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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1940
Page
2
Frederick County home demonstration club members back a campaign to live at home by growing food. Miss Madeline Blair cites a budget plan and a goal of replacing store purchases with home grown staples.
The page lists quiz answers including items such as Luzon Athens Ernest Weir Caesarian and an Eskimo ice hut. It mentions a Federal Home Loan Bank board item and notes items like hair curl pads and leather pieces.
Salisbury Maryland March 21 Dr Albert M Segall a Salisbury chiropodist was sentenced to six months in the House of Correction and fined 500 dollars plus costs for violating the Corrupt Practices Act in last springs First District Democratic congressional campaign. Chief Judge Benjamin A Johnson pronounced the sentence after Segalls trial on charges he promised a monetary bribe to influence the Eastern Shore special election.
The Rev Chester Burl Smith of White Hall Methodist Church announces weekend services. Good Friday at 2 15 p m features a dark hour service with meditations on the seven words from the cross. Easter Sunday offers Sunday School Epworth League at 6 30 p m and Easter service at 7 30 p m with music and a sermon Christ triumphant Over Sin. All are invited.
Centenary Reformed Church holds a pre communion service at 7 45 p m followed by a Gethsemane commemoration in the illuminated sanctuary. The Day of the Cross devotion and Adoration of the Cross occur at 7 45 p m tomorrow. Members are urged to attend the three hour service at United Brethren Church.
Superintendent Leslie D. Kline will travel to Richmond, Virginia tomorrow to confer with state education authorities about Frederick County issues. He declined to specify the topics but will seek information on several matters and noted uncertainty about the next board meeting date and a tentative budget is being prepared.
Mrs Garner Edmonds of Washington D C visited with her parents Mr and Mrs C Tidler. Mildred Tidler returns from New York. Nan Triplett stayed with Mrs Harry Steele. Mrs Austin White returns home from Winchester Memorial Hospital. Ira Smallwood family visited Mrs George Glass in Berryville. visitors at Loring Ritter home include T M Triplett Kathleen Triplett and others from Markham and Chambersville. Linden Vann hosts Stanley Barton family. Kernstown M E Church ladies hold window sale at Miller's drug store Friday morning March 22.
Classified notice from Mayes Poultry Co at 435 N Market St listing 12 week old fryers and turkeys Y and Fat with free call offer and contact details dated March 20, 2021.
Harold E Dahl, once released from a Spanish prison after aiding Loyalists, is booked in New York after an arrest in Los Angeles for four bad checks totaling 700 dollars. He allegedly passed the checks while on parole for an earlier bad check charge.
Washington reports the census bureau will begin counting noses in a few weeks to yield exact reports on employment and unemployment for the first time. Senator Tobey protests privacy but Hopkins allows unsigned mailed responses. Population is expected near 132 million with a halt around 145 million in 1965.
Former State Representative D. A. G. Outts proposes a theory why automobiles kill more people than trains. In a talk to legislators the elderly ex-lawmaker said the engineer does not hug the fireman, and that is the reason.
Hollywood March 21 actress Joan Fontaine shows rapid progress after abdominal operation performed Saturday. Report notes her condition improving and no complications observed at this time.
A short ad states FASTEETH is an improved alkaline powder sprinkled on denture plates to hold them firmer and more comfortable. It claims soothing gums and relief from embarrassment due to loose plates and urges purchase at any drug store.
The 5th issue of Winchester's first daily The Item from January 17, 1895 is described. Edited by John I. Sloat, it covered the wedding of Miss Mary Holmes Love and Kenneth Worsham Hudgins at Kent Street Presbyterian Church. Bridesmaids ushers and the Love family are named as part of the event reporting. The Item later became part of the Winchester Star after purchase by The Star in 1903.
A Brooklyn witness in a murder syndicate case is held on 100000 bail as a key figure in police evidence against the group headed by Louis Capone. The syndicate is believed to have caused at least thirty underworld deaths.
BIDGEVILLE Del March 21 Harry C. Davis president of the Kiwanis Club is not a man to play poker with He was dealt a Pat royal flush in clubs while playing with associates Then hands later he filled another in hearts with a two card draw.
Milldale Virginia March 21 Mrs M T Oliver of Hardesty spent Wednesday with Mrs George Stickley. Mr and Mrs Granville Kirby of Markham visited Mrs Virginia Butler who is ill. Several families from Front Royal Winchester Reform and Linden visited local residents over the weekend. Mrs Butler’s health remains about the same.
Frederick schools will observe Easter Monday as a holiday but teachers will not receive pay for the day. Schools will close one day later than planned to absorb the missed day, per Leslie D. Kline division superintendent.
Washington March 21 The Public Health Service told Congress it developed a new method to produce vaccine for Rocky Mountain spotted fever from embryonic chick tissue Assistant Surgeon General L R Thompson testified before a House sub committee during hearings on the 1941 Labor Federal Security appropriation The witness said vaccine requests had nearly doubled but the new method could help meet demand Thompson cited last year’s figures by state Delaware 4 Maryland 71 District of Columbia 12 Virginia 51 West Virginia 5
The Sportsmen's Luncheon Club announces its menus for the next two weeks. Entree number one will be fillet of rattlesnakes. The second will be burnished mountain lions.
Mrs. Mary Swonger of Newcomerstown files for divorce from her husband in New Philadelphia alleging he barred her from church to deter her from admiring other women's clothes and seeking new clothing.
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