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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Mar 04, 1950

Page

7

Classified Advertisements Station Note

Classified notices list vacancies at Hillcrest Home a private or semi private room suitable for convalescent care. Telephone contact provided. Also a personal notice about a lost or returned item associated with a white and liver Pointer dog and a missing dog tag. Construction job ads note large overseas and Alaska opportunities with a mail contact for details.

Hillcrest D. C William F. Bowers Skyline Kennels Cross Junction Alaska U.S Knoxville

Lost billfold with valuable papers reward offered

Lost Brown billfold containing valuable papers. reward offered. Finder please call 3443. Contact Mowrey at Novick Transfer Co for return.

Mowrey, Novick Transfer Co

For Sale Classified Clutter From Winchester Star

Miscellaneous sale notices including a five room house with attached garage and electric water heater, a Montgomery refrigerator, and 13 acres near Route 11. Private sale of Holstein and Guernsey cattle on Humberson Farm highway 31 west of Somerset. Lot for future home with $300 price, 20 percent down. Nursery offers fruit trees evergreens and garden supplies from Winchester area. Wanted: enterprising man to organize and manage business in this state with references. box 63 Winchester Star.

Montgomery Chester Virginia Humberson Somerset Penn K. Norman Norbin J. Phillips Eee Sosinae Winchester

Gore Fest At Sidney Gore School Draws Crowd

A lively festival at the Sidney Gore School on Friday night attracted many residents. The event featured community turnout, family visits, and local notices including a birthday dinner on Bufflick Road and a Week of Prayer observance by the WMS.

O. G. Whitacre Fort Belvoir Clara Whitacre Wilson Sirba Winchester Shell Stottler Sonny Drew Arlie Triplett Elda Triplett Harold Pugh Azil Miller Purnell G. W. Franks A. D. Davis Bryan Constable Fred Hall Verna Lee Hall John Ryder Johnnie Hagerstown Paul Watson Marshall Walker

Gainesboro Church to host chicken and oyster supper

The Gainesboro Church will hold a chicken and oyster supper Friday night March 17 in the church basement starting at 5 p.m. for the building fund. Local residents shared visits and hospital stays, including Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Burkhart of Martinsburg and Mrs. L. D. Williamson a patient at Winchester Memorial Hospital.

Gainesboro Hugh Burkhart Martinsburg W. Va Winifred Gast Herbert Pople Winchester Carlton Ramey L. D. Williamson Winchester Memorial Hospital Melvin Seldon Nathaniel DeHaven Nancy Baker Cross Junction Betty McIlwee B. W. Unger Thomas Ethel Bayliss Williamson Delphia DeHaven June DeHaven Margaret McIlwee

Local Social Notes Highlight Braithwaite Family Visits

Intermittent visits and greetings among families in Cross Junction and surrounding areas. Mrs. Lee N Whitacre hosts guests with Ed Lizer of Hagerstown visiting relatives. Braithwaite and Ballenger families attend gatherings. A Union Ladies Aid supper is planned for March 10 at the Red Land Church Community Building starting 5 pm.

Lee N. Whitacre Ed Lizer Frank Donelon C. G Ella Carpenter James Grove W. H G. C. Ballenger Barbara Anne Bluemont Fred Co. Braithwaite Orpha Shockey Paul Braithwaite Ed. Lizer Hagerstown Gerald Braithwaite Shirley Carol Cloyd Charles Sutherland

In Memoriam for Sandy B. Larrick

In memory of Sandy B. Larrick who departed this life four years ago on March 5, 1946. The message from his wife and children honors him as a wonderful father whose smile brightened the home and whose memory remains vivid and cherished.

Sandy B. Larrick

Proposal to fix bass creel limit and trout size limit

A 1950 Richmond meeting authorized a proposal to set eight bass per day and 150 per season with minimum seven inch trout size. further session planned March 17 to act on the proposal and rescind conflicting regulations. Beverley W. Stras Jr. signs as chairman of the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries.

Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries Richmond Virginia Commission of Gone and Inland Fisheries Beverley W. Stras, JR

Bakers Antiseptic Ointment and Remedies Advertise

Local ad promotes Bakers Antiseptic Ointment in large and family jars with home uses. It also touts Bakers Group Ointment for babies and children, Bakers Purple Liver and Stomach Tablets, and Alwahs Head-Base for headaches and nerves. The offer includes a $1 trial to receive four remedies by mail, plus remaining Whi tlock Herb Remedies and newspaper subscription services.

Inscription on the Blarney Stone and cloud lore

The Blarney Stone bears a Latin inscription crediting Cormac McCarthy Fortis with its construction in A D 1446. Mares tails, or cirrus clouds, curl at their ends and signal a warm front moving in from the west, named for their horse tail resemblance.

Cormac McCarthy

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