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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1939
Page
3
Gloucester Massachusetts July 1 Economists and businessmen say debt and heavy instalment selling triggered the Depression era collapse. The piece traces 1929 to 1932 liquidations, shifts in lending, and government debt strategies, warning that current attitudes toward debt threaten future business stability.
By virtue of an attachment in my hands in the matter of H. Larrick vs. W. T. Hayden I will offer for sale at public auction at No 23 E Piccadilly Street Winchester Virginia July 10 at 10 AM the defendant's personal property including dishes and glasses ice refrigerator case scales cash register tables and chairs Cash terms.
Miss Georgianna Neff leaves for Shepherdstown to spend the summer with Rey and Mrs. Floyd M. Lucas. Beatrice Painter visits Aud rey White. Mr. and Mrs. William Harry of Baltimore visit Mr. and Mrs. Ray Albin for the Fourth. Tom Perry Ira Ritter visit John William Maligan and Robert White of Opequon. Mary Clevenger goes to Harrisonburg for two weeks. Charles Layman and sons with kin near Harrisonburg for the Fourth. Mrs. Howard White returns from Richmond. Brisco Orndorff family guests of C. C. Perry. Dorothy Headley visits sister Le roy Franklin.
The Kenneth Heine jug band will perform as part of the Charlie Rouss Fire Company meeting tonight. Members are urged to attend the regular session for entertainment.
The Middletown charge and neighboring churches list Sunday schedules with sermons and biblical instruction. Notable speakers include Rev. J. T. Brown and Rev. Charles Beard. All services feature choirs, with Sunday schools and youth programs across White Post, Stephens City, Brucetown, Cedar Cliff, and Nineveh groups.
Opequon Church with Rev E Summers McGavock pastor offers Sunday School at 10 a m and sermon at 11 a m Burnt Church holds Sunday School at 2 p m Round Hill schedules Sunday School 10 a m young people 7 p m sermon 8 p m Opequon Chapel presents Sunday School 10 a m and young people 7 15 p m.
The July 9 lesson outlines Solomon’s reign and downfall due to foreign wives and idolatry. It covers Jeroboam’s rise, Ahijah’s sign, and Solomon’s successor Rehoboam, with a parable of talents stressing faithful use of gifts and consequences of squandered resources. The piece ties biblical history to moral lessons on diligence and obedience.
Members of the Open Door Bible Class at Loudoun Street Presbyterian Church will hear a message from John Hottle, Hampden-Sydney College student and former boys class teacher, this Sunday at 9 45. The speaker is a church member who led a mid week prayer service at Highland Avenue Presbyterian Church. Visitors are invited.
The Frederick Circuit Methodist Church schedules worship led by Pastor George L. Waters at Paxton's and Lamp's locations with morning communion at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. and Sunday School at 2 p.m. and 10 a.m. at Relief and Macedonia Carper's Valley and Round areas.
Mrs. Ella Boole president of the Worlds Women’s Christian Temperance Union will speak next Tuesday July 11 at 2 oclock in Round Hill Baptist Church Loudoun county Virginia on Around the World With a White Ribbon A 130 oclock Gold Medal contest precedes at 1 30 oclock and members from Winchester and other temperance supporters are invited.
G H Fielding pastor at Paynes Chapel Gerrardstown and Epworth League events listed. Church school 10.00, worship 11.00. Epworth League 7.30, worship 8.00. The pastor will preach at each worship service.
Sandy Ridge Bible School opens at 10 a m with Sunday worship at 11 a m Evening worship follows at 7 p m Communion observed during the service Minister 8 s J Goode leads the rural charge services and Bible School sessions at the Sandy Ridge church level.
Dr Bob Cooke survivor of the yellow fever experiments and longtime Rockbridge county health officer led a broad public health program. He improved school attendance from 78.5 to 91.6 percent and boosted state school funds by 8,400 over two years while expanding immunization and prenatal clinics and venereal disease control.
Gov Herbert R. O Conor of Maryland travels to San Francisco after a stop at MGM studio with Nelson Eddy and Ilona Massey. He will address the American Bar Association and the committee for the prevention of crime in San Francisco while in the party are Mr and Mrs Joseph S Flynn and Josephe Rogan of Baltimore.
Superintendent Irby and Dr. Cooke lead a National Youth Administration project to install sanitation facilities in all county school buildings at an estimated cost near 9000 dollars, including painting and ground work. A related Rockbridge Baths camp project targets underprivileged children for summer recreation and care.
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