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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1936
Page
7
Front Royal notices list residents and visitors with travel plans and brief social activities. Clarence Striker and family head to Ashville for summer while witnesses Hillidge and Downing prepare for Federal Court in Lynchburg.
Col and Mrs John C Boggs of Randolph Macon Academy visited Washington Monday. Several locals attended events in Charlottesville and Martinsburg. The Community Library will open Friday afternoon 3 to 5 due to commencement. Various residents travel to Chambersburg Fort Knox Richmond and Roanoke for family visits graduations and weekend plans.
Thirty members of the high school band will travel to Washington tomorrow for the Rappahannock county school commencement. All county students participate in the parade forming at 10 at the courthouse grounds. Front Royal band directed by Jimmy Doman. new uniforms expected today.
Perennials form the backbone of a garden with tips to leave daffodils through winter and dig up every two to three years for replanting. Add a drinking fountain and bird bath to engage children and aid pest control. Remove faded pansy blooms for continued flowering in partial shade. If peonies fail to bloom, causes include deep planting too little sunlight moisture issues or late frost damage to blooms.
Henry Brooks, colored, long time janitor at Citizens National Bank, died at his home in Freetown after paralysis. He was 40, born at Happy Creek, and survived by his mother, wife Lena Baltimore, two daughters, and two sons Albert Brooks of Woollawn Pennsylvania, James Brooks of Fletcher, and Bertha Alstry.
At a Winchester Frederick Recreation Council meeting held today in City Hall, a dog show is announced with judges not named. The plan closes the park season with a field day and the American Legion plans to sponsor three playgrounds at Shenandoah Valley Academy, Fairmont Avenue, and a third location.
Miss Helen Shockey outlines supervised summer play at Handley Miller School and Highland avenue to Principal Gibson Douglas School color ed children on South Main Street will have a playground. Hartman notes four tennis courts at Rouss Park within three weeks and softball diamonds. Deputy WPA recreation directors to be trained. picnics and activities planned at county schools.
Women workers run a soup kitchen for strikers as National Guard officers guard the Wheeling Steel plant in Portsmouth Ohio where about 5500 mill workers walked out after Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers sought recognition as the sole bargaining agent. A federal labor conciliator is mediating with union and company officials while strikers allege high powered rifles and machine guns are being used against them.
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