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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1927
Page
2
A community program offers guidance for the spiritual life of young people. Supervision rests with the Berryville Avenue Church pastor, but attendance is open to everyone including children.
Enrollment requires all registrants to attend on Saturday June 25 at 10 a m at the church. Each family must pay a small registration fee.
An advertisement touts Calotabs as the best system purifier promising renewed health through a periodic cleansing regimen. It urges a family package with directions and a 35 cent price at drug stores, claiming natural benefits from purifying the body. It also explains coral rock formation from chalky secretions of sea organisms and defines the coral sea region in the Pacific.
Rev. Peter Hafenmyr a longtime Adventist minister and artist leaves for Tazewell Virginia to continue evangelistic work. He is noted for mural designs including work on the Capitol in Washington and a 35 foot canvass titled The Last Supper now on exhibit in Baltimore.
The Star shows daily corrected market figures with local wholesale prices for flour, scratch and cracked corn, bran, mixed feed, middlings, seeds, butter, lard, and eggs. Retail prices for flour, butter, and other staples are listed, with notes on market closings and various livestock values.
Five deacons of Calvary Baptist Church resign from Rev. John Roach Straton’s ministry objecting to emotionalism and a gag rule. They declared themselves wholly at variance on doctrine and church conduct after previously voting confidence in the pastor. The move marks a major upheaval since April.
In 1926 four trustees resigned as they pursued legal action against the pastor's plan for a skyscraper church, signaling deep disputes within the congregation.
Farmers in the Shenandoah Valley welcome warmer days and nights to avert a rare corn shortage as cool weather continues. Wheat is patchy in yield while corn remains stalled since planting. Farmers dispute weather bureau claims that the season is normal and point to a 116 degree accumulated deficit since March 1 and a 55 degree excess since January 1.
Shakespeare quotes a line from Much Ado About Nothing Act V Scene 1 about a man in doublet and hose losing wit, becoming a giant to an ape and an ape a doctor to him.
Washington June 24 Eleven new rear admirals were named by the Navy Department with President Coolidge’s approval. The selected officers include Captains Edward H. Campbell Walter B. Crosley Frank B. Upham David Sellers Ridley McLean Joseph M Reeves Frank H Brumby Harris Laing Henry V Butler J J Raby and William Standley.
Word was received of the death of Harry Stock at his Gettysburg home. He married Ella Oyler of Gettysburg, a niece of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Carper of this city. The Stock couple had many friends here. The funeral will be held in Gettysburg Saturday morning.
The region known as Surinam, or Dutch Guiana, was linked to Sir Walter Raleigh who explored it in 1695 and reportedly named the territory El Dorado. This brief note recalls early European naming of the area.
In Chicago on June 24, a bantamweight championship fight featuring Bud Taylor was delayed due to rain and adverse conditions. Fans awaited the bout as organizers postponed the event to a later date.
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