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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1931
Page
8
The quote argues that leaving a republic is wise for one unaccustomed to authority. It questions the value of fame as headlines grow larger when a wife seeks a cruelly grounded divorce.
Virginia and West Virginia livestock growers won before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Rates on carload livestock to destinations north of the Potomac were held invalid. a new basis was prescribed and reparations awarded to shippers. The commission canceled proposed higher rates to eastern markets.
Commencement exercises at the Middletown Agricultural High School will be held at Grace Methodist Church South at 8 p m next Friday. Principal G W Ropp announced May 29. Valedictorian Agnes Connor and salutatorian Ruth Pendleton headline a graduating class including Kathleen Stickley Elsie Pope Anne Mae Hammack Julia Margaret Colfelt Georgia Wakeman Goldie Cooley and Asbury Brumback. The address will be by Rev Harry Crim of Strasburg and the sermon by Rev R V Whitehurst tomorrow at 8 p m.
Milldale Virginia on May 23 reports Mr. Floyd Orndorff, sister Hazel, Mr. James Good of Gore, and Mr. Steuart Orndorff of Winchester traveled with Miss Thelma Corder to Front Royal. Mrs. Dewey Brown hosts niece Marguerite Armel. Groves improves after illness. Thelma Corder and Isabelle Stickley visit Marguerite Armel. Armel family in Winchester for shopping. Mrs. George Stickley visits W. B. Brown. Mrs. Leonard Larrick of Washington visits. Sunday school gains two new members. Rev. H. W. Shannon preaches.
The Round Hill 4-H Club at Round Hill school met Saturday afternoon May 16 at 2 30. Miss Margaret Larrick presided over the session and called the meeting to order.
The meeting saw high attendance and a pledge of allegiance with the club motto recited. Three visitors attended and a discussion covered various factors. the next gathering is scheduled for June 12 at 2:30 PM in the school.
Rev. Sewell J. Goode delivered the principal address at the cornerstone ceremony for the Hose Company engine hall in the South End. Staunton Military Academy cadets arrived for their fourth annual encampment and an Anti Saloon League chief reported enforcement of prohibition improving daily. R. B. Nelson Jr. is a member of UVA undefeated first year track team. Rev. Dr. Frank T. McFaden speaks at Keyser High School graduation tonight.
Plan proposed to move offices from the first to the second floor of City Hall. Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company workmen remove poles from Loudoun Street sections. District Nurses Association Red Cross and Near East Relief seek old clothes. Dr and Mrs Hugh Clark reside here after honeymoon trip. Motion pictures of Dick Byrd flight over North Pole shown at Empfré Theatre.
Fifteen years ago May 23 1916 Italian armies were driven back a distance of 10 miles on the Austro Italian front. Mr and Mrs Jacob H Rinker Wadeville Clarke county recently celebrated sixtieth wedding anniversary. Corp Paul Crum Spillman Company 1 received appointment to the United States Military Academy. Prices on local markets country butter 20 cents a pound eggs 18 cents a dozen hams 18 cents a pound.
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