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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1924
Page
5
A local Sample Shoe Store hosts a Perfect Foot Contest comparing married women and single women as entrants. Judges will decide which group has the better feet, with final results expected soon and the matrimonial theme noted.
Reliance Virginia reports weekend social visits as Mr G B Dovel and family with Miss Lucy Green spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Wake man near Middletown. Mr E E Baker and children of Strasburg called on Mr and Mrs R R Stickley.
Thursday evening notes include Miss Sallie Wolfe visiting Mount Jackson home. R R Stickley family spent Sunday in Strasburg with relatives. Mrs B J Hillidge and son from Front Royal and Mr and Mrs Fréa Ridings and son from Relief visited Mr D N Grover. Rev W B Obaugh conducts meetings at United Brethren Church.
The Nevada gasoline tax, in effect for under a year, has raised more than 110000 dollars based on 6271861 gallons sold. State and county funds are allocated for highway improvements across the state.
Local advertorial note urges readers to place ads in The Star newspaper, claiming returns through broad reach and steady client exposure. It emphasizes cost efficiency and visibility for merchants seeking publicity.
Minneapolis sees corn receipts surge as a premier wheat center shifts toward corn. As crop movement starts, local arrivals double year over year, with Chicago as the only larger market. Eastern buyers seek Minneapolis corn for export due to low moisture and quality.
Prof. Harry Crim led the Christian Endeavor Society with a talk on Gospel Triumphs in Japan. A Japanese duet by Prof and Mrs Crim and Japanese readings highlighted the program. The meeting closed with the Lord's Prayer in Japanese and attendance was rising.
Mr and Mrs Prescott Huidekoper hosted an informal tea Sunday afternoon in Green Spring Valley to honor Mrs Huidekoper on her birthday. Among guests was Mrs Hugh Nelson of Millwood Virginia visiting the couple.
In Ridgeway West Virginia on January 21 residents from Glengary and Shanghai petitioned the County Court and state road authorities to include the Berkeley Hampshire grade in state routings. The 100 year old road runs from Martinsburg via Tuscarora Creek into Morgan County and toward the Hampshire line, with orchards flanking the route suffering from the poor conditions.
Floyd Brewer faces murder related indictment in the killing of Julius Lipkins at the Ranson home in Northeast Winchester. Joe Donnie Ranson is jailed since the homicide with claims of self defense involving a shotgun wound that killed Lipkins days later. A separate grand jury indictment charges Ollie Durham with forging a check for 21 dollars used at Geo. F Norton Publishing Co. The grand jury was dismissed on prohibition cases due to absent federal witnesses, with plans for a new term once agents can testify.
The local Red Cross advisory board met to cooperate with Memorial Hospital authorities. The chapter offers all members to assist in any capacity and to fund replacements for aprons caps and uniforms burned in the fire. The women’s auxiliary was to meet later. the board pledged support within their means.
The Swimley family thanks friends and neighbors for kindness during illness and death of their father and for many floral offerings.
Shenandoah Game and Game Fish Protective Association backs uniform laws for the western Virginia region. At a Staunton meeting Col. H L Opie presided as members urged sanctuaries in Little River and Jerkemtight tracts of the Shenandoah National Forest and requested state action to establish game refuges for three years. Proposals include daily bag limits for pheasants turkeys quail and squirrels, trout size increases and season limits, bear protection and licensing funding for stock damage.
A plea highlights more than ten thousand Virginia children under fourteen, many starving and neglected, urging Winchester and Frederick County residents to support the Children’s Home Society of Virginia. A local committee will solicit funds this week. $50 funds a child for a year of housing education and moral guidance, with an annual goal near $3,000.
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