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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1956
Page
4
Classified reader ads cost 4c per word per day and display ads cost 1 3/4 per column inch per day. Cash is required for out of town ads. Closing hours are 5 00. Ads received by 10 am may appear in the same day issue.
A collage of local sale notices lists cider apples lamb ram and farm tools for sale. Items include 250 bushels of cider apples with pickup options in Greencastle Pa plus a Hampshire ram and sheep shears. Also offered are a house in Acorn Heights, lawn mowers, hedge clippers, a power saw firer, a new mattress, linoleum rugs, awnings, camp trunks and lockers, and various camping gear with contact numbers MO 2-7953 MO 2-5888 MO 2-8313 MO 2-6625 and E. W. Armstrong Co. Listings show multiple post dates and locations in a small-town classified roundup.
Ground floor one bedroom apartment at 35 S Loudoun St with phone contact. Second floor six room apartment available June 1 with heat and hot water included. Modern four room unit includes heat hot water electricity and large yard. Several bachelor and single room options in local buildings with multiple MO contact numbers. Some entries specify proximity Central area and quiet homes.
A cluster of classified notices seeks used furniture at Haun's 220 N Cameron St. Dial MO 2-6625 and small metal lathes via MO numbers. Other ads request curtains to wash, plowings for gardens, custom hay baling, and a house to buy in Winchester with rent-like payments. contact numbers provided.
An advertisement promotes a termite control service from Terminty Company. It notes bonded insured contracts and an E W Armstrong Company representative with contact MO 2 4643. The notice also lists waterfront rental in Virginia with weekly and monthly options, four bedroom home near Chesapeake Bay, boat and wharf, by W Bell Watkins Jr Boyce Va contact 56.
Lost billfold contains driver licenses including H R Hartman. Contact MO 2-746 if found. Reward offered for return.
A major industrial adhesive firm notes three main theories of adhesion and says no universal theory exists. Holding power may be molecular attraction or a chemical reaction or a bridge. in porous materials the adhesive can fill pores and harden to form a mechanical bond. Often two or more factors act together.
Missouri's 38 Democratic delegates pledged to Sen. Stuart Symington at the state convention. He attacked Eisenhower defense policies calling the air force second best and the defense plan weakened by money. Leaders called the pledge stronger than a favorite son endorsement and noted it could make Symington a dark horse if the national convention deadlocks.
The Ladies Bible Class of Boyce Methodist Church met last Thursday. Mrs. Jenkins returns from University of Virginia Hospital Charlottesville after a several week stay. Mrs. T. H. Gray and Miss Ocie Gray enjoyed a Danville weekend with relatives. Supper guests at the Charles Creamer home included the Cremer family and Lynwood and Mae Lanham. Intermediate Girl Scout Troop 52 awarded proficiency badges to Patsy Kirby, Sally Shugars, Sandra Johnson Ruth, Shirley Minghini, Jane White, Diana Cornwell, Elizabeth Grey. absentees Sandra Painter and Audrey Willingham earned badges. The troop later shared a Nike and picnic. Mr. and Mrs. John Bell of Manjemoy Md. visited Bell family in Boyce.
Mr. and Mrs. John Anders spent time with Rev and Mrs. Edward Kyle. They traveled to Richmond on Sunday to see Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Suddith, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe McCormick of Winchester joined Mrs. Yeakley. Several women attended the Eva Massey Zone meeting of the W. S. C. S. in Unison. Miss Helen Nicodemus is noted as a daughter in the narrative.
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