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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1936
Page
8
The report notes that the North River at River High and Muddy and the South River near River High and Muddy are in poor condition with high turbidity and elevated sediment levels. Nearby facilities report reduced water clarity and potential impact on aquatic life.
In Front Royal Virginia the Methodist Church Ladies Aid Society gathered this afternoon at the home of Mrs B V Atwood on Blue Ridge avenue with Mrs J G Tapp as assistant hostess, reporting a social afternoon and community ties.
Buffalo visitors Mr. and Mrs. Walter Boyd stay with Mrs. Boyd's parents Mr. and Mrs. C. Omer Maddox. Mr. Byrne Downing Jr. tours Hagerstown on Old Virginia Packing Co. business. Claude A. Stokes returns from Richmond. Ray Baker of Luray spends a few days here. Mrs. William E. Carson returns from months with son-in-law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ferguson in Honolulu. J. A. McCormick and Frank Compton return from New York City trip. Major McKnight of the C. Ec. office visits Philadelphia. Dr. E. C. Yost of Middleburg spends Monday with sister Mrs. Eugene Davis.
A chest clinic conducted by a State Health Department specialist will be held Tuesday in Front Royal under the County Board of Health and co operated with local physicians.
Evening Star clarifies a Monday report that a man named Harry Ford was fined $10.25 for drunkenness is not the Hart street resident with the same name. The correction separates two individuals with identical names to avoid misidentification.
J Powell Watson of Petersburg was marooned on Skyline Drive when his car froze in snow. He walked miles to a house and then to Front Royal where a crew from Front Royal Motor Company towed his car in. Temperature on Skyline Drive was five below zero.
Richmond Va Jan 22 Chairman Henry G Shirley of the Highway Commission said Virginia cannot build primary or secondary roads for two years without federal aid and that the state is $500000 in the hole. He told the House roads committee as two bills to include town streets in the secondary system were discussed.
Richmond Va Jan 22 Senator Aubrey Weaver Front Royal said he is confident state employes will receive the full ten percent restoration of salary cuts under the governors recommendations. He noted department heads before the Budget Advisory commission indicated economies in the budget could allow restoring the full reduction.
The General Assembly accepted an invitation to visit Fredericksburg on February 22 and the evening before. Washington birthday exercises will include a visit to the ferry farm where he spent his boyhood days in Virginia.
A crow named Jack visits Maple Street School in Easthampton each morning. It perches on steps or in a tree to observe students and taps on a window with its beak until a piece of chalk or a pencil is offered, which it then takes home.
An old advertisement extols Carter's Little Liver Pills to force two pounds of bile into the bowels daily. It warns poor digestion leads to decay and gas, claiming laxatives are insufficient and urges asking for the pills to restore energy and well being.
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