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Newspaper

Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jan 17, 1940

Page

10

Big Farm Show Opens in Harrisburg Suburbs

Farmers from Frederick and nearby counties plan to attend Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg. The indoor exhibit features livestock poultry and implements with 500000 visitors expected. John H Light opened the twenty fourth annual show before 13000 and Louis J Taber spoke. A week of meetings exhibitions contests and concerts followed with 9500 awards and cash totaling 40000 for prize winners.

Frederick Pennsylvania Harrisburg John H. Light Louis J. Taber National Grange

Farley Says Roosevelt Won't Seek Third Term

Postmaster General James A. Farley told Columbia University students that President Roosevelt would not seek a third term unless drafted in a national emergency. He declined to comment on the likelihood of any draft.

New York James A. Farley New York Herald-Tribune Rosevelt Columbia University Farley

Senator Norris Returns From Johns Hopkins Hospital

Senator Norris of Nebraska visited Johns Hopkins Hospital for a thorough physical exam and returned reporting he now smokes freely after previously limiting himself to two cigars daily.

Washington Senator Norris Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore

Bank Closing Notices For January Nineteen Nineteen Forty

Friday January nineteen forty is a legal holiday so banks Shenandoah Valley National Bank Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Co Commercial and Savings Bank Union Bank of Winchester will be closed. Paper maturities on this date will be payable on Saturday January twentieth forty.

Harold G. Brown Shenandoah Valley Nat’l Bank J. H. Yost Farmers and Merchants National Bank and Trust Co John I. Sloat Commercial and Savings Bank Geo. B. Bushnell Union Bank of Winchester

Stingy husband destroys family love warns columnist

A reader letter explains how a money loving husband drains affection from wife and children. The columnist advises a plain talk and the wife returning to work to ensure funds for necessities, noting legal duty to support dependents and keeping anonymity of the writer.

Solomon D. C Bac

Local Social Notes From Middletown Virginia January Updates

County news brief highlights visits and travels among residents. Samuel Headley departs for Philadelphia to visit sisters and brother in Laurel Maryland. Dettta and Sperry families host gatherings. Bee Gore and Willey family share time in the area. Cornwell and Coffman families visit. Hodson family observations. Missionary Society to study the mission book with sessions in Edinburg on January 25.

Middletown Samuel Headley Reliance Raymond Headley Philadelphia Collins Candy David Headley Laurel Carson Dettta Winchester E. R. Sperry Bee Gore Near Clearbrook Frank Willey Willey Mary Legg Martha Keene Alvin Beatty Chis Ten Gang Peggy John Beatty Norman Ashby Woodrow Cornwell Baltimore Lloyd Coffman Stephens City James Coffman The Missionary Society Edinburg

White Hall Notes Highlights Local Social Rounds

Mr C W Lamp shows slight improvement after illness. Belle Guess dies in Winchester Memorial Hospital. Colleen Bageant hosts a surprise birthday party. Mite Society meets at Mrs C S Shepherd’s. Mrs J G McKee visits Brucetown with ill sister in law. Mrs A L Anderson hosts the card club. Allen Boyles travels to Tampa Florida to visit relatives. H M Lamp and Ernest L Shade visit C W Lamp family last week.

White Hall C. W. Lamp Belle Guess Winchester Memorial Hospital Colleen Bageant The Mite Society C. S. Shepherd

War supplies to Rumania aid Balkans defense stated

Washington reports Germany ships war implements and munitions to Romania including 70 Heinkel bombers and 70 par suiting planes. Deliveries continued from Skoda contracts and German experts supervise submarine construction in Galatz. Soviet claims on Bessarabia persist as King Carol vows resistance.

Washington Germany Rumania Balkans Great Britain France Othrs Skoda Europe Czechoslovakia Galatz Russia Bessarabia Soviet Russia Dniester Pruth

Brucetown Socials and Local Health Notes

Brucetown Virginia residents share visits with White Hall and Ridgeway friends including Mrs Janny McKee and Mr Junior Ware. Local health updates report Mrs Ashby Price with several fractured ribs and Russell Price at home with quinty. Mrs A H McCarroll hospitalized Winchester Memorial Hospital and Wesley Brill ill at home with a cold.

Brucetown Janny McKee Junior Ware White Hall J. R. Smith Ashby Price John Coyle Raymond Smith Ridgeway W. Va Leslie Hensell Selma Paul Shirkey Ruby

John Deere Day at Lupton Orchard Saturday Feature

Lupton Orchard Service and local John Deere dealer host a big farmer day at their Winchester showroom Monday January 22 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. An all talking film Joel Gentry in Hollywood along with four other educational pictures on tractors and farm equipment will be shown to farmers their wives and farm boys from the area.

Joel Gentry Hollywood John Deere Lupton Orchard Service Winchester Ture Joel

Daily Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues

Crossword puzzle clues list with across and down prompts including Bulging jar Bloodhound Newt Chamber away and other entries such as Sailor's saint and Leaping amphibians, distributed by King Features Syndicates.

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