepherd's Field under frost in the Judean town.
Marriages in December show a jump from six licenses issued last year to ten this year in the county clerk's office. Most of this year's December licenses were issued in the past week.
The Circuit Court in Winchester Virginia assigns Master Commissioner W E Edwards to determine property fealty liens rents and taxes on L A Lamp and Dora M Lamp. Notice to be published weekly for two weeks and set for January 2 1936 at 17 Court Square Winchester to attend with records. proceedings may adjourn if not finished.
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