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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1935
Page
2
A museum shows the million dollar Jonkher Diamond in bullet proof glass with 4000 spectators none attempting theft. Guards drilled in sharpshooting as the jewel stays secure. Also brief items report a Hickory architect finding a real diamond, a Good Samaritan hitchhiker's milk delivery truck abandoned in Canada, and a staged Bay Area kidnapping drill planned by police.
Billy Leighton of Gove County uses his family car and four hounds plus a neighbor as gate opener to bag 66 coyotes this season.
Capt John P McCann describes Marine Corps education as a sure fire ladder out of economic gloom for graduates and other youths. The program provides ongoing schooling from grammar to college level, enabling any student to rise without limits through a broad educational system.
Prices on Australian and New Zealand apples at Liverpool and London auctions Wednesday, June 19, show a better tone. Imports for the week ending June 18 totaled 363,000 boxes with 263,000 from Australia and 100,000 from New Zealand. Next week’s arrivals projected at 200,000 boxes Australia and 23,000 New Zealand. Sterling conversions run at 24.6 cents to the shilling.
Pastor G. H. Clark of Winchester will deliver an illustrated Bible lecture at the Seventh Day Adventist Church on Cork Street. The talk titled What Is the Meaning of the World Conditions of Our Day will be presented Sunday night June 23 at 7 45 with a long service preceding the 8 o clock lecture. Welcome.
Nebraska railway tariffs are being reduced gradually. A railway commission member found thousands of wax moths feasting on ledgers in the vaults. A pest exterminator pledges to clear the vaults by Sunday at a cost of 35 dollars and new tariff books.
Lenna Bellaw a 26 year old destitute woman collapsed at a police station while en route the police said she disclosed she sought to end her life after robbers took money from selling her clothes friends at her rooming house heard of her plight and offered aid brightening she said I am not going to think of death by my own action any more I would not have before but I was pretty hungry
The U S Bureau of Roads opened bids in Luray for a 12.49 mile parkway linking the Shenandoah region to the Great Smoky Mountains. Nelle L. Terr of Durham NC submitted the low bid of 363,837 for cast iron culverts. 364,762 for reinforced concrete. Engineer William M. Austin will transmit bids to Washington for early award.
In Berryville Virginia fourteen members of Zion Baptist Church will perform the play Upper Garden at the Fairfield gardens home of Mrs John B Richardson. The concert benefits the Clarke County Nurse Association with Negro spirituals by a group of well known church members.
Married Hannah Fairfax cousin of Lord Fairfax of Greenway Court Clarke County. The garden will serve as a natural amphitheatre for the event. Mrs. Graham Dougherty of Woodley will host the evening as association chair.
Elder Hafenmyer will open a revival series at the Seventh Day Adventist Church Sunday night. He will present prophetic studies from the scriptures in a helpful manner for those seeking Bible understanding. Meetings run nightly for two weeks except Saturday evenings. an invitation is extended to all.
Last rites were held for Brooke Gochnauer a prominent Upperville merchant and banker from Plsgm Va near here. He died Tuesday at his home after months of illness and is survived by his widow Virgie Gibson Gochnauer and one brother. Interment was in Upperville Cemetery.
Natural instinct leads robins to form flocks in winter while summer sightings appear as pairs or foursomes. The behavior highlights seasonal social patterns and migration tendencies observed by birdwatchers and naturalists.
Ford Motor Company reported retail deliveries across V-8 cars, commercial cars and trucks surpassed 500 000 in the last 10 days of May. May marked the third straight month over 100 000 units, with the May 10-day period ranking as the second best in five years. Five months into the year averaged above 100 000 monthly, and Ford trucks and commercial cars led with a 66 percent rise over the prior year. Lincoln car sales in the May 10-day span were the year's highest for any 10-day period so far.
Martinsburg West Virginia June 22 apples are exempted from AAA amendments voted in Washington Representative Jennings Randolph of the Second District notified local fruit growers. Randolph said he with Senator Harry F Byrd succeeded in removing apples and fruit for canning from the bill. West Virginia growers opposed government control of local apple marketing.
Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia will be the principal speaker at Washington official Fourth of July events on the Monument Grounds. Col Edwin A Halsey will read the Declaration of Independence and Georgetown University president Coleman Nevils will give the invocation.
James J. Braddock the new world heavyweight champion signed a contract for a nationwide theatrical tour to begin soon. He may travel to Hollywood to star in a motion picture based on his rise from stevedore to boxing champion.
Rev. William Stevens remains at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore after major surgery and treatment and is improving but not yet able to return home. Emma May Ridgeway returns home for the summer from Charleston. Local attendees joined the Winchester District missionary meeting in Rectortown and the Rest church pageant Bearers of Light drew a large crowd.
June 22 notes show Mrs. Bessie Bowers and family visiting the Cooks, Mrs. J. F. Cleaver ill, Mrs. Salina Stickley staying with her daughter in Strasburg and improving, Grace Miller at Shepherd College returning home for the weekend, and Charles Bowers with Sallie Mae Bowers plus Mrs. W. C. Cook visiting.
Mr H C Himelright returns from Springfield and Master Jimmie Windle spends Thursday with Mrs Stella Windle. Mrs O W Brown hosts relatives and friends for her 30th birthday with guests including Mr and Mrs Walter Brown, Mr and Mrs Melvin Brown, Mr and Mrs Leonard Brown, Mr and Mrs Ed Colvin, Mr and Mrs Elmer Snarr, Mr and Mrs Clarence Windle, Mr and Mrs Brain Hockman, and Mr and Mrs Floyd Reynolds.
June 22. Ray Butler returned from Memorial hospital after an operation. Carrie Clayton has been ill at home and is recovering. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Smith and son Frank, with Mr. and Mrs. Dave Smith, returned from a week in Ohio. Harry Yeakley, W. A. Buncutter, and L. J. Hartman attended the Sunday School convention at Clearbrook on Thursday.
Mr and Mrs R E Buncutter relocate to Winchester and the Scott family returns to Eaton PA after a visit. Hilda Orndorff and Mildred Snyder plan to attend Massanetta church school on Monday. Elsworth Orndorff, student at Hampden Sydney, is home for vacation with his parents.
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