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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1938
Page
11
Funeral notices indicate services for the late waiter will be held at the home in Stephens City on Wednesday morning, with the body to be taken to Washington D C for interment at Fort Lincoln.
Miss McCone outlines Memorial Hospital activities for the year 1937. Admissions reached 2,516 with 231 births and 618 improving, daily average 68. Notable gains include a north wing elevator, modernized children's ward, hospital auxiliary efforts in Clarke county, and plans to open a nurse training school on May 6.
Bill Boyd in Hopalong Rides Again screens at Hable's Palace Theatre for today only. Love adds danger as the daring hero risks heart and life in this spectacular western. Also showing The Mysterious Pilot with cartoon and vaudeville acts.
By authority under a 1937 deed of trust notice is given to sell at public auction on May 23 1938 at 11 AM in Winchester Virginia the equity of one half in a restaurant property at 21 West Boscawen Street including cash register counter stools tables chairs ice boxes range hot plate sink and utensils to settle a debt of one hundred eighteen dollars.
In thanking friends and benefactors, the note credits their kind kits and enduring cooperation for sustaining site food and work and for elevating Inchester Memorial Hospital to its improved status.
May 13 items show Thompson in Frostburg. Mrs O Haley visiting Washington. Mrs Hugh Dmite in Richmond. C B Samuels returning from New York. Dr Oswald visiting. Derby attendance in Louisville. numerous trips and social visits among Front Royal residents. Also mentions church circle meeting and upcoming rummage sale for Girl Scouts.
Memorial service schedule announced for Rural Church at Fair view Lutheran Church on Sunday May 15 with services at 11 p m and 2 30 p m The Rev C H Anderson of this city will lead and several speakers plus special music will be provided Everyone is invited to attend
Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. sent 96136 dollars worth of foodstuffs to Cleveland this month to ease a dire relief emergency. Over 75000 people on direct relief face starvation as city funds are exhausted and state funding is stalled. Photo shows a government food shipment at a supply terminal.
Blue Ridge Hunt announces a June 4 grove event near Millwood with 19 classes including brood mares foals hunters lightweight and heavyweight, halfbreds and yearlings shown in hand. Entries close May 30 with a 9 30 a m start and a range of hunter and family classes featured.
Walter S. Flickinger, archaeologist in charge of Williamsburg fortifications restoration, writes in American Forests about Williamsburg Jamestown and Yorktown. He notes Congress created the Colonial National Historical Park in 1930 and the President proclaimed its establishment six months later.
In Point Pleasant West Virginia the new fire truck drew crowds at a wharf reveal when the siren sounded. Mayor George Skeen rushed to the scene to find the old engine already fighting a blaze and had it under control before the new vehicle arrived.
Public worship services will be held at Mount Olive Church Timber Mountain West Virginia at 7 30 o clock Sunday evening May 15 an hour and a half later than the previous 3 p m time Rev Robert A Whit announces the change.
Two bandits stopped two post office messengers at Marcus Hook Station on the Pennsylvania Railroad. They seized a sack containing parcel post packages and fired shots as they fled in a car. Messengers Henry Kug and Henry Simpson were held at gunpoint but no registered mail was taken.
At Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago students tested a kiss-o-meter that measured oscalation voltage. A petite blonde leaped away when the needle hit 12 and rang a bell, two matrons kissed for science, the needle finally registering four.
Mrs. George Sumption has returned to her home after spending a week with her mother Mrs. L. J. Mauck in Martinsburg West Virginia.
The Rev. J. S. Shade of Pentecostal Mission No. 113 South Cameron street announces a service at 7 30 p m Tuesday May 17. The Rev B F Crawford from Harpers Ferry West Virginia and his musical family will lead the meeting. Everyone is invited.
Georgetown A. C. will provide the Park with its opposition Sunday in the second game of the season. Play will begin at 3 o'clock. Georgetown has gotten off to an excellent start this season.
The Virginia May crop report by Henry M. Taylor notes severe April frosts harmed peaches and apples in some areas but commercial orchards show good set. Northern counties report best outlook while southwest lags. Alabama Nelson and Rockingham counties show favorable prospects. Apple yields will be lower than last year though may exceed 1936. nationwide fruit crops point to hopeful prospects despite regional damage.
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