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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1933
Page
4
A brief notice from The Weekly Times highlights ongoing community events, with focus on a local gathering and upcoming schedule. The piece notes participation by residents and mentions a coordinating organization.
Rates listed for Mass. subscriptions by year half year and quarter with payments in advance. Carrier prices for weekly rates shown. Classified and display advertising rates and minimum charges outlined with deadlines and memorial card pricing and cards of thanks.
The Devine Tenney Corp announces its national advertising representatives located in New York Chicago Detroit Pittsburgh Des Moines and Atlanta serving broad market needs with coordinated regional offices and media outreach.
A brief devotional line urging honoring God with substance and first fruits from Proverbs 3 9. It emphasizes giving the best to God as an act of reverence and gratitude.
The Richmond News Leader argues wealth is usable energy, not money, and that debt drives inflation and misery. It notes goods and producers’ assets matter more than currency, cites agriculture, industry, and rail as foundations, and warns debt crushes economies and lives.
The federal emergency relief director announces a program to gather wanderers hitchhikers hoboes and other transients to provide food clothing and medical care and to train them for useful work. Officials see most as job seekers though some are traditional hobos. The plan seeks to implement it if feasible and affordable.
The piece argues chronic vagrancy stems from a deeply set habit once formed by reliance on charity. It suggests conservation work in forests as a proving ground and says a broad business revival could lure these youths into steady employment, making the experiment worthwhile.
A Chicago baseball game captivates a writer who misses three key moments, first chasing a spider on his neck then noting the umpire and finally buying peanuts. He reflects that focus on trivial concerns can cause observers to overlook the main event and learns concentration’s value.
The Baltimore Conference of the Methodist Church opens annal sessions here tomorrow. Taps have been found for T Champ Shep herd 37 veteran of the war between the states at Martinsburg W Va County Board of Supervisors ready to cooperate with City Council for joint operation of local jail. Reports show progress in home demonstration work and club work under Miss Elizabeth Norman Luttrell and family of near Albin. They had a narrow escape when their home burned Saturday night.
J Victor Arthur is selected to head the 1929 Apple Blossom Festival Sprint. Petley Inc begins train shipments of Virginia apples bound for South America. Local residents register objections to the Lee Jackson highway closure between Middleburg and Aldie during reconstruction. Col Charles A Lindbergh publicly backs Herbert Hoover in a press dispatch. Gene Menny, former heavyweight champion, marries Polly Lauder in Rome.
A stormy report notes inmates at Eddyville Kentucky prison barricaded and resisting guards as authorities struggle to restore order. A second item cites a severe storm that devastated Nova Scotia apple crops, while a horse named Commodore Gaunt wins the Annefield steeplechase cup.
Fifteen years ago Dr. C R Anderson offered services and was accepted into the Medical Corps. John Kendrick Bangs the humorist is set to speak at Empire Theatre tonight on Light and Shade in Field of Valor. An Austrian naval base at Durazzo shows up in state dispatches about the Adriatic Sea. A barrel of paint upset in Harrisonburg caused a $25 000 fire. The Baltimore and Ohio Railway announces formal classes for railroad employees.
Advertisement promotes Creomulsion as a powerful non narcotic cough remedy. It claims seven active ingredients and urges quick germ fighting results with a refund offer if not relieved. The copy emphasizes safety and pleasant taste while noting no narcotics.
Eight court certificates for beer sales in Winchester have been granted by Judge Philip Williams. There are 48 licenses in operation, 37 retailers and 11 wholesalers. Licenses void if not renewed by October 31. Applicants must appear before the Clerk, sign under oath, then go to the judge for approval, and finally to the commissioner of revenue. Charles P. McVicar will issue a circular letter to current licensees detailing the law.
Rev and Mrs W P Saunders attend annual conference in Roanoke during the week. Miss Martha Reely, teaching near Alexandria, spent the weekend here with her parents.
Lisetta, deemed plain by kin, plans to land Stuart Logan the season’s catch at Tropica Beach with aid from Pedro. She reflects on her past, her sisters Elinore and Jane, and her mother’s match making, shaping her wary view of romance.
Lizetta, poised and indifferent to marriage pressure, eyes Stuart Logan after observing her sisters chase husbands. She plots to seize him during a Beach Club dance, fending off rivals as she contemplates a future not defined by romance.
Mrs. Snapp of Strasburg visited with Mrs. Guthridge. Mrs. Hottel of Pittsburgh stayed with her sister Mrs. Henretty and aunt Mrs. Leary. Homecoming services at Walnut Springs drew many locals. Sunday School promoted a full program. C F Carper traveled to Washington for work. Hammack brothers lost their garage to a Saturday morning fire. community offers sympathy.
Reuben Campbell, 26, of Stanley Page county, fell beneath a moving Southern Railway freight train at Riverton Monday. His left foot and ankle were crushed and surgeons at Memorial Hospital performed an amputation. He was unmarried and en route to the Turkey Knob orchard in Shenandoah county.
Advice on protecting garden plants through winter. Evergreens need mulch to prevent soil freezing. wind and sun dry the foliage. Protect vulnerable tops with lathacres or burlap. Perennials get a two to three inch mulch of partly decayed manure, avoid evergreen foliage plants. Bulbs should be mulched two inches deep after the ground freezes.
Precipitation in the past 24 hours ending 8 a m is none. October to date shows none. Year to date 34.26 inches. The Winchester Research Laboratory records an average annual precipitation of 34.63 inches. Monthly averages for the 20 year period are January 2 60 inches, February 2 70, March 2 70, April 1 1, May 3 73, June 3 81, July 3 45, August 4 5, September 2 15, October 0 0, November 2 25, December 2 37.
Warner Bros presents the First National picture Bureau of Missing Persons at the Capitol Theatre. Bette Davis stars with Lewis S. Stone Pat O'Brien Glenda Farrell and Ruth Donnelly in a mystery romance about a detective who loves a woman accused of murder as thousands vanish daily before the screen.
Clark Gable and Jean Harlow star in Hold Your Man at the Colonial Theatre tomorrow. Critics acclaim it as one of the year’s top ten pictures.
At the Palace tonight and Thursday the de luxe program features Monte Blue and Barbara Kent in the George Morgan story Her Forgotten Past a dramatic tale of youthful folly and private city life with an accompanying Moran Mack feature comedy The Two Black Crows in their latest release Hollywan.
Intimate views of the Stars with an R. K. O. Radio Review and Paramount’s N. R. A. Featurette starring Charles Ruggles headline a varied Palace program. Admission over $2.25 to $3.30 with a case deposit option and phone ordering.
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