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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1939
Page
10
Foxhall Kitchen in Winchester opens Monday at noon under L. T. Peele and L. C. Wilkins. The re modeled colonial style restaurant will offer lunches dinners and catering with a name prize of 25 tied to a VPI student Jack Pennypacker who submitted the accepted name.
Reverend Raymond Rees, a Methodist clergyman in Idaho Falls, urged the city to consider a municipally controlled public beer garden to reduce drinking issues and keep patrons supervised away from unsupervised spaces.
A new Virginia setting wartime life story of Mrs. Robert E Lee by Rose Mortimer E MacDonald is now at Handley Library. The work draws on unpublished material and portrays her as a poised, charming figure from girlhood to Arlington mistress after marriage to Robert E Lee.
Mrs Ashby Updike and Mrs Jerry Dunlap of this city returned from the funeral of their brother Randolph Updike near Front Royal. Mr One died suddenly last Saturday.
An express train collided with a troop train at Toree Annunziata station 18 miles south of Naples. At least 40 died and 150 injured as rescuers combed the wreckage for more bodies.
Paul Cardinal of San Jose California, a former circus trapeze artist who lost an arm nine years ago, declares he can hang 640 yards of wallpaper in a single working day proving his recovery and endurance.
A Virginia advisory council report to Governor Price outlines a move toward a state career service with promotion from the ranks linked to education, training, salaries, and recruitment policies. The plan keeps overall supervision with the Governor, designates department heads as chief personnel officers, and proposes a central employment flow with unclassified status for certain officers and staff.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 PM for Eugenia Franklin Cleaver seven daughter of John F Cleaver of Coal Mine section and the late Edna Page Simms Cleaver. She died Friday morning at 3 40 of peritonitis after three weeks illness. Her mother died in 1934. services from Simms homeplace Louisa county Va with interment beside her mother. The funeral party will leave Stovers Funeral Home at about 10 AM.
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