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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1932
Page
10
The chewing gum industry began around 1860 when an American inventor, trying to vulcanize sap from the sapodilla tree for rubber, found chicle resembled spruce and cherry gums, which had been the main chewing gums known.
A pageant titled The Joy of His Morning will be performed by the Gainesboro Methodist Church South youth group Sunday night. John H. Rosenberger of Winchester will present an address. The Gainerboro church interior has been redecorated for the Easter exercise. It promises to be an evening well spent.
Funeral services for Rev. W. J. Funkhouser aged 84 were held at his Fairmont avenue home then in Mount Olive Methodist Church Shenandoah county. The Rev R O Hipes spoke on Second Corinthians five. Interment was beside his two wives. Pallbearers included Perry Funkhouser C S Hockman and several grandsons.
Mrs. Carl Pickens of Clarksburg West Virginia credits a buckeye as lucky after driving through a bridge railing and dropping 100 feet before her sedan landed. She was nearly unhurt and a buckeye was found on the front seat. The incident is followed by a wartime remark from the Fort Worth Star Telegram and a brief note on 1830s silk culture trends.
W E Smith dies at home after a paralytic stroke on his farm. He owned about 900 acres split between Gainesboro and Back Creek districts and was a trusted adviser to the Democratic party and local citizens. He married Zula Berryhill in 1920 and is survived by two children, a sister, and several cousins. Funeral services are planned Sunday with burial at Mount Hebron Cemetery.
In the Western District of Virginia Athas Kakavias of Winchester was adjudged a bankrupt on January 16 1932. The first meeting of creditors is set for April 1 1932 at 11 a m at the First National Bank Building Harrisonburg Virginia where creditors may prove claims appoint a Trustee examine the bankrupt and conduct related business. Edward C Martz Referee in Bankruptcy notes the notice dated March 24 1932.
George Leisure a New York lawyer and former head of the U S district attorney criminal division sails to Honolulu to defend Mrs Granville Fortescue and three other Americans accused of killing a native He will replace Dudley Field Malone and join Clarence Darrow in the case alongside Col William Donovan.
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