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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1932
Page
7
Advertisement for Marian Martin pattern 9381 with sun back frock design. Includes detachable collar, fabric suggestions, size availability, and order details. Pattern 9831 also listed. catalog and patterns price and mailing address in New York.
Daily contributions flow to the Children’s Home Society of Virginia with local chairman Mrs. Robert T. Barton overseeing the effort. Claude B. Stickley achieved a perfect 25 for 25 at a Winchester Gun Club shoot. Veterans of Foreign Wars protested media coverage of crime. Jolliffe’s Studio hosts a daily hand-made pottery demonstration. Miss Helen Fugitt won a $100 prize for oratorical prowess.
Boxing action centers on a world championship prelimin ary bout between Jack Dempsey and Jack Shar key set for July 21. The event headlines a busy fight card with wide public interest.
Government officials are formulating plans to keep coal prices from rising. Winchester churches will hold special offerings this Sunday for the American Red Cross. The Peoples Drug Company is incorporated with James P. Reardon as president and George B. Bushnell as secretary. Suffrage pickets at the White House have been arrested as a nuisance. Westmoreland Davis, a Democratic candidate for Virginia governor, refuses to pledge on national prohibition.
Mrs George H Burwell and Miss Mary O Fallon of St Louis tied for first prize golf balls at the Blue Ridge Country Club event in Millwood Va Others in the field included Mrs Charles Consolvo Mrs Courtney B Jones and Mrs John H Farrar The club listed dates for a series of summer 1932 tournaments and contests through September 5 including mixed foresome and qualifying rounds.
The funeral of Mrs. Cora Louise Whisson occurred last Saturday, with services at her home on South Braddock street conducted by Rev. Robert B. Nelson. She was laid to rest at Mount Hebron Cemetery. Pallbearers named, and many attendees represented patriotic and fraternal groups including Pocahontas, D of P, Rebekah and Woodmen circles from Winchester, Martinsburg, Stephens City, Brunswick, and beyond.
A ram sale will be held at Luray on July 7 featuring about thirty pure bred rams from Shenandoah Valley and northern Virginia flocks. The event aims to improve Page county sheep stock and is sponsored by the Virginia Pure Bred Sheep Growers Association, directed by County Agent G. H. Clark.
A Hertfordshire England lady imposed voluntary fines on herself for salmon catches, for deer and game killed, and for absence from church. She used the proceeds to endow two hospital beds.
The item notes that dyeing a horse to secure a win is presented as a crime while comparing similar acts to dyeing hair for a meal ticket, framed as a commentary on deception and feminine charm.
Mrs Alice Amanda Lincoln widow of Dr J E Lincoln longtime Rockingham County resident died at her home in Lacey Springs after three months of declining health. She was born June 9 1859 in Yellow Springs Hampshire County W Va and married Dr Lincoln in 1877. Survived by two sons two sisters a brother and several half siblings, services to be held at her home Thursday at 2 pm with burial in Lacey Springs Cemetery.
Among the smallest volumes, a 27 page illustrated almanac titled Schloss English Almanac was presented to the public museum at Oshkosh Wisconsin by Mrs. W. W. Waterhouse. The half inch by seven eighths inch by one eighth inch item was printed in 1842.
Paxton tied the Winchester Golf Club amateur record with a 71 in a foursome that included Jack Hayley Eddie Goss and Ed Stone. Hayley 74 Goss 77 and Stone 81 also posted solid rounds as Paxton battled back from a bad No 2 and finished with birdies to equal the mark set last year by Hayley and Judge Weems.
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