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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1938
Page
5
County brief notes road construction workers on the Gainesboro Buck Point corridor to build a bridge over Isaac's Creek. The project aims to give motorists easier access via Gainesboro and improve travel from Heironimus Cross Roads.
Fawcett Gap Virginia May 14 reports several local visits and events. Will Orndorff is ill at home. Brumback family and Anna Brumback attended a Union meeting in Mill Creek Page County. Mount school pupils attended a music festival in Winchester led by teachers Mrs. Brumback and Mrs. Miller. Mytrle M. Keener of Reliance visited. Nancy Brumback visited Ruth Jean Derflinger of Reliance. Guests of Mrs. E B Brumback included Mrs. Pritchard Carrie Snapp and Robert Snapp family. M H Rhodes of Middletown visited Ella Snapp. A St Pauls Lutheran Church conference continues with a large crowd.
Mt Williams Va May 14 One of the largest funerals at St Johns Lutheran Church marked the burial of Annie Dyke Carver. Born and raised here she worked in Winchester and Berryville before dying last week. Her husband George Carver and former spouse Mr Noakes are noted among mourners. William Sowers died at his home west of Mt Williams after a two week illness.
White Post Virginia May 14 residents hosted and visited across the region. Mrs Walter Denny and children vacationing with her father in law Mrs Willie C Denny. Rev Ronald Royland back from the College of Preachers Washington. Lee Mrs C B Smith returned to New York after visiting relatives. Several guests gathered for Apple Blossom Festival and local social events. A dozen residents and visitors from Wellsburg Richmond Front Royal and Inwood attended events and visits. The senior play Hodoo slated for Parish Hall in Boyce May 13. Birth announced for a daughter to Columbus Walker. Graduation plans include George Wilson and Elizabeth Denny both notedlocal schooling and family ties appear frequently.
Grocery stores and retailers selling bottled milk must obtain the 1938 milk license from Dr. E W Miller Inspector. By order of President Board of Health.
Prices across wheat eggs and live poultry hold steady with limited trade. Baltimore and Chicago livestock markets show mixed shifts with steers higher vs last week, hogs up to 15, and lambs down. receipts light, with notable activity in direct shipments and prime steers reaching around 10.65.
Short patent train 24 lb bags priced at 5.70 per barrel. Butter listed at 32 cents per pound. Baby chick feed at 3.30 per unit. Creamery butter shown as 32 cents.
The circular lists prices for patent brand and shelled corn and various feeds in bags per barrel, with 12 to 98 pound bag options and price per barrel. It also details eggs, fowl, and young birds with unit counts and per item pricing, including leghorn fowl and Guinea hens under two pounds.
In New York May 14 most stocks drifted lower with little trading action as total transfers hovered near 250000 shares. Some mild late support lifted many leaders from lows while utilities faced profit taking and rail stocks softened amid Eccles call to suspend wage boosts.
Mrs. Annie V Frinfrock died early today at Winchester Memorial Hospital after months of illness. She was 69 and lived at 302 South Brad dock Street formerly of South Kent Street. She was a native of Winchester daughter of the late Mr and Mrs Charles Shiner. Survived by one brother Charles of Washington who arrived to arrange arrangements. Services Monday at 2:30 PM from Kurtz Funeral Home. Interment Mt Hebron Cemetery.
May wheat futures show firmness for old crop while new crop struggles with bears in play from rainfall and Liverpool prices. May and July positions edge up and down with cash market activity in Chicago and Baltimore notes.
Miss Zoe Bayliss assistant dean of women at the University of Wisconsin urged University Housemothers' Association members to provide wholesome spaces for young couples. She said love among youths in spring is inevitable and parlor meetings help ensure social propriety and normal behavior.
Scottsbluff Nebraska police face a spike in flower raids as the end of term nears. A local woman notes the ritual begins days before school ends and urges teachers to require notes proving gifts are legally obtained to curb the flow of blossoms.
Mrs. Grove and Mrs. Thomson hosted a luncheon at Hawthorne in Berryville with guests from Quantico Fredericksburg and New York. The Clarke County Woman's Club heard cartoonist D. L. Berryman speak after a garden tour in Charles Town and Falls Church tea events.
From No Superstition Oakville Conn It s the 13th and mothers of the Union Concrete Church host a card party with three tables and 13 prizes to award.
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