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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1956
Page
5
Classified display advertisements subject to a border or larger type above eight points cost 1.75 dollars per column inch per day. A minimum charge applies. Cash payment is required for all out of town ads.
For sale practical new wooden wheelchair at 408 Shenandoah Ave Roy Beatty. For rent unfurnished apartment with garage three rooms bath apply 230 Chestnut St phone MO 2-6904. For rent three room apartment working couple only phone MO 2-4565. For rent bedroom man only dial MO 2-4782. For rent room gentlemen phone MO 2-5812. For rent two bedroom modern house 65 dollars monthly Colonial Heights call MO 2-5472. Wanted pharmaceutical salesman Maryland West Virginia territory box 40 Star. Wanted young man for sales work and stockkeeper Sherwin Williams 28 E Piccadilly St apply by letter only W M Southard manager.
Interesting work with good hours and benefits. Applicant must be accurate and fairly fast, able to use office equipment, shorthand helpful, understand simple bookkeeping, and be a neat, personable, courteous, intelligent helper with good judgment. Apply Box 38 care Winchester Star.
Young man with selling experience and a car to take over established local territory. Salary expenses and bonus plan offered. Excellent chance for advancement. Apply by letter to W. M. Southard at the Sherwin-Williams Co. 28 E Piccadilly St Winchester Va.
The Shenandoah Valley Manufacturers Association hosts 1955 essay winners from Handley and James Wood High Schools at a 6:30 p.m. dinner at the George Washington Hotel. Principals attend. first place readers Jim Scott and Susan Gore speak. other top contestants from both schools are listed. An officers election follows the dinner.
Omps Funeral Home will hold viewing until Wednesday at 1 p.m. and then transport to the church where the body lies in state from 1:30 p.m. until the service.
The Four Horsemen Mil ler Stuhldreher Crowley and Layden played 22 college games together and lost only 2. They were defeated by Nebraska in both games by a single touchdown.
Mrs. Bessie C. Teets 71 of Martinsburg Pike died early yesterday in Charlottesville after a long illness. Born April 4 1884 in Grimes she was a daughter of the late Benjamin F and Marjorie Kerns White. Surviving: two sons George F and Robert B Teets. two daughters Thelma Teets and Mrs Edward Jackson. one brother O Smith. four sisters Cora Massey Cora White Mrs O E Fearn and Miss Lou White. two grandsons Ivan E and Thomas C Jackson. Funeral Tuesday 2 PM at Jones Funeral Home and interment Mount Hebron Cemetery.
A memorial verse from bereaved loved ones marks nine years since a mother left. The poem recalls her smiling face and enduring memory in their hearts.
Lawrence Eugene Puffinburger aged 14 or 15, foster son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Grim of Stephens City, died at Winchester Memorial Hospital after a weeklong illness. Born August 1 1940 he lived with his foster parents since infancy and attended James Wood High School in ninth grade. Funeral services were held Wednesday at Ridings Chapel EUB Church with Rev E B Caplinger officiating and burial planned in the adjoining cemetery.
Help wanted advertisement seeks a woman with a sewing machine to manufacture ready cut aprons. Easy, profitable work for spare or full time. From A and B Aprons located in Fort Smith Arkansas. Advert placed January 28 1930.
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