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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1936
Page
8
The first seven days for park playgrounds list daily plans from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. including equipment checks, nurse inspections, swimming, sandbox play, sewing and drawing classes, story hour, and evening supervised activities. Attendance reached 2,264 with a daily average of 323. Churches and organizations are welcome to picnics. advance notice is requested for large groups.
Charley Rouss and its members in colorful uniforms traveled by chartered buses and private cars to Hagerstown for the day’s feature parade. Driver Pat Dunn said the convention was entertaining and instructive with the local company previously earning prizes in West Virginia and Maryland.
Miss Boehm died near Woodstock at her aunts ancestral home and later resided at 513 North Cameron Street. She clerked at Wonders Apparel Shoppe and was active in Braddock Street M E Church South. Funeral Monday at 4 p.m. from her aunts home with burial at Mount Hebron Cemetery.
Mrs. H B Kline and Hugh B Kline who would have celebrated 54 years of marriage this September were honored on their golden anniversary in 1932. Surviving family includes six sons and two daughters, plus a sister and a brother. The funeral service for Mrs Muse Kline was set for Monday at 3 PM with ministers W A Clark and Allen Jones officiating at Mount Carmel Cemetery Middletown.
In Philadelphia on June 27 Mrs John Garland Pollard the first Virginia woman on a national Democratic platform committee praised the 1936 platform for focusing on consumer protection and law enforcement A Petersburg native Patrick H Diewry noted the rise of microphony in oratory and urged microphor usage A Virginia delegation member Mrs Irving C Whitehead faced a jibe from her husband over convention sleep disruption in Baltimore as he urged quicker adjournment
A local notices item details a job printing bill improving headline clarity for statements and envelopes. The brief highlights a printer offering services to update letterheads and related materials for better presentation.
Mrs Michael J Breen acts as sheriff of Will County Illinois while her husband and son attend the national Democratic convention in Philadelphia. She sits in her office ready to meet any bad man who may come around Central Press
The First Baptist Church choir directed by Miss Lillian Oakes will lead the 8 o'clock evening worship. Organist Elizabeth Grim. The program includes organ preludes, hymns, solos, duets, trios, and anthems with soloists and the choir. Rev. E. T. Clark offers invocation and benediction. public invited.
Robert L. Leffel 76 and James B. Coombs 45 shared a Los Angeles apartment. Leffel said Coombs turning out the light interrupted his sleep and provoked an argument during which Leffel struck him with a rifle butt. Leffel received a 30 day jail sentence.
Wash your painted walls with mild soap suds then rub dry. Use a straight up and down motion while cleaning to avoid streaks and damage.
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