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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1936
Page
9
The Frederick County Home Demonstration campaign titled More Attractive Homes For Frederick County reports progress with 217 homeowners expressing plans for repairs. Seventeen will fix flues and chimneys, forty four roofs, sixty four floors, thirty nine exterior painting, and one hundred sixty two interior painting or decorating.
The Winchester Evening Star offers a ten cent booklet containing the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. It notes rising citizen questions about the Constitution and invites readers to order today.
Under a decree of the Corporation Court of Winchester the executor of Asbury C. Swimley offers 12 shares of Virginia Apple Storage Inc par 100 for sale at 11 o'clock in front of the County Court House Winchester Virginia on Saturday May 9 1936. Shenandoah Valley National Bank of Winchester is the executor. C I Brumback auctioneer.
A mammoth German airship departs for America carrying passengers. The article highlights a view of the ship, including the dining room and one of its four twelve hundred horsepower engines.
Virginia motor accidents fell 41.5 percent in the first quarter of 1936, with deaths dropping from 195 to 114. Property damage slid 25 percent to 175 295 dollars, while accidents decreased 12.8 percent and injuries 26.9 percent. John Q. Rhodes cites winter, enforcement, patrols, safety clubs, and press education as likely factors. Drunken driving deaths held at 21.
The estate will offer for sale at 11 o'clock in front Winchester Virginia on Saturday May 9 1936 shares and par values in various firms including Winchester Woolen Mills 10 sh Victor Products Corp Class A and B par 5 Shenandoah Valley National Bank par 20 Farmers & Merchants National Bank and Trust Co par 11 2/3 shmt Speiden & Company 5 1 4 6 7 8 5¢.
Stephens City high school baseball team beat Boyce high school 6-1 on their home diamond. The victory adds another win for Stephens City as the teams played a decisive afternoon game.
Shirley Temple stars in Captain January at the Palace Theatre for four days starting Monday. The tale follows a waif of the sea rescued amid a storm with a lighthouse home and Captain January as her only family. Also featured are Guy Kibbee Slim Summerville June Lang and Jane Darwell.
Roy A Cathers, Director of Parades, thanks The Star for outstanding Apple Blossom Festival parade publicity. He credits the newspaper staff with making the thirteenth annual event a huge success.
Aviatrix Miss Helen Richey eyes a new women's world altitude mark in a 441 pound midget single seater from Washington with a barograph for official timing. If weather fails, the attempt may shift to Sunday at Endless Caverns Airport New Market.
Airship officials predicted the German Zeppelins will fly over the United States on a maiden voyage route, possibly entering near Washington and perhaps not reaching Richmond Virginia. The ship has government permission to enter at any point and is slated to dock at Lakehurst New Jersey.
William R. Kibler will hold a sale of household goods and implements one mile east of Mt Williams on May 13. The event lists various items and aims to attract local buyers and neighbors in the area.
Medical authorities describe kidneys containing 15 miles of tiny tubes that purify blood. Symptoms like frequent bladder passage and backache may signal trouble. Doan's Pills are promoted as safe relief to flush these tubes and remove waste, with a long history of use.
Fred Hunter seized with outlaw Alvin Karpis by federal agents in New Orleans faces transfer to Cleveland for the Garrettsville Ohio train robbery last November. Karpis, once Public Enemy No 1, also faces charges in the Garrettsville heist and will be tried in St Paul for abducting William Hamm Jr. by federal agents.
Carlyle Straub, age 39, plans Muse an anthology of about 2000 original modern poems. He seeks unknown authors and offers $500 in three prizes for best poem sonnet and quatrain. The project spans 800 pages in a handsomely bound volume and attracts early endorsements from universities and newspapers. Straub previously worked in Vitagraph films and served as ambulance driver in WWI.
Household furnishings of the late President Calvin Coolidge go to auction in Northampton Massachusetts with items used by Coolidge as Amherst College student and simple tables and chairs from his Massasoit Street home. Books curios and vases from the White House also await bidders in the sale.
Stock and property of Hill Lumber Company to be sold by week end after dissolution due to partner Fred L. Glaize's death. W. H. Hill of Charles Town will not continue the lumber business and will pursue general contracting on his own.
Traffic authorities estimate 83 198 people in Winchester for the parade second day with 17 352 automobiles entering the city plus trains buses and other routes. Roads show heavy use on Route 50 and Route 11 while many visitors stayed for the second day events.
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