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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1950
Page
9
Classified advertisements rate 3c per word per day with a $1.50 per column inch daily minimum. Closing time 1 a.m. for inclusion in that date’s issue. Wan waitress position listed at Capitol Restaurant with age requirement over 21.
Local notices advertise small wooden building suitable as a shed at $20 call Buyers Grocery 5530 plus early trans parent apples $1 per bushel tree run phone 6000 dining room suite $9 large brick six room house $6600 with $2400 down Willis 3631 build ing lot water sewer concrete walk Willis 3631 large rubber boat with paddles inflates with pump call 7391 after 5 p.m. used auto parts North Loudoun Street Winchester Credit Corp 4-27-ed-tf three bedroom brick dwelling good & company 4425 wallpaper sale 28 E Piccadilly St semi bungalow 313 Parkway 8115
Male help wanted for Rawleigh business no experience needed to start. Sales easy and profits good start immediately write Rawleighs Dept VAG 10 190 Richmond Va. Also experienced grocery clerk needed at Winchester store with good salary write Box 4 care Winchester Evening Star. Experienced reliable cook apply in person at Winchester Steak House Friday or Saturday noon to 4 pm. Male help wanted cut down and clear up orchard for wood phone Hoofer 5486.
Short classified items seek an attractive young woman for sales or office work and a house to buy near town. Also requests for laundry uniforms, a late model light four door sedan, and a desirable building lot in Winchester with contact numbers and dates from 1921 to 1961.
Advertisements include rat control with star symbol, sale of horse meat, Solenberger Hardware promotional dates and phone, concrete blocks and masonry services by Nicholson & Son with free estimates, fabricating home and yard blocks, concrete work, porch and cellar floors. Sewing machine electrification offer from Winchester Sewing Machine Co with location and phone. picture framing shop Barr's Studio with frames and moulding. lost brown zipper key case with five keys and Berryville contact.
Charlie Boswell of Alabama won the American Blind Golf Championship at Augusta Country Club finishing with a 220 for 36 holes. Art Smith of Philadelphia, blinded in World War II, finished tied for second with Bill Gilman of Portland at 227 after leading early.
The Bureau of the Census says preliminary figures on the United States population will be available about September or October 1950, with the finished report on the census in the latter part of December 1950.
Graveside services will be conducted at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Mount Hebron Cemetery for James Monroe Jack born 1881 in Berkeley Springs West Virginia son of Charles P. Jack and Octavia L. Jack. He lived in Winchester many years and worked in hotels. Survived by wife Sally Jack and niece Virginia Brinkerhoff. Dr Charles Noyes Tyndell will officiate.
Winchester and Frederick County youths attend Boys and Girls States with leaders and roles. Ronald Wilson Jr of Winchester is elected to the Boys State Supreme Court while James Hottle of Cross Junction becomes a senator and Gardner Brannan of Winchester serves as Commonwealth's attorney. Roxanne Rogers of Frederick County is named a Girls State senator.
A Special Commissioner will sell at public auction on July 22 1950 at 1 PM at 109 E James Street Winchester Virginia the property fronting 60 feet on the south side of E James Street with a 60 by 62 foot lot and alley access plus a six room frame dwelling No 109 E James Street Cash terms. Personal property also sold includes beds bedding sewing machine tables dressers and more.
The roundup notes farm systems push players into lower leagues to cut costs, with Class D paying about 125 to 150 a month while higher clubs absorb the gap. The Brooklyn farm system ships 60 players to non affiliated clubs this season as independents struggle to compete. Branch Rickey advocates speed in baserunning units, and Dodgers farm clubs lead in steals as of mid July.
Miss Elizabeth Massie of the Park Club faces Mrs Helen End ers, 1947 Berryville champion, in the 1950 Inter-city Tournament final at Winchester Park tennis courts. End ers beat Miss Camille Wisccarver to reach the final, Massie defeated Mrs Nancy Lee Allen 6 2 6 1 to advance. The article notes Colorado's average elevation at 6800 feet.
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