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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1936
Page
2
Rivers North and South display high and muddy conditions. Data notes indicate elevated water levels and turbid flow affecting navigation and local channels. Authorities caution against boating and urge residents to monitor updates from weather services.
Mrs Violette Collins returns from Washington. Archie Andersons back in Hampton after visiting his mother Mrs C J Anderson. Virginia Guthrie of Strasburg visits town. Miss Estelle Renalds and R A Mack plan a weekend visit. Claude Stokes tours Richmond Lynchburg and D C for Riverton Lime and Stone. McGargees head to Florida for winter. Tuesday Bridge Club hosted by Mrs Harold Smith. John Morgan improves after illness. Mrs Morgan also improving. Oscar Gilkey ill at home. Dr H H Sherman in Richmond for Virginia Council meeting. Mr Ritenour transferred to Richmond from FERA office. Charles B Samuels leaves for Florida for several months. Barrett of Berryville visits. W C Armstrong Jr visits Winchester. George Buck to spend weekend in Charlottesville. General and Mrs Beverley F Browne host the Evenin Club at their Drui residence.
Walter H. Potts of Shan sot Chan addressed Calvary Episcopal with St Elizabeth and St Lukes hospitals in Shanghai. Mrs. Willard Sonner visited relatives in Washington. Judge Walter Olmstead will spend Saturday in Baltimore. Warren County High girls basketball travel to Washington Virginia to play tomorrow at Randolph Macon court.
The Front Royal Remount Depot shipped six thoroughbred stallions yesterday to Fort Reno Oklahoma and on Tuesday sent 20 Cavalry horses to Fort Oglethorpe Georgia.
In Front Royal on January 15 Warren County High School girls defeated Toms Brook 17 8 on Academy court. Cecil Smith of Toms Brook was top scorer with 17 points as the Front Royal boys fell 36 to 24 to Toms Brook.
The Old Virginia Packing Company annual meeting was held in Front Royal with directors re elected for the ensuing year. They are Col. Marcus Blakemore of Pittsburgh, George C. Ramsey, C. Omer Maddox, Dr. L. F. Hansbrough, and Julian N. Major. Directors will meet later to elect officers.
Charles Haynie a Warren County high school Vocational Agriculture student completed a ten litter swine project. He raised eleven pure bred Duroc Jersey pigs farrowed July 15 1935 and sold in Baltimore January 8 1936 weighing 2055 pounds at 11 cents per pound.
Mrs Hadassah Dunn announces the engagement of her daughter Mary Moseley Dunn to Robert Weir of Washington DC. The wedding is planned for Saturday January 18 in Washington DC. Miss Dunn has a wide circle of friends in Front Royal.
Funeral services for Mrs Joseph Fishel widow of J H Fishel were held at home near Marlboro then at the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Stephens City with Rev F M Lucas officiating. Burial followed at Green Hill Cemetery. She died Monday morning from pneumonia and heart trouble leaving two daughters two sons two brothers and one sister five grandchildren and two great grandsons. Her arrangements were delayed awaiting son Herbert Fishel’s return from Florida. She was devoted to family and church.
The Discovery II captain said an airplane was seen in Little America and a man seen on the Bay of Wales while searching for missing explorer Lincoln Ellsworth. The report did not name the individual or aircraft. Seattle honors Segis Pieterje Prospect, a noted world champion cow.
The National Grange approves a 10 point plan emphasizing export subsidies and high tariffs to steer farm policy. The move signals a likely clash over substitutes for the invalid Agricultural Adjustment Act as Roosevelt and Wallace oppose export subsidies.
Announcement of the engagement of Miss Ola Virginia Striker to Mr. Wade Mangum of Hot Springs Arkansas. Miss Striker lives with her uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. Clarence E Hardy of South Braddock Street. Mr. Mangum is a native of Lockney Texas.
The text notes a Hot Springs resident, employed as Dr. Power’s assistant, plans a March wedding there with residence to follow. The Chanters set a rehearsal at the Presbyterian Church tomorrow at 7:30. Isaac Hoffman and family visited Charlottesville friends of Mrs. March, and W R Legge, northern Virginia vocational agriculture supervisor, returned from a ten day tour.
A company finds Angora goat whiskers make rugs, reversing prior assumptions and leading to widespread use. A Down East fisherman riffs on caution, saying no one gets in trouble by keeping quiet, a piece of local wisdom.
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