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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1937
Page
2
An old Will Rogers piece recounts a tale of two men a tall Negro and a short one in a razor chase. The little yellow Dingo begs protection from a boss while praising strategic fighting against an enemy. The narrator calls the Senegambian tactician and comments on national needs.
The twenty seventh annual convention of Opequon district Sunday schools will meet August 5 at Refuge Methodist Church. Rev F M Lucas of Stephens City is pastor. C S Headley is president with P F Lineburg vice president and F Estes Kline secretary treasurer. The theme is Christ In the Life of the Community. Lunches encouraged. Morning and afternoon sessions with a program of devotions addresses and reports.
A Connecticut party of 30 to 40 fruit growers will tour Virginia from Winchester to Charlottesville next week. Notable attendees include Elliott D. Curtis and H. C. C. Miles with others from Connecticut and Massachusetts. Virginia hosts include Prof. A. H. Teske and F. H. Wissler as tour organizers. The itinerary covers Berryville, Winchester, Shenandoah Caverns, Harrisonburg, Staunton, Waynesboro, Crozet, Charlottesville, and the Skyline Drive with visits to orchards, packing plants, and mountain orchards near Luray.
Evangelist Wilbur A Reid leads a two week revival at Galilee Church of Christ near Grimes starting Aug 1. Topics include The Most Wonderful Sentence Ever Written The Glorious Gospel The Conversion of a Moral Man Going to the Wedding Faith Repentance Baptism What Must I Do to Be Saved Conversion A Model Conversion What Price Life Weighed in the Balance of God Excuses Pressing On Toward the Prize The Road to Heaven. Special music directed by Charles E McVay. Everyone welcome.
S J Saady of 1109 West Cary Street Richmond paid a $50 fine and costs in Police Court after State Police officer R E Bayliss detained him on Loudoun Street while delivering cantaloupes. Saady claimed the melons were his product and that a check paid by buyers to others should prove producer status.
In Glacier National Park a Spokane bound train halted and Buffalo man P. Wiegand leaned from a car window to watch a large black bear. The bear swiped with its paw, knocking off Wiegand’s hat and hair, which turned out to be a toupee.
Mrs. Thomas N. Carter hosted a luncheon at Powhatan for Mrs. Spencer Carter Mrs. Walter Williams and Miss Susan Carter with guests including Mrs. Kenneth N. Gilpin and Mrs. Henry Mitchell. Agnes Mitchell visited Virginia Jacobs for lunch and Eleanor Cromwell returned to Baltimore. Captain Charles Jones and sons plan an August 13 voyage to Honolulu. The scene includes Millwood Boyce Berryville outings with golf at Ridge Country Club won by Mrs. Edward Johnson.
Trustees announce a public auction in Winchester Virginia on August 14 1937 at 11 a m of the Aulick Farm complex Shawnee District Frederick County comprising about 112 acres with a large apple orchard and residence. The sale follows default on three deeds of trust. terms call for one third cash with the rest in two annual installments at 6 percent interest secured by a deed and fire policy.
Ardmore residents plan a weekend with Mr and Mrs Robert Page. Misses Mary and Agnes Page host bridge for Mrs Walter Williams and Miss Susan Carter. Mrs Townsend Burwell arrives from Cambridge MA and stays at Athlone with Florence Wheat. Others attend luncheons hosted by Edith Beardall Betsy Rowan and guests Elsie Montgomery Maria Woolfork.
Miss Susan Carter and Miss Virginia Jacobs were supper guests of Mr and Mrs Graham Dougherty Sunday night. Mrs F B Dougherty, visiting July with her son, left for Philadelphia. Mrs Baron Sands Willard leaves for New York then Manchester NH. Mr and Mrs Nathaniel Randolph and daughters Carol and Irene returned home after visiting Mr and Mrs B O F Randolph at the Moorings. The Duplicate Bridge Club met at Mrs Hugh M Nelson’s. Mr and Mrs Beverly Nelson are expected to arrive to stay.
Mr. William Bell of Winchester hosted a movie party on Thursday night. Clarke county attendees included Miss Margaret Meade, Miss Margaret Dole, Miss Anne Meade, Roland Mitchell, Louis Meade, and Richard Dole. Mrs. George Burwell and her son visited Washington to see Mr. Courtney Jones.
Mas ter John Henkle Jackson ten year old son of Mr. and Mrs. H W Jackson of 421 West Clifford street is seriously ill after a dog bite occurring ten days ago and not treated promptly.
The injury led to a physician being summoned and a possible minor operation. Doctors believe the dog was not rabid and that infection developed after the bite caused the illness.
Christina Dong wins an interlocutory decree in a marriage case against Dong in a civil court. The record notes cruelty as the grounds and cites Dr. H. Collin Dong as a medical witness in the proceedings.
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