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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1933
Page
4
Fragmented OCR shows a Winchester daily paper with advertising rates, Associated Press notice, and religious quotes. The page lists subscription prices by mail and carrier and notes consolidation with several weekly titles.
The Roanoke Times notes George Peery declined to say whether he would retain E. R. Combs as comptroller or McCall Frazier as motor vehicle director if elected. Senator Worth Smith Jr pressed questions, but Peery and other candidates framed the event as not a joint discussion. Peery stated no commitments would be made during the campaign, a stand the paper calls proper and acceptable.
Cumberland Times notes Congress imposes a time timetable to clear urgent bills before the London economic conference. Lawmakers work by the job as crises crowd the session, with the President pressing to limit congressional meddling in early foreign negotiations.
The Senate moves to revamp the Reconstruction Finance Corporation by barring loans to any firm paying more than 17 500 a year to a single individual. The plan aims to curb high executive pay and may shift capable business leaders into government service.
A year ago West Virginia Democrats voted for Gov Roosevelt as the Democratic nomination. The piece notes tributes to the late Don 8. Mattison in Winchester and beyond. Traffic on Virginia highways rises while mood stays low and railroad officials report. Pennsylvania Railroad plans gardens for idle trainmen. Official records show 2,000,000 automobile accidents in 1931.
Gen Nobile seeks an air voyage toward the North Pole regions while Herbert Hoover contemplates a pre convention campaign of about 250000 dollars for the Republican nomination. American Legion members pledge cooperation with Shenandoah Valley Inc to promote this region. Rev. Vincent Franks of Grace Episcopal Berry Ville to be ordained by Bishop Tucker. United Confederate Veterans hold their annual convention in Little Rock Arkansas.
Winchester donors provide a site for a memorial to the late Dr G L Miller. L Marshall Baker is unanimously chosen secretary of the Winchester Rotary Club. Friendship Fire Company receives a portrait of the late William H Baker. Legionaires nationwide urged to observe Mother's Day this coming Sunday. Colder weather forecast for this section but no believed fruit damage expected.
Real estate deeds admitted to record in Frederick County include H R Orndorff to Philip Bowman for land in Opequon district with nominal consideration. Warren Rice trustee to Greenbrier Joint Stock Land Bank covers 438 acres in Gainesboro district for 2150 dollars. Other filings include W D Derflinger to Sadie Derflinger along Timber Lee for nominal, B Massie et al to David Dinges and C T McLeod to Commonwealth of Virginia for Route 33 reconstruction with nominal, Herbert S Larrick to J Robert Giffin along Creek for 1 dollar, and J O Chamberlin estate to Gertrude Chamberlin in Neffstown for 3000 dollars. R M Zirkle et al to Commonwealth of Virginia for Route 33 reconstruction with nominal consideration.
Fifty-Fifty St. Jerome reports a widow who married her twenty second husband, a man who had previously wed twenty other wives, in a story highlighting a remarkable sequence of marriages.
An advertisement promotes Dr J Leonhardt Hemroid as an internal medicine to cure piles by healing the lower bowel and removing impure blood. It claims fast relief for itching bleeding or protruding piles and offers a money back guarantee at Baker's Drug Store and other druggists.
In a late scene Sue Parmely hides grief over Philip Gerard behind a headache as plans for her debut party unfold with her grandmother Mrs. Parmely. The elder woman pressures social duties while Sue longs for companionship and clarity about love and loss.
Present and past rainfall shows none in the last 24 hours ending 8 a.m. May to date 2.15 inches. Year to date 14.68 inches. The average annual rainfall over 20 years is 34.53 inches. Monthly averages range from 2.15 inches in September to 3.73 inches in May, based on Winchester records.
Middletown Virginia announcements list visitors from Alexandria Martinsburg Hyattsville Del Ray and St Petersburg. The region reflects family visits church events and a funeral with Rev W P Saunders officiating. Local residents include Miss Lula Lauck Mrs Lucy Elsen Mr J N Tevalt and more as community life continues.
An old tale notes that around 800 A D King Muni Tsenpo of Tibet divided the kingdom’s wealth three times to equal shares. Each time the clever replaced the equal distribution by reclaiming ownership, restoring unequal wealth.
A historical note recounts the 1841 union of Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada on February 10 1841, marking a pivotal constitutional change and setting the stage for later confederation.
By authority of a deed of trust dated January 6 1913 and recorded in Frederick County Virginia this sale offers a 143 44 acre Bloom Frederick County tract with improvements. The sale in Winchester courthouse on June 12 1933 at 11 am requires one third cash and two bonds for the balance with six percent interest and a trust deed and fire policy to secure the purchase.
The Chateau d Artagnan, mother of Dumas hero, near Paris, was sold for 1750. D Artagnan was born at Castelmore and later used his mother's name to avoid confusion with his father.
By virtue of a deed of trust dated March 1, 1924, the trustee will offer for sale at public auction in front of the County Court House in Winchester at twelve o clock noon the Mountain Falls property in Frederick County Virginia. The 60 acre tract includes a frame dwelling and outbuildings with line by Hulver Lineburg Line Lowery et al. One third cash on day of sale with balance due in one and two years, interest 6 percent, notes secured by deed of trust and a policy of insurance. Trustee Harry R Kern. 5-1- oaw-4wks
Seminole Indians of the Florida Everglades demonstrate unusual wrestling bouts against an alligator. The spectacle features the animal's swift moves and мощy strength tested against human skill and nerve.
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