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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1931
Page
3
Fragmentary OCR notes mention social and personal items but lack clear names or events. This summary preserves the readable hints of notices while omitting uncertain details.
A detailed account of Grieg's Peer Gynt suite including Morning and In the Hall of the Mountain King outlines the adventures of Peer, Solveig, Ingrid, Anitra, and Ase, with themes of love, outlawry, and redemption across Norway and Morocco. The article includes local notices on University of Virginia staff changes and community events.
A large Eastern Star card party at McKinley Chapter raised funds with 26 card tables and about 120 attendees. 500 and Michigan were played with first prize winners named and prizes donated by local merchants. thanks extended to Winchester Printers Stationers and other donors. A separate Lexington Virginia report notes Washington and Lee University’s 25th annual fancy dress ball in Sherwood Forest decor with Robin Hood and King Richard themes. 51 students and guests to perform and over 2,000 dancers expected, broadcast on WDBJ. McCrory Store in Winchester closed for an hour for the funeral of Perley A. Prior, VP of J G McCrory Company.
Dr C B Harlee spends today and tomorrow in Baltimore for the Baltimore Dental Society midwinter clinics. Mr and Mrs J B Jennings and their son were at their home Wednesday. Mrs Don S Mattison returns home after Memorial Hospital treatment. Mr and Mrs George E Baker of Boyce visit Winchester. Mr and Mrs John Van Dyke Tweedy of Baltimore visit Mr and Mrs Jacob E Baker. Master Beverley Lamb son of Mr and Mrs John Lamb shows slight improvement after tonsillitis.
Atlanta reports Major General Smedley D Butler resigns from the Marine Corps effective February 1 and signs a lecture contract. Russell Bridges and Clarence White attended a luncheon where Cornelius Van derbilt Jr described Mussolini running over a child, with Butler present.
Trading ends fractionally lower as professional longs pull back in the final hour. Wheat May and March held on the peg amid Grain Stabilization Corporation activity while corn and July wheat fell about one cent. rye and oats down about 1% cent. Closing quotes: Wheat March 1792 May 8254 July 665. Corn March 625% May 645 July 651%. Oats March no sales May 3254 July 3134. Rye March no sales May 3934 July 397%.
Mrs. Chester Dodd and two sons Chester and Douglas of Winchester will move to Washington where they will settle. Mrs. Bowman, staying with her sister Mrs. Dodd since the death of the latter's husband before Christmas, will join them. Mr. Bowman works for Riverton Lime Company with Washington headquarters and had lived there before Christmas.
Richmond January 29 The State Highway Commission awarded contracts for sixteen highway construction projects totaling nearly 1 million dollars with the low bids accepted in each case. Several awards were conditional for ready funds and right of way. Work must start within ten days with major activity planned by March 1.
Wheat rose to the highest in two weeks amid drought complaints from domestic belts including Canada and large export purchases from Canada. Market notes show broad commodity gains and a government stance on stabilization programs with wheat aided by Grain Stabilization actions.
Baltimore market update lists No. 2 red winter domestic spot at 79 1 4 cents and garlicky domestic spot and January at 79 1 4, February at 79 1 2. Prices shown for No. 2 red winter wheat in various delivery months.
Baltimore reports January 29 that produce prices remained steady with no movement across items.
Prices for butter eggs poultry and livestock in Washington and Richmond report varied movement. Butter prints and tub levels shift, eggs steady to fair, poultry values mixed with turkeys and fowls fluctuating, hogs and cattle showing fair to steady demand amid weaker finishes.
Baltimore hog receipts are down 400 with top hogs at 9.10 and light types near 9.00. Chicago reports 42,000 hogs with tops around 8.10 for lights and mediums near 7.99. Cattle in Baltimore slow with steers 5.00 to 10.00, cows 2.25 to 5.50. Chicago top cattle 13.25 for yearlings, cows to 6.75, veal up to 11.50. Sheep in Baltimore steady with lambs 5.00 to 10.25. Chicago lambs 8.75 to 9.50 and sheep 4.50 and down.
Philadelphia reports live poultry and fancy Plymouth Rock prices with mixed colors and white Leghorns, while New York lists live poultry by freight or express, plus egg prices steady with various grades and percentages.
At Capitol Theatre today Scotland Yard features Edmund Lowe and Joan Bennett. A wife forgets a husband who returns from war to claim her, while a counterfeit man hidden in his identity haunts the plot. The bank robber tale unfolds through France to England as truth and deception collide.
Handley High School hosted a Boy Scouts basketball game in which Troop 3 defeated Troop 2 by 22 to 13. Dewitt led Troop 3 with Right Forward G. Harris adding a rush of points.
New York bond figures list Liberty and Treasury issues with bid and ask style quotes. Prices show multiple vintages and series including Liberty 4s and Treasuries ranging around 101 to 111 with varying 32 to 56 seconds in the quotes.
Alexander Legge head of the Federal Farm Board urged in Springfield that wheat prices cannot be stabilized without reducing the 1930 surplus. He spoke before the Illinois Agricultural Association, advocating crop cuts and joint government stabilization to aid farmers and keep domestic prices from pegging. He warned against resuming exports while floods of wheat from other countries flood consuming markets.
New York witnesses a second Coast Guard test as the Josephine K and the cutter 11 spar to determine if shelling was necessary after Saturday’s clash with a rum run ship. The race repeats the earlier engagement with direct hits and the loss of Captain William P. Cluett. Gerald Campbell doubts the need for gunfire as the inquiry continues.
Fragmentary note quotes H G Wells praising capable players and discussing future top performers, labeling some as first class for city or region play.
Substitutions listed include Keckley for Jones and Jones for Keckley. Referee Lamb and keeper Ryan noted in H. H. 8. timing and lineup details are partially recorded.
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