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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1947
Page
10
An advertising note promotes Victory Ointment as fast relief for itching eczema rashes and athlete’s foot. It claims army roots, white grease base, antiseptic properties, and safety for babies, with sales through Winchester outlets Miller's Rhodes Brooks Rexall Baker's and Silico Cut.
The will of M. F. Wisecarver, Berryville merchant, probated before Clerk Loring C. Kackley in Clarke County, grants a life estate to widow Camille Capper Wisecarver covering personal property real estate and bonds with rent to her. The Gent's Shop profits go to the widow after expenses. Property sales require three trusted citizens' advice and proceeds reinvested in her name until death, then equal division among surviving children M. F. Wisecarver Jr Camille Wisecarver William Edward Wisecarver. Administrator M. F. Wisecarver Jr. posted a 20000 bond. appraisers named Roy E. Potts W. D. Burtner Aarph M. Ware Lewis F. Stolle S. S. Thomas.
Winchester and Martinsburg golf teams tied for first in Tri State Golf League on local greens with 77 points each. Frederick 59.5, Purcellville 52, Front Royal 34.5. Grim led scoring with 12. league lead now 3.5 points. Blind bogey tournament set at Winchester Golf Club on Sunday June 1 at 1:30 pm.
The next Tri State League game is scheduled for Martinsburg on Sunday June 15. Local clubs prepare for the matchup as fans anticipate a competitive afternoon.
Revival ongoing at the Pentecostal Church of God on South Braddock Street with Evangelist Billy Corbin 18 in charge. Public invited. Hang 27 criminals reported in Germany at Landsberg near Mauthausen where 22 camp operators were executed yesterday and 27 more to be hanged today in a major Allied war crimes purge.
In a recent term of court the Houston painter received a suspended auto larceny sentence. Judge Elliott Marshall placed him on probation for three years after the arraignment led by Frank Krumback in Woodstock. London reports the Soviet government agreed to attend a Big Four deputy foreign ministers conference in London to discuss Italy’s prewar colonial empire.
Five Civil War veterans were among 105,691 patients in Veterans Administration hospitals on April 1. VA data show ages: World War II 51,273. World War I 48,340. Spanish American War 2,835. regular establishment 2,808. Philippine Insurrection and Indian wars 195. retired officers and enlisted 234.
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