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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1937
Page
4
Public notices outline subscription and advertising rates for The Winchester Evening Star. Details include mail and carrier pricing, memorial and card charges, display ad deadlines, and national advertising representation. The note also states press affiliation with the Associated Press.
A devotional line citing Luke 16 13 warns that no person can serve both God and wealth. It states a servant will hate one and love the other, or cling to one and despise the other, concluding that service to both is impossible.
Winchester chamber president receives a letter from the National Park Service Acting Director indicating possible $1 per year license fees and 25 cent per trip charges for Shenandoah National Park to fund self sufficiency. Virginians oppose tolls on a park built with public funds and funded by citizen contributions.
The piece contrasts the Presidents Administrative Management report with the Senate Special Committee on Executive Agencies. It questions claimed economies and criticizes proposed reorganizations and new departments while praising merit-system expansion and warning against needless bureaucracy. It cites Byrd and Landon and weighs efficiency versus economy.
Reader can obtain factual answers by writing The Evening Star Information Bureau in Washington D C directed by Frederic J Haskin. Enclose three cents for reply.
The piece notes Will Rogers recalling Detroit police court humor. A defendant claims he broke a Canadian beer bottle on an adversary, and the judge queries the joke as staff laughs at the courtroom antics.
The item notes a gradual reduction in the perceived strength of King George. C. Ed. Johnson marks 35 years of continuous service with the Virginia Woolen Company. A bill to legalize horse racing and betting gains state assembly support. County agent Stine reports a week of pruning demonstrations. The Pennsylvania mail train faces delays from heavy snow drifts.
In Clarke and surrounding counties farmers report thefts of chicken roasts. Captain Frank W. Wray pays tribute to Lee and Jackson at an Episcopal Church address. Prohibitionist Pussyfoot Johnson to speak at Berryville High School.
The ceremony unites Miss Lucy Neville Gold and Frank G Walker in Berryville with guests from local families. The report notes no further details of the wedding.
Charles P. Stewart warns that small political groups in Congress threaten to derail federal nuisance taxes on sales. He notes states will barter support to tax or repeal, risking a rambling patchwork that could undercut any fiscal program as the current levy nears July 31 expiry.
The column cites Madrid movie houses still active during wartime spoofing a radio soup ad, notes Rodins Thinker as a sit-down strike monument, and playfully muses about drift of Scotland, New Yorkers fearing West London, a statue fund for a horticulture expert, a Hollywood magnate avoiding rain, and wartime peace price hints.
George W Dellinger born November 12 1845 in Shenandoah County served from 1863 in Company I 23rd Virginia Cavalry Imboden's Brigade through Civil War. He fought at Kidinger Hill Reed Hill New Market Lynchburg Winchester Port Republic Fishers Hill Sheridan's Ride and others. He later moved to Clarke and Winchester and lived with son W W Dellinger. He married Annie C Wiseman and has four children. He is Lutheran Stephens City and enjoys Civil War days discussion.
Jack Reid, rumored painter and witness to Sir Henry Severinge’s murder, takes the post of estate agent at the Severinge Abbey. Lady Severinge seeks stability for the children as Reid forms alliances with James the butler, Sylvia the governess, and Colindale’s former circle while ominous interest at the Abbey deepens the mystery.
Mrs. James Nicholas records a tumultuous marriage with multiple separations and reconciliations from 1927 to 1937. She sues for divorce in 1934 and 1936, reconciles, then discovers a Christmas card with him with another woman. The pattern ends with another divorce suit around 1937.
The young people’s choir will hold its regular weekly practice this evening at United Brethren Church at 6 45 p m. All members are urged to be present.
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