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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1939
Page
3
Robert Babson reports from Babson Park Massachusetts on the ongoing CIO AF of L contest. He cites testing recession and coal strike as factors shaping labor power and public opinion. He notes Green’s coalition appears steadier while Lewis faces financial and organizing strains.
Star Editor Margaret Jane Willey and Associate Editor Elaine Sperry lead Middletown High School News staff, with student contributors and advisory faculty coordinating paper production and editorial coverage.
A writer claims that America is plagued by large numbers of foreigners living in slums and on relief. He asserts crime and unemployment stem from immigrant populations and urges sending them back to their home countries to solve social and economic woes.
Middletown High School presented a float named The Oaken Bucket at the Apple Blossom Festival. It featured an old time well and bucket with spruce trees artificial grass and green and pink paper. Four attractive girls and one boy carried the display: Peggy Montgomery Catherine Cooley Maggie Murray Mary Katherine Cooley and Bob Montgomery.
A three person committee was appointed to choose the date and venue for a seniors reception. The group met with Mr. Lantz on Tuesday May 2 and decided to hold the event May 26 at the Middletown High School auditorium. Deposits on rings were being made with money to be sent early next week.
Gossip column questions about local students speculating on romantic pairings and rivalries. It lists Grace News notes on sixth and seventh graders making bird houses and attendance, and mentions music festival prep and perfect attendance among various grades.
Students completed essays on the Health Unit of Frederick County and await the teacher Mr. Lantz to collect them and announce the winner.
The Home Economics Club welcomed a new refrigerator for kitchen use and announced plans to test frozen desserts. Miss Flickinger gave a demonstration on vegetables skillet dinners and desserts. Several community wives attended as second year students learn cooking to future-proof meals.
The agricultural class room has been washed, repaired, and calcimined. This is the first improvement in years and new tables and chairs are promised and expected soon.
Local society items include visits from W G Leismann and Mrs J J Warren, bridge club gatherings, and church Auxiliary events. Guests from Washington and Charlottesville travel to Front Royal. several residents plan trips to Winchester and Charles Town with family visits and hospital stays noted.
Representative Robertson proposes custody of an equestrian portrait of Geneval Winfield Many from the Capitol. The plan asks the architect of the Capitol to deliver the Troye painting to V M I for safekeeping until its return is requested. The work was commissioned before the Civil War by V M I alumni for the institute.
The 1939 McNaught Syndicate tale recounts Frank Winfield Woolworth who, unable to find a job, worked for free in a Watertown store to learn merchandising. Four years later his idea for a five cent store failed twice before succeeding, building a chain of over 1,000 stores by his death twenty years prior.
Heirs of David Wallach sue for accrued interest after the city delayed a drinking fountain and horse trough project funded 45 years earlier. Officials now promise to build a trough beside a bridle path, with $9,000 in interest to be paid to the heirs.
Present and past rainfall figures show 24 hour total ending 8 a.m. none. May to date 0.16 inches. Year to date 12.56 inches. Average monthly precipitation from 1913–1938 lists January 2.53, February 1.98, March 2.94, April 3.20, May 3.64, June 3.58, July 3.34, August 3.68, September 2.36, October 3.13, November 2.32 inches. Average annual 35.09 inches. Data courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
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