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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1937
Page
8
The Rev. Stanley McFarland, formerly of Frederick county and pastor of the Hancock Md Methodist Episcopal Church for five years, has moved to the church at Ran Feb from Hancock. The Hancock church grew under his pastorate and he is a Frederick county native.
A mid week prayer service for Thomas W. Mathews will be held at 7 45 this evening at Market Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Pastor Rev Herman McKay is out of town.
A sequence of sale notices across Winchester Berryville and surrounding towns lists dates for antique furniture stock and implements from several estates including the Heist Snyder Reynolds Hall and others. Entries note farms near Millwood Brucetown Boyce White Post Berryville Summit Point and Jefferson County with items such as horses cattle hogs and feed.
Burg dispatch reports flood control moves to the top of Pennsylvania’s legislative calendar alongside unemployment relief and mining. Senator William B. Rodgers says army engineers likely will be ready to let contracts for flood prevention dams in western Pennsylvania by April.
Paul E. Mayhugh, 19, a Civilian Conservation Corps worker, killed himself in Wallace Idaho after fear for his parents in flooded Ohio. Camp officers found his body with a chest stab wound and wrist slash. his parents live at Shadyside Ohio.
The Census Bureau reported 956 automobile deaths in 86 major cities for the four weeks ending January 16, up 32.6 percent from the same period last year.
A vintage Marian Martin pattern feature promotes Pattern 9203 a slimming home dress with yoke sleeves center panel and decorative bodice gathers. It notes fabrics options and sizes 16 through 46 with yardage for size 36 and details for ordering patterns and books from the Winchester Evening Star Pattern Department in New York.
State Highway Patrolmen F E Radcliffe and F D Bolia asked for riskier assignments in the flood area after spending the night at a relief camp walking the floor with crying refugee babies in Jackson Ohio.
Rotarians will hear J. H. Funkhouser discuss how agricultural policies of recent years have restored farm income at the regular luncheon this week. The luncheon will be at the George Washington Hotel Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock.
New Orleans officials place faith in the Bonnet Carre floodway as a safeguard against rising Mississippi waters. Lt. Col. William Tompkins says he will seek permission to open the $13 million structure to divert floodwater to the gulf via Lake Pontchartrain if the river nears a 20 foot stage.
Salem Oregon Rep Hannah Martin moved to urge several members to get haircuts. The motion passed quickly and surprised supporters. Long-haired members promised to comply.
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