For Sale Classified Ads and Listings
Classified ad rates and deadlines followed by a stream of sale items. Listings include furniture appliances vehicles hay and real estate with contact details and post dates from 1931.
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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1950
Page
10
Classified ad rates and deadlines followed by a stream of sale items. Listings include furniture appliances vehicles hay and real estate with contact details and post dates from 1931.
Female help wanted two small ads list housework assistance and year round greeting card sales offers. One item targets a middle aged woman at 430 Highland. The other advertises profit sharing on 15 card assortments and imprinted stationery with samples from Friendship 406 Adams Elmira NY.
Classified column lists male job openings including a grill counter man and farm work with March 1 start, plus a young man for a drug department. Housing ads offer rooms and furnished apartments for men and ladies, plus a heated bedroom and a 5 room apartment. Lost items include a ladies hooped braquette watch and two white pigs with contact details.
Mrs. Henry Seal offers sewing machine parts and repairs for any make via Rhodes Drug Store in Winchester. R. H. Byers, repairman, lists contact details and schedule. Also advertised rat poison Star from Sol Enberger's Hardware with four day weekly sale pattern.
Various want ads seek rental houses and rooms, short term jobs, lending money, dressmaking, and washing services. Listings include WANTED 5 or 6 room house with yard, furniture requests, remodeling work, laundry services, and loans with terms. Readers directed to call numbers or write Box addresses.
Grimes Jan 11 reports no church service Sunday morning due to Mr Janney Pope illness. The column lists numerous holiday visitors from Winchester Martinsburg Romney Blacksburg and Shepherdstown and notes moving plans for spring. It ends with a reader question about the pronunciation of John Galsworthy.
Notice announces John F. McDaniel now works at Swartz's Barber Shop offering all haircuts for 50 cents.
Washington January 11 A Senate inquiry is urged after John W Cutler Jr accused officials of the Displaced Persons Commission of admitting a Soviet linked Communist and suspects. The commission rejects the charge calling it untrue and hints at disciplinary action against Cutler while noting his bias against certain faiths. Monsignor Swanström also counters the subversive claim citing Ellis Island cases. Senators Ferguson and Magnuson join the push for investigation.
Leon Hart of Notre Dame won the Maxwell Memorial Football Club trophy as the top college grid player of 1949 in Philadelphia. He accepted the award from club president Bert Bell, saying he could think of many college players worthy of the honor.
Ephraim B. Nicholson aged 83, retired stone mason in Madison county, died at his Front Royal home. Survived by five sons W B Nicholson Brightwood E S Nicholson Winchester Edward Nicholson Stephens City Weldon Nicholson Clearbrook Nelson Nicholson Brightwood and four daughters Lela Nicholson Winchester Ila Jenkins Nineveh Lillie Campbell Culpeper and Louise Corbin Washington along with numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Funeral 2 pm tomorrow at Forest Grove Baptist Church with Dr E T Clarke officiating. Interment Forest Grove.
Captain John G. Crommelin criticizes Army staff autocracy during a Pacific Traffic Association address in San Francisco. He says he has no quarrel with rank and file but objects to Washington staff methods and the influence of a potential presidential candidate in Army uniform. He did not name Eisenhower in the talk.
The speaker asks who should receive the trophy among Notre Dame teammates, presenting a defense of fellow players and suggesting collective merit rather than a single winner. The statement centers on team pride and fairness.
Rats recognize human scent so wash hands before baiting a trap and wear freshly washed rubber gloves if possible.
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