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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1939
Page
8
The Winchester post office will observe a normal holiday schedule on National Decoration Day. No window service, no city or rural free delivery. Mail collection from street boxes will occur for night dispatch. mails deposited at the post office will still be dispatched as usual. Tolstoi quote notes war is atrocious and no man has right to begin it.
Several rental notices listed including rooms at 303 Fairmont 9 27 tf and apartment options at 137 S Loudoun 5 14 tf 316 W Leicester St 10 6 tf 411 N Loudoun St 1 31 tf and 406 N Loudoun with phone 562 4 6 tf plus a modern eight room brick house at 730 S Kent St 5 17 tf and a near Palace Theatre residence 3 27 tf.
The Seven-Up Bottling Co of Richmond appoints Trone Sprint of Winchester as executive sales representative. Sprint's territory covers Frederick Clarks Shenandoah and Warren Counties. He is associated with Sun-Spot Orange drink. Government has paid $3,764,365,628.49 in Adjusted Compensation Certificates as of March 31, 1939.
Miss Chatfield advises a 30 year old woman to marry her widower lover despite her father’s wishes. The writer has cared for her father since her mother’s death and wonders if she should remain single to look after him. Chatfield argues youth calls to youth and urges marriage, suggesting the father live nearby while she builds her own home with the widower.
Puzzle page presents a dense grid of across and down clues with mixed topics. Clues reference animals, places such as Alabama and Mexico, pronouns, verbs, and common nouns, with some archaic spellings and typographical quirks. The page credits King Features Syndicate 1939.
Present and past rainfall totals show May to date .61 inches and year to date 13.66 inches. Average annual rainfall over 26 years is 35.09 inches. Monthly figures: January 2.53, February 1.98, March 2.94, April 3.20, May 3.64, June 3.58, July 3.34, August 3.68, September 2.36, October 3.13, November 2.32, December 2.40. Statistics courtesy Winchester Research Laboratory.
An advertisement touts Every Body's Cook Book with nearly 300 tested recipes plus table setting and timing guidance. A new edition is available and readers are invited to order by sending ten cents in coin with name and address to Washington DC.
Tyrone Power Alice Faye and Al Jolson star in Rose of Washington Square presented today through Thursday with memorable melodies and pivotal love conflict. The program also features a Fox News Reel and promises a year’s best screen sensation.
Donald Hill 16 of Tecumseh has endured a string of injuries with two broken fingers from a dynamite cap blast last year and recent falls that fractured both arms in two places.
William Lewin notifies Lewis Largent personal representatives heirs and assigns that he will apply to the Clerk of Circuit Court in Frederick County Virginia on September 14, 1989 for a deed to Lot 25 Block 56 on the Middletown plat recorded in Deed Book 197 page 390 purchased at tax sale. Redemption is possible before deed execution by payment to the Clerk.
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