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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1937
Page
2
Local notes from Lebanon Church and Hogue Creek detail visits and illnesses. Miss Vida Wisecarver attends State Teachers College at Harrisonburg after holidays with W. H. Iver family. Numerous visitors include the Cooleys Marlboro and Snarr Toms Brook. New Year watch party ends with resolutions. HogCreek and nearby towns report illnesses and community events with a long list of names and houses.
Grimes Virginia January notes report Galilee services upcoming and a cordial welcome. A shower honored newlyweds Jacob Randall and Elizabeth Randall with friends, nuts, and merriment. Carloads of masqueraders visited homes during holidays. Local moves include Neliss to Welltown and Shepard family relocating to Luray.
Mr Pleasant near Mt Pleasant Virginia hosts visitors including Mr and Mrs Ray Mayhew and their son and Mr Williams last Sunday. The Ladies Aid of the U B Church meets January 9 at 7 30 p m at Asa Racey home. Many neighbors report illnesses, and visits continue among residents including Perry Ritter Cochran Ebersole and Williams families.
Albin Virginia January 9 Rev and Mrs L B Williamson and family of Wardensville W Va visited Rev and Mrs C E Seastrunk and family for New Year s day. Mrs Lydia Hawkins patient at Winchester Memorial hospital improving and expected home soon. Mrs Jim Lamp and daughter Mrs Hottle visited Mrs W A Buncutter Tuesday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Holmes Yeakley and family visited Mr and Mrs Guy Smith and Mrs Sadie Yeakley Monday night. Council of Bethel Lutheran Church met at Mr Guy Smith s home Monday night. Miss Hilda Orndorff visiting Rev and Mrs C E Seastrunk Wednesday night. Mrs Page Maury visiting Mrs Lloyd Reynolds Wednesday. Floyds Crim s sister of White Hall visiting Sunday. Mrs Lucy Crim and children of Winchester guests in same home.
Cross Roads notes report Mr. Jack Whitacre, ill for some time, moved to Winchester to live with his son in law and daughter last Friday. Other items note visits, births, farm yields, a filling station rental, and illnesses in the community.
In Chambersville Virginia on January 9 residents report visits and guests. Yvonne and Jack Bayliss stayed with grandparents Mr and Mrs John McKeever. Roy Bayliss visited Mrs P H Ritter. Raymond Bradfield and daughter joined Mr W W Brewer’s family at Mount Williams. G L Rosier hosts included Roy Fisher Armel of Winchester EB W Pingley and Mrs Virginia Homar. Stewart Racey visited the Wisecarver home.
A contested Daytona Beach mayoralty pits Harry Wilcox against Irene Armstrong after Gov. Shultz appointed Wilcox to replace Armstrong who refuses to cede the chair. Armstrong invoked court and police to block ouster as 200 National Guardsmen mobilize to enforce removal.
Richmond January meeting with Highway Commissioner Henry G Shir ley and a Peninsula Association of Commerce delegation. Progress in the present primary highway program determines new road construction and federal funds eligibility. The group pressed for better trunk road facilities to Newport News and Hampton and urged Route 60 improvements between Williamsburg and Newport News.
Circuit Judge Edward D. Black of Wayne County Michigan faced threats of impeachment from United Automobile Workers after he issued an injunction ordering striking workers at Fisher Body Flint Plant to vacate company premises. Black is a stockholder in General Motors.
Mountain Falls Virginia notes on New Year's Day guests include Mrs. Sallie Moore and Cleo of Hayfield and Miss Mary Tewalt of Mountain Falls. Visitors Buddy Long returns to Wilmington Delaware after stay with George Hodgson family. Dayton Teets and Aurora West Virginia visit C D Sales. Edna Fauver returns to Mt Williams after time with Reuben Hulver. R L Triplett Mt View principal visits Elmer Bucher family. Caroleé Cave returns to Winchester after stay with sister Paul Golliday.
The Virginia State Chamber of Commerce reports many Virginians were solicited by overseas letter campaigns offering coats of arms and English ancestry crests. Investigations by British authorities and U S. agencies follow. the Better Business Bureau cautions buyers that pedigrees are unreliable. The chamber urges people to investigate first.
A Washington Information Bureau release touts a 32 page Household Budget Booklet for yearly income allotment and savings growth. It details prudent buying rules and furnished equipment costs with two color accounting pages for daily expenses. Enclose ten cents to order.
A reader sends ten cents in a carefully wrapped envelope for a copy of the new Household Budget Booklet and lists name street city state with mailing address to Washington D C.
Kansas Governor Alf Landon reportedly told Collier’s Walter Davenport before the election that no matter who wins four years hence the next president will be one of the most hated men in America. Davenport publishes the remark as newly disclosed after the vote.
Washington reports that two surviving pensions from the 1812 war remain ongoing. Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines said Mrs. Carolina King of Cheektowaga New York receives a $50 annual allowance and Mrs. Esther Hill Morgan of Independence Oregon receives a $20 pension. Both widows are connected to New York militia veterans.
Richmond January 7 The state liquor control board chief T McCall Frazier announced five promotions after the death of Thomas Kennerly Sexton head of enforcement and inspection The changes separate functions from Sextons office and aim to save costs The five promoted are Clyde W Saunders Jr Major R Buford Rose C S Bennett John W Hardy and F C Kuch All have long tenure with the ABC since 1934 and will serve as acting or temporary superintendents of enforcement licensee inspection stores or related roles
The Army Engineers board reports to Congress that improving Dogue Run to provide a 5 to 10 foot channel and an anchorage basin is too costly relative to expected benefits. The tidal estuary feeds the Potomac near Mount Vernon and would have aided a Mill site park development.
Memphis Tenn January 9 a housewife mixing a cake discarded wormy flour into an apartment incinerator chute causing a blast that burned her severely Dr David J Price fire and explosion expert warned of hidden risks in flour and sugar and noted hay in barn lofts can ignite spontaneously He advised farmers to test hay temperature with a pipe thermometer and be ready to fight fires when hot pockets burst open.
Walter H. Newman head of NYA Virginia announces Edwin Burke as deputy state director succeeding Henry L. Caravati who resigned for a post with the Virginia Unemployment Compensation Commission. John Mapp becomes state supervisor of NYA work projects. Burke retains prior duties. administrative assistant post discontinued. Bernard Fagelson adds supervision of eastern district while three other district supervisors remain. Burke joined NYA August 1 after teaching at Andrew Lewis High School. Mapp has served with NYA since August 1935. new offices at 11 South Twelfth Street in Richmond.
Richmond reports 338 influenza cases last week, a rise of 38 from the prior week. Dr. I C Riggin, state health commissioner, cautions that those with colds should limit activity and rest to prevent more serious conditions. The advisory stresses early bed rest to shorten illness.
The State Industrial Commission announced a travel schedule sending commissioners across the state through late January. Chairman Charles G. Kizer-Coving ton leads sessions in Covington on January 18, with Deans in Lexington and Waynesboro January 21, and Lynchburg January 21, followed by Staunton Harrisonburg January 22, Fredericksburg Culpeper Warrenton January 25, Luray Woodstock Front Royal January 26, Winchester Leesburg Fairfax January 27, and Alexandria Hanover January 28.
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