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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1934
Page
8
Rev B McGukin of the Presbyterian Church in Winchester will deliver the morning address at the deacons conference in Wardensville on July 26. All church officers and auxiliaries are urged to attend. Two open forums on church work will run 10 to noon and 2 to 4 with a later announced principal speaker for the afternoon.
Market bulletins from Baltimore Chicago Richmond Washington and New York list current grain and produce quotes. No. 2 red winter wheat 85 in Baltimore spot. Chicago No 1 red 90 1/2 to 92 1/2. corn 60 in Chicago. various fruit veg and dairy prices in Richmond and Washington. butter eggs poultry and liv estock figures shown with typical retail ranges.
Market notes list prices for dairy and animal feed products plus livestock values. Items include cracked corn at 6.40 to 6.90 per unit, mixed feed around 1.60, dairy feeds 16 percent at 1.45, corn meal 2.10, scratch feed 1.75, screenings 1.50, mid 1.50, and various livestock prices such as butterfat 24 cents, heifers 0.95, sheep 0. sized small, steers around 2.06, and corn products 1.55 to 2.00 per cwt.
Berryville Virginia notes recount Florence Shepherd hosting visitors from Seminary Hill and Pittsburgh while repairs proceed at Cool Spring on the Shenandoah river. The tale recalls a legendary card night win that secured the property for Admiral Wormley, then details social visits, dinners, and summer arrangements at multiple estates in Jefferson County and Berryville as locals and guests circulate.
Palace presents Rex Lease in Wings of Adventure a western airplane thriller also showing Puss In Boots in natural colors and Mickey Mouse chapter Fighting With Kit Karson plus a newsreel camera man adventure. H B Warner stars in Sorrell and Son Monday and Tuesday as a main attraction.
The Capitol Theatre presents the riotous Merry Wives Of Reno with Margaret Lindsey and Donald Woods leading a cast including Glenda Farrell Ruth Donnelly Roscoe Ates Frank McHugh and Hobart Cavanaugh. Also opening for three days is Operator 13 starring Marion Davies with Gary Cooper Jean Parker Ted Healy and the Four Mills Brothers.
The Colonial Theatre offers two feature films for one price today plus chapter 1 of Universal’s The Vanishing Shadow. The program includes Buck Jones in Man Trailer with Cecelia Parker and Hell Cat with Ann Sothern and Robert Armstrong, plus a Beauty and the Beast cartoon. The serial promises 12 weeks of thrilling chapters with a Frankenstein and Invisible Man vibe and a celebrated cast.
In Nice, France, U S Navy ships Arkansas and Wyoming cancelled shore leave after a riot ashore injuring 28 sailors. A bullet remains in the neck of Joseph Kline, wounded by Leon Curpy. Widespread damage estimated at 25 000 francs. Marian Martin of White Post attended Augusta Military Academy dance with Mrs Fitzhugh Elder.
Annie Brooks Jefferson died of a heart attack yesterday afternoon at age 52 while working as a cook at the home of Dr and Mrs John B McKee on West Cork Street. Born in Winchester she lived there most of her life and was highly regarded. She is survived by her husband Edward Brooks two sisters Ada Allen and Fannie Clark and a brother. Funeral services will be at Mount Carmel Baptist Church Monday at 3 PM with Rev S S Spriggs officiating and interment at Orrick Cemetery. Pallbearers are Charles Lampkins David Anderson Charles Redman John Jones Isaac Jackson and Lucien Nickens.
Swords were indispensable to early Roman soldiers and Arthurian knights and to medieval combat. They shaped battles across ages, yet the tragedy of Balaclava hinted at a shift as the antique weapon failed to suit the machine era.
Dagestan occupies most of the Andusk range in the Caucasus near the Caspian Sea. The region hosts many varied tribes speaking strange tongues living in fertile valleys or ancient stone villages called auls clinging to mountainsides.
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