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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jul 25, 1929

Page

2

Hearts In Dixie opens at Capitol Tonight with all-talk musical drama

Fox Movietone presents Hearts In Dixie a fully dialogue musical film set in the old south. It features 200 performers from cotton fields and levees, a 60-voice chorus, and a southland orchestra. Songs include Lil Liza Jane Old Folk at Home Carry Me Back to Old Virginny Shortnin Bread and Turkey in the Straw. The show blends singing dancing and story post Civil War Dixieland life.

Fox Movietone Capitol Theatre Southland Cotton Fiields South Lil Liza Jane Old Virginny

Elder Hottel to Preach at Adventist Chapel Friday Evening

Elder R. D. Hottel will preach at 8 oclock Friday evening and again at 11 oclock Saturday morning at the Seventh Day Adventist Chapel No 10 West Cork Street all are invited to attend these meetings. Also notes a highway widening discussion from Kenosha News about 40 foot highways and 38 foot buses.

R. D. Hottel West Cork Street

Rattlesnakes Feature At Penn State Nature Camp

Ernest Thompson Seton wowed 17 campers at the Penn State nature study camp in the Seven Mountains. On the drive to State College he captured a three foot rattlesnake and later the reptile was served for dinner to the second group of nature campers making rattlesnake a camp tradition with the Den of Rattlers society forming.

State College Ernest Thompson Seton Penn State Seven Mountains Seton Penn State Nature Camp

Old Bethel Notes July Welfare and Church Social

Mrs. C H Loy shows slow improvement at her son's Winchester home. Indian Hollow Church services by Mr Rohart drew many locals. Old Bethel folks visited Joseph Luttrell and family. July 19 birthday surprise for Rev Charles Wagner with social after. Sunday school picnic planned August 3 in church woods with refreshments and invitation to all.

Old Bethel C. H. Loy Winchester Rohart Indian Hollow S. A. Luttrell Norman Luttrell Joseph Luttrell Old Bethel Church Charles Wagner Mr. Wagner

Locals Day by Day in Back Creek Virginia

Mrs. Florence Howard of Kansas City visiting Mrs. W. D. Ritter. Socials at the Ruble home include Kirk, Ritter, Howard, French Kirk and Mabel DeHaven. Families gathered Sunday with Baker, Flowers, Price and Ricketts. Virginia Adams visited Virginia Ritter. Attendees joined a Helping Hand Mission Church service at Indian Hollow.

Back Creek Florence Howard Kansas City W. D. Ritter L. H. Ruble W. D. Kirk French Kirk Mabel DeHaven Charles Baker Foreman Virginia Adams Virginia Ritter Frank Flowers Clifton Price Marguerite Price Alice Ricketts Raymond Kirk W.O. Kirk Virgil DeHaven Mary Ritter Opal Davis

I Shall Forget You in the Candlelight of Noon

Poem excerpt by Elkanah East Taylor from Candles On the Sill. Lines declare memory fading as daylight, night, dew, sea, and spring lilacs lose their dawn calls. The speaker contemplates forgetting a beloved as nature forgets its routines.

Elkanah East Taylor

Groundhog Attack Ends in Fatality in West Virginia

D. B. Ward of Marlowe West Virginia fought off a large male groundhog with a club after it attacked him near the Potomac river area. the animal was killed. Woodchuck numbers are reported to be high along the river.

Man Puts $100 Reward for Lawn Destruction Culprits

CHICAGO July 25 Alexander Boehmer obtained police permission to erect a sign offering 100 reward for the arrest and conviction of the culprits who maliciously destroyed his lawn. The sign curses the vandals and their seed.

Chicago Poe Alexander Boehmer

Varicose Veins Promised Relief With Emerald Oil

An Oregon reader endorses Moone's Emerald Oil as a home remedy for varicose veins. The ad asserts that tightening garters and long standing worsen the condition and claims the oil relieves pain strengthens legs and reduces enlarged veins to normal. It promotes Baker's Drug Store as the source and cites a 36 year sufferer.

Moone Baker’s Drug Store Oregon Oregon Journal Adv

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