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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Mar 22, 1944

Page

5

Ghostly Play Delights Handley Juniors in Mystery Evening

The Handley High School Junior Evening Star reports on a staged mystery titled The Ghostly Passengers, featuring Dan Saxe as Dixie and other students in key roles. The lively performance includes screams, hidden passages, and a hero reveal, praised by attendees.

Handley Theodore Still Kitty Ryan Ghter Erica Paulette Pifer X Roof Carroll Morrow Clarica Kson Helen Brown E Owen Dixie Ens Spike Edgar Clarica

Spring Weather Prompts Student Outside Duty Idea

The narrative notes improved weather and suggests student monitors for outside lunch to curb bad habits. It mentions changes in plans and hints at romantic gossip surrounding Patsy and Bill Lovett, with remarks from Helen about local social dynamics.

Stella O. K Bill Janet Lovett Bobby Smallwood Wayne Camp Crowder Scott Redfern Fuller Brush Chris More Richard Brown Mary Dan Mary Clegg Helen Judy Chug P. S Sally Hendrie Doug

Sales Directory March Auctions and Listings

Sales directory entries list upcoming auctions and estate sales by date time and location. Items include stock implements household goods machinery cattle and livestock at locations such as Rippon Green Spring Whitehall Wardensville Gore and Va with executors listed like J R Bell Edonia Light Lula M Lina Te and W E Clearbrook and addresses 232 Shawnee Ave and 8 miles W of Winches.

Wincheson Wardensville Grade

Preston Badminton Singles Champion

Evelyn Preston of the Maroons defeated Jean Carpenter of the Shamrock in the finals 11-4 11-3 to claim the Badminton Singles title for 1944. Jean Butler and Alice Amos were runners-up for their teams, with doubles starting this week as Shamrocks seek to balance prior Maroon victories.

Maroons Shamrocks Evelyn Preston Jean Carpenter Shamrock Preston Rosemary Warner Jean Butler Alice Amos

University women’s club leader Pale Peery highlighted

The passage notes Pale Peery as president of the University Women’s Club and a long time faculty advisor on the Executive Council for 23 years, praising her reorganizing work with the large Latin Choir and the Handley School tradition.

Pale Peery University Women’s Club Handley Ma” Peery

Junior High Memories and School Life Recalled in Trail Blazer

Former students recount everyday scenes at school including banter at the candy counter, visitors Mr Coe Mr Maddox and Mr Joyce, badminton and cooking classes, bananas for lunch, class rushes, assembly routines, Senior girls cooking, and a lunchroom now housed by the Library in an era without Jefferson Street.

Jane

Obscure Surname List Tangles Local Ancestry Record

A compiled page lists numerous surnames and given names including Gray James Poole Peery Edward Clark Bruce Peyton Marshall Brumback Anne Cather Jane Cather Kitty Grant Eliza beth Halvosa Florence Harley Nancy Hurst Joan John Betty Kersey Cary Marshall Betty Mc Farland Margaret Merriner Dorothy Minnigrode Margaret Moore Johan Thornton Virginia Yates Louise Chrisman Browning Richard Grove Tommy Goode Thresh Nell Bryant Bar Darlington Juanita Fletch Margel McKee Wanda Mc Kee Sara Sencindiver Westwood Wright Darst Bryan Minnigerode Alton Powll Jimmie Saxe Grove Ibbe Danley Eleanor.

Wanda McKee Sara Sencindiver Westwood Wright Darst Bryan Minnigerode Alton Powll Jimmie Saxe Grove Ibbe Danley Eleanor

Local Names List of Community Members

A long roster of individuals is listed with surnames and given names including de Grange Grim Hawthorne Lichli ter Robinson Scott Sencindiver Shir key Hyatt Fahnestock White Armstrong Ford Pugh LaFoillette Barnett Clowe Yellett Werdebaugh Schneider Stephenson McFaland Glass Hough Hurst Laign Miller Cather Dallwig DeSparre Grove Dulaney Grim Hall Perry McKee Stryker White Sollenberger Ar mel Barnes Bond Chrisman Crockett Fauver Schoot ngele veld LaFollette Barr Manuel Light Redfern Rusk Shine Stultz Teets Weaver Blosser.

Daret Antrim Race Times and Weekly Totals

Race listings show Daret and Antrim with times 1.55 and 2.05 alongside a 64.00 stake and a 19.06 figure. The week’s totals include 10,122 and a 45 percent star marking.

Daret Antrim

Prescription mix up hurts husband and wife in Sedalia

A Sedalia druggist reports a customer who filled two prescriptions, one for himself and one for his wife, and discovered after six weeks that he had been taking the other's medicine.

Sedalia, Mo Sedalia

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