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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1931
Page
4
The Evening Star operates as a daily second class newspaper published by The Evening Star Publishing Co. in Winchester Virginia except Sundays.
The text lists newspaper subscription costs and ad representative details. It shows one year, six months, three months, and one month prepaid rates, with carrier options and weekly pricing. It also names national advertising representatives Devine-Tenney Corporation in New York, Des Moines, and Chicago.
The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to its dispatches and local news published in this paper. The edition is consolidated with Morning News Item, The Weekly News, The Weekly Times, and The Weekly Mirror.
A brief religious greeting card quoting Numbers 6 verses and a petition prayer for guidance. The message asks for divine blessing, protection, grace, and peace as the year begins, urging reflection and lifting up the living Christ in daily life.
An editorial reflection on bidding farewell to 1930 and greeting 1931 with courage. It urges businessmen to abandon timidity and penny-pinching, adopt a bold spirit, and pursue renewed personal and economic effort as the new year begins.
The Waynesboro Virginian summarizes Dr Paul Popence of the Institute of Family Relations who argues marriage may seem happy yet be unhappy. A survey of 1200 married, educated individuals in Los Angeles exposes secrecy and true feelings, urging caution for young couples before forming bright preconceived notions.
The speaker says marriage is a noble institution founded on life’s instincts and must be understood not as a burden but as a continual privilege. With intelligent use, marriage should build rather than destroy.
Maryland employs open season limits but faces drought scars from 1929 and 1930. E Lee Le Compte leads efforts to feed wild birds through fifty four feeding stations organized by the Hagerstown Izaak Walton League with farm cooperation. State free food programs total 5441 dollars. outlook for 1931 is tighter game supply.
237 marriage licenses issued in 1929 in city and county offices. October the peak month. State highway department reports 491 miles of road built during the year. Winchester Rotary Club hires Dr Charles E Barker to speak on child welfare. District Nurses Association lauds holiday aid to the poor.
Five years ago on January 2 1926 owners of the George Washington Hotel purchased Hotel Jack and will remodel before reopening for a Citizens Band concert season led by W W H Mell. A large double frame house on South Stewart street was moved for hospital view. Bryarly insurance beat a Buffalo rival in a Home Life contest, locals reporting $122 000 in insurance during the period. Rising car registrations in southern and southwest Virginia hint at growing prosperity.
The state board of education approves cents signing for basal texts for five years starting July 1, 1931. The contracts show minimal changes from the old books. The textbook committee will decide spring actions on elementary arithmetic language reading for grades six and seven and high school English history civics Latin science and business arithmetic.
A prohibition forces lecture is set for January 16 in the City Auditorium by a prominent anti saloon figure. The speaker will address the audience on temperance and reform themes.
Vivienne tries to hush gossip with a bribe after a party reveals her secret identity as the inspiration to artists. The atmosphere of wealth and scrutiny darkens as a prank threatens to ruin reputations, ending in a planned tomorrow’s phantaur tragedy.
The Forest Service of the U S Department of Agriculture states it will not acquire standing timber except incidentally. It aims to purchase cut over and burned lands at low cost and restore them to productivity for public forest value.
A collection of Indian pottery labeled genuine Hopi was left unattended by a salesman outside a downtown Phoenix, Arizona store. A sign above the pieces read Gone to lunch Will be back.
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