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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1934
Page
4
Classified rates listed as 2 cents per word with a 25 cent minimum. Display ads due by 10 A M on publication day. transient rate 42 cents per inch. national reps named for Divine Tenney. Includes a prayer quote from Psalm 53:15 16 and a poem fragment about The Fountain of Praise.
Arbor Day is observed in most states with dates varying from December to February in the south and April to early May in the north. Each year the Governor proclaims the date. Theodore Roosevelt won distinction for Spanish American War service. The Bank of England was founded in 1694.
E Blackburn Moore outlines his election stand as Clarke County Democrats back Senator Byrd for the August primary. Mr and Mrs Scott Larrick of Hayfield celebrate their 51st wedding anniversary. Mr and Mrs Harry C Stouffer host the princesses reception.
Five years ago a deadly tornado devastated wide areas injuring hundreds and killing twenty two. Clinton Miller was injured by a bursting box. Helen Weaver from Front Royal participates in the May Day celebration at Hills College. Co Pyle leads his cross country race nicknamed the Bunion Derby.
The eleventh annual Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester is hailed as a great success despite rain on Thursday that prevented outdoor coronation events. Queen Shenandoah XI Mrs Whitney crowned by Lewis Douglas, with pageant at Handley Stadium praised for music by McIlwee’s high school orchestra. grand parade deemed largest in history with ornate floats and many military units.
Washington motorists plan a trip to the Shenandoah Valley as Miss Mildred Shryock wins 50 for the last decorated car. Thirty thousand attend the first Apple Blossom Festival parade. Over 2,000 inspect the new Commercial and Savings Bank. A Winchester design photo invites President Coolidge to attend.
Reports note a 166 tiger carriage on a Baltimore and Ohio Sunday excursion with 282 reaching Harpers Ferry. Miss Jane Quigley of Dr Jennings Hospital marries Charles Andrews in Charles Town. 150 cavalrymen from Fort Myers tour Valley battlefields. Joseph M. Barton sells 130 acres near Kerns town for 11446.08 dollars. General Turner Ashby Confederate Veterans elects gates to a Memphis reunion June 8 9 10 with listed attendees.
Funeral services for Mrs Lula Richards Glascock were held at Bollingbrook in Upperville with interment in Ivy Hill Cemetery. The 75 year old widow, mother of T B Glascock president of the Eastern Livestock Cooperative Association, is survived by two sons and three daughters plus five sisters.
In Stephens City the M E Church schedule includes Sunday School at 9 45 a m preaching at 11 a m and evening activities for young people and world groups at 7 p m A baccalaureate sermon for the high school by Rev Allen Jones at 8 p m In Kernstown Sunday School at 10 a m young people at 7 30 p m preaching at 8 p m Also Refuge church holds services with Sunday school at 2 p m and preaching at 3 p m All invited.
In this 1934 column, Walter Lippmann argues that raising industrial wages alone cannot revive demand. He explains that industrial workers are a minority, notes price mismatches between hides and shoes, and credits monetary policy with restoring price structure. He describes reflation as essential to recovery and re employment.
Miss Estelle 5. .wieS has been appointed a notary public and qualified by posting a $500 bond in the presence of County Clerk C. C. Brannon.
At your service in sickness and in health a drug company advertises prescription filling with a contact line for Spillman and Alexandre Drug Co at the Main Street Valley Avenue corner.
Present and past rainfall figures show May to date at 1.00 in. Year to date 8.15 in. Average 21 year precipitation per year 34.71 inches. Monthly averages by month include January 2.41, February 1.97, March 2.82, April 3.21, May 3.94, June 3.65, July 3.41, August 3.28, September 2.34, October 3.00, November 2.33, December 2.34.
The B and C Baking Corp announces operation in a new, modern building by G C Whetzel Construction, built for their plant in Indian alley behind Grace Lutheran Church. Owners C Douglas Brown and J Clayton Cochran invite the public for May 7 and 8 from 7 to 10 pm to inspect the sanitary facility and witness bread production.
LURAY May 5 The Stanley high school senior class will present its class play The Last Frontier on May 17 written by Miss Catherine Judy 16 a class member who has lived near the Blue Ridge. The work portrays Blue Ridge residents many of whom she has known and grew from news they would be moved to make way for Shenandoah National Park.
Aetna Life Insurance Company and other workers' comp carriers seek permission from the State Corporation Commission to revise the Workmen's Compensation and Employers' Liability Manual with rate changes effective after July 1 1934. Most changes are editorial or classification realignments affecting about 125 eliminated and 100 amended classifications. 46 rate changes are noted. Public hearing set for May 17 1934 at 10:00 a.m. in Richmond.
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